In 2024, AI applications have been fully implemented across various sectors. Many people wonder which AI products are the most popular among users. Recently, a16z, a well-known investment firm in Silicon Valley, conducted a survey asking 18 leaders from different industries to share their favorite AI products. These 18 entrepreneurs shared a total of 42 AI products, covering seven major categories: General Assistants (3), Productivity Tools (7), Content Creation Tools (7), Product Development Tools (4), Creative Content Generation Tools (11), Learning Tools (6), and Entertainment and Leisure Tools (4).
The most popular product type is creative content generation, with 11 AI products mentioned, including the music generator Suno, which was mentioned 3 times. Among all the tools, the most popular is AI search Perplexity AI, mentioned 5 times, followed by the conversational robot Claude, mentioned 4 times. In addition to these well-known names, the list also includes some interesting AI products, such as AI interactive diary Rosebud, AI parenting advisor GoodInside, AI psychiatrist Ash, and more. In this list, whether you are a professional pursuing efficient work, a content creator, a developer exploring cutting-edge technology, or a student group eager to enhance learning experiences, you can find powerful tools to support your development. Join us to explore more.01 / General Assistants
1. Perplexity AI, Real-time Responsive AI Search Perplexity AI is an AI-driven intelligent search engine that provides real-time, accurate research and information retrieval services. It leverages large models, including GPT-4, to generate real-time, human-like answers. Perplexity AI offers a professional plan at $20 per month, unlocking GPT-4 integration and up to 300 searches per day. Perplexity was founded by former OpenAI employees in 2022. In December 2024, Perplexity completed a $500 million funding round, with the company valuation increasing to $9 billion. 2. Claude, Skilled in Long Conversations and Complex Task Handling Claude, developed by Anthropic, is an AI assistant that offers various functions such as conversation and writing, and excels in long conversations and complex task handling. Over the past three months, Claude has brought the company a tenfold increase in annual revenue in software development and code generation services.3. ChatGPT, a widely recognized tool, now supports multimodal interactions and creative content generation. Its new feature, advanced voice, allows users to converse directly with ChatGPT and receive audio responses, capable of detecting subtle emotional nuances in the user’s voice. According to OpenAI CEO Altman on January 6th, ChatGPT’s weekly active users have grown from 100 million to over 300 million. 02 Efficiency Tools 1. Granola, an AI-enhanced meeting note tool, assists professionals who frequently attend meetings by recording, organizing, and analyzing meeting content, achieving automatic transcription and note enhancement. AI intelligently supplements based on meeting audio and user notes to make records more complete. Since its launch in May 2024, Granola’s user base has expanded fivefold, with approximately 5,000 people using the tool weekly. In October 2024, Granola secured $20 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $24.25 million. 2. Wispr Flow, an AI voice dictation platform, rapidly and accurately converts user voice input into written text. Users have overwhelmingly positive reviews for Wispr Flow. Many professionals report that the software has improved their writing speed and accuracy, reducing interruptions and errors in the writing process. 3. Gamma, an AI-generated PPT tool, enables users to quickly generate structured presentations, documents, or web content by simply inputting text prompts, ideas, or keywords, automatically generating outlines, content, and layout. As of May 2024, Gamma’s user base has surpassed 17 million, and it completed a $12 million Series A funding round in May 2024. 4. Adobe, an intelligent PDF processing tool, primarily through Adobe Acrobat, can generate summaries of PDFs with one click and offers intelligent Q&A and citation features. It also has advanced image recognition capabilities, able to recognize text in scanned documents and extract it, significantly reducing the need for manual input. 5. Cubby, an AI workspace for team collaboration, is designed to enhance research collaboration. It supports various content types, allowing users to add content from any source while retaining the original format.
Users can directly add annotations and highlight content, such as drawing annotations on PDFs and other documents.
