Introducing 10 life-changing AI Tools:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized various industries, offering a spectrum of powerful tools that enhance efficiency, decision-making, and innovation. Let’s delve into 10 essential AI tools that span diverse applications, from natural language processing to image recognition, providing cutting-edge solutions that redefine how we approach tasks and challenges in the digital era.
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- ChatGPT
- Character AI
- QuillBot
- MidJourney
- Hugging Face
- Google Bard
- NovelAI
- CapCut
- Janitor AI
- Civitai
1. ChatGPT
The ubiquitous AI chatbot is based on a large language model (LLM) and trained to provide detailed responses to a prompt in natural, humanlike language.
The website received around 14.6 billion visits over the year to August, averaging 1.5 billion visits each. It dominated the traffic to generative AI tools, accounting for 60.17% of the total visits. The platform saw a net traffic growth of 1.8 billion, translating to an average monthly growth of 195.1 million visits.
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| Developer(s) | OpenAI |
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| Initial release | November 30, 2022; 13 months ago |
| Stable release | November 21, 2023; 45 days ago[1] |
| Written in | Python |
| Engine | GPT-3.5 (free and paid)GPT-4 (paid only) |
| Platform | Cloud computing platforms |
| Type | ChatbotLarge language modelGenerative pre-trained transformer |
| License | Proprietary service |
| Website | chat.openai.com |
2. Character AI
Launched in September 2022, Character AI is a chatbot that uses a neural language model to allow users to find or create a character to interact with. The characters on the site include characters based on books, TV shows, and movies, as well as real people. It accounted for 15.77% of the overall AI traffic, totaling 3.8 billion visits. It experienced a net traffic increase of 463.4 million or an average growth of 42.1 million monthly visits.
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| Type of site | Chatbot, artificial intelligence, deep learning |
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| Available in | English, Spanish, French, Italian, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Finnish, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Romanian, Swedish, Ukrainian |
| Founder(s) | Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas |
| URL | character.ai |
| Registration | Optional; required to remove certain limits |
| Launched | September 16, 2022; 15 months ago |
3. QuillBot
Quillbot is an online writing assistant that launched in 2017. The tool paraphrases and restructures text, helping users improve their content. The tools also check grammar, detects plagiarism, and can translate text into various other languages.
Quillbot attracted a total of 1.1 billion visits in the year to August. Averaging 94.6 million monthly visits, it represented 4.68% of the total traffic to AI tools. However, there was a slight decline in traffic, with a net loss of 5.1 million visits, or an average monthly loss of 461,400 visits.
4. MidJourney
Midjourney is an AI-powered image generator that launched in July 2022, which creates visuals from natural language text prompts. The platform attracted a total of 500.4 million visits during the year, accounting for 2.06% of the total traffic. Its monthly average of 41.7 million visits declined by 787,700, a net traffic loss of 8.7 million, likely as other image generators were released and attracted attention.
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| Developer(s) | Midjourney, Inc. |
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| Initial release | July 12, 2022; 17 months ago (open beta) |
| Website | midjourney.com |
5. Hugging Face
Hugging Face is an AI-based data science platform and community that enables users to build, train, and deploy ML models based on open-source code and technologies, share ideas, and contribute to projects. The platform received a total of 316.6 million visits. Monthly visits averaged 26.4 million, an average monthly gain of 316,400, and a net growth of 3.5 million visits, contributing 1.31% of the total traffic.
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Artificial intelligence, machine learning, software development |
| Founded | 2016; 8 years ago |
| Headquarters | Manhattan, New York City |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Clément Delangue (CEO)Julien Chaumond (CTO)Thomas Wolf (CSO) |
| Products | Models, datasets, spaces |
| Revenue | 15,000,000 United States dollar (2022) |
| Number of employees | 160 (2023) |
| Website | huggingface.co |
6. Google Bard
Google’s AI chatbot, Bard, is a collaborative chat tool that was announced in February 2023 and launched in March 2023. The primary difference between Bard and ChatGPT is that Bard sources information from the web. And unlike ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing, Bard was trained on Google’s own LLMs – Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) and PaLM 2.
Bard’s traffic reached a total of 241.6 million in six months, averaging 34.5 million per month and accounting for 1.00% of the total traffic. The platform saw a net growth of 68 million visits, an average monthly increase of 11.3 million.
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| Developer(s) | Google AI |
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| Initial release | March 21, 2023; 9 months ago |
| Stable release | 2023.12.18 / December 18, 2023; 18 days ago |
| Operating system | Web app |
| Available in | 46 languages[1] 238 countries[1] |
| Type | Chatbot |
| License | Proprietary[2] |
| Website | bard.google.com |
7. NovelAI
NovelAI is a paid monthly subscription service that provides an AI writing assistant for storytelling and text-to-image synthesis. The writing tool was launched in beta in June 2021, and the image generation tool was added in October 2022. NovelAI received a total of 238.7 million visits, averaging 19.9 million visits every month and accounting for 0.98% of the traffic. Average monthly visits increased by 918,900, a net growth of 10.1 million.
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| Developer(s) | Anlatan[1] |
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| Initial release | 2021 |
| Type | Text-generation model, text-to-image model |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | novelai.net |
8. CapCut
CapCut is an all-in-one AI platform that enables users to design images, edit, and generate videos within browsers. Launched in 2020, CapCut received a total traffic of 203.8 million in the year to August, with 17 million average monthly visits, contributing 0.84% to the overall traffic. Net traffic growth of 14.6 million equated to a monthly gain of 1.3 million visits.
It’s easy to use
Cut, reverse and change speed: getting it just right is easier than ever. Skip all the editing with CapCut’s extensive library of ready-to-use video templates.
Watermark-Free Videos
No more worrying about watermarks from third-party editing apps. Upload your videos directly to TikTok with no watermark or save them to your device with a CapCut end clip which may be removed with ease.
CapCut Video editing
Crop, cut, trim, and merge video clips with ease. CapCut also has a variety of transition options and high-resolution downloads to elevate your production quality.
High Quality
Users can use Advanced filters and flawless beauty effects that open up a world of possibilities.
Top Music Hits & Sounds Effects
Access to a Massive music library and Exclusive TikTok songs.
Stickers and texts
Fully express yourself thanks to top trending stickers and amazing fonts.
9. Janitor AI
Janitor AI is a character chatbot that launched in May 2023, initially based on ChatGPT, allowing users to create their own characters or interact with characters created by other users to craft immersive roleplay experiences.
The model has been adapted so that users can engage in not-safe-for-work (NSFW) interactions with the characters. The tool attracted a total of 192.4 million visits in four months, with a monthly average of 48.1 million visits that accounted for 0.79% of the entire traffic. It saw an average monthly increase of 16.3 million visits and a net growth of 48.8 million visits.
10. Civitai
Launched in November 2022, Civitai is a repository for AI art models created for Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image diffusion model. The platform has an extensive collection of models that users can search and customize, making it easy to share and rate custom models, textual inversions, and more. The platform received 177.2 million visits, averaging 17.7 million monthly and constituting 0.73% of the total traffic. Net traffic growth of 23.3 million translated to a monthly increase of 2.6 million visits.
