AI Cheatsheet 2025
AI in 2025: Your rapid guide to tools & models supercharging work and creativity.
(P=Paid, F=Free, Fm=Freemium, Incl.=Included)
🚀 Coding Assistants
Cursor (P)
▸ AI-first code editor with advanced coding assistance.
⭐ Beyond completion (codebase understanding); user-friendly.
Windsurf AI (P)
▸ AI code editor for workflow automation & efficiency.
⭐ Fast; deep codebase awareness; agentic approach.
GitHub Copilot (P)
▸ AI "pair programmer" for code suggestions & function generation.
⭐ Industry Standard (OpenAI); real-time code/function suggestions.
✍️ Writing & Content
ChatGPT (F/P)
▸ Versatile AI for content generation, brainstorming, rewriting.
⭐ Original disruptor; GPT-4 power (Plus) for high-quality output.
Notion AI (Fm Add-on)
▸ AI features integrated into the Notion workspace app.
⭐ Drafts content, summarizes notes, fixes grammar within Notion.
⚙️ Productivity & Automation
n8n (F/P)
▸ Open-source workflow automation tool with AI capabilities.
⭐ Highly customizable; cost-effective with robust free tier.
Zapier (Fm/P)
▸ Automation tool connecting apps, now with AI features.
⭐ Natural language automation; AI Agents build workflows.
Microsoft 365 Copilot (P for M365 Users)
▸ AI assistant integrated across Microsoft Office apps.
⭐ Supercharges Office tasks (drafts, summarizes, analyzes).
🎨 Design & Creativity
Midjourney (P)
▸ Generative AI image creator for photorealistic and art-quality images.
⭐ Stunning, detailed artistic images; designer's go-to.
DALL·E 3 (via OpenAI) (F via Bing, P via ChatGPT+)
▸ OpenAI's image model, great at understanding complex prompts.
⭐ Accessible; excels at complex instructions; versatile styles.
RunwayML (Fm Credits)
▸ AI-powered video and content creation tools (text-to-video Gen-2).
⭐ Text-to-video magic; industry-proven advanced editing.
Higgsfield AI (Fm)
▸ AI video creation platform for storytelling with consistent characters.
⭐ Enables narrative video with character consistency & camera control.
Hailuo AI (Fm)
▸ AI video and voice generation tool.
⭐ Quality text-to-speech, music, & video generation; multilingual.
Topaz Labs (P)
▸ AI-powered photo and video enhancement tools.
⭐ Denoises, sharpens, upscales images; enhances video quality.
🤖 Personal Assistants
Google Gemini (F)
▸ Google's AI chat assistant, integrated with Google ecosystem.
⭐ Pulls info from Gmail/Docs (w/ permission); Gemini smarts.
Microsoft Copilot (F/P)
▸ Microsoft's AI assistant across Windows, Office, and more.
⭐ Versatile integration; productivity booster for diverse tasks.
🎤 Voice & Audio
ElevenLabs (Fm)
▸ Leading AI text-to-speech (TTS) for natural-sounding voices.
⭐ Ultra-realistic voices with emotion; voice cloning (paid).
Suno AI (Fm)
▸ AI-powered music and voice generation tool.
⭐ Creates songs (lyrics & melodies) from text; quality TTS.
🔬 Research & Knowledge
Perplexity AI (F/P Pro)
▸ "Research engine" providing answers with cited sources.
⭐ Concise answers with source footnotes; contextual dive.
🧠 Best Large Language Models (LLMs)
GPT-4 & Successors (OpenAI)
▸ Powers ChatGPT+, Copilot. Multimodal.
⭐ Benchmark for reasoning, coding, creativity. (GPT-4.5/5 soon).
Claude 3 Family (Anthropic)
▸ Known for safety & large context windows (200k+ tokens).
⭐ Excels in document analysis/summarization; rivals GPT-4.
Gemini Family (Google AI)
▸ Multimodal models (Ultra, Pro, Nano) powering Gemini.
⭐ Strong in search-integrated tasks & coding.
Llama 3 (Meta AI)
▸ Meta's high-performance open-source model family.
⭐ Fosters community innovation; powerful local AI.
Grok (xAI)
▸ xAI's model with real-time info via X (Twitter) integration.
⭐ Unique, edgy conversational style; up-to-date knowledge.
🌍 Best Open-Source Models & Projects
▸ Leading open(ish) model.
⭐ Enables local AI & fine-tuning; high performance.
Mistral Large & Mixtral Models (Mistral AI)
▸ Efficient, powerful models.
⭐ Compete with proprietary options; strong for size.
Stable Diffusion 3 & SDXL (Stability AI)
▸ Cornerstone of open-source image generation.
⭐ Customizable & local image creation.
Phi-2 & Orca-2 (Microsoft Research)
▸ Small Language Models (SLMs).
⭐ Efficient for on-device tasks; specialized.
▸ Toolkits for building LLM applications.
⭐ Connect LLMs to custom data; build complex apps.
Hugging Face Hub & Transformers
▸ Central hub for models, datasets, libraries.
⭐ Democratizes access to AI resources.
Agent Frameworks (e.g., AutoGPT, CrewAI)
▸ Enable autonomous AI agents for multi-step tasks.
⭐ Rapidly evolving for complex problem-solving.
📚 AI Series
- Navigating the AI Revolution: Understanding how AI is transforming work, creativity, and the future of every profession.
- Applied Intelligence: A practical guide to using AI tools, adapting your mindset, and thriving in the age of automation.
- Architects of Inversion – The Collapse of Execution: Exploring how AI is reshaping value, collapsing execution costs, and shifting human worth to ideas and direction.
- Architects of Inversion – The World That Follows: A deep dive into how abundant intelligence transforms work, society, space, and the shape of civilization.
The Takeaway 2025: AI is evolving at lightning speed. Be curious, experiment, and discover how these tools can amplify your skills!