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Do you want to try out the latest large language models (LLMs) that have just been released? Or do you want to be the first to explore cutting-edge open-source and discuss them with your peers? It is a thrilling time for AI enthusiasts as several platforms offer free access to state-of-the-art models for everyone to try out and compare. So, get ready to dive into the world of AI playgrounds and explore the potential of these newly released AI models that are changing the world.
In this blog, I will share a list of 5 user-friendly, fast, interactive AI playgrounds that provide custom models and are free to use. Some of the platforms even offer free access to proprietary models.
1. HuggingChat
HuggingChat is my favorite, even though I have ChatGPT Pro. I use HuggingChat daily due to its user interface, fast response generation, and ability to switch between the models.
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Hugging Face offers its users the most advanced open-source models, and they discontinue the older, less efficient models. Therefore, you can be confident that you will receive the best AI experience for code debugging, generating content, learning new concepts, and solving problems.
2. Poe
Poe is my second favorite platform, as it has a more extensive repository of large language models. It is fast, and the user interface is interactive and easy to navigate. The key feature of the Poe AI playground is that it lets you try all of the top-of-the-life open-source and closed-source models. In short, you just need to bookmark Poe and get an all-in-one AI experience.
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Poe also offers the option to create your own customizable AI chatbot, or you can explore the public library’s thousands of chatbots. These chatbots are customized using the system prompt, model type, and knowledge source.
3. Chat LMSys
Chat LMSys is known for its chatbot arena leaderboard, but it can also be used as a chatbot and AI playground. It provides access to 40 state-of-the-art AI models, both open-source and proprietary, and you can compare their results.
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Three drawbacks keep me from using it daily:
- The bad user interface.
- Website loading time.
- Lack of availability of models in the direct chat.
You have to participate in Area Battel to access the preparatory models.
4. AI SDK
AI SDK is another simple and fast AI playground. It also provides access to the top open-source and close-source models. To access state-of-the-art models like GPT-4-turbo, you might have to subscribe to Vercel Pro. But in my opinion, some of the free models available here are not freely available on the other platforms. So, it would help if you used it with the combo of Poe or Chat LMSys.
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AI SDK requires no sign-in to use, and you can compare multiple models at the same time. It is fast and provides additional options to modify and improve the model response. Also, you can sync the prompt or use each model for a different prompt.
5. Workers AI
Workers AI became known to me recently. It is fast and simple and provides access to open-source AI models. What is special about this platform is that you can add multiple inputs (users & assistants) to create a history or context for the LLM to understand and respond appropriately. Apart from that, it is fast in loading and does not require any signups.
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I kept it at the bottom because it is simple, lacks core features, does not have all of the top AI models, and, most of all, there is no way you can adjust model parameters to improve the response.
Conclusion
If you want to access all of the AI models and experience magic firsthand, I suggest you look at the Hugging Face Spaces page. Every day, there is something new and exciting to try to impress others on social media. You can find free and open image generation, speech generation, LLMs, and multimodal models.
In this blog, we learn about 5 AI playgrounds that you should use in 2024. They will help you access the top-of-the-line LLMs for free; some do not even require signups.
Abid Ali Awan (@1abidaliawan) is a certified data scientist professional who loves building machine learning models. Currently, he is focusing on content creation and writing technical blogs on machine learning and data science technologies. Abid holds a Master’s degree in technology management and a bachelor’s degree in telecommunication engineering. His vision is to build an AI product using a graph neural network for students struggling with mental illness.
