So right now we are living through this really
unique kind of temporary gold rush in AI. Imagine
creating, you know, Hollywood quality videos
or even building entire applications completely
free. It feels calm, curious, but yeah. Probably
won't last. Welcome to the Deep Type. Today,
we're going to plunge into this fascinating list
of sources. 20 new AI tools you can use for free.
The July 2025 update. And our mission really
is simple. Find these astonishingly powerful
AI tools you can get your hands on right now.
for free. The author uses this digital cocaine
analogy, which is pretty blunt. Companies hook
you with the free stuff, then start charging
once you really need it. So we'll explore tools
for creativity, video, audio productivity, and
then the really interesting part, how to combine
them for these superpowers they talk about. Yeah.
What's really striking here is the urgency. The
author, I mean, they test... new AI tools daily.
And they're really emphasizing that this moment
is, well, unique. These aren't just like random
apps popping up. They're genuinely powerful tools
the author actually uses. And that window, the
chance to explore them for free, it might be
closing faster than we think. So diving in now
is probably key. Okay. Okay. Let's unpack this.
Starting big picture. These all -in -one creative
and development studios. So these aren't just
for like one specific task. Think of them more
as Versatile environments, places you can build
and experiment in ways that honestly used to
need a whole team, right? Right, a team of experts.
First one up, Google AI Studio. So it's free,
it's web -based, gives you direct access to Google's
latest AI models. We're talking the Gemini family.
It's like a workbench for creating things. And
what's amazing, really, is it puts these top
-tier models. The expensive ones. Yeah. The ones
usually behind serious paywalls right into your
hands. Yeah. Exactly. It's kind of like having
a free AI development team just sitting there.
And the magic, I think, is it's multimodal thing.
It means it gets, you know, different kinds of
data, text, images, even charts all at once.
Like imagine feeding it your YouTube analytics
and the AI looks at the charts and actually suggests
data driven video ideas. Right there. The author
even built this emoji fusion game with it. It's
really quite powerful. Wow. And building on that,
another... Google tool, Notebook LM. This one
feels more like your own personal research assistant.
You feed it different stuff, PDFs, text files,
website links, even like YouTube transcripts.
And bam, it becomes an instant expert on whatever
you gave it. Yeah. And the thing that's truly
like mind blowing about Notebook LM is this audio
overview feature. It can literally create a 20
minute conversational podcast. Seriously? Yeah.
From the material you uploaded, like two AI hosts
just discussing your topic. actually tried this
recently, uploaded a camera manual, some reviews,
and Notebook LM generated this detailed mind
map, that 20 -minute podcast, and an interactive
chat where I could ask questions, and it showed
me exactly where it got the answers from, citations
and everything. Okay, so what's the biggest takeaway
then from Google's approach with these two platforms?
It seems like a clear strategy. Yeah, I think
it's that they're giving really powerful, free
AI tools to basically everyone. It's democratizing
access. Yeah. democratizing access. That's a
good way to put it. It's a foundational shift.
Okay, let's give it now. Let's talk visuals.
The video and image generation powerhouses. This
is where things get, you know, visually stunning,
creating incredible stuff from just a few words.
So what's fascinating here is Google VEO3. It's
their newest, most powerful video model. It makes
these incredibly realistic videos, and the audio
syncs up, too. Now, getting direct access might
cost you, but there's a hack. Oh, a workaround.
Yeah. You can use Perplexity's bot on what used
to be Twitter to generate videos with VEO3 for
free. You just tweet at them, like, at AskPerplexity,
make me a video of a talking cat next to a taco.
And it says, subscribe to my channel. And the
bot just replies with a video. My cat didn't
actually speak in the video I got. But the quality,
just for a free output, pretty impressive. That's
pretty wild. Yeah. Okay. And then there's Kling.
This one sounds like one of the best, most capable
AI video generators out there for, you know,
regular folks. The quality is supposed to be
exceptionally high. and really good at realistic
sound effects. Yeah, Cling is fantastic. And
the free plan sounds generous starting credits,
plus more just for logging in. Exactly. You get
daily credits just for showing up. I tested it
out, prompted about like a woman with a cat,
gentle breeze. Okay. And the result was super
professional. You could hear the wind, even the
cat purring. And it handles both text -to -video
and image -to -video, which is useful. And for
images, Leonardo AI. It's just a beast. Full
disclosure here, I've actually invested in Leonardo
because I genuinely think it's one of the best,
most intuitive platforms out there. Right. Good
to know. The free plan gives you 150 daily credits.
