Heidelberg AICurriculum
Track 10 · Intermediate
10.1

All-in-one AI platforms

One subscription, every model — the aggregator tier

7 lessons 2026-08-06 AI-generated

1Overview

The platforms that sell you access to many frontier models at once instead of one vendor's. Rather than a ChatGPT subscription AND a Claude subscription AND a Gemini one, these put several models behind a single login, usually with a shared chat history, file uploads and some workspace features on top. → The trade-off runs through every chapter below: an aggregator gives you breadth and one bill, but you are a step further from each model's own newest features, and your data now sits with the aggregator as well as the model provider. → Read this alongside Private AI & governance if where the data lands is the deciding question.

1.1What does an AI aggregator do?

It bundles access to many frontier models behind a single login and subscription, letting you switch between GPT, Claude, Gemini and others without separate accounts.

1.2How does data handling differ with aggregators?

Your prompts travel through the aggregator’s servers in addition to the model providers’, so your data resides with both the platform and the original AI vendor, often without EU‑hosting guarantees.

1.3When is an aggregator suitable for me?

If you need broad model coverage on a single bill for low‑stakes personal use or a small team that can accept shared data residency, an aggregator can simplify access compared to multiple subscriptions.

2Matrix 7 rows · 4 tools

Entry price
$10
$4.99
$24.99
$200
Models included
25+
200+ "bots"
9 core LLMs
5 (council)
Autonomous agent included
yes (DeepAgent)
no
yes (Super Agent)
reported (unconfirmed)
Persistent messaging agent
yes (Claw)
no
yes (Claw)
no
No-train pledge (consumer)
yes
yes (official bots)
yes
not stated
Pricing currency
credits
points
credits
flat + credit pool
Best for
agent + build
cheapest routing
tool sprawl
search + council

3Sub-chapters

4In depth

On the data-residency spectrum this is the far end: a public API, where aggregator platforms put dozens of models — GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and more — behind one login and one monthly bill, and increasingly bundle an autonomous agent on top. The pitch: stop paying for four subscriptions and stop guessing which model is "best" this week. The catch is structural: your prompts now pass through a SECOND company that isn't OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, usually priced in an opaque credits/points currency, and — Langdock aside — almost never with an EU-hosting guarantee. Fine for low-stakes personal use — the wrong rung for anything an institution's governance checklist would flag. → Pick by what you want: EU-hosted, for a team that has to answer where the data lives → Langdock; cheapest broad model access → Poe; agent that builds apps + a persistent messaging-app assistant → Abacus.ai; heaviest "AI employee" tool sprawl (80+ tools) → Genspark; you already pay for Perplexity and want its top tier's multi-model council → Perplexity Max.

5Lessons 7

5.1 Start a Langdock free trial and explore available AI models

Langdock’s free‑trial workspace that lets you test the platform without a credit card.

You will have an active Langdock trial account and know how to view the list of supported AI models.

  1. Navigate to langdock.com and click “Start free trial”.
  2. Complete the sign‑up form (no credit card required) and confirm your email if prompted.
  3. Log into the new workspace and open the left‑hand menu.
  4. Select “Models” to display the overview of all available AI models.
  5. Take a screenshot of the model list page for later reference.
  • You'll see A logged‑in Langdock dashboard with a visible “Models” page showing many model names (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini).
  • Takeaway A cloud‑based AI aggregator can be evaluated quickly through a trial that reveals its multi‑model catalog.

5.2 Submit a prompt and let the aggregator pick the best model

A chat session in an all‑in‑one AI platform that automatically selects the most suitable underlying model for your request.

Send a prompt and receive a response routed to the best model without manually choosing one

  1. Click New Conversation to start a fresh chat
  2. Enter your task description in the input field
  3. Press Send to submit the prompt and view the routed answer
  • You'll see The reply appears together with an indicator of which underlying model generated it
  • Takeaway Aggregators hide model selection so you can focus on solving the problem
  • Check After submitting a prompt, how does the platform indicate which underlying model produced the response?

5.3 Add chart generation to an agent

An agent within an all‑in‑one AI platform that can output charts when the appropriate skill is enabled.

Enable the “Generate Charts” skill and receive a visual chart directly from your prompt

  1. Open Settings (gear icon) in AnythingLLM or your aggregator’s settings panel
  2. Select the Agent Skills tab
  3. Find the Generate Charts skill and toggle it on
  4. Return to the chat, describe the data you want visualised, and submit the prompt
  • You'll see The agent replies with an image of the requested chart embedded in the chat window
  • Takeaway Modular agent skills let you extend a single aggregator account with specialised functions without leaving the platform
  • Check Once you enable the Generate Charts skill and submit a description of the data, what is displayed directly in the chat window?

