2023's Top 10 Picks: AI Tools and GenAI Products

2023 has witnessed the emergence of numerous AI tools and generative AI products that has reshaped industries and elevated user experiences. From advanced language models facilitating code generation to AI-powered assistants streamlining business workflows, this article explores the 10 coolest AI tools and GenAI products of the year.

CodeWhisperer:

CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered code generation tool by Amazon. It creates entire functions and classes based on natural language prompts. The tool is trained on billions of code lines and it scans for security vulnerabilities and offers real-time suggestions. The tool aligns with best practices and allows users to customize recommendations, making it aware of APIs, packages, and libraries.

Google Cloud's Duet AI:

Duet AI is Google Cloud's generative AI tool. It helps in application development, data querying, and code creation while prioritizing security and data privacy. Through a natural language chat interface, users engage with Duet AI for cloud-related queries and guidance on best practices. Trained on Google Cloud content, Duet AI serves as an expert pair programmer, offering contextual code completion, real-time function generation, and assistance with code reviews.

Salesforce Einstein GPT:

Salesforce's Einstein GPT is an AI-powered tool. Integrated into the CRM platform, this tool leverages OpenAI's GPT-3. This tool, integrated with popular products like Slack, enhances customer relationship management by unlocking valuable data insights, generating human-like text, and improving sentiment analysis. By combining public and private AI models with CRM data, it enables natural-language queries, automates processes, facilitates quick decision-making with data-driven insights, and enhances employee efficiency within Salesforce.

Google Bard:

Google Bard is a conversational generative AI tool. It is designed to enhance the Google Workspace portfolio. Bard, akin to ChatGPT, boosts customer productivity not only by automating tasks such as scheduling meetings, generating code, but also answering questions via Google Search.

Google's Vertex AI:

Google's Vertex AI platform is a comprehensive solution for data scientists and machine learning engineers. It offers MLOps tools to automate, standardize, and manage AI projects. It provides a unified platform with over 100 foundation models, data residency controls, and observability features. Vertex AI facilitates the training, deployment, and customization of machine learning models, supporting collaboration across teams with a common toolset on Google Cloud.

Anthropic Claud 2:

Anthropic's latest general-purpose language model, also known as LLM, Claude 2 offers improved performance and longer responses than its predecessor. Claude 2 excels in code writing based on instructions and features an expanded context window. It is accessible via API and the website claude.ai, and comes in versions like Claude 2 API for businesses. Utilizing Anthropic reinforcement learning and constitutional AI, Claude 2 can autonomously fine-tunes itself.

Amazon Bedrock:

Amazon Bedrock, launched this year, provides accessible generative AI models via an API. Users can customize models using proprietary data through techniques like fine-tuning. It enables the creation of managed agents for various business tasks without code. Generally available since September, Bedrock offers foundation models from companies like AI21 Labs and Meta, emphasizing privacy and security with serverless infrastructure on AWS.

GPT-4:

OpenAI's ChatGPT revolutionized the IT field with the launch of LLM GPT-4 in March. More creative and collaborative than its predecessors, GPT-4 generates, edits, and iterates with users on technical and creative writing tasks. Pre-trained on public and third-party data, it's fine-tuned for policy compliance, boosting work efficiency and creativity. The upcoming GPT-4 Turbo, with a 128K context window, ensures even more thoughtful responses with updated information.

ChatSpot:

ChatSpot is an AI-powered assistant that facilitates integration of ChatGPT and GPT-4 with HubSpot's CRM platform. This chatbot enables users to create reports, marketing messages, and summaries of HubSpot data. With generative AI, sales, marketing, and research prompts, it boosts productivity. It also facilitates prospecting templates, AI-generated images, SEO expertise, and in-depth exploration of company data for IT teams.

Microsoft 365 Copilot:

Microsoft 365 Copilot, provides enhanced access to Microsoft's generative AI tools. This AI assistant operates across various applications like Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Loop. Copilot can help in creating drafts, preparing demonstrations, summarizing emails, and document writing. The service requires a minimum purchase of 300 seats at $30 per user per month.