They refresh every 24 hours. That's usually more
than enough for most creative bursts. You get
access to these... really powerful models like
lucid realism for photos that look, well, real.
But the real power, I think, is in the editing.
I generated an image, a man in a city. Then I
just used the edit tool, typed, add a baseball
cap, worked perfectly, just popped it right on
his head, looked totally natural. But I got to
admit. Vulnerable admission, I still wrestle
with prompt drift myself sometimes. Oh, yeah,
where it kind of wanders off. Exactly. You know,
the AI subtly deviates from what you originally
wanted after a few prompts or edits. Even with
amazing tools like this, it happens. Okay, and
then there's things, T -H -I -I -N -G -S. This
is described as a massive searchable database
of AI -generated icons, all in a consistent style.
Yeah, it's super useful. Because creating custom
icons, you know, getting them all to look the
same for a project. Can take forever. Totally.
With things you just search. Yeah. Need an icon
for a wolf, a taco, a specific drone model. It's
probably there. Like a specialized search engine
just for icons. Exactly. And if they don't have
it, you can apparently request it. And then there's
Wisk. This one's fun. It's an experimental Google
Labs thing. It lets you combine different concepts
into one new image. So you upload separate pictures,
one for your subject, one for the scene, one
for the style. And the presets can create some
surprisingly creative results, often hilarious.
I tried it, uploaded my photo, set the scene
to space, chose the anime style. Chuckles. Let
me guess. Yep. Perfect picture of me as an anime
character floating in space. Nice. The plushie
preset is also pretty funny. And yeah, the image
generation part is free. It really is remarkable
how these visual tools, they just simplify creating
really stunning stuff. Anyone can do it now.
Yeah, simple prompts, generous free access. It's
truly democratizing visual storytelling. It's
amazing. Okay, moving on. Let's explore the workflow
and audio wizards. So this category is more about
tools that handle complex multi -step tasks or
creating really high quality audio. Right. First
up, Glyph. G -L -I -F. Think of it like... AI
-powered Lego blocks for workflows. It lets you
visually chain different AI tools together. Okay,
so connect a text model to an image one, maybe
then to a video one. Exactly. You build these
unique glyphs for specific jobs, and you can
share them too. The free plan gives you 10 daily
credits, and they actually stack if you don't
use them. Oh, that's handy. I built one that
took a simple prompt, like... batman sent it
to gpt4 to kind of flesh it out then programmatically
added with a wolf in the background okay and
then sent that whole enhanced prompt to an image
generator and the output was this like beautiful
colorful epic scene really cool nice and uh 11
laps pretty much everyone agrees right they're
the king of voice ai yeah undisputed leading
text -to -speech voice generation The voices
are just incredibly realistic, full of emotion.
You almost can't tell they're AI. It's uncanny
sometimes. The free plan gives you enough credits
to really play around with the features. So text
-to -speech with tons of professional voices,
this voice changer for audio files, and generating
sound effects. Yeah, you can just describe a
sound effect like a car crashing through a glass
window. Wow. And it generates it. Pretty useful.
And then there's Suno. suno this is an ai music
generator that actually sounds well good genuinely
good what makes it special is it creates complete
songs singing lyrics full music right not just
background loops or instrumental tracks exactly
a lot of tools just do background music suno
gives you the whole package the free plan lets
you use their version 3 .5 model which is already
incredibly impressive i give it a prompt A pop
punk anthem about subscribing to my YouTube channel.
Chuckles. Okay. How did that turn out? In moments,
it gave me back two complete original songs.
And they were surprisingly catchy. Lyrics and
all. So these tools, they're not just automating
simple things anymore, are they? They're fundamentally
changing what a single person can actually produce.
Absolutely. They're enabling truly professional
grade creative output, but on a personal scale.
