Types of AI Tools - AI - Artificial Intelligence at the University - ULibraries Research Guides at University of Utah

Disclaimer

These lists are not intended to be comprehensive. AI tools are constantly changing, with new developments every day.

For up-to-date information on AI tools approved for use by the University of Utah community, see the AI at the U's Tools and Infrastructure page.

If you have interest in using AI tools that are not listed, please complete the AI Tool Form.

Official UofU AI Tools

Microsoft CoPilot
In February 2024, the University of Utah announced Microsoft Copilot as its official chat platform.
Microsoft Teams Premium
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Adobe Firefly and Adobe AI
See a full description of Firefly on the Adobe website
On August 5, 2025, the University of Utah announced it was finalizing an agreement for enterprise-level ChatGPT. More information will be posted here when it becomes available.
Zoom AI Companion (in processes)

AI Comparison Tools

Chatbot Arena: a tool that aggregates user evaluations of Large Language Models, providing an up-to-date leaderboard for model performance.

The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology's Emerging AI Tools for Literature Review. Compares functionality, output, strengths, and limitations of Large Language Models as well as Generative and Literature-based AI tools.

Try out AI

AI tools that you can try immediately:

HuggingFace Spaces is a great place to get started exploring the capabilities of AI. For example, this instruction synthesizer helps create multiple choice questions from a text input.

Another example is CLIP interrogator, which will generate prompts based on image inputs.