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Purdue GenAI Studio
Purdue’s GenAI Studio is a secure, campus-hosted generative AI platform that gives faculty, staff, and students access to powerful large language models without data leaving Purdue's servers. Designed for research, teaching, and innovation, it offers a private and customizable alternative to commercial AI tools, all free during its pilot phase.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI that generates human-like responses to text prompts. It can help with writing, coding, and conversation. Built on large language models, it predicts words based on context to generate coherent answers, making it a versatile tool for education, work, and everyday tasks.
Copilot Chat
Purdue’s Copilot with Data Protection gives faculty, staff, and students access to GPT-4 via Microsoft Copilot embedded in Microsoft 365.
Claude
Claude is an AI chatbot developed by Anthropic. Built on the Claude family of large language models, it can generate text, summarize content, answer questions, and assist with writing and analysis.
Gemini
Google Gemini is Google’s multimodal AI assistant and underlying large-language model family. Available as a web and mobile app, it handles text, voice, images, audio, video, and code. It helps with writing, brainstorming, summarizing, and creative tasks. Gemini runs in three sizes (Ultra, Pro, Nano) and offers free and paid Pro/Ultra tiers.
Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-powered search and answer engine that combines web search with conversational responses. It cites sources for transparency and delivers concise, up-to-date answers using real-time internet data. Designed for research and learning, it helps users explore topics quickly and reliably through natural language queries.

ClassPoint
ClassPoint is an AI-powered teaching tool that integrates directly with Microsoft PowerPoint, allowing educators to make their presentations interactive. It offers features like live quizzes, student response collection, whiteboarding tools, and gamified participation.
Eduaide.ai
Eduaide AI is a teacher-focused generative AI platform that streamlines lesson planning, resource creation, assessment building, grading, and feedback. With over 100 customizable tools and support for 15+ languages, it offers a free tier (15 generations/month) and a $5.99/month Pro plan tailored to educators’ workflows.
Gradescope
Gradescope is an AI-assisted grading platform by Turnitin that supports paper-based, digital, and code assignments. Instructors can create dynamic rubrics, auto-grade bubble sheets, and run programming autograders. It groups similar answers, speeds up grading, and provides detailed analytics to track student performance and learning trends.
Khanmigo (Khan Academy)
Khanmigo is Khan Academy’s GPT‑4‑powered AI tutor and teaching assistant that guides students to think critically rather than offering direct answers. It integrates with Khan Academy’s content library for personalized learning in math, coding, writing, and more. Teachers benefit from planning tools, rubrics, and feedback features.
MagicSchool
MagicSchool AI is an education-focused generative AI platform offering over 80 teacher tools, including lesson and assessment creation, text leveling, feedback, translations, IEP scaffolding, and YouTube quiz generation.
Wayground
Wayground (formerly Quizizz) is a comprehensive, AI-enhanced learning platform that blends quizzes, multimedia, gamification, and curriculum alignment. Teachers can generate interactive content with AI, customize accommodations, and bundle lessons. Accessible on web and mobile, it empowers personalized, standards-based instruction with analytics and student engagement tools, used globally.
Curipod
Curipod is a web-based platform for educators to create interactive lessons, including slides with polls, word clouds, sketches, and real-time AI feedback. Teachers can generate or enhance lessons, share via session codes, and access standards-aligned content. A free tier is available, along with premium features for translation, analytics, and test prep.
QuestionWell
QuestionWell is a free AI-powered platform that helps teachers create standards-aligned materials, including multiple-choice and short-answer questions, rubrics, vocabulary lists, and videos, from text, websites, or uploaded files. It supports export to Kahoot, Quizizz, Canvas, Google tools, and more. Premium features include deeper question types and extended content support.

scite
A smart citation index that displays the context of citations and classifies their intent using deep learning.

Elicit
Uses machine learning to help you with your research: find papers, extract key claims, summarize, brainstorm ideas, and more.” Price: users automatically get 5,000 free credits to use. After those credits run out, users need to subscript to Elicit plus: $12 per month, billed monthly $144 per year.
LitMaps
"Bring your literature review to life by visualizing your papers using literature maps (Litmaps). A Litmap shows the relationships between the articles in your collection in the form of connecting lines which trace the citations for you.” Price: free basic search for up to 20 inputs, Pro $10/month unlimited inputs.
Inciteful
Build a network of academic papers and we'll analyze the network to help you discover the most relevant literature.” Price: free
Research Rabbit
A citation-based literature mapping tool. Price: free
NotebookLM
An AI-powered tool from Google that helps users analyze, summarize, and interact with documents and notes

Canva AI
Canva’s AI image generator (Magic Media, DALL·E & Imagen) lets users turn text prompts into unique visuals directly within the editor. It offers style and aspect ratio choices, instant variations, built-in editing, and seamless integration. Free users get limited credits; Pro users enjoy expanded monthly generation and advanced tools.
DALL-E (OpenAI)
DALL·E 3 understands significantly more nuance and detail than our previous systems, allowing you to easily translate your ideas into  exceptionally accurate images.
Firefly (Photoshop)
A generative machine learning model to create, ideate, and edit images through text prompts.
Price: free
Napkin
Napkin AI instantly turns text into editable visuals like infographics, flowcharts, and diagrams for use in presentations, social media, or documents. It offers one-click generation, customizable styles, and export options including PNG, SVG, PDF, and PPT. Currently free in beta, it simplifies design and boosts visual communication.

Synthesia
Synthesia uses AI to create videos with virtual presenters, supporting over 120 languages for voiceover.
Price: Free version; Starter Plan $18/mo; Creator $64/mo.
Veed
VEED.io is a versatile online video editing platform used for creating and enhancing various types of video content.
Free tier available; Lite: $12/month; Pro: $30/month/
Vidyo.ai
Vidyo.ai is an AI-powered platform that revolutionizes video content creation for social media. It automatically transforms long videos into engaging, short clips suitable for various platforms.
Sora
Sora is OpenAI’s text-to-video model that generates realistic videos from text, images, or clips. It supports up to 1080p resolution and 20-second outputs. Integrated into ChatGPT, Sora offers powerful creative tools but has safety filters and limitations in physics, consistency, and realism. It's gradually rolling out to global users.

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