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Free AI tools offer enormous potential: they democratize access to generative AI, enabling users to harness the power of AI without investment. Remarkably, these free AI apps offer solutions from image creation to video production to writing assistance.

Also, given that a growing crowd of generative AI vendors is competing for marketshare, the practice of offering a free AI app at least on a trial basis is an important aspect of attracting users. So expect a still longer list of free AI software going forward.

Here are our picks for the top free AI tools for users and businesses in 2024:

Heres how the top eight free generative AI tools compare across key features typically expected in free AI tools, including the use for which they are best suited.

To see a list of the leading generative AI apps, read our guide: Top 20 Generative AI Tools and Apps 2024

ClickUp is an all-in-one project management tool that seamlessly integrates task management with artificial intelligence capabilities.

It offers a large suite of features like customizable dashboards, real-time chat for team collaboration, and visual widgets to track various project indicators like team members, tasks, sprints, and time tracking. Its AI tool, ClickUp Brain, delivers solutions across knowledge management, project management, and content creation.

Aside from its Free and Enterprise versions, ClickUp offers Unlimited and Business plans that start at $7 and $12 per user per month when billed monthly, respectively. ClickUp AI can be added to any paid plan for $5 per user per month.

A leading AI video tool, Synthesia AI is recognized for its ability to significantly reduce localization and voiceover expenses, cutting video production costs by up to 50%. This is a significant consideration for businesses or content creators looking to produce high-quality video content on a budget.

The platforms AI capabilities enable users to create videos from text scripts using natural language processing and computer vision. This in turn eases the video production process and makes it more accessible to a wider audience.

Synthesia AI offers three plans: Starter at $22 per month, Creator at $67 per monthboth billed annuallyand Enterprise, which offers custom pricing.

Notion AI extends the capabilities of the popular organization and productivity platform Notion by integrating AI to assist with content creation, summarization, and more. Notion AI can summarize content, generate ideas, draft rough copies, correct spelling and grammar, and even translate content, making it a versatile tool for a wide range of applications. Thus its a very handy tool for business meetings as well as personal brainstorming.

Notion offers Free, Plus, Business, and Enterprise plans. Plus and Business start at $8 and $15 per user per month when billed annually, respectively, and theres a Notion AI add-on starting at $8 per user per month.

ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is a huge leap forward in conversational AI as it gives users the ability to generate human-like text based on the prompts provided. This tools capabilities extend beyond simple text generation; it can understand context, answer questions, write essays, create content, and even code. The recent enhancements, allowing ChatGPT to see, hear, and speak, have further broadened its enormous scope as its not limited to textual inputs. By the way, also on the horizon: Sora, OpenAIs text-to-video tool.

Aside from its free plan, which grants access to GPT-3.5, it has a Plus tier at $20 per user per month, billed monthly, and a Team plan at $30 per user per month, billed monthly.

Grammarly goes beyond traditional spell-checking to offer a comprehensive AI writing assistant that enhances clarity, engagement, and correctness. Its AI-driven platform provides real-time suggestions to improve grammar, punctuation, style, and tone. Its a notable free AI tool for anyone looking to elevate their writing, be they professionals or students. Grammarlys ability to adapt to your writing style over time makes it a personalized AI tool for improving communication across various platforms and formats.

The premium versions of Grammarly deliver two plans: Business and Enterprise. The Business plan is dependent on team size but starts at $15 per user per month, while the Enterprise plan offers custom pricing.

Canva opens up design to anyone who uses the free AI tool with its user-friendly platform that guides users to create professional-quality graphics, presentations, and social media content. Its standout AI feature is Magic Studio, which groups all of Canvas AI tools in one place. Canva also has an extensive library of templates, images, and design elements, combined with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, that makes it accessible to users with no prior design experience.

Canvas free version offers a wide range of features suitable for basic design needs, with Canva Pro and Canva for Teams at subscription fees of $6.49 per user per month and $12.99 per month for the first five people, respectively.

Zapier is a powerful tool that connects your favorite apps, such as Gmail, Slack, Mailchimp and more, to automate repetitive tasks without having to write code or rely on developers to build the integration. Its interface is simple to use and allows you to create automated workflows, known as Zaps, which can move information between your web apps automatically. With AI enhancements, Zapier can suggest the most useful Zaps for your needs and learn from your usage patterns to recommend optimizations.

Aside from Zapiers free plan, its tiered paid plans include Starter, Professional, and Team that start from $19.99, $49.99, and $69.99 per month when billed annually, respectively.

A leading AI image creation tool, Stable Diffusion is a state-of-the-art AI model thats capable of generating highly creative and customizable images from textual descriptions. This open-source AI tool democratizes access to powerful image generation capabilities, enabling artists, designers, and content creators to bring their visions to life. Stable Diffusions versatility is a real strength: its adaptable to various styles and themes, allowing users to create everything from fantastical landscapes to detailed character art.

