Get started with a range of AI tools. Whether you are a student, faculty member, or staff member, you are invited to explore and experiment with these offerings. The following tables provide information on available tools, how to access them, and the data types they can support.
Yale’s AI Tools and Resources
Yale Provided Tools
These tools are provided to all Yale community members and are an excellent entry point for exploring generative AI.
| Tool | Description | Availability | Data Classification Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarity Platform | The Clarity Platform provides access to an AI chatbot similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot with data protection, but housed within Yale’s secure infrastructure. The Clarity AI chatbot is a generative AI tool that can help you write emails and reports. It can help you write code, generate images, describe and analyze uploaded images, and summarize uploaded documents. |
Available to: staff, faculty, and students Pricing: Free How to Access: Clarity Platform Chat |
High, with some exceptions such as ePHI. Refer to Clarity Platform Security for more information |
| Copilot with Data Protection | Copilot with data protection (also known as Microsoft Copilot Enterprise) is a secure AI chatbot using GPT-4 and DALL-E 3. It ensures privacy by not using your conversations for model training or sharing data with OpenAI, but is not approved for high risk data. You can use Copilot to help writing emails, reports, and other text, generate images based on natural language descriptions, or upload documents and images for extracting information and answering questions. |
Available to: staff, faculty, and students (18 years of age or above) Pricing: Free How to Access: Copilot with Data Protection (log in with your Yale email address) |
Moderate |
| Adobe Firefly | Adobe Firefly is a suite of AI-powered tools in Adobe applications for creating and editing digital images. It converts textual descriptions into high-quality images and allows you to customize aspect ratio, content type, composition, styles, colors, and tone for detailed image transformations. It was built using Adobe Stock images and public domain content, ensuring legal compliance for commercial projects. |
Available to: staff, faculty, and students Pricing: Free (with Creative Cloud) How to Access: Adobe Firefly |
Low |
| Zoom AI Companion | Zoom AI Companion is an AI feature within the Zoom app that enhances meetings by transcribing meetings, assisting with organizing meetings and sharing files, generating summarized meeting notes, answering questions about a meeting, and providing action items. |
Available to: staff and faculty Pricing: Free (with Zoom account) How to Access: Zoom AI Companion is enabled by default for everyone with a Zoom account |
High |
| Power BI Copilot | Power BI Copilot is an AI-enhanced feature integrated into the Power BI Service. It utilizes generative AI technology to assist users in extracting and sharing insights from data more effectively. It also has developer capabilities listed in the developer tools section below. |
Available to: staff and faculty Pricing: Included in Fabric Power BI premium license How to Access: Access to Power BI Copilot |
High |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot | M365 Copilot is an AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI. You can use it to generate draft content in Word, Outlook and Teams, use AI to analyze data in Excel, and create presentations in PowerPoint, as well as other uses. |
Available to: staff and faculty (18 years of age or above) Pricing: $30 per user per month How to Access: Request access to M365 Copilot |
High |
| Teams Premium | Microsoft Teams Premium includes AI-powered features designed to enhance your experience within Microsoft Teams, especially regarding meetings. It integrates directly within Teams, providing assistance with various tasks before, during, and after meetings. |
Available to: staff and faculty Pricing: $1.88 per user per month How to Access: Request access to Teams Premium |
High |
Developer Tools
This list of tools highlights more advanced options that are available to support building new Yale tools and experiences. For additional details about research support, please visit Yale Center for Research Computing.
| Tool | Description | Availability | Data Classification Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | Github Copilot is an AI-powered coding assistant designed to help developers write and understand code more efficiently. It integrates seamlessly with popular coding environments, such as Visual Studio Code and JetBrains, providing support right where you code. |
Availability: staff and faculty Pricing: $19 per month How to Access: Request access to GitHub Copilot |
Moderate |
| Power BI Copilot | Power BI Copilot is an AI-enhanced feature integrated into both Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service. It utilizes generative AI technology to assist developers in understanding their data models and DAX calculations, along with DAX and report creation. |
Available to: staff and faculty Pricing: Included in Fabric Power BI premium license How to Access: Access to Power BI Copilot |
High |
| Azure AI | Azure AI provides access to advanced AI models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Mistral, Meta, Stability AI, Core42, Nixtla and more, all hosted in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Developers can use Azure services to build applications that utilize these models. |
Availability: staff and faculty Pricing: Based on usage How to Access: AI request review process |
SPA required per app |
| AWS Q Business | Amazon Q Business allows developers to easily build AI-powered assistants with access to enterprise data. AWS Q automatically selects the best language model for each request. AWS developers who want to have more control over their applications, including choice of AI models, will want to use AWS Bedrock instead. |
Availability: staff and faculty Pricing: Based on usage How to Access: AI request review process |
SPA required per app |
| AWS Bedrock | Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service providing access to various foundational AI models from providers like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon. Bedrock is suitable for developing AI applications, offering flexibility in model selection and robust security features, similar to Azure AI. |
Availability: staff and faculty Pricing: Based on usage How to Access: AI request review process |
SPA required per app |
Popular No Cost Tools
A set of popular tools that have the power to further enhance productivity and creativity. This list is for informational purposes only as these tools are not endorsed by Yale. They are for personal use only and are not provided by the university. Use when handling low-risk, unsecured data for experimentation and collaboration.
| Tool | Description | Availability | Data Classification Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI ChatGPT | ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, which is credited with starting the AI boom. The free version gives users access to the GPT-4o large language model (with limitations). ChatGPT tends to push the envelope on advanced features such as real-time voice mode on the mobile app. By default ChatGPT will capture user data to include in future training of AI models. Users should change their settings to opt out of model training. |
Pricing: Free and paid plans How to Access: ChatGPT.com |
Low |
| Google Gemini | Gemini is an AI chatbot developed by Google, in the same class as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. The free version of Gemini can create images based on a text prompt, unlike the free version of ChatGPT. It is well-integrated with Google Search and other Google products. |
Pricing: Free and paid plans How to Access: Gemini |
Low |
| Anthropic Claude | Claude is an AI chatbot developed by Anthropic. It is similar to ChatGPT, but is a little less versatile. For example it cannot generate images and does not have web search capabilities. The Claude large language models excel at summarizing and reasoning on large amounts of text and images. The Claude 3.5 Sonnet model is particularly good at coding tasks. |
Pricing: Free and paid plans How to Access: Claude.ai |
Low |
| Meta.ai | Meta.ai is an AI chatbot from Meta that utilizes the powerful open source Llama models. |
Pricing: Free (some features require Facebook or Instagram account) How to Access: Meta.ai |
Low |
| Perplexity AI | Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search engine. Unlike traditional search engines that present a list of links, Perplexity delivers synthesized information in a natural language format, complete with citations and follow-up suggestions for more refined searches. |
Pricing: Free and paid plans How to Access: Perplexity.ai |
Low |
| Consensus | Consensus is an academic search engine powered by AI. Unlike more generic AI search tools like Perplexity AI, Consensus searches peer-reviewed academic literature. |
Pricing: Free and paid plans How to Access: Consensus |
Low |