Useful AI tools as of mid October 2024 Depending on your creative needs

Some of the below tools are free, others paid. The free are usually limited in capacity and capability. Depending on your creative needs, you might need to use two or more platforms to accomplish your goals e.g. generate an image in adobe, firefly, then generate a lip-sync on Hedra over that image.

Technical:

https://replicate.com/home - Run and fine-tune open-source models.

Image generation:

https://liveportrait.org/ - animate photos

https://upscayl.org/ - upscale images

https://huggingface.co/spaces/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait - add mimics to a portrait

https://www.midjourney.com/ - probably the best image generator

https://ideogram.ai/t/explore - image generator

https://www.dzine.ai/ - image generator

https://www.canva.com/ - pre-AI tool, which is evolving into an almost all

encompassing creative marketing studio

https://www.napkin.ai/ - visualise text into images ready for a slide show

Video generation:

https://www.idomoo.ai/ - Text-to-video

https://www.krea.ai/home - Text-to-video and image generator

https://www.hedra.com/ - add voice/lip sync

https://elevenlabs.io/app/ - voice generator

https://www.immersity.ai/ - can turn an images or a videos 3D

https://app.mojo.video/ - can animate an image

https://app.runwayml.com/ - Dozens of creative tools to ideate, generate and edit

Content:

https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine - high quality, videos from text and images

https://www.captions.ai/ - add captions to your video in many languages

https://sendpotion.com/ - create an AI video avatar of yourself which you can use for

Others:

https://www.sliderrevolution.com/ - website builder

https://dreamoztech.com - website builder free

https://gamma.app/ - build websites, presentations or documents

https://typeset.io/ - research tool targeting students and academia

https://labs.google/gentype# - design alphabet asset (exports as image file format)

https://www.blaze.ai/ - can work as your marketing department

https://forms.app/ - Form builder and workflow integration

https://www.freeadcopy.com/ - copywriter

https://colormagic.app/ - colour palette generator (there are many other such tools which are pre-AI and are great too)

https://www.perplexity.ai/ - kind of like google, but providing in-depth summaries of the search

https://notebooklm.google.com/ - research and writing assistant that works best with the sources you upload - in Beta (Google Labs) This guy (Futurepedia) reviews new AI apps. He is also doing that in video format on YouTube. I find him super useful.

https://theresanaiforthat.com - Search for any type of AI tool

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