As an open source tool, Stable Diffusion is available for free. Anyone interested can download and run the model on their own hardware or utilize various online platforms that host the model, some of which may offer additional features or services for a fee.

Free AI tools that are capable of creating content can supercharge how businesses and individuals produce written, audio, and video content. Tools like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT excel in this area, offering users the ability to generate blog posts, scripts, and images using natural language processing. This feature is invaluable for marketers, content creators, and anyone looking to scale their content production without compromising quality.

Workflow automation features, as seen in tools like Zapier, streamline repetitive tasks by connecting different applications and automating actions between them. This capability is crucial for enhancing productivity, reducing manual errors, and freeing up time for more strategic work. Businesses can automate tasks such as data entry, email responses, and social media updates.

Design and media features in AI tools enable users to create professional-quality graphics, videos, and multimedia content without needing extensive design skills. These features remove the barriers to design entirely and allow small businesses, educators, and social media influencers to produce visually appealing content. Canva is a great example of a free AI design tool.

Code assistance features offered by tools like ChatGPT leverage AI to suggest code snippets, complete lines of code, and even debug code for developers. This enhances coding efficiency, reduces the likelihood of errors, and can significantly speed up the development process for software developers and engineers.

Conversational AI features enable AI tools to understand and respond to human language in a way that mimics natural conversation. This is used more and more in AI chatbots, virtual assistants, and interactive learning platforms, especially since some of these use cases have previously produced a rather robotic and unintuitive experience for users. These AI tools provide users with instant, intelligent responses to their queries and improve user engagement.

AI writing assistance features like those in Grammarly offer real-time suggestions for grammar, punctuation, style, and tone improvements and ultimately make written communication clearer and more effective. This feature is particularly beneficial for non-native English speakers, professionals looking to polish their writing, and anyone who wants to improve their written communication skills.

AI image generation features such as those offered by Stable Diffusion allow users to create detailed and creative images from text. This feature opens up new possibilities for artists, designers, and content creators as they can now so easily visualize concepts and ideas quickly and bring their creative visions to life.

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Selecting the right free AI tools for your business hinges on answering the question, What do I need? and understanding what AI tool and how the tool can provide value.

Your use case really matters. For instance, startups might prioritize tools like Canva for quick and professional-grade design, while a tech company might find ChatGPT invaluable for coding assistance. Its about matching the tools strengths with your business requirements. But most important, if its a free AI tool you seek, check if the AI tools you are considering are actually free as its common to find a tool claiming to offer free features behind a premium plan.

To select these eight tools, we first had to ensure that each tool in our shortlist was free to use or had a free plan. We then considered a collection of tools that showed diversity in their use cases, ranging from image generation to code assistance. Then, we tested each of these tools to understand what they offer and how effective their free features are.

From the hands-on experience, we were able to determine the standout quality, strengths, and weaknesses of each tool. Finally, we compared the pricing of tools with premium pricing tiers.

Free AI tools present an attractive opportunity for businesses to implement AI capabilities with no financial investment. By selecting tools that meet your business needs and understanding their limitations, you can seamlessly integrate AI into your operations, which in turn improves efficiency and innovation. Ultimately, examine the tools that interest you closely and make sure that they are actually free to use or have a free plan as opposed to merely a free trial.

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Giving artificial intelligence (AI) systems an "inner monologue" makes them considerably better at reasoning, new research shows.

The method trains AI systems to think before they respond to prompts, just as many people consider what we should say next before we speak. This is different from the way scientists have trained mainstay AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, which don't "think" about what they write or anticipate different possibilities for the next steps in a conversation.

Dubbed "Quiet-STaR," the new method instructs an AI system to generate many inner rationales in parallel before responding to a conversational prompt. When the AI answers prompts, it generates a mixture of these predictions with and without a rationale, printing the best answer which can be verified by a human participant depending on the nature of the question.

Finally, it learns by discarding rationales that proved incorrect. In effect, the training method gives AI agents the capacity to anticipate future conversations and learn from ongoing ones.

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The researchers applied the Quiet-STaR algorithm to Mistral 7B, an open-source large language model (LLM), and posted the results March 14 to the pre-print database arXiv. (The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed.)

The Quiet-STaR-trained version of Mistral 7B scored 47.2% on a reasoning test versus 36.3% before any training. It still flunked a school math test, earning a score of 10.9%. But that was nearly double the starting score of 5.9% in the vanilla version.

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Models like ChatGPT and Gemini are built from neural networks collections of machine learning algorithms arranged in a way that mimics the structure and learning patterns of the human brain. However, systems built using this architecture are abysmal at common sense reasoning or contextualization and AI chatbots do not have genuine "understanding."

