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Overview of AI Tools Available at the University
Updated 10/21/2025
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
https://sonix.ai/ |
| claude.ai |
General Use Gen AI tool |
Only for non-sensitive information |
| claude code |
Agentic coding tool |
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview |
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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
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/ai |
| ExtraHop AI |
For information security |
Can be used with sensitive flow data
https://www.extrahop.com/ |
| Vertex AI (Google Cloud) |
General Use |
Only for non-central GCP tenant
https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai |
| 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. |
| Canva |
General Use Gen AI tool |
All-in-one, conversational AI assistant. Visualize ideas, generate compelling copy, and turn your thoughts into stunning, fully editable designs. |
| Pangram |
Plagiarism Detection |
https://www.pangram.com/ |
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.
Canva AI
Canva AI is your new, conversational AI assistant with all the tools you need to bring ideas to life. From generating editable designs and visuals to writing content, it combines Canva’s generative tools in one intuitive interface to help anyone create instantly—no design expertise needed.
Just tell Canva AI what you need using text or voice, whether you're brainstorming ideas, mapping out campaigns, or designing materials. Canva’s AI-powered assistant helps transform your creative process from start to finish.
For more information, visit: https://www.canva.com/ai-assistant/
Claude.ai
Claude is an artificial intelligence, trained by Anthropic using Constitutional AI to be safe, accurate, and secure — the trusted assistant for you to do your best work.
If you can dream it, Claude can help you do it. Claude can process large amounts of information, brainstorm ideas, generate text and code, help you understand subjects, coach you through difficult situations, simplify your busywork so you can focus on what matters most, and so much more.
Claude Code
Claude Code is an AI-powered coding assistant that helps you build features, fix bugs, and automate development tasks. It understands your entire codebase and can work across multiple files and tools to get things done.
Pangram
Pangram combines cutting-edge AI and comprehensive plagiarism detection to give you the complete picture of text authenticity and get the information you need, all in one place.
Pangram's AI detector uses natural language processing and a massive data set of human and AI writing to analyze patterns in AI generated text created by popular models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Llama and Claude.
Sonix AI
Transform your audio and video files into accurate, searchable text in minutes. Sonix combines cutting-edge AI with professional editing tools to deliver transcription that's fast, accurate, and built for your workflow.
Transcribe audio in over 53+ languages with native-level accuracy. Our AI understands accents, dialects, and regional variations to deliver precise transcriptions regardless of the source language.
Polish your transcripts with our powerful web-based editor. Click any word to jump to that moment in your audio. Make corrections, adjust timestamps, and format your transcript without installing software.
Azure AI
It’s never been easier to build, optimize, and govern AI apps and agents that understand your business context and deliver business impact. Our unified, interoperable AI platform enables developers to build faster and smarter, while organizations gain fleetwide security and governance in a unified portal.
Extrahop AI
Access the intelligence of your network with a consolidated security and observability platform. See and stop threat actors hiding in legitimate tools and moving laterally across your network with RevealX.
Harness the power of unified decryption, packet-level network forensics, and cloud-scale machine learning to see every packet and every application in every conversation on your network.
Vertex AI
Vertex AI is a fully-managed, unified AI development platform for building and using generative AI. Access and utilize Vertex AI Studio, Agent Builder, and 200+ foundation models.
Vertex AI offers access to the latest Gemini models from Google, including Gemini 3. Gemini is capable of understanding virtually any input, combining different types of information, and generating almost any output. Prompt and test Gemini in Vertex AI Studio, using text, images, video, or code. Using Gemini’s advanced reasoning and state-of-the-art generation capabilities, developers can try sample prompts for extracting text from images, converting image text to JSON, and even generate answers about uploaded images to build next-gen AI applications.