10 Mar 2026

AI Tools

Important AI tools demonstrated in the 5-day AI workshop conducted at SBU Ranchi covering research discovery, writing assistance, data science, and interactive AI platforms.

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All AI tools mentioned in the 5-day AI workshop conducted at SBU Ranchi are listed below with their country of origin, purpose, open-source status, and alternatives.

Teachable Machine

• Country: United States (Google)
• Purpose: Designed to democratize machine learning education by allowing users to train models for image, pose, and sound recognition directly in a browser without coding.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • TensorFlow
• Popular Tool:
  • PyTorch

Open Knowledge Maps

• Country: Austria
• Purpose: Created to solve information overload in academic research by clustering scientific publications into visual knowledge maps for quick exploration of topics.
• Open Source: Yes

Semantic Scholar

• Country: United States (Allen Institute for AI)
• Purpose: AI-powered academic search engine that analyzes citation influence, research relevance, and semantic relationships between papers.

• Open Source: Partially open research infrastructure

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • OpenAlex
• Popular Tool:
  • Google Scholar

AI2 Paper Finder

• Country: United States (Allen Institute for AI)
• Purpose: Developed to help researchers discover relevant scientific papers through semantic search and contextual understanding rather than simple keyword search.

• Open Source: Partially open research infrastructure

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • OpenAlex
• Popular Tool:
  • Google Scholar

Citation Gecko

• Country: United Kingdom
• Purpose: Helps researchers explore citation networks and identify related research papers through reference connections.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • Zotero
• Popular Tool:
  • Mendeley

ChatPDF

• Country: Germany
• Purpose: Allows users to upload PDFs and interact with them conversationally to extract summaries, answers, or explanations from research papers or documents.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • Haystack
• Popular Tool:
  • AskYourPDF

AnswerThis

• Country: United Kingdom
• Purpose: AI research assistant designed to extract concise answers from multiple academic papers and summarize scientific findings.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • Haystack
• Popular Tool:
  • Elicit

Storm Genie

• Country: United States
• Purpose: AI ideation and brainstorming tool designed to generate structured ideas, strategies, and innovation concepts.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • OpenAssistant
• Popular Tool:
  • Notion AI

Napkin AI

• Country: United States
• Purpose: Converts written ideas into visual diagrams and concept structures to help communicate abstract ideas more clearly.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • Excalidraw
• Popular Tool:
  • Miro

MyBib

• Country: United Kingdom
• Purpose: Automatically generates citations and bibliographies for academic writing across different citation styles.

• Open Source: Partially open components

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • Zotero
• Popular Tool:
  • EndNote

EditGPT

• Country: United States
• Purpose: AI writing assistant designed to edit, revise, and improve text clarity while tracking writing changes.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • LanguageTool
• Popular Tool:
  • Grammarly

Mentimeter

• Country: Sweden
• Purpose: Interactive presentation platform enabling live polls, quizzes, and real-time audience engagement in classrooms and conferences.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • AhaSlides
• Popular Tool:
  • Kahoot

Bricks AI

• Country: United States
• Purpose: AI productivity platform integrating spreadsheets, dashboards, and documents to organize structured data and workflows.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • LibreOffice
• Popular Tool:
  • Notion

10MinuteMail

• Country: United States
• Purpose: Disposable email service used for temporary registrations while protecting personal email privacy.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • MailHog
• Popular Tool:
  • Temp Mail

Claude AI

• Country: United States (Anthropic)
• Purpose: Large language model designed for safe reasoning, long-document analysis, and conversational AI tasks.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • LLaMA
  • Mistral
• Popular Tool:
  • ChatGPT

Humanize AI Pro

• Country: United States
• Purpose: Converts AI-generated text into natural human-like writing to improve readability and reduce robotic language patterns.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • LanguageTool
• Popular Tool:
  • QuillBot

Gemini

• Country: United States (Google DeepMind)
• Purpose: Multimodal AI system capable of reasoning across text, images, and code, integrated across the Google ecosystem.

• Open Source: No

• Alternative (Open Source):
  • LLaMA
  • Mistral
• Popular Tool:
  • ChatGPT

Orange Data Mining

• Country: Slovenia (University of Ljubljana)
• Purpose: Visual programming environment for machine learning, data mining, and interactive data visualization using drag-and-drop workflows.

• Open Source: Yes

• Popular Tool:
  • RapidMiner