6. Cora, Automated Email Classification and Processing Cora is an AI email assistant that can organize users’ inboxes and automate tasks. It classifies emails according to content, priority, or predefined rules and can even automatically perform follow-up operations. 7. Lindy, Workflow Automation Tool Lindy is an AI workflow automation tool. Users can build automated processes through a simple drag-and-drop interface. It can seamlessly integrate with over 50 applications, such as Gmail, Airtable, Notion, etc. Specifically, it can create processes for automatically sending emails, managing meeting schedules, and organizing files. / 03 / Content Expansion Tools 1. Delphi, Text, Voice, and Video Cloning Delphi is a programming language and integrated development environment often used in the development of video-related applications. It conducts video-related development through components such as the VideoCap control and FFmpeg VCL components. It can achieve functions such as video capture, processing, encoding, decoding, playback, and recording and can be applied in fields such as video surveillance and live webcasting. 2. HeyGen, Digital Human Generator for Content Creation and Video Localization On HeyGen, users can quickly create AI digital humans and generate highly realistic digital human videos within minutes. It is used to scale up content production or translate users’ videos. In December 2024, HeyGen newly launched a video podcast function that can directly generate a video podcast for two people from a PDF file or article link. In January, HeyGen announced the integration of its digital human model with OpenAI’s Sora model. The company’s latest financing took place in June 2024. Heygen successfully raised $60 million in Series A financing, led by Benchmark. The company’s valuation has now exceeded $500 million. 3. Argil, Virtual Character Video Generation Argil is an AI-driven video generation and automation platform. Users can create realistic virtual character videos within minutes. Users only need to upload a two-minute video of themselves speaking and record their voices to generate AI videos containing personal or general virtual characters. 4. Overlap, Popular Short Video Tool Overlap is an AI video processing tool designed for video creators. It can automatically generate high-quality short video clips from long videos. These clips are coherent and independent, with an average processing time of less than 2 minutes.It utilizes OpenAI’s latest o1 model, ensuring precise and high-quality content processing. Overlap is also an AI podcast assistant that intelligently identifies the exciting segments in podcasts by analyzing their semantics, emotions, and themes.
5. OpusClip, an AI editing agent, is an AI video editing tool characterized by its fully automatic video editing capabilities, requiring no editing skills. Notably, the founder, Zhao Yang, prefers to position Opus Clip as an autonomous video editing agent that works for you, rather than a video editor. Since its launch in June, OpusClip has attracted over six million users, including well-known brands like Billboard, Telefónica, and Univision. In September of this year, OpusClip completed a Series A funding round of $30 million, with participants such as Samsung Next, GTMfund, and DCM Ventures, and is enhancing its platform with the new ClipAnything feature. 6. Persona, a customizable Agent role tool, is used to define the role and personality of an Agent in intelligent entity construction. It offers a variety of role templates and attribute settings, allowing the creation of intelligent entity roles with specific personalities, occupations, and knowledge backgrounds for different application scenarios and user needs, such as simulating customer service personnel, doctors, teachers, and other roles. 7. Captions, an automatic video clipping tool, is an AI video editing tool that can automatically recognize exciting segments and key information in long videos and edit them into multiple short videos suitable for dissemination. 04 / Product Development Tools 1. Cursor, a modern development tool (IDE) that integrates code editing, debugging, and auto-completion, has built-in GPT3.5 and 4.0 Claud devices that can generate complete project code libraries within minutes and automatically fix bugs, generate tests, and more. In December 2024, Anysphere, the developer of Cursor, recently completed a Series B funding round of $100 million, with a post-investment valuation of $2.6 billion. This comes only four months after the company’s previous funding round, with the valuation soaring 6.5 times from the previous $400 million. 2. Replit, a natural language development Agent, is an Agent that can develop apps and websites based on natural language.Not only can it write code, but it can also handle all matters from setting up the environment to deploying applications. 3. AnyChat, Integrating Multiple Large Models AnyChat is a unified chat interface for various AI models supported by Gradio, aimed at making it easier for developers to experiment with and deploy different LLMs without the constraints of traditional platforms. Users can unify ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and others under one platform. 4. Codeium, Automatic Code Completion Codeium is an AI-driven generative coding platform. It automatically completes specific logic code within functions based on context and code previously written by users. For complex logic, such as sorting, filtering a list, or reading data from a file and processing it, it can also help users write complete multi-line code. In August 2024, Codeium completed a Series C round of financing led by General Catalyst, raising $150 million, and the company’s valuation rose to $1.25 billion. 5. Creative Generation Tools 1. EleyenLabs, Realistic AI Voice EleyenLabs can convert input text into high-quality, naturally fluent human voice, with realistic human intonation, precise resonance, and rich emotional expression. As of February 2024, ElevenLabs’ total funding reached $101 million, with the company’s valuation exceeding $1 billion. 2. Suno, Udio, AI Music Generators Suno is a tool for creating songs/music based on text prompts. It can specify the timbre of the AI singer and allows users to upload photos and videos to generate a 30-second piece of music. Its V4 update in November 2024 can generate 4-minute music and introduces an AI lyric generation assistant. Udio is also an AI music generator that allows users to generate various high-quality music pieces through text prompts. Udio’s CEO David Ding and co-founder Charlie Nash also participated in the development of the music model Lyria. 3. Midjourney, Ideogram, Playground, AI Image Generation Midjourney is a top-tier AI image generation tool for artistic style image creation. In August 2024, Midjourney launched the ‘Tools with the Lab’ tool for free users, which is an image generation tool.
Ideogram, founded by former Google Brain researchers, excels in the field of image and text fusion design. It boasts over 1 billion user-generated images, which are publicly accessible. Playground is a free platform for hybrid image editing, capable of combining real and synthetic images to create realistic scenes, seamlessly integrating objects into various scenes, and transforming sketches into realistic images. Currently, Playground v2 has been open-sourced on the HuggingFace platform.
