Overview of Free AI Tools

Introduction

• Experimented with numerous AI tools for 8 months
• Narrowed down the best free options for various use cases
• Some tools discussed are more for fun, while others are practical

Fun AI Tools

Luma Labs

• Transforms phone videos into highly detailed 3D scenes using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and gaussian splatting
• Small file size for easy sharing
• Applications in retail, real estate, travel, and creative uses
• Custom videos with key frames to guide camera movement
• Can be imported into game engines - supports different export formats

Google Earth Studio

• Animates geographical scenes from anywhere on Earth
• Allows for quick presets or fine-tuned customizations
• Great for combining with NeRF

Luma Labs' New Release: Genie

• Text-to-3D model generation available on Luma Discord
• Generates high-quality 3D models rapidly

Productivity and Learning Tools

Perplexity

• An interactive search assistant akin to a fine-tuned ChatGPT
• Uses up-to-date information from multiple web sources
• Provides concise answers with source references
• Mobile app available

SciSpace

• Tailored for finding and understanding research papers
• Similar to Perplexity but focuses on research papers
• Features include asking science-related questions and uploading PDFs for summaries
• Offers a Chrome extension for enhanced browsing

Google Search Generative Experience (SGE)

• An experimental AI in Google Search providing concise summaries
• Can expand answers and ask follow-up questions
• Recently added text-to-image generation
• Activated via labs.google.com

Tools for Music Creation

Suno

• Generates songs with instruments and vocals based on a topic
• Operated within Discord

MusicGen

• Open-source song generation tool by Meta
• Generates music without vocals based on user input on Waveformer or Hugging Face

Google's TextFX

• Suite of tools for lyric writing
• Generates similes, creates acronyms, parses words

Image and Video Animation Tools

LeiaPix

• Easiest way to animate images with immersive depth animations

Insta3D

• Further enhances immersive animations from 2D images

Meta's Children's Drawing Animation

• Turns children’s drawings into animations

Pika Labs

• Offers text-to-video and image-to-video generation in Discord channels

CapCut

• AI tools for video editing, including a video upscaler

Image Upscaling & Restoration

• Replicate and Upscayl.org provide free and unlimited image upscaling

Illusion Diffusion

• Creates QR code-based illusion images

Text-to-Image Generators

Ideogram

• Text-based design generation

Dall-E 3

• Text-to-image tool with good prompt understanding, usable on Bing Image Creator

Stable Diffusion

• Open-source, versatile, uncensored. Can be run locally or on platforms like Playground AI

Additional Resources

• Futurepedia.io for the latest AI tools