Comprehensive AI Tools & Models Directory

πŸ€– AI Tools & Models Directory

Your comprehensive guide to the latest AI tools and models

Curated by Utku Ege Tuluk

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Language Processing

πŸ€– Language Models

πŸ“– Open Source Models

πŸ’‘ These models come in different sizes, choose the one that fits your computer specifications.
Open Source
✍️ Creative Writing
Perfect for storytelling, content creation, and creative tasks
Open Source
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Coding
Specialized models for code generation and programming assistance
Open Source
🌐 General Purpose
Versatile models for everyday tasks and general conversations
Open Source
🌍 Multilingual
Support for 140+ languages with vision capabilities
Open Source
πŸ€– Agentic
Advanced reasoning and task planning capabilities
Open Source
πŸš€ Huge Models
State-of-the-art performance requiring high-end hardware

πŸ”’ Closed Source Models

API Only
✍️ Creative Writing
Industry-leading creative capabilities
API Only
🌐 General Use
Google’s flagship multimodal AI
API Only
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Coding
Best-in-class code generation
API Only
🌍 Multilingual
Advanced multilingual capabilities
API Only
πŸ€– Agentic
Advanced AI agents and automation

πŸ–₯️ Model Running Applications

LM Studio – Easiest
User-friendly interface for running LLMs locally
Official Website
Ollama – No UI
Local LLM runner with simple CLI interface
Official Website
Llama.cpp – Dev friendly, no GPU needed
C++ implementation for running LLMs on CPU
GitHub
vLLM – Dev friendly, GPU needed
High-throughput LLM serving engine
GitHub
🎨

Image Generation

Open Source
πŸ–ΌοΈ General Purpose
High-quality text-to-image generation
Open Source
πŸ–ŒοΈ Image Editing
Instruction-following, mask-free image editing
API Only
βœ‚οΈ Inpainting / Editing
Advanced context-aware image editing
Open Source
⚑ Fast Generation
Ultra-fast, efficient image generation
🎬

Video Generation

Open Source
πŸ† Quality
High-quality video generation
Open Source
⚑ Fast
Lightweight video generation
API Only
🌟 Accessible
OpenAI’s video generation
API Only
πŸš€ State-of-the-Art
Google’s flagship video AI
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Audio Processing

Open Source
πŸ—£οΈ Text-to-Speech
High-quality voice synthesis
API Only
πŸŽ™οΈ Text-to-Speech
Studio-grade voices and streaming TTS
Open Source
πŸ‘‚ Speech-to-Text
Accurate transcription and translation
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Computer Vision

Open Source
🎯 Object Detection
Real-time object detection and tracking
Open Source
🏷️ Image Classification
Advanced image recognition and classification
🧊

3D Model Generation

API Service
🎲 3D Mesh Generation
Create 3D models from text descriptions
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AI Development Tools

πŸ’» AI Coding Assistants

Claude Code
Agentic command line coding tool by Anthropic
Official Announcement
GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer for VS Code and other IDEs
Official Website
Cline
Autonomous AI assistant for VS Code
GitHub
Cursor
AI-first code editor built for pair programming
Official Website
Gemini CLI
Google’s command-line AI agent powered by Gemini models
Documentation
Qwen Code
Command-line AI workflow tool optimized for Qwen3-Coder
GitHub
OpenAI Codex
OpenAI’s latest code generation assistant
Overview

πŸ”§ Fine-tuning Platforms

Unsloth
Fast fine-tuning for LLMs
GitHub
PEFT
Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
Documentation
MS-Swift
Multi-modal fine-tuning framework by ModelScope
GitHub

☁️ Model Deployment

Hugging Face Inference
Managed model hosting
Documentation
Modal
Serverless GPU computing
Official Website

πŸ€– AI Orchestration

LangChain
Build LLM applications
GitHub
Microsoft AutoGen
Multi-agent conversations
GitHub

πŸ“Š Vector Databases

Chroma
Open-source embedding database
GitHub

🧩 Model Context Protocol (MCPs)

Model Context Protocol
Standard for connecting tools to AI assistants
Website
context7
Serverless contexts for MCP (Upstash)
GitHub
Awesome MCP Servers
Curated list of MCP servers
GitHub

πŸ”— Graph Databases

Neo4j
High-performance graph database for connected data
Official Website

πŸ“ˆ Evaluation Tools

OpenAI Evals
Evaluation framework
GitHub
LM Evaluation Harness
Comprehensive benchmarking
GitHub

πŸš€ Quick Start Recommendations

🟒 Beginner Friendly

  • Text Generation: LM Studio + Qwen 3-4B
  • Image Generation: Sana via Hugging Face Spaces
  • Code: Qwen3-Coder-3B via LM Studio

πŸ”₯ Production Ready

  • Text: Claude 4 or Gemini 2.5 APIs
  • Images: FLUX Pro API
  • Video: Veo 3 API

🏠 Self-Hosted

  • Text: vLLM + Qwen 3-14B
  • Images: FLUX.1-dev locally
  • Audio: Kokoro TTS locally

Last Updated: September 2025

This directory focuses on currently available and actively maintained tools. All links are verified and point to official repositories or documentation.