The AI tools we recommend
A short selection, sorted by use. For each tool: what it is for, our tip to get started, and the matching Academy course.
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Chat and writing
- ChatGPT (OpenAI)
The most widely used assistant in the world: writing, summarising, analysing a file, searching the web or talking out loud.
- Claude (Anthropic)
An assistant valued for the quality of its writing and for working on long documents or code.
- Gemini (Google)
Google's assistant, connected to its services: Gmail, Docs, Drive or YouTube.
- Le Chat (Mistral AI)
The assistant from Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence start-up.
Search
- Perplexity (Perplexity AI)
A search engine that answers with its sources, so you can see where each piece of information comes from.
Learning
- NotebookLM (Google)
You give it your documents, it answers only from them and can turn them into notes, an outline or an audio summary.
Images and video
- Higgsfield (Higgsfield)
The leading image, video and voice models of the moment, in a single account.
- Canva (Canva)
The online design studio, with AI tools to create, retouch or adapt a visual.
Voice and music
- ElevenLabs (ElevenLabs)
The benchmark for synthetic voices: reading text aloud, dubbing, and cloned voices with the person's consent.
- Suno (Suno)
Generates complete songs, lyrics and music, from a simple description.
Getting organised
- Notion (Notion)
Notes, documents and to-do lists in one place, with an AI assistant to summarise or draft.
To choose between the models themselves, prices and strengths included, see the Model Radar. To learn how to use them, the Academy.