LibGuides: AI Literacy Framework: Current AI Models

Frontier Models (updated 6.11.2025)

ChatGPT by OpenAI (free / paid)
A multi-modal model - ChatGPT / GPT 4 also include Dall-E and other add-on models/tools.
Claude by Anthropic (free / paid)
Claude is a leading frontier AI and is primarily marketed to business and enterprise entities, but works well as a chatbot AND has agents.
Copilot by Microsoft (free / paid)
Copilot is a version of ChatGPT / GPT 4 with a bit of Microsoft's own secret sauce.
Gemini by Google (free / paid)
Supercharge your creativity and productivity.
Chat to start writing, planning, learning and more with Google AI.
LLaMa by Meta (free)
LLaMa 3 is a Large Language Model AI owned by Meta.
Mistral by Mistral AI (free / paid)
The AI assistant for your most meaningful work.
Frontier intelligence. Deep personalization. Full control.

** Yes, I left Grok by XAi off the list. The training material and the alignment of Grok make it an AI that responds in ways that should not be used in academic situations.

Chinese Models (!! WARNING: your privacy and information is probably being collected by the government of China!!)

Other AI Models

Humanizers / Writing AIs

Jasper AI
Interacting with artificial intelligence used to feel difficult, overwhelming, and a bit robotic. With Jasper Chat, simply ask your friendly chatbot to generate ideas, revise your content, or even make you laugh.
Quillbot
At QuillBot, we envision a world where writing is painless for everyone. That’s why we’ve built and refined the most robust writing and research platform in the world. Our algorithms are carefully tested for accuracy, and our tools are more dynamic than any others on the market. When you use QuillBot, you can feel confident that your writing is the best it can be.

Art / Video / Gaming

Adobe's Firefly
Firefly models and services power generative AI features in Adobe creative apps. Learn about the latest features in Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, and the Firefly web app.
Dall-E 3
DALL·E 3 is built natively on ChatGPT, which lets you use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner and refiner of your prompts. Just ask ChatGPT what you want to see in anything from a simple sentence to a detailed paragraph.
Midjourney
A prompt is a short text phrase that the Midjourney Bot interprets to produce an image. The Midjourney Bot breaks down the words and phrases in a prompt into smaller pieces, called tokens, that are compared to its training data and then used to generate an image. A well-crafted prompt can help make unique and exciting images.
Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion is an advanced image editing technique that utilizes latent text-to-image diffusion models to generate photo-realistic images based on text inputs. Diffusion models are trained through the addition of noise to images, which allows the model to learn how to effectively remove it. Subsequently, the learned denoising process can be utilized by the model to generate realistic images from random seeds.