5.4 Upload a file and get an AI‑generated summary in Langdock Chat

Langdock’s chat interface that accepts file uploads and processes them with any chosen model.

You will be able to upload a document, ask the AI to summarize it, and receive a concise summary.

  1. From your Langdock workspace, open “Chat” in the main navigation.
  2. Click the paper‑clip icon and upload a short PDF or Word file (e.g., a 1‑page report).
  3. In the chat input, type: “Summarize the key points of this document in three sentences.”
  4. Press Enter and wait for the AI response.
  5. Copy the summary text to a new note for verification.
  • You'll see The AI returns a three‑sentence paragraph that captures the main ideas of the uploaded file.
  • Takeaway File uploads let you bring external content into an aggregator’s chat, enabling on‑the‑fly document processing without leaving the platform.

5.5 Create a simple workflow that triggers an agent when a keyword appears

Langdock Workflows – a visual builder that connects chat, agents, and actions into multi‑step automations.

You will have a workflow that watches incoming chat messages and calls an agent whenever the word “budget” is detected.

  1. In the left menu, select “Workflows” and click “Create new workflow”.
  2. Add a “Chat Listener” node as the start point and set its trigger to “on new message”.
  3. Insert a “Condition” node that checks if the message text contains the keyword “budget”.
  4. Connect the true branch of the condition to an “Agent Call” node; choose or create a simple agent that replies with “Sure, I can help with budgeting.”
  5. Save and activate the workflow, then return to Chat and send a test message containing the word “budget”.
  • You'll see The chat reply is automatically generated by the agent, confirming the workflow fired on the keyword.
  • Takeaway Workflows let you embed conditional logic into an aggregator platform, turning plain chats into trigger‑based AI assistants.

5.6 Create a concise follow‑up email from meeting media

A multimodal Gemini session that ingests video, slides, and whiteboard photos to produce a summary email.

Upload mixed media files to Gemini and receive a ready‑to‑send recap email with decisions and action items.

  1. Open Gemini in your aggregator platform and click New chat.
  2. Click Upload and add the meeting video, slide‑deck PDF (or images) and whiteboard photo.
  3. Enter the prompt “Write a concise follow‑up email that lists the decisions made and action items from this meeting.”
  4. Copy the generated email text into your email client.
  • You'll see A formatted email draft summarising the meeting, including bullet points of decisions and assigned tasks.
  • Takeaway Aggregators with multimodal models let you combine diverse media sources in a single request, streamlining post‑meeting documentation
  • Check After uploading video, slides, and whiteboard photos and asking for a concise follow‑up email, what kind of output does the aggregator provide for you to copy into your email client?

5.7 Analyze a spreadsheet and generate a chart using Langdock’s data analyst feature

Langdock’s built‑in data analyst capability that can parse uploaded tables and produce visualizations.

You will upload a CSV, ask the AI to create a bar chart of a selected column, and view the generated chart.

  1. Open “Chat” and click the file‑upload icon; select a small CSV file with at least two numeric columns (e.g., sales data).
  2. In the chat box type: “Create a bar chart showing total sales per month.”
  3. Press Enter and wait for the AI to process the spreadsheet.
  4. When the response includes a chart image, click it to enlarge and verify the axes match your request.
  5. Download the chart image by right‑clicking and selecting “Save image as…”.
  • You'll see A rendered bar chart image that visualizes the requested data from the uploaded CSV file.
  • Takeaway Aggregators can turn raw tabular data into immediate visual insights, reducing the need for separate BI tools.

6You’ll know it worked 95 checkable outcomes in this chapter

  • The assistant accurately answers questions based on the uploaded files without hallucinating external info
  • The output video shows movement (e.g., eye shift, neon flicker) while preserving the original composition
  • You can download each asset from their respective sections and open them in the appropriate applications (e.g., PDF viewer, Canva)
  • Check the test summary in the dashboard; it should list ‘All tests passed’ before deployment
  • The deployment panel shows “Enabled” status and opening the generated URL displays the live form; submitted data triggers the full flow and posts to Slack
  • The edited image displays the added content (e.g., extra people in background)
  • The selected placeholder is replaced by the requested image and the preview updates instantly
  • Run the script; it completes the task without errors or additional modifications

95 outcomes in all — one per recipe below.

7FAQ, Tips & How-to 103

one problem, one solution, one action
FAQ Everyone

How can I generate a realistic short video of my product for Instagram or TikTok using Abacus AI?

Write a prompt that describes the product, lighting (like window light), objects and subtle imperfections such as lens distortion and camera shake. Submit it to get a static reference image, then ask the agent to add motion, hand actions and vertical format (9:16). Download the generated video and check that the movement looks human.

AI-generated
FAQ Everyone

What does the Route LLM feature do and how do I use it?

