If you'd like to recommend a particular AI product, please reply to this thread.
I quite like Exa.ai for search purposes. It's not there yet to replace my default search, but it's been useful a few times.
I strongly recommend Cursor for programming. Especially the "apply-model" (where you can press a button to have an AI model figure out how the changes that the chat model suggested to your code should actually apply) makes the experience miles better than vanilla VSCode.
Midjourney is still the best image generator. They now have a website so you no longer need to use their janky Discord UI.
Suno is the best AI music generator.
Nice idea having a thread for specific recommendations. The current best options are changing fast so I expect this thread to go out of date within a few months. Maybe even a few weeks.
Here's my preferences currently (Sept 2024):
Sonnet 3.5 - best all-round general model
Opus 3 - best at philosophy and complex theoretical discussions. Usually I only resort to this after I try Sonnet and notice that it fell slightly short at some point in the conversation.
o1-preview (strawberry) - does better on structured multi-step reasoning problems than Sonnet 3.5 O...
Have you tried https://alternativeto.net ? It may not be AI specific but it was pretty useful for me to find lesser known AI tools with particular set of features.
Being able to quickly incorporate AI tools seems important, including for working on AI risk (people who disagree: there's a thread for doing so in the comments). But there are a lot of AI products and most of them suck. Does anyone know a good source of reviews, or even just listing product features and naming obvious slop?