These new AI tools promise better video, seamless meetings, and richer research.

Generative AI is everywhere, whether it’s used as the basis for a service, to build an app, or to power functionality within an app. But with so many new products coming out all the time, which ones are worth checking out?

We’re here to help with a new regular series covering the best and latest AI apps and services you need to know about.

Google Vids is perhaps the best consumer AI video creation platform available to anyone with a dream to make it come true. It used to be great, allowing creators to develop short clips for marketing reels and other use cases. But this month, Google issued an update that makes Vids even more useful for creating longer clips without sacrificing your precious time.

So what’s changed? For one thing, Veo now supports an extension option that doubles the length of traditional 8-second AI-generated clips. Even more interesting, Vid can generate multiple clips in parallel, giving you more flexibility when piecing together compelling visual stories.

Specifically, you must be on the Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription level to access these Vid changes. Alternatively, educational institutions, enterprises, and business users can also receive these great tools.

Other new AI apps and services you should know about!

There are many other great new AI apps and services, including:

I really like the idea of ​​a meeting app that incorporates AI. After all, large team gatherings can get messy, especially if minutes aren’t recorded in a sensible and readable way. Granola attempts to solve this problem.

The heart of the AI ​​product, titled Breakfast, is a notepad that specializes in preparing meeting agendas in advance and taking minutes during the event.

I especially like the smart post-meeting extensions. No matter how thin or wordy your doodles are, Granola uses context clues from the meeting itself to flesh out those notes. And of course, you can recall information from these meetings through the app’s built-in chat service.

In particular, Granola must be installed on your device to function. We support macOS, Windows, and iOS, but are waiting for an Android app.

As I’ve said many times before, NotebookLM is my favorite AI tool and I use it every day. Personal Knowledge Database is a database I’ve used for a number of personal tasks, from comparing insurance quotes to storing my car’s digital manual. But we are no longer alone in this particular field.

Saner.AI offers challenges far beyond local information recall. It is intended to be a personal assistant of sorts, and supports email and traditional notes, including a variety of document formats for import. It also plugs into your personal calendar and essentially sets tasks based on the information it contains and the prompts you enter into the AI ​​chatbot.

This is especially useful as a travel log, allowing you to record details you might otherwise forget for use when planning your return trip. However, there is a lot of room for improvement. The app is very slow and pauses loading when switching between screens. It’s also decidedly barebones compared to NotebookLM, and lacks many of the multimedia features that come with Google’s products.

Finally, in the previous edition of this article series, we detailed Consensus, an AI chatbot that uses only data from peer-reviewed papers to generate responses. This is not the only option in this particular genre. Elicit also leverages scientific papers to respond to prompts, but it has several advantages over its rivals.

One is that it includes a built-in bibliography tool. Users can save sources and organize them in a tagging system and collections. This makes it easier to silo different research tasks. Next, we have a simpler visual presentation. While the consensus can feel crowded and overwhelming, Elicit clarifies the core focus of each sampled paper and provides a more comprehensive report of all sources discovered.

Notably, the free version allows surface-level searching, while the premium option offers a few more tricks, including alerts for new research and the option to add more sources for each query.