Route LLM automatically picks the most suitable large language model for your query by matching the task type to a model’s strengths. In ChatLLM, click the ‘Route LLM’ button, enter your prompt, press ‘Go’, and the system will show which model is used and give you the answer.

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FAQ Everyone

How can I avoid using my monthly credits for simple queries?

Abacus AI offers “mini” models (e.g., GPT‑5 Mini) that do not consume credits. When writing a prompt, open the model selector instead of Route LLM and choose a Mini model; the request will be processed without reducing your credit balance.

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FAQ Everyone

Can I automate a recurring AI task, like a weekly summary, and get it emailed to me?

Yes, use the Tasks feature: click ‘New Task’, enter the prompt (e.g., “Weekly AI advancements summary”), set the schedule (such as every Sunday at 5 PM), enable email alerts with your address, and save. The task will run on the chosen interval and send the output via email.

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FAQ Everyone

How can I quickly build a customer‑support chatbot in Langdock?

Open Langdock, go to the Assistants tab and click “Create New Assistant”. Enter a name, a brief description, and write a concise role prompt that defines the assistant’s task, style, and format. Save it and the platform instantly spins up a live chatbot without any coding.

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FAQ Everyone

How do I give my Langdock assistant access to company documents?

In the assistant view select the “Knowledge” tab and drag‑and‑drop your PDFs or text files (such as FAQs or product specs) into the folder, or use the upload button. Langdock indexes these files into a vector store, making their content searchable when the assistant answers queries.

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FAQ Everyone

What should I include in the instruction prompt to shape the assistant’s behavior?

Write a prompt that combines role, task, style, and output format—for example: “You are a professional customer service agent for Max Lamp Shop. Analyze incoming inquiries and draft a response. Style: clear, friendly, concise. Format: summary of request, answer, next steps.” Adding extra rules (e.g., always refer to the hotline) ensures consistent replies.

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FAQ Everyone

How can I change which AI model my assistant uses and adjust its creativity?

Open the assistant’s chat view and click the model dropdown at the top, then select a model such as Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT‑4. Use the Creativity/Temperature slider to set a value (e.g., 0.2 for low creativity) and save; subsequent queries will use those settings.

AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need answers from only our internal docs

Langdock lets you create custom assistants by uploading internal documents and configuring system prompts. This works by grounding the LLM in your specific data rather than relying on general training data, ensuring accurate, context-aware responses.

New Learning Lab ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Team members keep reinventing prompts

Instead of each employee writing prompts from scratch, Langdock provides a workspace-wide prompt library. This ensures consistent output quality and preserves institutional knowledge by making proven prompts instantly reusable.

New Learning Lab ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need to keep corporate AI data in the EU

Langdock's backend allows administrators to toggle which LLM providers are available and filter them by hosting region. This ensures sensitive corporate data stays within EU data centers to meet strict compliance requirements.

New Learning Lab ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Docs scattered in Confluence, Notion and SharePoint

Langdock integrates directly with platforms like Confluence, Notion, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This allows the AI to index and search internal documents natively, solving the common problem of fragmented corporate information.

New Learning Lab ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

No single AI platform dominates every category. Claude excels at writing, Gemini leads in reasoning, coding, and research, while ChatGPT offers the broadest feature ecosystem. Matching the tool to the task yields better results than forcing one model to do everything.

Parker Prompts ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Claude Everyone

Claude consistently outperforms competitors in writing tasks by maintaining natural phrasing, matching requested tones, and avoiding over-formatting. It follows stylistic instructions precisely, making it ideal for client work, emails, and content creation where voice matters.

Parker Prompts ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Gemini Everyone

Gemini demonstrates superior reasoning and coding consistency, especially with large codebases and complex dependencies. It handles multi-step analytical problems better than competitors and maintains context across larger projects without degrading output quality.

Parker Prompts ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Gemini Everyone

Gemini natively supports a 1-million-token context window that accepts text, images, audio, video, and YouTube links simultaneously. This allows you to ask cross-modal questions without switching tools or manually transcribing content.

Parker Prompts ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Claude Everyone

Claude excels at research when you provide the source material directly. It stays strictly within uploaded documents, provides traceable citations, and flags uncertain information, preventing hallucination and web-search drift.

Parker Prompts ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Only have one picture of a character

OpenArt can train a specialized model for a character using just a single uploaded image, ensuring the same facial features and appearance across all generations. This eliminates the need for dozens of training images and keeps visual continuity in stories or comics.

Thomas Creates ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Can't find footage for a scene you imagined

The text‑to‑video generator lets you describe a scene, select a motion model (Cling 2.1 for realistic motion), and produce a full animation in minutes without any source footage.

Thomas Creates ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Turn a still image into a short moving clip

Image‑to‑video conversion lets you add motion, camera shifts, and atmospheric effects to any generated picture by writing a short motion prompt, giving life to otherwise still art.

