Foreword
The list below does not claim to be exhaustive with regard to the AI software currently available. It only includes the main products that Smals has had the opportunity to test or use as part of its AI initiatives, and for which it has developed varying levels of expertise, ranging from limited to more in-depth depending on the case.
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Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard image editing software. It is integrated with Adobe’s generative AI model, Firefly. Key features like “Generative Fill” and “Generative Expand” allow users to seamlessly add, remove or extend image content using text prompts. Firefly is trained on licensed content. |
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Aikido’s AI enables teams to move from threat detection to resolution by leveraging a robust threat database, automating triage and remediation, and analyzing APIs to eliminate security debt. |
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Amazon Q Developer is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant that can help you understand, build, extend, and operate AWS applications. You can ask questions about AWS architecture, your AWS resources, best practices, documentation, support, and more. Amazon Q is constantly updating its capabilities so your questions get the most contextually relevant and actionable answers. |
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Antidote is a comprehensive writing assistance software that acts as an advanced proofreader. It corrects grammar, spelling and style errors, but does not generate new content. It provides detailed explanations for its corrections and includes integrated dictionaries and guides to help users improve their writing skills. |
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Canva is an all-in-one design platform that integrates a suite of AI tools called “Magic Studio”. This includes a user-friendly text-to-image generator (“Magic Media”) and AI editing features like background removal and object erasing, making generative AI accessible to non-designers for various marketing and communication needs. |
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ChatGPT is a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI that uses large language models to generate human-like text and engage in natural conversations with users. It acts as an AI writing assistant and general-purpose tool, capable of tasks like writing code, composing music, summarizing text, answering questions, and creating various forms of content based on the prompts it receives. |
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ChromaDB is an open-source vector database for search and retrieval of embeddings for AI applications with large language models (LLMs). |
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Claude is a family of large language models (LLMs) and AI assistants developed by Anthropic that are designed to be helpful, harmless, and honest, excelling at tasks like natural language processing, reasoning, coding, and summarization. It operates on Constitutional AI, a set of ethical principles that prioritize safety and steer the AI away from harmful behaviors. Claude can be accessed through its conversational chatbot at Claude or via the Anthropic API for various applications. |
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A feature in Claude that lets users generate, preview, and edit structured outputs like code or documents inside the chat interface. |
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Claude Code is an Agent in the form of a CLI toolkit, that analyze your requests by creating a plan, executing tasks and analyzing the results of those executions to perform complex operations. |
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Claude Cowork is an agent-centric workspace within the Claude Desktop app that allows users to delegate multi-step, autonomous tasks directly to the model across their file system and third-party integrations. It leverages Claude to orchestrate “sub-agents”. It features a robust new ecosystem of specialized plugins for various departments that enables recurring automated tasks to run in a secure, isolated virtual machine. |
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Claude Skills are modular capabilities that extend the Claude AI assistant’s power by packaging specialized instructions, scripts, templates, and other resources into reusable task-specific modules. Rather than just relying on generic prompts, a Skill encodes procedural logic and domain expertise so Claude can perform a particular class of tasks consistently and efficiently. Claude skills are an architectural concept that since launchtime are also adopted by other vendors then Anthropic |
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An AI-native code editor designed around LLMs. Provides in-editor chat, code suggestions, and multi-file reasoning to speed up development. |
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A configurable version of ChatGPT that allows organizations to tailor responses, provide specific context, and define tone, behavior, and knowledge sources. |
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DeepL Pro is an advanced AI translation service renowned for its high accuracy and ability to capture context and nuances, resulting in natural-sounding translations. The Pro version offers unlimited text translation and the ability to translate entire documents while preserving their original formatting. |
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Devin is a virtual software engineer. Integration with Jira, Git, CI/CD, etc. enables it to perform any software engineering task. From implementing new features to fixing thousands of lint errors, Devin can clear your backlog, modernize your codebase, and help you build more. |
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ElasticSearch is an open-source, distributed search and analytics engine. It has integrated vector search capabilities enabling hybrid search (keyword search combined with vector search) for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications. |
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A desktop-native wrapper for Google’s Gemini AI. It provides a focused interface for conversational tasks and AI-driven productivity. |
