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Perplexity, NotebookLM, Midjourney, Bolt.new, Cursor
If you're not using AI tools in 2025, you're at a huge disadvantage. So here are the five best tools that you should use in this new year. So the first tool here is called Perplexity, which is basically AI search. It pulls information directly from the web from verifiable sources so that you know that all of the information is accurate. So rather than going through 10 different websites to try to get an answer, you can simply type in your question to Perplexity and provide with one consolidated answer as well as all of the sources that got the answer from. So with this, there's honestly no reason reason why you would ever use Google search again. Our second tool here is notebook LM, which is Google's completely free AI research assistant. And this might just be the best learning resource ever made. So you can upload any textbooks or links to scientific research and ask questions about them. And the tool can digest up to 500,000 words or 50 sources all at once. So with this you have accurate data on literally hundreds of pages so that you can learn faster and more efficiently. And they just added this audio overview feature which basically takes all of the resources that you uploaded and create a podcast episode out of it to help you learn. And our third AI tool here is called midjourney and this is the best AI image generator. So with this, you can just basically type in a prompt and create any image that you'd like. Now, the last two AI tools kind of go hand-in-hand. So the first one is called bolt.new. And with this, you can basically create the front end of any application that you want without writing a single line of code. So all you have to do is just type in a prompt. So for example, you can say, please clone the design of Netflix.com for for me or please create a blog with X-Y Z components. And both dot you will basically write out all of the front end code entirely for you. Now, this works best only for front end designs, but if you want to build the full stack application, meaning that you want to connect the back end and have more complexity, I would then move on to cursor. So cursor is an AI code editor and it's probably the most powerful AI tool in this list. And with this, you can basically build out some pretty complex applications as a complete beginner. But it does just require some patience learning as well as taking everything slowly and step by step so that you understand what's really happening behind the scenes rather than just having cursor generate thousands of lines of code for you. Well with some diligent practice and learning you can create some really amazing things. You can think of a cursor as just a very competitive junior developer that has all of the coding knowledge under the sun but you just have to micro manage it every once in a while. And make sure to follow for daily AI content.
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