Since ChatGPT’s release in late 2022, AI app usage has skyrocketed, with ChatGPT alone reaching over 180 million users by mid-2024. Beyond ChatGPT, various AI tools are reshaping industries like healthcare, speech technology, and mapping. As AI evolves, new applications and use cases continue to emerge. Here’s a look at some of the most popular AI tools worth exploring.
Most Used AI Tools
ChatGPT
This widely used AI chatbot operates on a large language model (LLM) and delivers detailed, humanlike responses to prompts through its training.
By January 2024, it attracted approximately 1.6 billion visits, leading the traffic among generative AI tools.
Claude AI
Claude, an increasingly popular LLM from Anthropic, excels in text tasks, coding, and creating infographics and charts. Known for its emphasis on safety and ethics, Claude’s latest version, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, is impressing users across social media.
Google Gemini
Google’s AI chatbot, rebranded from Bard to Gemini, launched in March 2023 and quickly became a leading tool due to Google’s influence. Unlike ChatGPT, Gemini pulls information from the web and is trained on Google’s own LaMDA and PaLM 2 models. With a massive 750 GB training dataset, it averaged 142 million users monthly in 2023.
QuillBot
Launched in 2017, Quillbot is an online writing assistant that helps users paraphrase, restructure text, check grammar, detect plagiarism, and translate. With 99.6 million monthly visits by early 2024, it remains a popular AI writing tool.
MidJourney
Midjourney, an AI image generator launched in July 2022, creates visuals from natural language prompts. By March 2024, it had 19.3 million registered users on Discord, where users can enter prompts and watch their ideas transform into artwork instantly.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face is an AI-driven data science platform and community. It empowers users to build, train, and deploy machine learning models using open-source tools. It also facilitates idea sharing and project collaboration. Valued at $4.5 billion in 2023, Hugging Face is backed by major players like Salesforce, Google, Amazon, and Nvidia, and hosts over a million models, datasets, and applications in its ecosystem.
Character AI
Character AI, launched in September 2022, is a chatbot that utilizes a neural language model, allowing users to find or create interactive characters from books, TV shows, movies, and real people.
By the end of 2023, it accounted for 15.77% of total AI traffic, reaching 3.8 billion visits and establishing itself as one of the leading AI tools.
CapCut
CapCut is a comprehensive AI platform that allows users to design images, edit, and generate videos directly in their browsers. Since its launch in 2020, CapCut has consistently ranked among the most downloaded apps on both Apple and Android, boasting at least 200 million active users by 2023.
Janitor AI
Janitor AI, launched in May 2023, is a character chatbot based on ChatGPT that enables users to create their own characters or interact with those made by others for immersive roleplay experiences. The model has been modified to support not-safe-for-work (NSFW) interactions with the characters.
Civitai
Launched in November 2022, Civitai is a repository for AI art models designed for Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image diffusion model. It offers a vast collection of customizable models, allowing users to share and rate custom models and textual inversions. By January 2024, the site attracted an estimated 307,000 monthly visitors.