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Google Gemini is a family of advanced, multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) models capable of understanding and processing various types of information, including text, code, images, and video |
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Google Veo is Google’s flagship text-to-video model, designed to generate high-definition, long-form video clips (over a minute) from text and image prompts. It understands cinematic language (e.g., “timelapse,” “aerial shot”) and aims to provide a high degree of creative control and consistency with characters and visual style. |
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Integrated directly into either VSCode or IntellIJ, Copilot combines an assistant and an agent that supports a wide range of tasks across different stages of development.. |
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Google Antigravity is an AI-native development environment launched in late 2025 that shifts from traditional code editing to an “agent-first” paradigm. Built on a fork of VS Code, it features a dual-surface interface where users can either code manually or use the “Manager View” to orchestrate autonomous agents that plan, execute, and verify tasks across the editor, terminal, and integrated browser. The platform prioritizes transparency by generating “Artifacts”, such as implementation plans, screenshots, and video recordings of browser tests, allowing developers to review and provide feedback on AI-led workflows in real-time. |
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HuggingFace is a large open-source platform and community that provides models, datasets and tools for artificial intelligence practitioners. |
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Integrated directly into JetBrains IDEs, AI Assistant supports a wide range of tasks across different stages of development, helping you write, understand, and improve code more efficiently. |
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Integrated directly into JetBrains IDEs, Junie is an Agent that can crawl through existing code, execute tasks and analyze the results of those executions to perform complex operations. |
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KushoAI is an AI Agent for API testing which generates exhaustive test suites for APIs based on API information. |
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LangChain is an open-source framework for building applications based on large language models (LLMs). It allows to easily orchestrate the various components of such applications based on chains. |
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LangGraph is an open-source library and framework for building complex, stateful AI agent applications using large language models (LLMs). |
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LlamaIndex is an open-source library and framework for building applications based on large language models (LLMs). |
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Mermaid AI integrates AI-powered features into Mermaid Chart, a diagramming tool that uses text-based syntax (Mermaid.js) to generate diagrams. These AI capabilities help users create and edit diagrams more quickly using natural language prompts |
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Copilot for Microsoft 365 is an AI-powered assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. It also offers a more generic conversational agent. It uses large language models (currently GPT 4.5 & 5) in combination with user data from Microsoft Graph (e.g. emails, documents, calendar, and chats) to assist with tasks like writing, summarizing, analyzing, and organizing information. |
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Copilot Studio is a graphical, low-code tool for building agents and agent flows. It enables users to design and deploy AI-powered conversational agents and automated workflows. The platform integrates seamlessly with Microsoft’s ecosystem, allowing for easy connection to existing datasources. Agents created in Copilot Studio integrate seamlessly into Copilot for Microsoft 365. |
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Midjourney is a leading AI image generator known for producing highly artistic, stylized and aesthetically refined images from text prompts. It operates primarily through the Discord chat app, where users interact with the Midjourney bot to create and iterate on their visuals. |
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Mistral is a French AI company that specializes in large language models (LLMs). Mistral develops both high-performance open-source models (e.g., Mistral 7B, Mixtral) and commercial models. These foundational models power a wide range of applications, including content creation, chatbots and analysis, serving as a key European alternative to models from OpenAI or Google. Mistral can be accessed through its conversational chatbot “Le Chat” or by using its customizable AI agents, which can be tailored to specific business processes and team requirements. |
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NotebookLM is a AI-powered research assistant developed by Google that helps users summarize, understand, and extract information from their own documents and other sources. It works by using Google’s Gemini model(s) to create a “personalized AI” |
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Ollama is a framework for running large language/multimodal models locally |
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Sora is OpenAI’s flagship text-to-video model that set a new industry benchmark for quality, realism and video length (up to a minute). It can generate high-fidelity, coherent video clips from complex text prompts, demonstrating a deep understanding of physical world interactions and cinematic language. |
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Sora is OpenAI’s flagship text-to-video model that set a new industry benchmark for quality, realism and video length (up to a minute). It can generate high-fidelity, coherent video clips from complex text prompts, demonstrating a deep understanding of physical world interactions and cinematic language. |
