AI Tools

AI Tools Disclaimer

When using generative AI tools, especially those not covered under a U-M privacy agreement, it is important to avoid entering sensitive information to protect privacy and ensure data security. These tools may not guarantee the confidentiality of the information shared. Please refer to the University of Michigan Safe Computing guidelines for AI tool use.

U-M AI Tools

ITS offers a generative AI platform available to all active U-M faculty, staff, and students on the Ann Arbor, Flint, and Dearborn campuses and Michigan Medicine. These service offerings, which include U-M GPT, U-M Maizey, and U-M GPT Toolkit, are secure, private, equitable, accessible, and free. They support everything from basic consumer usage to advanced research and experimentation.

U-M Google AI Tools

Google Gemini and Google NotebookLM are Google generative AI services available to all University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students. Google Gemini can be used to create new content and images, help brainstorm ideas, draft or summarize writing, explore complex topics, and assist with research and creative work. Google NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and note-taking assistant available to all University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students. Refer to the ITS Google Gemini & NotebookLM service page for more information on the U-M Google GenAI Services. 

Other U-M AI Offerings

Adobe Firefly is available for free through the University of Michigan's enterprise Adobe Creative Cloud license to all University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students. Firefly is a family of creative generative AI models used to generate, edit, and refine visual and audio content. It is designed specifically for commercial safety and is built directly into Adobe applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere, as well as being accessible as a standalone web tool.

AI Detection Tools

Be aware that these tools are imperfect, and currently, no software is able to detect AI-generated text with 100% certainty. While detection tools like Turnitin or GPTZero may report probability of AI authorship, they are easily circumvented and cannot provide definitive proof of cheating. False positives and negatives are possible, and even likely. U-M does not recommend the use of AI-detection technology at this time given their high error rate. Read more about AI detection tools in this resource document. 

AI Tools External to U-M

This list is for purely informational purposes. The University of Michigan does not endorse or support any of these specific external AI tools. There are many AI tools available and this is not an exhaustive list. 

Popular AI Tools

Content

  • ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer)  
    ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAI. It uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to answer questions, write content, summarize information and more.
  • Claude
    An AI chatbot by Anthropic designed for safe, conversational text generation, analysis, and reasoning.
  • Perplexity AI
    An AI-powered search assistant that combines web results with conversational answers, often citing sources directly.
  • Microsoft CoPilot 
    An AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 apps that helps draft, summarize, analyze, and automate tasks within familiar tools like Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Images & Art

  • ChatGPT’s DALL-E 3
    An AI image generator from OpenAI that creates highly detailed, realistic, and creative visuals from text prompts, with strong integration into ChatGPT for seamless prompt refinement.
  • Midjourney 
    A Discord-based AI that creates highly stylized, artistic images from text prompts.
  • Reve 
    A creative AI platform that generates images and art with a focus on speed and ease of use for designers and creators.
  • Ideogram
    An AI image generator specializing in producing graphics with accurate, beautifully styled text and typography.
  • Stable Diffusion
    An open-source AI model that creates customizable and detailed images from text prompts, with strong community add-ons and flexibility.
  • FLUX.1 
    A next-generation image generation model designed for high fidelity, artistic creativity, and complex scene rendering.
  • Recraft
    A design-oriented AI tool that generates vector graphics, icons, and illustrations suitable for professional use.

Video

  • Synthesia  
    Synthesia is a tool that allows you to turn text into video with AI generated speakers and voices.
  • Runway  
    An AI-powered creative suite that lets users generate and edit videos, images, and animations with tools like text-to-video, inpainting, and motion tracking.
  • Canva
    Canva allows users to turn text prompts into AI-generated videos in one click.
  • Sora
    OpenAI’s AI model that generates realistic, high-quality videos from text prompts, capable of creating complex scenes with motion, characters, and environments.

Music

  • AIVA  
    AIVA is AI composing software that empowers creators to make royalty free music.
  • MusicGen  
    MusicGen is a text-to-music generation tool developed by Meta.
  • Amper Music
    AI for those who want custom soundtracks for various projects
  • SoundRaw
    AI-powered music generator designed to streamline the music creation process for artists and creators by offering intuitive and customizable music production tools.
  • Suno AI
    AI-powered music creation tool that enables users to generate complete musical compositions from simple text prompts

Programming

  • GitHub Copilot  
    GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that translates natural human language into programming code.
  • CodeWhisperer  
    CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion from Amazon that can generate code suggestions based on your comments and existing code.

Refer to 20 Best AI Coding Assistant Tools [Updated Aug 2025] for more information on programming AI tools. AI coding tools can assist developers with routine tasks like debugging, formatting, and writing tests, as well as more advanced jobs like reviewing code or suggesting improvements. The best ones can understand your specific codebase and standards, so their suggestions actually fit your work.

Personal Productivity

  • Notion  
    Notion is the connected workspace where better, faster work happens.
  • Futurepedia  
    Futurepedia is a comprehensive, searchable database of AI tools.
  • SlidesAI  
    SlidesAI is a plugin for Google Slides that generates presentation slides from any text.
  • Explainpaper  
    Explainpaper allows users to upload a paper, highlight confusing text, and get an explanation.
  • Bing  
    Bing is Microsoft’s AI chatbot and runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - available to Michigan Medicine. Click here to get started.

Refer to Best AI productivity tools (2025): 18 tools to help you work smarter, not harder. AI productivity tools can help with everyday tasks like organizing schedules, drafting emails, summarizing documents, and managing to-do lists. Some are even smart enough to learn your habits and preferences, making their support more personalized over time.

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For Advanced Users

For Researchers

  • Elicit.com  
    Analyze research papers using and automate time-consuming research tasks lit literature reviews, summarizing papers, and extracting data.
  • Research Rabbit  
    Understands what you’re researching and gives you recommendations, personalized digests, and visualizations of networks of papers and co-authorships.
  • Scholarcy  
    AI-powered article summarizer.
  • Typset.io  
    AI-powered tool to help you understand research papers better.
  • ScholarAI  
    ChatGPT plug-in that helps clinicians connect with peer-reviewed research articles