Thomas Creates ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Blurry portrait that needs clearer faces

The built‑in upscaler can double resolution while adding fine facial details using the ‘2x plus face’ option, turning blurry outputs into crisp portraits.

Thomas Creates ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need the same image in another art style

OpenArt hosts over 100 image generation models; by swapping models you can keep the exact prompt but instantly change artistic style (photorealistic, anime, fantasy) while maintaining quality.

Thomas Creates ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want a custom character to speak on screen

By feeding a portrait of your consistent character into the V3 text‑to‑video model and adding a speech prompt, OpenArt produces realistic lip‑sync and facial animation for spoken content.

Thomas Creates ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want a psychedelic animation from a text idea

The Hyo video model excels at fast, inexpensive generation of stylized, abstract motion graphics, ideal for psychedelic or geometric visuals.

Thomas Creates ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need to tweak an AI‑made video without switching apps

After creating a video, OpenArt provides editing controls (trim, change quality, add overlays) so you can refine timing or enhance resolution without leaving the platform.

Thomas Creates ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Langdock lets you select any model from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google without logging into each service. This keeps your workflow flexible and centralizes prompt management.

Langdock ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need LinkedIn posts that match my brand voice

Agents are pre‑configured AI chatbots that can be trained with instructions, documents and integrations. By feeding brand guidelines and a content calendar you get instant, on‑brand posts.

Langdock ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Meeting requests land in Gmail

Workflows use a visual node editor to chain together agents, deterministic steps, and external actions. By checking email content, calendar availability, and drafting replies, you get a ready‑to‑send draft for every meeting request.

Langdock ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want Salesforce info inside your chat

Pre‑built integrations let you pull data from existing SaaS tools directly into Langdock conversations, enabling context‑aware AI assistance without leaving the platform.

Langdock ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Everyone can pick any AI model

Workspace admins can whitelist which AI models are available to users, ensuring that only approved providers are used and helping meet security policies.

Langdock ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Unsure which model to use for a new AI task

Root LLM is Abacus AI's default large language model that automatically selects the best underlying model for your prompt, letting beginners skip manual model selection. It tailors responses to a wide range of tasks, making it ideal for first‑time users.

Charlotte Jade ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Abacus AI combines text, image, slide, and workflow tools in one interface, allowing you to turn a single concept into PDFs, Canva files, landing pages, and social media graphics without leaving the platform.

Charlotte Jade ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need to handle many documents at once

The Deep Agent in Abacus AI is designed for heavy‑duty tasks like analyzing up to 16 documents at once, automating extraction, summarization, or data mining without manual prompting.

Charlotte Jade ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need offline, faster access to your AI projects

Abacus AI offers a downloadable desktop client that syncs your projects and data, giving you offline‑ready access while keeping your information private.

Charlotte Jade ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need a hero section that matches my design image

You describe the desired layout, colors, and effects in natural language and upload a reference image. The agent asks clarifying questions, then builds HTML/CSS/JS that matches the design, saving hours of manual coding.

MiladiCode ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need to change the hero picture without touching code

By uploading a new image and giving a short textual instruction, the AI can locate specific components in the existing page and swap them out without touching code directly.

MiladiCode ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Typed letters disappear from the quiz input field

When a component misbehaves, you can describe the symptom and provide visual context; the agent patches the underlying code automatically.

MiladiCode ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want a full SaaS landing page with courses, pricing and dashboard

You can request multiple high‑level features (course list, pricing, testimonials, dashboards) in one natural‑language description; the agent breaks it into tasks and builds each piece sequentially.

MiladiCode ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need users to sign up, log in and see a personal dashboard

The platform includes a built‑in authentication service; by specifying fields (name, email, password) in your prompt, the agent provisions the backend and UI automatically.

MiladiCode ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Stuck on a homework question?

By describing the desired tutor capabilities (answer questions, summarize topics), the agent adds a chat UI and connects it to a selected LLM, enabling real‑time assistance.

MiladiCode ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

I need a quiz on any subject

The agent can generate backend logic that takes a topic input, calls an LLM to produce questions, and renders them instantly, all from a single prompt.

MiladiCode ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need a week‑by‑week learning roadmap

By providing input fields for goal, skill level, weekly hours, and duration, the agent builds logic that queries an LLM to output a structured study plan.

MiladiCode ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

My AI calls are slow

Activating the ‘Supercomputer’ feature gives your project access to powerful GPU resources, allowing large models and faster inference without external hardware.

MiladiCode ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

The platform runs built‑in tests after each generation step, catching errors early; you can view test results to ensure reliability.

MiladiCode ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Not sure which AI model fits your request

Root LLM examines your input and routes it to the most suitable language model (e.g., GPT‑4, Gemini) based on task type. This saves you from manually choosing a model and improves response quality.