It's a game changer. Okay. Our final category
now shifts focus. productivity and information
assistance. These are the new AI tools that can
genuinely make you smarter, faster, more organized
day to day. First one is Perplexity. It's an
AI powered search engine. But instead of just
a list of links, it actually reads the top results,
synthesizes the info, and gives you a direct
comprehensive answer with citations, importantly.
Right. Saves so much time. Yeah. No more clicking
10 different links, trying to piece it together.
The author actually said they replaced Google
with it for most daily searches. Then there's
Mind Studio. This one's powerful for building
complex AI workflows. It has this visual drag
and drop interface, kind of like Make .com, if
you know that, but really focused on AI tasks.
And its Chrome extension is pretty slick, lets
you run your custom workflows on basically any
web page. I tested their product comparison workflow
on my own website. It scraped the site, used
AI to analyze the products, found competitors
online, and generated a full report, all from
one click. That's serious efficiency. Wow. Okay,
then something simpler. URL to any. Sounds brilliantly
simple. Converts any URL to pretty much any format.
Yeah, super handy utility. PDF, HTML, Markdown,
Image, JSON, even a QR code. Yep. Give the URL,
pick your format. It's incredibly fast, great
for saving articles or just converting web content
quickly. And check this out, 11 .ai. This is
a new personal voice assistant from the 11 Labs
folks. Ah, so these super realistic voice people.
Exactly. Think Siri, but with a voice that sounds
completely human and potentially deeper integrations.
It's in alpha right now, so it's completely free
to try. How does it work? Well, I connected it
to my Google Calendar, then just asked it, what
do I have on my schedule next week? And it just
replied conversationally. gave me a smooth summary.
The voice quality is, well, you know, incredible.
Okay, this next one sounds potentially revolutionary.
Emergent, an AI agent that writes complete functional
applications from just a text prompt. Yeah, it's
pretty wild. You tell it what you want, it makes
a task list, then just builds it step by step.
You can literally walk away. I mean, the example
given is asking it to clone Spotify. Right. And
coming back six minutes later to a working clone
with an interface. That's what they claim. Whoa.
Imagine coding full apps while you sleep. That's
definitely a moment of wonder right there. And
then there's Cloud Artifacts. This is actually
a feature within the Cloud AI chat. It lets you
build and share simple interactive apps right
there in the chat window. How does that work?
So I wanted a habit tracker. I just asked Cloud
and asked me some clarifying questions, you know,
about features. And then it just built the app
in this special artifact window right next to
our chat. And the best part, single click to
publish and show it. Really neat for quick tools.
Okay. Minimax agent. This sounds like a true
AI agent. It plans, executes, and even fixes
its own mistakes for complex research tasks.
Yeah, this one feels like a step beyond just
a tool. It's more autonomous. The example was
asking it to create a simple portfolio website
for a photographer, Mark Cohen. Gallery about
page, contact form. Right, a standard small website.
And you just let it run for 30 minutes. And it
designed it, fixed issues, polished it until
a functional site was done. That's the idea.
It's like having an autonomous worker for certain
digital tasks. Then there's Spawn. S -P -A -W
-N. This is kind of fun. Like the old StumbleUpon.
Remember that? Oh, yeah. Click and get a random
website. Right. This is for AI -generated games.
Every click, a new, random, often very weird
game appears. Like what? I found snake games,
chess variations, even this bizarre one where
you play as Mario but he has a Glock. Seriously?
Mario with a Glock? Seriously. And you can also
ask it to create games. I tried a mix between
Tetris and Snake. It gave me four different playable
versions instantly. Surprisingly addictive. Okay.
And WebSim. W -E -B -S -I -M. This is described
as a platform full of AI -generated apps and
simulations. An addictive rabbit hole. Yeah,
you can lose some time there. I mean, finding
a free functional Windows XP simulator, running
in a browser, and playing classic Minesweeper
and Solitaire inside the simulation. That's just
astonishing. And finally, Gamma. G -A -M -M -A.
This is an AI tool for creating really beautiful,
professional -looking presentations, documents,
websites. Just from a simple text prompt. So
it kills the pain of slide design. Pretty much.
You give it the content, Gamma handles the whole
design aspect, makes a polished deck in minutes.
So you'd prompt it, like, create a presentation
about the future of renewable energy. Exactly.
