AI apps that I use (or keep track of)

Large Language Models I recommend: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude,

Other LLMs: DeepSeek, Meta AI, Grok

“Search engine”: Perplexity

Online Notebook: NotebookLM by Google

AI Imaging apps that I use: Google Whisk by Google, Midjourney (paid), Adobe Firefly (paid)

Image Upscaling: Upscayl (download the free app as the website requires payment)

Audio Transcription: Whisper AI, Otter, ElevenLabs

AI Music: Suno

Voice Cloning: ElevenLabs

AI Video apps that I use: Google Gemini, Google Whisk

AI Video apps I occasionally check in on: Sora by OpenAI, Hailuo Minimax, RunwayML, Adobe Firefly, Kling

Geeky AI apps

Local LLM installation: Ollama (and it’s recommended to use this with WebUI)

Whisper AI audio-to-text transcription installation guide (YouTube)

Hugging Face (a big resource for AI data models)

Marker: Convert PDFs to Markdown text

PPTX2MD: Convert PPT decks to Markdown text

Image Generator Interface: ComfyUI (this is the interface, you need to download the models. Watch YouTube videos to learn this complex stuff.)

Thought-Provoking Stuff

Don’t quit your day job: Generative AI and the end of programming by Mike Loukides