Educraft ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want images in a specific aspect ratio and several variations

Flux 1.1 Ultra is a text‑to‑image model that produces detailed pictures. By specifying aspect ratio (e.g., 16:9) and number of outputs, you control composition and get multiple variations in one request.

Educraft ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want to replace part of an AI‑generated image

Ideogram’s inpaint feature lets you paint over parts of an image and ask the model to replace that region based on a new description, enabling iterative visual refinement.

Educraft ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Have a text outline and need slides

ChatLLM can turn a written outline into a full PowerPoint file, asking follow‑up questions for slide count and template choice, then populating each slide with generated content.

Educraft ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

I need facts I can verify

When Root LLM is active and Deep Research is enabled, ChatLLM performs web searches and literature scans, returning answers that cite actual documents instead of hallucinated text.

Educraft ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need a quick animated clip from a text prompt

Cling, accessed via ChatLLM’s video tab, interprets descriptive prompts and creates animated videos. Adjusting strength sliders influences how closely the output follows the prompt.

Educraft ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need separate AI chats for each project

Projects act like separate folders where each has its own conversation history, custom instructions, and uploaded files, enabling consistent context across related tasks and easy collaboration.

Educraft ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need to gather customer comments on your site

A Form trigger node starts the workflow when someone submits a form. You define required fields like name, feedback text, and optional email, which become the input data for downstream nodes.

Langdock ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want to pull sentiment, category and a one‑sentence summary

An Agent node runs an LLM (e.g., Sonnet 4) using a custom prompt. By defining a structured output schema, the AI returns predictable fields instead of free‑form text, making downstream automation reliable.

Langdock ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Pull a user’s name and feedback into the prompt

Langdock lets you insert placeholders that pull data from previous nodes directly into an agent’s prompt, ensuring the AI processes the actual user input rather than static text.

Langdock ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want analysis results sent straight to Slack

An Action node connects Langdock to external services. By referencing both trigger and agent outputs, you can compose a rich Slack message that includes sentiment, category, summary, and original feedback.

Langdock ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Team needs a live feedback form they can fill out

Deployment creates a versioned, enabled instance of the workflow and generates a unique URL for the Form trigger, allowing teammates to submit real feedback that instantly runs the automation.

Langdock ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Claude excels at long-form writing, complex coding, and autonomous agentic tasks, while Gemini dominates in deep web research, multimodal generation, and tight Google Workspace integration. Use this breakdown to match your primary daily tasks to the platform that handles them best.

The AI Productivity Coach ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Gemini Everyone

Need to combine web and Drive data into one report

Gemini’s research mode automatically searches the web, attaches Google Drive files or Notebook LM notebooks, and synthesizes them into a single editable canvas with source citations. This works because it combines live web retrieval with a structured output layout, saving hours of manual cross-referencing.

The AI Productivity Coach ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Claude Everyone

Need a multi‑step task run across your apps automatically

Claude’s agentic ecosystem (Co-work for desktop, Dispatch for mobile, and Claude Code for terminals) allows you to send complex, multi-step tasks that run autonomously across your files and applications. This works by chaining tool calls and maintaining context over long sessions, letting the AI handle execution while you step away.

The AI Productivity Coach ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Gemini Everyone

Need to make or understand images and short videos in a chat

Gemini natively generates images and short videos directly within the chat interface and can analyze uploaded media or YouTube links. This works because Google’s infrastructure tightly integrates its diffusion models and video synthesis tools with the conversational UI, eliminating the need for external generators.

The AI Productivity Coach ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to AnythingLLM Everyone

Need a local AI chat workspace

After installing AnythingLLM you click Get Started, choose an LLM provider (e.g., local model or NVIDIA NIM), select the model, and name your workspace. This initializes the app with your chosen backend and creates the main dashboard for chatting and agent work.

WorldofAI ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to AnythingLLM Everyone

Want your chatbot to make visual charts

Agent skills are modular capabilities that can be toggled in the Settings → Agent Skills panel. Enabling a skill like “Generate Charts” adds the function to any agent you create, letting it output visual data without external tools.

WorldofAI ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to AnythingLLM Everyone

Need info from a huge PDF

RAG (Retrieval‑Augmented Generation) lets the agent embed a document, then answer questions by searching its vector store. Uploading a 137‑page PDF and tagging the agent with “rag” enables fast, citation‑backed answers.

WorldofAI ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to AnythingLLM Everyone

Need current facts for your query

The Web Search skill connects the agent to DuckDuckGo (or other providers). When enabled, the agent can fetch up‑to‑date information from the internet and incorporate it into its response.

WorldofAI ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to AnythingLLM Everyone

Need a quick time‑management web app

With an agent that has code generation enabled, you can describe a small application and the model will output ready‑to‑run source files. This demonstrates using local LLMs for rapid prototyping.

