7 Fascinating AI Tools You've NEVER Seen Before (Underground AI #4) 

Quick note... This video started as a normal Underground AI video but as I was recording, I was finding ways to do the same things for free. Anyone commenting "why talk about the tools if there are others to do it free?" - The main reason is so that YOU, the viewer, doesn't pay for tools that you don't need to pay for. If MKBHD makes a video about the Humane Pin to tell you it's not a good product, people don't ask him "if it's a bad product, why make a video about it?" I thought people would find this helpful, especially since I gave a tutorial on how to do each for free so you can follow along. I also put timestamps so you can easily jump around.

I too, am a tool nobody's heard of...

Hey Matt, remember to have a separated machine to test software that's handed to you by unknown third-parties; people have lost their RU-vid channels in the past due to running malware sent by supposed advertisers, or "game demos" sent by supposed game developers etc; and RU-vid doesn't always allocate their best chatbots to handle customer support... Don't ever have any important accounts logged into your test machine.

I like this format. As a developer, this kind of stuff helps give a reality check about what’s got enough value to be made. At the same time, it helps show ways to use existing tools in already paying for. If you make another in this series, I’d watch it.

I thought brainy documents was the most interesting app of all the above mentioned! After watching your video, I put in a research paper and was quite amazed with the results. It explained the concept quite well! Plus it looks like they changed the pricing plan so yay!

Yes - More videos like this, please. I added several new AI tools to my arsenal just from this review. Thanks, Matt!

FYI, that sort of game has been around for a long time. I believe the original was called Alchemy. While it's interesting to see what the AI comes up with, a lot of clones people have made over the years have been very robust. I had to make a simple one for school once. I made it so that ultimately combining Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, and Heart would make Captain Planet (with a picture the Don Cheadle version) and he would fly around and turn everything else on the board into trees.

If there is anybody in the industry who has his eyes on AI Tools, it's Matt Wolfe. Therefore, I trust in you to highlight, through your many hours of research, to find the more creative and more innovative tools. I honestly thank you for that Matt. It's much appreciated. Now go play some guitar brother! Cheers.

For Geospy, did you remove any metadata from the photos to ensure it wasn't just looking at the coordinates of where the photo was taken?

More like this is great - especially with a free variant or method to achieve the same or similar outcomes.

Yes, make more videos like this. I really liked watching your procedures for doing what the app being reviewed does using free tools like Claude or Perplexity, etc. I didn't realize I could do these things with these tools I'm already using. I also appreciate your takes on the pricing of these tools you review. I'm very active using AI for a variety of production tasks so don't have much time for exploring down rabbit holes with no Easter Eggs at the bottom, thus just don't have much time to explore all the new AI apps on your website. You work in investigating all these is tremendously helpful. Thank you. Keep up the great work. I watch your videos daily. They are NOT a waste of my time.

At 72 learning AI needs a lot of playtime to understand & that's why you need to lead us to free tools. Thanx a Stack. Regards.

YES, PLEASE! Keep these coming in this format. Very helpful! THANKS!

These projects are most likely created for resume building, and they've added a price to prevent API abuse. I do understand that you want to create RU-vid content. I am actually a fan of yours. From a different aspect, it is analogous to RU-vid channels. For example, you cover generative AI news, and other channels do the same. Should we say why someone does it because their content is not as high quality as yours? {I did not develop any of those apps by the way}

Yes...more like this! Thanks, Matt

Awesome reviews as always ! I usually watch your videos when I’m exercising and then listen to it again when I’m driving to work. 😂😊

Liked the video very much, is very helpful. Thanks for your work.

I like this kind of videos a lot, it gives me inspiration to build new stuff. Thank you for doing this Matt and please continue with this series!

Loved it. Well done.

I really like these types of videos, please make more of these!

My vote is the tool vs existing methods (we are in an interesting place where the underlying methods can do so much)

I enjoy watching videos for Matt Wolfe that are useful and showing the viewer how to use. New Ai Tools are great great also. Only the ones that are worth showing that are useful for Matt Wolfe.

