My favorite AI LLM and Tools

I frequently use the following AI tools and sites. I wanted to compile a list of them for simple and quick access for myself (and maybe you too). Next to each listing I also included what I find unique and/or useful benefits these offer.

Most of these have a free tier (and paid as well). 

LLM/Chatbots

• ChatGPT - the leading multi-modal (import, pictures, files, or use audio) chat bot
• The paid plan lets you create your own bots and offers additional functionality
• Google Gemini - multi-modal (import pictures, files, or use audio)
• Also has "plug-ins" that connect to other google products
• Claude - multi-modal (import pictures or files)
• Poe - grants you access to many different assistants (some are multi-modal)
• You can also make and monetize your own bot, like FinanceTipsBot (my bot)
• Perplexity - multi-modal (import pdfs)
• this operates in a similar regard to a search engine 
• Le Chat By Mistral - late comer to the game but it integrates web-searching, image creation, and allows for file uploads
• Thetawise - AI math tutor (LLM Based), allows picture, audio, and sketches to be uploaded too

Coding

• Github Copilot - works as a plugin to most IDEs to help you generate code and comments
• Free for students (sign-up with the GitHub Student Pack), paid for everyone else
• Cody AI Chat - I use this when I code with VSCodium (a fork of VSCode without telemetry)
• Also works with Jetbrains IDEs and via the web
• Google Colab - modified Jupyter notebook hosted on google's servers, and you can run code with their GPUs. Recently, they integrated AI autocompletion  
• Additionally, you can use it 

Media Generation

• Adobe Firefly - text to image or generative fill
• Suno - generate music (and album art) from text
• NotebookLM - generate "podcasts" based on PDFs and other research papers

Other

• FUTO Live Captions - FOSS, offline Linux application to create live captions. 
• ChatGPT via Phone Call (US Only) & Whatsapp -  1-800-ChatGPT (1-800-242-8478)
• You cannot call from *67 or with private caller id. You are allotted 15 minutes a month via phone call.
• ChatGPT cannot be added to whatsapp group chats