AI Tools

Anthropic Claude
A competing popular general AI chatbot. It will create text-related content, images, and code.

Canva
A popular free video and image editing tool. It features several generative AI functionalies, such as being able to create images through text, expanding backgrounds, moving photo elements, completely altering items within images, and more.

ChatGpt
One of the most popular general AI chatbots. It will create text-related content, images, and code via chat prompts. It’s free to use, but it has some limitations without a paid account.

Consensus
An academic search engine for research papers powered by generative AI. Users can search by their research questions, synthesize search results, and get a top-level overview of the search details.

Descript
An AI video editor. The tool allows you to delete entire segments from your footage by editing text script. It will also allow you to create podcasts, clips, and more.

D-ID
A generative AI tool that allows you to create custom digital avatars in photos and videos.

Elicit
An academic search engine for research papers powered by generative AI.

Gamma
A tool that generates images, presentations, and slide decks through generative AI. It has some free options but requires a subscription for its best features.

Google Gemini
Google's general generative AI chatbot. It will create images, text, and code.

Google's NotebookLM
A personalized AI research assistant. One of its most interesting features is that it turns your notes into podcasts.

Grammarly
A grammar checker and writing assistant powered by generative AI. Grammarly can be used to correct simple grammatical mistakes, but it also has the option to write entire documents.

Harmonize
A discussion and collaboration tool with the look and feel of social media and a rich multimedia content editor. It can use generative AI to create prompts and even grade student submissions. It is integrated into Canvas.

Kahoot!
A game-based quizzing tool. Kahoot! now allows users to generate quizzes based on topics, PDF files, webpages, and more. Users can also generate questions based on topics or PDFs. All these features are powered by generative AI.

Kritik
A peer-to-peer evaluation platform with Canvas integration. The tool reviews student comments and provides students with feedback using generative AI.

Microsoft's Copilot
Microsoft’s general AI chatbot, similar to ChatGPT. FIU faculty, staff, and students have free access to it through their email credentials on the Copilot website. Office app integration (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams) is currently unavailable at FIU. The tool will create text-related content, images, and code via chat prompts.

Perplexity
An AI-powered answer engine that provides more accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question. The tool has a pro option that asks clarifying questions and refines queries.

Perusall
A social annotation and collaboration tool. It allows students to add notes and comments to documents, web pages, and more. The tool uses generative AI to grade the quality of student submissions. Grades are automatically pushed to the Canvas grade book.

Research Rabbit
Described as Spotify for researchers, this generative AI tool aims to create a more robust user experience by visualizing search results, making recommendations and suggestions for related topic areas, and updating the user on the latest papers related to their past searches.

Runway
A generative AI tool for creating images, animations, and videos. Its impressive set of features will allow you to do anything from adding motion to still images to applying your facial expressions to performing CGI characters.

Suno AI
A generative AI tool that allows you to create a song about anything.

Whimsical
A generative AI tool that allows you to create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and mindmaps in seconds.