As always - you have the best videos, very high quality and you are s fun to watch - it really shows how much you love it. Thank you!

Love videos like this … really helps to save time to filter through the ai noise and apps! Thank you!

16:55 sounds like Matt Wolfe is low key bragging about all the fun trips and traveling he's been on.

I found this topic very interesting and ended up getting something that I can use out of it. I think you hit the nail on the head with this video. It is the time, money problem. If you have the time, free is the best. If you don't have time, then the paid is the way to go. It has been that way since the dawn of the computer. Keep the videos coming. You earned a new subscriber today.

-- Yes, please do more videos like this. I really enjoyed watching your procedures for doing what the app being reviewed does using free tools like Claude or Perplexity, etc. I had no idea I could do these things with these tools I use already. Also, I appreciate how you rate the price of these tools. My job requires a lot of AI, so I don't have much time to explore down rabbit holes without finding Easter Eggs at the bottom, so I don't have much time to explore all the new AI apps on your website. You do a tremendous job in investigating all these issues. Thank you. Keep up the good work. I watch your videos daily. They are not a waste of my time at all.

This was a fun one Matt, thanks. Interesting to see these creative quirky tools

Matt I like seeing the different tools and hearing your ‘take’ on them. Many thanks

Yes, I found this format really helpful. I appreciate your practical advice. Thank you! Now, if I was going to dream up the AI tool I need the most it would be one that I could pop in the link to a RU-vid channel (not a single video) and ask questions. For example, I wanted to know your thoughts on the best way to make a cartoon avatar to talk in an educational video for kids but using a real human's voice. I rewatched hours of your most recent videos trying to figure that out. It should have a date filter on it too - only query videos in a time frame. Is there anything like that out there?

Love the concept please keep this format

Awesome stuff as always. I found it super useful. Nice to know the pitfalls of these businesses and awesome that you check it out and not only give us feedback, but help the businesses get a good idea of weaknesses like pricing issues. Thanks a million once again.

Love it .. keep doing this stuff. A good way to discover some gems over time.

Yes please make more underground tool videos, I find these very useful

Great vid!

Great Video!! Keep them coming!

This is a popular format Matt. Comments suggest every one loves the highly compressed intros into those AI tools, resources amd platforms worth pursuing. If you did 7 a day, after 30 days we'd have over 200 Ai tools introduced to us. In a year that's 2,400. More than enough from which to pare down into a short list of hopefully no more than a dozen or so which might take a life time to master. Less is more. The question always is. What to leave OUT, so what you have left in your toolbox is relatively manageable for the average human with a limited band width. Thanks

This is amazing! I really like the alternatives to the paid programs. As an animator, I completely understand jumping from program to program to get an idea done, but with all of these high priced AI tools popping up, I feel like videos like these can help making the "Ai Workflow" a bit more manageable. Of course, there are some AI tools that can't be exactly recreated with using a bunch of other tools, but I just don't want this space turning into "how can we make the most useless AI and charge the most for it" like other parts of the tech industry sometimes fall into the trap of doing. Thank you!

Loved the content of this video - please produce more!

Real-Time learning experience! Keeping this channel also.Your general breakdown of white papers keeps ever more interest. This site is the test track and all the more engaging. The Wolfe 🐺 Pack. Best AI schooling!

Very complete information, I love your videos! They're so useful. thanks!

This is a great video, Matt. I’m here because you democratize the industry so well and this is part of it. I also think that these smaller companies can see it as constructive feedback and adjust toward bringing more value to their tool. And yes, I would like to see more of these as like you mentioned, there might be task we can get done for a smaller price point… perhaps 1 in 5 videos should be about this. Thanks!

I've just recently found Perplexity AI (I must have been living in my own bubble world for a year or two, I guess). I was so impressed I signed up for the Pro account. It seems to me that it can do quite a lot of the things these 'custom' apps can do. (and probably most without the paid version). Interesting video though, 👍👍

I love this new approach!