WorldofAI ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need a fresh account and org setup

You can quickly create an account on Abacus AI using Google, Apple, or Microsoft OAuth. After authentication you name your organization and add payment info to unlock the dashboard.

How to Digital ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need a picture in a specific size and style

The platform lets you pick any of its integrated diffusion models, set aspect ratio, guidance scale, seed and number of outputs, then generate images from a text prompt in seconds.

How to Digital ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want to add stuff to a generated image

After an image is created you can send it back to the platform with an edit instruction; the model re‑renders the picture adding or changing requested details while preserving style.

How to Digital ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want a slide deck from just a few notes

Using the built‑in PPT generator, you provide a topic or brief outline; Abacus AI builds slides, adds titles, bullet points and designs automatically.

How to Digital ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need a ready‑to‑launch landing page

The platform’s coding agent can write full HTML/CSS/JS files from natural language prompts and even suggest corrections, acting as an interactive IDE.

How to Digital ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want to pick a particular AI model for a query

Langdock lets you either let the autorouter pick the best model or manually select from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, Llama etc. Selecting a model gives you control over capabilities, cost and latency.

How-to Everyone

Want a complete research report on any topic

The built‑in web research tool crawls the internet for up to several minutes, aggregates sources and returns a structured summary, saving you manual searching.

How-to Everyone

Need a branded document fast

By uploading a corporate template, Langdock can fill placeholders with AI‑generated content, producing ready‑to‑use documents while keeping branding consistent.

How-to Everyone

Langdock can connect to Microsoft services (SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Teams) and search them directly from the chat, returning summaries or full content without leaving the platform.

How-to Everyone

Need to keep related chats, files and a shared prompt together

Projects let you group related chats, attach files, set a shared system prompt (instructions) and reuse that context across all conversations within the project.

How-to Everyone

Want an app from a simple description

The Deep Agent takes a natural‑language description of an app’s purpose and vibe, then automatically creates the backend API, database schema, and React Native front‑end. It works by interpreting intent, proposing a minimal viable plan, and executing code generation without any manual configuration.

Dan - Smart Tutorials ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Want to test a fresh React Native app on your phone

Expo Go lets you run a React Native bundle directly from a development server by scanning a QR code, bypassing the need for native build tools or app store accounts. The QR links to the dev server that streams the JavaScript bundle to the device.

Dan - Smart Tutorials ↗ Lesson → AI-generated
How-to Everyone

Need to ship a React Native Android app without server work

After testing, Abacus AI can package an Android APK (and later iOS) and host the generated backend on its cloud platform. Deployment is handled automatically, letting you focus on product iteration rather than server configuration.

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How-to Everyone

Only a text brief and need slides

GenSpark’s AI Slides lets you type a detailed request and the agent automatically researches data, creates slide layouts, adds tables, charts and images, then assembles a complete deck. It works by running parallel tools that fetch real‑world information and design elements based on your prompt.

How-to Everyone

Need to swap a slide picture by describing it

The AI Edit feature lets you select any element on a slide, describe the change in natural language, and the model searches for matching assets and swaps them while preserving layout. This removes manual searching and resizing.

How-to Everyone

Want a portfolio that copies an existing design

GenSpark’s AI Developer parses a live site, extracts layout, style and functionality, then writes HTML, CSS and JavaScript files automatically. You can switch models for speed or depth, and preview responsive layouts instantly.

How-to Everyone

My website colors don’t match my brand palette

By uploading a color‑palette image, GenSpark extracts hex values, rewrites global CSS variables and propagates the new colors throughout all components. This automates what normally requires manual stylesheet edits.

How-to Everyone

Need fresh answers from an AI

GenSpark’s chat interface lets you pick from multiple LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) and toggle a web‑search mode. Different models give speed vs reasoning trade‑offs, while web search injects live data into responses.

How-to Everyone

Just a brief text, need a high‑resolution custom picture

The AI Image workspace offers multiple generation models, style presets, and an autoprompt feature that expands a simple description into a detailed prompt. This yields higher‑quality results without manual prompt engineering.

How-to Everyone

A still image you want to bring to life

GenSpark can take an existing image as a keyframe, let you describe motion, and use a video model to animate the scene. The system auto‑creates a motion prompt based on your description, producing a seamless animated clip.

How-to Everyone

Want to compose an email by speaking

The AI Inbox connects to your Gmail or Outlook, then lets you converse with the assistant (text or mic) to compose, edit, and send emails. It interprets spoken prompts into full email drafts, saving manual typing.

How-to Everyone

Got just a bio in a .txt file?

The Deep Agent can ingest a simple .txt file containing your bio and links, ask you clarification questions, then automatically write the HTML, CSS, JavaScript and set up a contact form with database storage. It also tests the site in a sandbox before deployment.

