Overview of AI Tools Available at the University
Updated 7/23/2025
AI Tool Summary
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Tools
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Description
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Links
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Phoenix AI
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UChicago's own Generative AI chat service with data protection.
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https://phoenixai.uchicago.edu/
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MyGPT in Phoenix AI
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Extension of Phoenix AI that lets users create AI Agents based on their own documents.
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https://phoenixai.uchicago.edu/gpts/create
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Microsoft Copilot
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Generative AI-powered chat tool that is integrated with Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Capable of analyzing images, videos, and outside links.
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https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/
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Box AI
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Browser-based tool that lets users summarize, index, and question uploaded materials.
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https://uchicago.app.box.com/
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Zoom AI Companion
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Feature suite that summarizes self-hosted Zoom Meetings, segments Recordings into chapters, and catches latecomers up on active meetings.
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https://uchicago.zoom.us/
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Github Copilot
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Coding assistant that helps draft code, produce testing scripts, and generate documentation.
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Reach out to IT Helpdesk
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Notebook LM/NotebookLM Plus
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Instructor-facing tool that allows users to build podcasts, study guides, and new course materials based on existing course material.
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https://notebooklm.google/
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Adobe Firefly AI in Adobe Creative Cloud
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AI capabilities in Creative Cloud apps for content creators.
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https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly.html
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Slate
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Feature suite that includes capabilities like generating e-mails for admitted students.
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Available for Slate Administrators
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| Sonix AI |
Transcription service |
Only for non-sensitive information |
| claude.ai |
General Use Gen AI tool |
Only for non-sensitive information |
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ChatGPT 3.5
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General Use Gen AI tool |
Only for non-sensitive information |
| ChatGPT 4.0 |
General Use Gen AI tool |
Only for non-sensitive information |
| Azure AI |
General Use |
Only for non-sensitive information |
| ExtraHop AI |
For information security |
Can be used with sensitive flow data |
| Vertex AI (Google Cloud) |
General Use |
Only for non-central GCP tenant |
| 3 Play Media |
Transcription service, Accessibility |
Only for non-sensitive information |
| Zoom Transcription AI |
Taking meeting notes |
Only for non-sensitive information |
| Parlay Ideas |
AI Tool |
Only for non-sensitive information |
| Gemini |
General Use Gen AI tool |
Only for non-sensitive information. You must use your uchicago.edu or chicagobooth.edu Google logins to maintain data privacy. Personal account use is not authorized. |
PhoenixAI
UChicago developed a generative AI chat service, which is built with the latest large language models (LLM) from OpenAI and customized for the University community to meet our standards of security, privacy, accessibility, and equity.
For more information: visit https://genai.uchicago.edu/en/generative-ai-tools
FAQs: PhoenixAI FAQ and Troubleshooting Guide
MyGPT in PhoenixAI
MyGPT is an extension in PhoenixAI that lets users create AI Agents based on (up to) ten documents of their choosing. These MyGPTs can then be integrated onto preexisting web pages and links can be shared with other PhoenixAI users.
For more information: visit https://genai.uchicago.edu/gpts/create
FAQs: PhoenixAI FAQ and Troubleshooting Guide
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is a generative AI-powered chat tool that is integrated with Microsoft’s Bing search engine to offer internet-connected AI answers and image generation. It is based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 and DALL-E 2 models. It is strongly recommended that users log in with their UChicago email while using Copilot for University-related searches. While Phoenix AI provides enhanced data protection, Microsoft Copilot offers additional capabilities such as image generation and web searching.
Learn more about Microsoft Copilot:
· Knowledge Base article: Microsoft Copilot Overview
· Microsoft Copilot FAQ
· Microsoft Copilot in Edge
Box AI
Box AI enhances the cloud-based file sharing service by incorporating AI features like content generation and document analysis. Box’s standard of data privacy and security are maintained with these features.
Learn more about Box AI:
· UChicago Knowledge Base article: https://uchicago.service-now.com/it?id=kb_article&kb=KB06004208
· https://www.box.com/ai
Zoom AI Companion
Zoom AI Companion is best known for its ability to produce automatic meeting summaries. But users can also use AI Companion to automatically segment long recordings – like events – into chapters or to ask questions to live meetings they joined late (I.E. Did Steve mention the pilot yet?)
For more on this and other capabilities:
· Visit Zoom site: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0057623
· Visit UChicago ATS blog: https://academictech.uchicago.edu/2024/02/19/zoom-ai-companion-february-2024-feature-releases/
Github Copilot
GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that improves productivity for application developers, website creators, researchers, and anyone who regularly uses a scripting language. The tool is currently used by Booth IT’s Development Team and is being piloted with select members of the Research Professional Program.
To set up a paid enterprise account, reach out to IT Helpdesk or directly to Malcolm at Malcolm.Bare@chicagobooth.edu.
Learn more at:
· https://github.com/features/copilot
· https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/about-github-copilot/what-is-github-copilot
NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus
NotebookLM bills itself as a tool for academics, researchers, and students. The tool is trained primarily to create and analyze course materials such as study guides, podcasts, exam questions, slide decks, and more.
For this reason, the tool has been popular among Booth Faculty. Access to the tool is currently handled by Booth’s Instructional Design team at instructional.design@chicagobooth.edu.
Learn more at:
· https://notebooklm.google/
· https://notebooklm.google/plus
Adobe Firefly AI in Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Firefly AI extends across the Creative Cloud to enable AI features including: document intelligence in Adobe Acrobat, image generation in Adobe Express, template generation in Adobe Premier, and many more. Students with Creative Cloud licenses can experience Firefly AI in both the desktop and web app versions of Adobe’s tools.
For more information, visit: https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly.html.