Past attempts to improve the reasoning capabilities of LLMs have been highly domain-specific and could not be applied to different types of AI models.

The self-taught reasoner (STaR) algorithm, which the researchers used as a basis for their work, is one example of such a training algorithm but is held back by these limitations.

The scientists who developed Quiet-STaR named it that because the principles of STaR can be applied quietly in the background and generally over several different types of LLM, independent of the original training data. Now they want to investigate how techniques like theirs can reduce the gap between neural network-based AI systems and human-like reasoning capabilities.

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The iPhone 16 leaks are starting to pile up now, ahead of an expected launch in September, and the latest rumor to reach us suggests the phone is going to come with RAM and storage upgrades specifically to accommodate the extra AI features on board.

This comes from a report out of South Korea (via well-known tipster @Tech_Reve), which states that the base level iPhone 16 could come with either 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, or both, to give the integrated AI extra room to think, store, and process commands.

For comparison, the cheapest iPhone 15 comes with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage (though 256GB and 512GB versions are also available). The extra headroom is necessary for the additional work that generative AI tools need.

Only Google's smallest AI model, Gemini Nano, is compact enough to fit on a smartphone specifically, the Pixel 8 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S24 handsets. That might change going forward, but a lot of AI calculations are currently offloaded to the cloud.

Apple prides itself on doing as much computing work as possible locally, without transferring streams of data to and from servers on the web. It means more of your info is stored solely on your phone or laptop, where it's secure and private.

If that's going to happen with the AI features that Apple has been promising, then the iPhone 16 may well need some extra grunt. As this tipster acknowledges though, nothing is confirmed yet, and Apple's plans could still change. It also raises the question of how much of this AI functionality might trickle down to older, less powerful handsets.

We don't know exactly what these AI features from Apple are going to be, but all the signs are that iOS 18 will feature a bunch of generative AI tools similar to those we've seen in other phones (and oddly enough, Google might be helping out).

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Apple is likely to tell us much more at the WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference), which usually happens every year in June. After that, we'll get public betas for iOS 18, and then eventually the new iPhone 16 handsets in September.

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On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously consented to adopt what some call the first global resolution on AI, reports Reuters. The resolution aims to foster the protection of personal data, enhance privacy policies, ensure close monitoring of AI for potential risks, and uphold human rights. It emerged from a proposal by the United States and received backing from China and 121 other countries.

Being a nonbinding agreement and thus effectively toothless, the resolution seems broadly popular in the AI industry. On X, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith wrote, "We fully support the @UN's adoption of the comprehensive AI resolution. The consensus reached today marks a critical step towards establishing international guardrails for the ethical and sustainable development of AI, ensuring this technology serves the needs of everyone."

The resolution, titled "Seizing the opportunities of safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence systems for sustainable development," resulted from three months of negotiation, and the stakeholders involved seem pleased at the level of international cooperation. "We're sailing in choppy waters with the fast-changing technology, which means that it's more important than ever to steer by the light of our values," one senior US administration official told Reuters, highlighting the significance of this "first-ever truly global consensus document on AI."

In the UN, adoption by consensus means that all members agree to adopt the resolution without a vote. "Consensus is reached when all Member States agree on a text, but it does not mean that they all agree on every element of a draft document," writes the UN in a FAQ found online. "They can agree to adopt a draft resolution without a vote, but still have reservations about certain parts of the text."

The initiative joins a series of efforts by governments worldwide to influence the trajectory of AI development following the launch of ChatGPT and GPT-4, and the enormous hype raised by certain members of the tech industry in a public worldwide campaign waged last year. Critics fear that AI may undermine democratic processes, amplify fraudulent activities, or contribute to significant job displacement, among other issues. The resolution seeks to address the dangers associated with the irresponsible or malicious application of AI systems, which the UN says could jeopardize human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Resistance from nations such as Russia and China was anticipated, and US officials acknowledged the presence of lots of heated conversations during the negotiation process, according to Reuters. However, they also emphasized successful engagement with these countries and others typically at odds with the US on various issues, agreeing on a draft resolution that sought to maintain a delicate balance between promoting development and safeguarding human rights.

The new UN agreement may be the first "global" agreement, in the sense of having the participation of every UN country, but it wasn't the first multi-state international AI agreement. That honor seems to fall to the Bletchley Declaration signed in November by the 28 nations attending the UK's first AI Summit.

Also in November, the US, Britain, and other nations unveiled an agreement focusing on the creation of AI systems that are "secure by design" to protect against misuse by rogue actors. Europe is slowly moving forward with provisional agreements to regulate AI and is close to implementing the world's first comprehensive AI regulations. Meanwhile, the US government still lacks consensus on legislative action related to AI regulation, with the Biden administration advocating for measures to mitigate AI risks while enhancing national security.

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