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How-to Everyone

Need up‑to‑date severe‑weather warnings on one page

By describing a data‑aggregation task, the agent builds a full‑stack web app that pulls global severe‑weather warnings from multiple sources, deduplicates them, stores them in a database, and refreshes the display every hour.

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How-to Everyone

Want a chess engine for your UCI board

The agent can plan, code, compile, and test a multi‑file C project that implements the UCI protocol and an alpha‑beta pruning search algorithm, delivering clean, modular source files ready for integration with any chess GUI.

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How-to ChatGPT Everyone

ChatGPT is the most obedient model; it reliably executes every step in a detailed prompt without skipping. Testing with an optimizer prompt shows its longer, more thorough output compared to other models.

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How-to Gemini Everyone

Meeting video, slides, and whiteboard photo?

Gemini can ingest mixed media (video, audio, images, text) in a single request thanks to its multimodal capability and 1 million‑token context window, allowing it to synthesize information from all sources at once.

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How-to Claude Everyone

When your code must work on the first try

Claude consistently produces higher‑quality first drafts of code, often working without needing revisions. Supplying clear problem description lets Claude output ready‑to‑run scripts.

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How-to Perplexity Everyone

Perplexity is fine‑tuned for rapid information retrieval and returns concise answers with source citations. Using Google‑style search operators narrows results to trusted domains.

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How-to Everyone

Notebook LM only answers using the documents you upload, eliminating hallucinations. It’s ideal for verifying claims when you have authoritative source material.

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How-to Everyone

Need every request handled by the strongest AI

Max mode is a setting inside Abacus AI that forces every request to be sent to Claude Fable 5, the platform’s strongest frontier model. Using it gives you full root access so the model can plan, code, run, debug and deploy autonomously.

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How-to Everyone

I want a 3D racing game but can’t code

By describing the desired gameplay (controls, visuals, soundtrack) in one paragraph, Claude Fable 5 creates a complete self‑contained web page that implements the game and publishes it to a public URL without any manual coding.

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How-to Everyone

One English request runs nine AI agents to trade

A single English request can instruct Fable 5 to orchestrate nine cooperating agents that ingest market data, research news, generate strategies, back‑test, risk‑check and present live trade decisions—all visualized on a dashboard.

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How-to Everyone

Want your own AI chat without relying on others

Fable 5 can download an open‑source large language model (e.g., Qwen 2.5), install it as a persistent system service, and automatically generate a web interface that streams responses token‑by‑token, giving you full ownership of the model.

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How-to Everyone

Simple questions drain budget

Abacus AI lets you define routing rules that send hard‑coding requests to Claude Fable 5, debugging queries to Claude Opus 4.8, and simple syntax questions to GLM 5.2, optimizing cost while keeping performance where it matters.

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How-to Everyone

Need a quick customer‑support chatbot that answers from your docs

By using Langdock's built‑in assistant creator you can define name, description and a short instruction prompt, then instantly spin up a functional chatbot without writing code. The platform handles the backend integration and model hosting for you.

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How-to Everyone

Need the AI to answer from our PDFs

Uploading PDFs or text files into Langdock’s knowledge folder automatically indexes them into a vector store, making the content searchable by the assistant at query time.

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How-to Everyone

Need consistent, on‑brand answers from an AI

A well‑structured instruction prompt (role + task + style + output format) guides the LLM to produce consistent, professional replies and ensures it uses the uploaded knowledge correctly.

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How-to Everyone

Need more creative vs deterministic answers

Langdock lets you pick different large language models per assistant and set a temperature (creativity) value, enabling you to balance deterministic answers with more expressive output as needed.

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8Videos 6

9FAQ 17

How can I generate a realistic short video of my product for Instagram or TikTok using Abacus AI?

Write a prompt that describes the product, lighting (like window light), objects and subtle imperfections such as lens distortion and camera shake. Submit it to get a static reference image, then ask the agent to add motion, hand actions and vertical format (9:16). Download the generated video and check that the movement looks human.

What does the Route LLM feature do and how do I use it?

Route LLM automatically picks the most suitable large language model for your query by matching the task type to a model’s strengths. In ChatLLM, click the ‘Route LLM’ button, enter your prompt, press ‘Go’, and the system will show which model is used and give you the answer.

How can I avoid using my monthly credits for simple queries?

Abacus AI offers “mini” models (e.g., GPT‑5 Mini) that do not consume credits. When writing a prompt, open the model selector instead of Route LLM and choose a Mini model; the request will be processed without reducing your credit balance.

Can I automate a recurring AI task, like a weekly summary, and get it emailed to me?

