Paperpal is a writing assistant that specializes in academic writing and research. It includes a manuscript checker that reports on submission-readiness.
Grammarly is a grammar checking tool that also provides feedback on tone, voice and writing style.
Quillbot specializes in paraphrasing and condensing large quantities of text. It also includes a grammar checker, a citation generator and translator.
Perplexity is a conversational search engine that cites and links all of its sources. It indexes the web daily which allows its responses to be up-to-date.
Semantic Scholar is an academic search engine that provides links to papers along with a summary of their content. The semantic scholar database includes over 200 million scholarly works and continues to grow.
Consensus uses the Semantic Scholar dataset. When given a yes or no question, it can determine the answer based on consensus in the research.
When given a starting paper, Litmaps recommends more relevant articles by providing a network visualization of scholarly works that have been cited or referenced.
Copilot uses ChatGPT's code generation features but with additional functionality through GitHub. It can create and complete code as well as provide suggestions for improving it within the GitHub platform.
Q Developer can create and complete code. It is specialized to work with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Codeium is a plug-in that can be added to many Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Its features include autocompletion, natural language commands, and chatbot assistance.
Cody is an assistant that specializes in understanding the context of the code you are working on by accessing your entire codebase.
The AI tool landscape is constantly evolving and the tools noted above are just a few of those available. Many more tools can be explored through the Ithaka AI product tracker.
The Ithaka list is not comprehensive but focuses on tools used in academe. It may be most useful to search it for particular tools (using your browser's Find function), or for casual browsing in a particular category.