The hottest AI tools of 2024 (curated by a16z)

a16z recently launched Apps Unwrapped to spotlight the hottest AI tools of 2024.

I’ve listed and linked the tools here:

General Assistance

• Perplexity - AI-powered search engine and research assistant
• Claude (Anthropic) - General chatbot, great for projects and sharing work
• ChatGPT - Check out Advanced Voice Mode to talk to AI

Get Work Done

• Granola - AI notetaker that listens to your meetings and formats the transcript into notes
• Wispr Flow - AI voice dictation that turns your speech into text in any app
• Gamma - Make decks, docs, and websites to present your ideas with AI
• Adobe - Summarize and chat with PDFs
• Cubby - AI workspace built for collaborative research
• Cora - AI email assistant that organizes your inbox and automates responses (Waitlist as of Dec 23 2024)
• Lindy - Build AI agents to automate your workflows

Build an Audience

• Delphi - AI text, voice, and video clones to chat with your audience
• HeyGen - AI avatars to scale your content production or translate your videos
• Argil - AI avatars for social media videos
• Opus - Turn your long-form videos into short viral clips with AI
• Persona - AI agent builder for creators (Doesn't look like product is ready for public)
• Captions - AI avatars and video editing (e.g., auto-captions, correct eye contact)

Build a Product

• Cursor - AI code editor that knows your codebase
• Replit - AI agents to make apps and sites from natural language
• Anychat - Use any AI model in one place
• Codeium - AI-powered autocomplete for your code

Get Creative

• ElevenLabs - Realistic AI voices
• Suno, Udio- Create songs/music from text prompts
• Midjourney, Ideogram, Playground - AI image generation
• Runway, Kling, Viggle - AI video generation
• Krea - AI creative canvas to make and enhance images and video
• Photoroom - AI image editor, great for product photos and visuals

Learn or Grow

• Rosebud - Interactive journal that uses AI to surface insights
• Good Inside - Parenting co-pilot with personalized support
• Ada Health - Get an AI-powered assessment of medical symptoms
• Ash - Personalized AI counselor/coach
• NotebookLM - Turn any document into an AI podcast
• Particle - AI news app that combines multiple articles into summarized stories

Have Fun

• Remix - Social app for creating and sharing AI images and video
• Meta Imagine - Make AI images of yourself, family, and friends in Meta apps
• Grok - Chatbot from xAI
• Curio - Toys for kids to talk to, powered by AI voices