I've gotten so much value from your videos, Matt. That said, GeoSpy was kind of a dud for me. I uploaded a photo taken in West Palm Beach, FL and GeoSpy told me the pic was taken in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Then I uploaded a photo taken in New Orleans, and GeoSpy told me it was taken in Houston, TX. On the plus side, a FINAL uploaded photo was accurately identified as having been taken at Nationals Park, "home to the Washington Nationals baseball team" in Washington, DC. But then GeoSpy seemed to get cocky, reporting that "the photo was taken during a game between the Nationals and the Philadelphia Phillies." I went to that game, and we played the Mets, not the Phillies. LOL My conclusion? GeoSpy is iffy at best. But definitely fun. Thanks again, and keep 'em coming!

Matt, thanks for the detailed review of these AI tools! I just wanted to point out something important for anyone considering using Recraft. If you're using the free version, be aware that you don't actually own any of the assets you create. You only have the (revocable) right to use the assets. Recraft retains the rights to these unless you pay for a subscription to their service. This is especially important for anyone considering making a logo or similar asset with this product. Thanks again!

Great video, always finding some useful bits for myself. Recraft looks great

I think a comparison vid like this is really handy - As it gives feedback to developers, and gets them to up their game, but also helps us out, so we are not subscribing relentlessly to random tools - Also with the flood of creations, developers need to seriously think about what it is they are creating / marketing and if it is bringing any added value to what, in the near future will become a saturated market, they are going to have to be very unique to stand the test of time. As you have pointed out Matt, many of these 'new' tools, already have similar counter parts that are doing the job better.

Great video 👍🏿

Thanks Matt, you are Guru :)))))

Really great show today!

Video was good and on point.

Wonderful video, plz keep this up 👍

Man, if i go to a tool settings and I see they don't know how to put the right model name for GPT-4 into the selector, I lose all confidence in that dev.

Matt, your best thumbnail so far. 10x your others.

I find these videos useful, thanks Matt

I can't keep up with your videos -impressive mate.

👍👍👍 Good video and I love the transparency - it wins my trust in you!

Like this concept. Please make a series out of it

My favorite series 🔥

this was really good and now I am addicted to Infinite Craft lol

Great review of novel AI tools!

The first tool is funny to me, because "Lokus" is a German synonym for toilet. Maybe that explains it.

I love Underground AI! Thanks a lot and keep going.

You're always making great videos on ai. Thanks for letting us know what's new in Ai. Is there any all in one ai's that can make business cards? Thanks

Love the concept behind this video, Matt. "Should this be a standalone app?" I am a proponent of the Lean Startup approach - fall in love the problem and then relentlessly iterate from user feedback. While most of these ideas seem very basic now, I'm sure once the founders add a few more bells and whistles their tools will be worth paying to not need to repeat all the steps manually yourself. The operational cost of running AI apps however is tough. I'm sure that's why many of them have seemingly ridiculous pricing schemes. They're probably burning sooo many tokens on the backend to produce these results. And once they prove product-market-fit they can invest in fine tuning smaller models or architecting other means of achieving the same (or higher) quality output for much lower op ex, and hopefully reduce the price they charge end users. As a side note, I've seen many (funded) startups simply take a hit on op ex costs for AI API usage and charge users a reasonable rate even though it's not scalable. A good to consider, but not every startup can afford to do that. Thanks again for this video, Matt. I'd love to see more in this format. If any of the founders of the apps in this video are reading, our team at Fractal Labs would love to gift you a free product discovery workshop to help find that secret sauce that will make your app worthy of being a standalone app that people want to pay for!

Matt Wolfe, tool inspector! 🛠️

Fantastic video.

Matt bro wht is that device you have in the back that switches from homer to the dancing banana?

thanks Matt, got some value from that one as well. I think this is good idea to present free alternatives, as I am also pissed of by so many unrealistic prisings out there. Cheers!

wow nice animation at the beginning

I enjoyed your honest review which has helped me a lot and ensures that I spend my money wisely.

didnt know about the perplexity extension and there is similar for ff as well :) btw, waiting for the "underground ai tools" :)

Hi Mike, I've had success prompting gpt 4 with the name of the RU-vid video and a task to review it with the parameters I ask and get pretty good success. I don't use it like I should, but it seems to play ball with me when I need it to.

both formats are valuable, but I enjoy getting peoples opinions on the issues and not just news currently.

