Recently Recommended AI Services

Recently (well, it's been a while), some popular and recommendable AI services.

Actually, I've known about them for a while and have been using them occasionally as needed, so I've decided to compile them.

First, excluding the widely known ChatGPT and Gemini (formerly Bard), let's focus on the rest...

Take a look at them and try them out when you need them. They can significantly improve your work efficiency.

1. NotebookLM (Google service)

https://notebooklm.google.com/

An AI service provided by Google. The name is Notebook LM, where LM probably stands for Language Model. A very Google-esque name.

Basically, it's a service that allows you to input Google Drive, PDF, text files, and "web page links" and search for information within them.

When you have a "massive" document that you want to search through, you can upload it as a PDF or web link and search for information within it. For example, you can upload development documents, price lists, or contract documents for transactions and then ask for the price of a specific product or check some information. The actual usage is easy to understand once you access it. Highly recommended! (Especially for those who deal with a lot of documents).

The upload limit is up to 500,000 words per document, and you can register up to 50 documents. While not unlimited, this should be enough for managing the necessary documents conveniently.

2. perplexity AI

https://www.perplexity.ai/

It's had some issues with unauthorized crawling, but when you search for something, it searches the internet for related materials and assembles the results. It's quite similar to Cohere's service (https://cohere.com/), but it has a cleaner UI.

As shown in the image, it searches and retrieves several pages and uses the data from those pages to provide answers. It's quite useful for finding information, but it struggles with very complex questions.

Anyway, it's a useful service. (Personally, I believe the future of search will be in this form. Not necessarily this company, though.)

Of course, as mentioned earlier, there are also Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT, and Gemini, which have recently undergone major updates, but these are more like base models than services, so I'll discuss them separately later.