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AI is moving fast. These are the tools worth knowing right now, organized by what you want to do with them. Straightforward descriptions of what each tool does and why it matters.
Whether you are writing a paper, building an app, or just trying to understand what everyone is talking about, start here.
AI Assistants
Chat with AI. Ask questions, write, brainstorm, analyze.
The most widely used AI chat assistant.
What you can do with it
- General Q&A and research
- Writing and editing help
- Code generation and debugging
- Image generation with DALL-E
An AI assistant built for nuanced, trustworthy reasoning and long-form writing.
What you can do with it
- Long document analysis
- Careful, nuanced reasoning
- Code generation and review
- Research synthesis
Google's AI assistant with multimodal capabilities.
What you can do with it
- Understands text, images, audio, and video together
- Deep integration with Google Workspace apps
- Long context window for large documents
- Real-time web search built in
AI pair programmer that suggests code as you type.
What you can do with it
- Inline code completions in your editor
- Chat interface for explaining and refactoring code
- Works across most languages and frameworks
- Free tier available for students
Research
Find information, verify sources, synthesize knowledge.
The search engine built for research. Every answer comes with sources.
What you can do with it
- Source-backed research answers
- Academic and news search
- Follow-up question threads
- Collections for organizing research
AI research assistant that works with your documents.
What you can do with it
- Upload PDFs, slides, and websites as sources
- Ask questions grounded in your materials
- Auto-generate study guides and summaries
- Creates audio overviews of your sources
AI research assistant for finding and analyzing academic papers.
What you can do with it
- Search across millions of academic papers
- Extract key findings and methods automatically
- Summarize and compare results across studies
- Organize papers into structured literature reviews
Developer Tools
Write code, build apps, deploy agents. The tools Labs uses.
Open source AI framework for building agents that connect to real tools.
What you can do with it
- Build custom AI agents
- Connect agents to APIs and databases
- Chain multiple AI models together
- Run agents locally or in the cloud
Run AI models on your own computer. Local, private, and free.
What you can do with it
- Run LLMs locally (Llama, Mistral, Gemma)
- Complete privacy for sensitive work
- Unlimited usage at zero cost
- Fine-tune models on your data
An AI-native code editor. Understands your whole codebase.
What you can do with it
- AI-powered code editing and completion
- Codebase-aware suggestions
- Natural language to code changes
- Built-in chat with your code as context
Generate UI components and full pages from text descriptions.
What you can do with it
- Generate React components from prompts
- Create full page layouts
- Export production-ready code
- Iterate on designs conversationally
An agentic coding tool by OpenAI that writes, tests, and fixes code.
What you can do with it
- Write entire features from specifications
- Run and test code in a sandbox
- Fix bugs by reading error messages
- Generate pull requests automatically
Agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal.
What you can do with it
- Reads and edits files across your whole project
- Runs commands, tests, and builds directly
- Works with git to commit and create PRs
- Understands large codebases through search and context
Browser-based IDE with AI that builds full apps from prompts.
What you can do with it
- Go from idea to deployed app in one conversation
- Runs code in the browser with no local setup
- Built-in hosting and database support
- Supports most languages and frameworks
AI-native code editor with deep codebase understanding.
What you can do with it
- Flows that combine chat and inline editing
- Indexes your full codebase for accurate suggestions
- Multi-file edits from a single prompt
- Built on VS Code so extensions still work
Creative
Generate images, voice, music. AI as a creative tool.
Generate high quality images from text descriptions.
What you can do with it
- Create detailed images from text prompts
- Upscale and vary generated images
- Style control through parameters and references
- Consistent character and style generation across images
AI voice generation and text-to-speech platform.
What you can do with it
- Generate natural-sounding speech in many languages
- Clone voices from short audio samples
- Control emotion, pacing, and tone
- Real-time voice conversion and dubbing
Generate original music from text descriptions.
What you can do with it
- Create full songs with vocals and instruments from a prompt
- Choose genres, moods, and styles
- Write or provide your own lyrics
- Extend and remix generated tracks
Want to learn these tools hands-on?
Labs members work with these tools on real projects. Hands-on, project-based learning.