Yup loved those underground AIs sure not gonna use most of them but hidden gems will arise, like "recraft ai"

YES GO AHEAD. BRO YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB

“Should this be a standalone app” - a question I ask myself on a daily basis 😅

More underground! :D

Brilliant … more like this please …

Thanks!

I think the websites you linked are overloaded by the number of users trying to access them.

Definitely make more videos like this! You spending the $3 can save a lot of us the cost of trying it ourselves!

Free = Great Imagery & Video Technology = Great

Hell yeah inbox zero ftw. Also this is so passive brutal hahaha i love it

Scite is a little outside of your wheelhouse I think since you are more on the creative end, but Scite's plugin for Zotero is amazing for researchers (It also has an AI assistant that is Chat GPT-based, but, meh). The Zotero (a citation manager/file manager program) plugin uses AI sentiment analysis to determine what citations support or refute the article you have saved in the software and has links and visualizations to the cross-references. It really helps to find new articles in a very intuitive way.

Love these video. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

It’s crucial for developers to differentiate their products with unique features or better usability to justify their place in a crowded market. 👍

I want an app that runs in browser that continually listens to voices and sounds in my kitchen and produces graphics on the fly. So if I ask about the weather, or start frying eggs, or the radio is giving the news, appropriate graphics appear on the screen with background info…

Matt, great video however the new mic sounds kinda bland. Maybe check the settings.

In the "Underground AI #4" episode of the RU-vid series, the host discusses his experience with various AI tools, expressing confusion over the need for some of them, such as Locus, a text summarization AI. He notes that while Locus offers different generative AI services, its pricing and functionality are unclear, especially since similar tools are already available for free. The host also introduces Intellis XYZ, a voice-activated app that creates task lists, and Blog Fox, a tool that converts RU-vid videos into blog posts. He praises the unique features of each tool but questions their pricing. The host also explores CAT GPT, a to-do list tool, and Geospy, a free AI tool that determines photo locations. He is impressed with Geospy's accuracy and praises Recraft, a free tool that generates vector graphics. The host concludes by discussing Brainy Docks, a tool that converts PDFs into explainer videos, and introduces Infinitec, a free AI game. He expresses his concerns about the pricing of some tools and asks for viewer feedback on the format of the video.

hey Matt thanx for telling us about the Infinite Craft game from Neal Fun😋

Some critique: I had the problem that ... i heard you mention the name of the service at the start, but didnt remember it, and for like 3 minutes you didnt mention the name again, and it was not on screen. And then you went on to talk about the next service without mentioning the name again at the end. And i thought to my self: "What was the name of the thing you just covered? Do i really have to rewind the video to see? " Solution suggestions: Maybe have the name of the service youre covering in big text? So its easy to see whats being talked about. Or mention the name again in like a 5 second outro of the topic. Thanks!

I just tried Geospy with a few of my personal pictures, all taken in South Mississipi, and it got EVERY ONE of them wrong. Each of them had distinctive buildings or bridges in them and it misidentified all of them.

This video was great I was just wondering if you could do another video showing other tools that are free or affordable pricing tools that are able to help people make money online or something like that like for an example it'll be maybe a tool that will trade stocks and options for you and all you have to do is donate the money in and it handles the rest or maybe something like this will sell a digital product for you for free or something like that or maybe just something that makes you two videos for you for free like and video but maybe something in video that's different than Invideo

9:23 - $3/m when it’s just listing what you said, it’s so basic that it’s competing with free todo apps and post-it notes/paper-based lists. Even if it came up with a detailed, prioritised list of actions it came up with based on a vague aim, $3 seems a lot vs other free tools.

CRITIQUE IS MY JAM

I like videos that don't say "shock the industry" or "shocking" or "game changing" or "O-face" or finger-pointing at something.

i have a simple question for you Matt or any one else. is there an ai with a direct and native interface , without going through the text command line ?

you are excellent to show and prove, keep it up, thx for the great channel √√√