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Shopify Magic▲ 07
Amazon Alexa▲ 018
Meta’s consumer AI assistant for chat, image, and task help.
Meta AI is featured on Meta’s official AI site as a personal assistant that can answer questions and complete tasks. The page shows recent product updates and active feature launches, confirming it is live and maintained.
Open-source AI image generator you can self-host, fine-tune, and run without a subscription.
Stable Diffusion, made by Stability AI, is the major open-weight image generator: anyone can download the model and run it locally or in their own cloud, fine-tune it on custom data, and use it within the ecosystem of community tools like ComfyUI, LoRA, and ControlNet. The current generation is Stable Diffusion 3.5 (Large, Large Turbo, and Medium), released to run on consumer-grade hardware. Stability AI also offers a hosted API on a pay-per-image credit basis for those who do not want to self-host.
AI-powered literature mapping tool for discovering related academic papers.
ResearchRabbit visually maps citation networks and recommends related academic papers based on a starting set of references, helping researchers discover relevant literature faster.
AI search engine that answers complex queries using global multilingual sources.
Felo leverages large language models to understand user intent, searching across multiple languages and global sources to synthesize comprehensive answers. It helps researchers and curious minds bypass traditional keyword searches by delivering structured summaries and direct citations.
Conversational AI companion focused on empathetic, supportive dialogue.
Pi is designed as a supportive conversational companion rather than a task-completion assistant, focusing on empathetic responses for personal reflection and everyday conversation.
AI features built into Shopify for generating product descriptions and store content.
Shopify Magic adds AI tools directly inside the Shopify admin, generating product descriptions, editing product photos, and drafting email and FAQ content for merchants running an online store.
Free Google tool that lets job seekers practice interview questions with AI feedback.
Interview Warmup is a free tool from Google where job seekers can practice answering real interview questions by role and get an AI-generated summary of language patterns, most-used words, and talking points.
Automated home value estimation tool built into Zillow.
Zillow's Zestimate uses a machine learning model trained on public and user-submitted data to generate an estimated market value for homes across the U.S.
AI summaries for long YouTube videos.
Summarize.tech generates a timestamped, section-by-section AI summary of long YouTube videos so viewers can decide what to watch or jump straight to it.
AI-assisted online mortgage platform for getting pre-approved and closing a home loan.
Better.com runs the mortgage application process online, using AI-assisted underwriting to speed up pre-approval and closing timelines compared to a traditional in-person mortgage process.
AI-assisted calendar that connects your schedule to your Notion workspace.
Notion Calendar (formerly Cron) is a fast calendar app that overlays multiple Google calendars, links meetings directly to Notion pages and tasks, and uses AI-assisted scheduling suggestions to help find meeting times faster.
Nonprofit data platform that uses AI to support criminal justice reform.
Recidiviz is a nonprofit that builds data tools for corrections agencies, using AI-assisted analysis to help identify people eligible for early release or reduced supervision under existing policy.
Open-source multilingual speech recognition model from OpenAI.
OpenAI Whisper is an open-source automatic speech recognition model that transcribes audio to text in over 90 languages, with built-in translation support. Trained on a large, diverse audio dataset, it maintains accuracy across accents, background noise, and technical vocabulary, and can be freely integrated into developer applications.
AI-powered webcam and microphone effects app for streaming and video calls.
NVIDIA Broadcast applies AI effects in real time to a webcam and microphone feed — removing background noise, blurring or replacing a background, and simulating eye contact — for anyone with a compatible NVIDIA graphics card.
AI shopping assistant that finds products and answers customer service questions.
Klarna's AI assistant helps shoppers search for products across retailers, compare prices, and handles a large share of customer service chats for Klarna's payment and shopping app.
AI-powered recipe discovery app that turns recipes into smart grocery lists.
Whisk (from Samsung Food's parent technology) uses AI to pull recipes from anywhere on the web, automatically build a shopping list from the ingredients, and recommend recipes based on what's already in a user's pantry.
AI voice assistant for smart speakers and home automation.
Amazon Alexa is a voice assistant built into Echo speakers and other devices, using AI to answer questions, control smart home devices, and play media through voice commands.
Free desktop app for running open-source LLMs privately on your own device.
GPT4All, built by Nomic AI, is a free desktop application that runs open-source language models entirely locally with no internet connection needed, aimed at people who want a private ChatGPT-style experience without any data leaving their computer.
Personal AI assistant from Inflection AI focused on supportive conversation.
Pi is a conversational AI assistant built by Inflection AI, designed to be a supportive, emotionally intelligent chat companion — helping with everyday questions, talking through decisions, or just having a low-stakes conversation, with a voice mode for spoken back-and-forth.
Run open-source large language models locally on your own computer.
Ollama lets developers download and run open-source LLMs (Llama, Mistral, and others) directly on their own machine with a single command, handling model quantization and serving so local AI development doesn't require cloud API calls or GPU servers.