It'll generate an outline first, let you tweak
it, then build the full presentation with visuals,
formatting, everything. The free plan gives you
enough credits to make several presentations.
Really useful. These productivity tools. They
really are redefining daily efficiency, aren't
they? Yeah, they're streamlining really complex
tasks with smart automation. It feels like getting
superpowers sometimes. Sponsor. Okay, so let's
tie this all together. The big idea here, the
force multiplier. Using these tools one by one
is powerful, sure, absolutely. But the real magic,
the actual like superpower the author talks about
is combining them. Stacking. Yeah, stacking them.
It's like, you know, learning instruments versus
actually orchestrating them into a symphony.
The power is in the combination and creating
these stacks. Exactly. Like, let's take the faceless
content creator stack. Goal here. Yeah. Make
high quality YouTube or social media stuff without
ever needing a camera or mic yourself. Okay,
how? You'd start with Notebook LM, feed it your
research, get it to generate an outline and maybe
a first draft script. Right. Then take that script
to 11 Labs for a really professional human sounding
voiceover. While that's rendering, maybe hop
over to Leonardo AI. Generate consistent visuals,
your main character, backgrounds, key objects.
Keep the style the same. Then take those images
to cling, add subtle motion, turn them into short
video clips, maybe some panning, zooming. Gotcha.
Finally, Gamma, bring it all together. Combine
your text, the images, those video clips, layer
in the Eleven Labs voiceover, and boom. You've
got a polished presentation -style video, a whole
studio basically in your browser tabs. Wow. Okay,
or how about the app prototype or stack? The
goal here is speed, right? Go from just an idea
to a working prototype really fast. Maybe an
afternoon. Yeah, rapid iteration. So you'd start
maybe with Google AI Studio, brainstorming features,
user flow, maybe sketching ideas with its help.
Makes sense. Then jump to things to quickly grab
high -quality icons that all match for the interface.
Saves time. And then the magic part. Take that
feature list, those design thoughts, over to
an AI agent like Emergent or maybe Claude Artifacts.
Give it the prompt, build a simple habit tracker
app based on these features. And it just builds
it. Yeah, writes the code, builds a functional
version you can actually click around in and
test, get feedback instantly. Okay, one more.
The personal productivity stack. Goal. Become
a research and productivity machine. Get smart
on any topic, fast, and stay organized. How would
that look? Start with perplexity. Do that deep
dive on your topic. Get the synthesized summary.
Find the key articles it cites. Use URL to quickly
convert those article links into clean PDFs or
markdown files, easier to read and manage. Dump
all those cleaned up files into Notebook LM.
Now you have a single knowledge hub. You can
get summaries, mind maps, ask specific questions
about all your research in one place. Then bring
in 11 .ai, your personal voice assistant. Connect
it to your calendar, your notes. Oh, okay. And
you can just use your voice to schedule time,
to review that research, create tasks based on
what you learned, manage the whole learning project
conversationally. Okay, but here's the reality
check. Yeah. This AI gold rush. It probably won't
last forever, right? Almost certainly not. Most
of these amazing tools, they're in that hook
you first, charge you later phase. They're free
now because they're in beta. They're building
a user base, gathering data. Training their models.
Yeah. But AI processing is incredibly expensive.
And investors, eventually, they want to return.
So my advice, echoing the source here, is try
them all now. While they're free, figure out
which ones actually add value for you, for your
work, your life. Integrate the good ones into
your workflow. Get good at using them while there's
no cost. Then, you know, when the free ride eventually
ends for some of them, you'll be in a much better
spot to decide which ones are genuinely worth
paying for. Yeah, think about it. The power to
create things, it's being given to more people
now than ever before in history. It's staggering.
So the question isn't really if AI will change.
Your industry, your job, your creative process.
No, it's happening. It's happening. The real
question is, are you going to be the person who
saw it coming, who prepared, who learned these
tools? Or are you going to be the person who
kind of got left behind? These 20 tools, they're
like your training ground, your free trial for
the future, maybe. So the only question left
really is, what are you going to build with them?
A powerful thought to end on. Thank you for joining
us on this deep dive. Go forth, explore these
tools and experiment. See what you can create.
Out T -Row Music.