Alright, it’s 2025. We’ve officially hit that point in the timeline where your grandma is asking ChatGPT to explain TikTok trends, your boss is generating PowerPoint decks with AI while pretending they worked hard, and everyone’s dog has an AI-powered fitness tracker. Welcome to the future, where AI isn’t optional—it’s your clingy digital sidekick. Here are the 12 AI tools everyone and their crypto-shilling cousin is using right now:
1. **ChatGPT 6.0** – Yep, it’s still here. Smarter than ever. Can draft your emails, write your wedding vows, gaslight you into thinking you’re not procrastinating. It’s basically Microsoft Word on steroids with a therapist complex.
2. **Copilot+** – Microsoft finally figured out how to make Excel talk like a smug consultant. You’ll still get nothing done, but at least now it’s in style.
3. **Claude AI** – Think of it as the polite, emotionally intelligent cousin of ChatGPT. Sounds like it reads Brené Brown before bed. Great for people who want their AI served with empathy on the side.
4. **Gamma AI** – Converts your brain dump into sexy slide decks in minutes. PowerPoint isn’t dead—it just got AI Botox.
5. **Midjourney 6** – Still turning your meaningless prompts like “cat astronaut sitting on lasagna” into gallery-worthy art. Graphic designers are oscillating between denial and existential crisis.
6. **Suno AI** – For when you want to drop a SoundCloud single but haven’t touched an instrument since the 7th grade. AI-generated music that kinda slaps… until you listen sober.
7. **Perplexity AI** – Google, but with fewer ads, no creepy tracking (allegedly), and answers that don’t reference Yahoo Answers from 2008.
8. **Runway ML** – Turns your shaky phone video into a cinematic masterpiece. Basically the reason your cousin’s wedding video looks like a Christopher Nolan film.
9. **Notion AI** – The productivity app now does the thinking for you too. Planning your side project has never been so easy to avoid actually doing.
10. **Poe by Quora** – You remember Quora, right? Yeah, neither do we. But they quietly slipped into the chat with a multi-AI tool that lets you haggle with different bots like you’re in some weird digital bazaar.
11. **Descript** – Podcast editing without the crying. It transcribes, edits, and auto-generates clips better than that intern you forgot to pay.
12. **HeyGen** – You know all those creepy-deepfake corporate training videos? Yeah, blame HeyGen. Turns your memo into a full-on video, complete with a disturbingly lifelike AI avatar.
The bottom line: whether you’re hustling, chilling, or just pretending to be productive, these AI tools are already knee-deep in your life. Welcome to the algorithmic circus, where the clowns are synthetic but the burnout’s still very real.