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OpenAI Agent builder is a visual workflow tool that lets you design, test, and export multi-step AI agent workflows without writing all the code yourself. It provides a drag-and-drop canvas where you can assemble “nodes” that represent steps in an agent’s logic, connect them into a workflow, and preview how they run with live data. |
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OpenAI Codex is an AI-powered coding agent built on OpenAI’s most advanced language models, designed to help developers write, refactor, debug, and understand complex codebases. It goes beyond simple code generation by executing multi-step tasks, interacting with tools, and working across large projects with extended context. Codex is available through cloud-based interfaces, IDE integrations, and APIs, functioning as an intelligent software engineering assistant rather than just a code autocomplete tool. |
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Perplexity AI is a conversational “answer engine” that uses LLMs to provide direct, accurate answers to questions by searching the web in real-time. Its key feature is that it cites the sources for the information it provides, allowing users to verify facts and conduct further research. It is designed to be a powerful research and learning tool rather than a purely creative chatbot. |
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Playwright Agents are a trio of AI-driven automation tools, Planner, Generator, and Healer, to transform the end-to-end testing lifecycle into an autonomous workflow. |
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A setup combining Microsoft’s Playwright with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) to create autonomous test agents capable of exploring, testing, and debugging web apps. |
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| Qodo |
Plugin integrated in most IDEs, Specialized in pre-built flows to build, refactor or generate tests. |
Proprietary |
| Replit Agent |
Tell Replit Agent your app or website idea, and it will build it for you automatically. It’s like having an entire team of software engineers on demand, ready to build what you need — all through a simple chat. No coding experience needed. |
Proprietary |
| Rovo |
Rovo is an AI integrated solution part of the Atlassian Cloud available in Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, and Teamwork Collection. It unifies AI search, chat, and agent features across Atlassian products and third-party tools, offering a single interface for cross-product use. |
Proprietary |
| Runway Gen-2 |
Runway Gen-2 is a powerful text-to-video model and a key component of Runway’s suite of AI tools for creators. Gen-2 was one of the first widely available models in its class, enabling users to generate video clips from text prompts (text-to-video), images (image-to-video), or by applying styles to existing videos (video-to-video). The next generation of Runway’s video models, designed to be a major leap in quality and control. Gen-3 aims to deliver significant improvements in the generation of realistic humans, detailed motion and scene composition, positioning it as a direct competitor to models like OpenAI Sora and Google Veo. |
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| ScopeMaster | An AI-powered tool that analyses project requirements when they are expressed as detailed user stories. It automatically identifies functional elements within those stories and derives functional size metrics such as Function Points (IFPUG, COSMIC…). The tool can also flag ambiguities or missing details and produce first-pass effort and cost estimates based on historical benchmarks. | Proprietary |
| Sembly AI | An AI meeting assistant that automatically records, transcribes and summarizes meetings. It can identify key decisions, action items and issues and provides analytics such as participation metrics. Its multilingual capabilities are particularly useful in environments where Dutch, French and English are spoken interchangeably, as is often the case in the Belgian public sector. The tool also allows exporting transcripts and summaries for reuse in project documentation. | Proprietary |
| Speech-to-Text (Digital Europe) | Lets users upload audio or video files and automatically convert the spoken content into written text or subtitles. It supports full transcription of recordings (e.g., meetings, interviews or conferences) in multiple European languages, turning spoken language into machine-readable text that can be searched, edited or subtitled | Proprietary |
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Snyk Agent Fix autonomously generates and validates fixes, empowering developers to secure code at the speed of AI in the IDE and pull requests, without breaking their rhythm. Verified fixes minimize the potential for changes to break code or introduce new vulnerabilities, with the right balance of human-in-the-loop. |
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Synthesia is an AI video creation platform that allows users to generate professional videos with realistic AI avatars. Users provide a script and the avatar narrates the text, making it ideal for corporate training, marketing and internal communication videos without needing cameras or actors. |
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Testcraft is an ai-powered chrome extension. It act as a test automation platform that allows users to visually create automated tests for web applications using drag and drop without any coding. It bridges the gap between manual and coded testing by generating Selenium-based tests. |
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Testers.ai is an AI-driven platform that simulates the reasoning of expert human testers to evaluate application performance and user experience (UX) by automating exploratory testing, issue triage, and diagnostic reporting |
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TestZeus-Hercules is an open-source, AI-powered testing agent that automates end-to-end testing of web applications without requiring users to write code or perform maintenance. It converts Gherkin scenario’s into automated tests. |
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