Runway, a powerful and comprehensive AI video generation tool, can perform tasks such as text-to-video, image-to-video, video editing, and more. It can also remove content from videos, slow down any video, and generate 3D textures. Its Gen-3 version is suitable for professional projects, capable of generating 4K resolution videos. Kuaishou Keling, known for its video effects, excels in video effects and animation, presenting realistic physical simulations. In August of last year, a short film made with Grok and Keling AI received praise from Elon Musk. Kuaishou Keling AI has over 6 million users, generating more than 65 million videos. Viggle is a free AI video generation tool that can precisely control character movements. It offers over 100 dynamic motion templates, including dancing, walking, and running. As of the end of May 2024, Viggle’s membership has exceeded 3 million. Krea is a creative canvas for making and enhancing images and videos in real-time. Its key feature is enhancing image quality, rejuvenating old photos. Additionally, users can edit images in real-time during the creative process, making instant adjustments and improvements to their work. Users can upload their own images to train the AI engine, enabling Krea to generate content that better matches their personal style. Photoroom, an AI image editing tool developed by a French startup in Paris, is known for its background removal and background replacement features. It is suitable for e-commerce and personal social media. According to February 2024 news, Photoroom has been downloaded over 150 million times, with 7 million monthly active users and hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers. Rosebud, an AI interactive journal, is an interactive AI note-taking app, primarily used for personal mental health and growth, where users can receive real-time feedback while keeping a diary.Rosebud is capable of learning from user records, identifying patterns and trends such as emotional change patterns and behavioral habit patterns. With a monthly membership fee of $12.99 and an annual fee of $107.99, Rosebud has access to over 3 million words of diary records. GoodInside, an AI parenting consultant, is a parenting assistance tool that provides personalized support. It offers tailored parenting advice and strategies based on the child’s age, personality, behavior, and the parent’s parenting goals and concerns. Ada Health, an AI diagnostic assistant, is an AI-driven symptom assessment and remote medical service application. It provides personalized health advice, including lifestyle adjustments, dietary suggestions, and exercise recommendations, to help users better manage their health. As of 2024, Ada Health has over 6 million global registered users, with the number continuously increasing. Ash, an AI psychologist for voice chat, is a psychological counseling app that offers mental health support and guidance. Users can engage in voice conversations with the app to alleviate stress, understand their emotions, and enhance psychological resilience. NotebookLM, a podcast generator in 5 minutes, is an AI writing assistant under Google, based on the Gemini 1.5 Pro model. Users can upload research notes, interview records, or company documents for AI summarization and Q&A. Its standout feature is the ‘Audio Overview,’ which generates an ‘discussion’ audio between two AI hosts based on the material, helping users conduct in-depth research with lively and interesting conversations. NotebookLM’s Discord community attracted 65,000 users in just three weeks, which is an astonishing number for an experimental AI project within Google. Particle, an AI news reader, is an AI document summarization tool that provides users with quick, key summaries of news reports. Particle has established partnerships with Reuters, AFP, and Fortune, among other media, accessing their content through APIs. Particle has two main features: the ‘Opposites’ tool, which visually displays the reporting angles of media with different political inclinations on the same event through a spectrum; and an AI chatbot that allows users to ask in-depth questions about the news content and receive immediate answers.
The company completed Seed and Series A funding rounds in 2024, securing a total of $15.3 million in financing. Investors include Twitter and Medium co-founder Ev Williams, as well as Behance founder Scott Belsky.
07 / Entertainment and Leisure Tools: 1. Remix, AI Creative Social Platform Remix AI is a social platform for creating and sharing AI images and videos. The AI model of Remix AI can create high-quality images based on text descriptions, enabling everyone to express creativity. Additionally, Remix AI is directly integrated into social platforms, allowing users to easily share AI-generated content. 2. Meta Imagine, AI Personalized Avatar Generation Meta Imagine is used by users to create AI images of themselves, family, and friends within the Meta APP. It generates high-quality, diverse images while maintaining identity protection and text alignment features. This product is based on the ‘Imagine Yourself’ AI model released by Meta in August 2024. 3. Grok, Twitter’s ‘Comment Robert’ Grok is a free AI chatbot that relies on X platform’s information and web data to provide real-time information, answer questions, and even create high-quality images for free. Developed by Marx’s AI startup xAI, Grok was previously active only on the X platform and has recently been launched as a standalone app on the Apple Store. 4. Curio, Child-Friendly AI Platform Curio is an AI-voice-supported platform for children’s conversations, offering interactive toys with a product line including characters like robot Gabbo, rocket Grok, and Grem. In April 2024, Curio received funding from venture capital firm Khosla Ventures and TED curator Chris Anderson to support the development of its AI news anchor ‘Rio’ in the APP.