Yes, use the Tasks feature: click ‘New Task’, enter the prompt (e.g., “Weekly AI advancements summary”), set the schedule (such as every Sunday at 5 PM), enable email alerts with your address, and save. The task will run on the chosen interval and send the output via email.

How do I get a quick research summary with pros, cons, and an action plan?

Open GenSpark in your browser, click ‘New’, choose “Super Agent”, type your question (for example, ‘Explain pros and cons of solar energy for small businesses and give a 100‑word action plan’), and press Send. The Super Agent runs a multi‑step reasoning chain and returns a short, structured answer.

Can GenSpark create an entire research web page from one prompt?

Yes. Click ‘New’, select “Deep Research” (also called Spark Page), enter a concise request such as ‘Compare major AI research tools for a 2025 university thesis in 100 words’, and submit. The tool aggregates information, builds a title, table of contents, sections, citations and embeds an AI copilot, delivering a complete navigable page.

What’s the easiest way to turn a text description into a slide deck?

Open the AI Slides app, type a prompt like ‘Create a 10‑slide presentation on generative AI for non‑technical business managers, covering benefits, risks and three case studies’, and submit. GenSpark designs layouts, adds images via Nano Banana, and structures the content into a ready‑to‑use PowerPoint or Google Slides deck.

How can I generate a spreadsheet dashboard without manually entering formulas?

Select AI Sheet from the left panel, enter a natural‑language command such as ‘Create a monthly sales dashboard with columns for month, website traffic, number of orders, conversion rate and revenue; add sample data for the last 3 days and a revenue chart’, then send. GenSpark translates the description into tables, formulas, sample data and a chart automatically.

How can I quickly build a customer‑support chatbot in Langdock?

Open Langdock, go to the Assistants tab and click “Create New Assistant”. Enter a name, a brief description, and write a concise role prompt that defines the assistant’s task, style, and format. Save it and the platform instantly spins up a live chatbot without any coding.

How do I give my Langdock assistant access to company documents?

In the assistant view select the “Knowledge” tab and drag‑and‑drop your PDFs or text files (such as FAQs or product specs) into the folder, or use the upload button. Langdock indexes these files into a vector store, making their content searchable when the assistant answers queries.

What should I include in the instruction prompt to shape the assistant’s behavior?

Write a prompt that combines role, task, style, and output format—for example: “You are a professional customer service agent for Max Lamp Shop. Analyze incoming inquiries and draft a response. Style: clear, friendly, concise. Format: summary of request, answer, next steps.” Adding extra rules (e.g., always refer to the hotline) ensures consistent replies.

How can I change which AI model my assistant uses and adjust its creativity?

Open the assistant’s chat view and click the model dropdown at the top, then select a model such as Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT‑4. Use the Creativity/Temperature slider to set a value (e.g., 0.2 for low creativity) and save; subsequent queries will use those settings.

How does Perplexity Computer turn one goal into a complete project without me switching tools?

You describe the final product you want, and Perplexity Computer splits that outcome into sub‑tasks. It then picks the best model from its 19‑model pool for each task and runs them in parallel, delivering research, code, design, or visuals all together.

What is outcome‑focused prompting and why should I use it?

Instead of writing step‑by‑step instructions, you state the desired final deliverable (for example a PDF report or an interactive dashboard) and its format. The system decides how to achieve that, which leads to clearer prompts and more accurate, properly formatted results.

Can Perplexity automatically send me a weekly AI news briefing?

Yes; by defining a schedule, source criteria, and output format, Perplexity sets up an autonomous agent that scans new content each week, summarizes the top stories, and delivers a PDF every Monday.

How do I make Perplexity remember my preferred tone or role for all future chats?

Open the Profile tab, enter your custom instructions in the self‑introduction field (e.g., “respond like a consultant, use simple language”), and save. Those instructions are then applied automatically to every new conversation.

How can I restrict Perplexity’s answers to only academic sources?

Use the Focus dropdown on the Home tab (or the Sources filter in the chat toolbar) and select ‘Academic’. The query will then pull information solely from academic publications, improving relevance for scholarly topics.

10Glossary 48 terms

Show the 48 terms
langdock
vector database
A storage system that keeps document meanings as numeric vectors so the AI can quickly find similar content.
LLM
Short for large language model, an AI that generates text based on patterns it learned from lots of data.
temperature
A setting that controls how creative or predictable the AI’s answers are; lower values make responses more deterministic.
system prompt
The instruction text that tells the AI what role to play and how to behave for all messages in a chat.
agent
A pre‑configured chatbot you can train with documents and rules to perform a specific task, like writing LinkedIn posts.
workflow
An automated sequence that connects triggers, AI steps, and actions to handle tasks without manual effort.
node
A building block inside a workflow diagram that represents one step such as a trigger, an AI agent, or an external action.
trigger node
The first node in a workflow that starts the process when something happens, like receiving a new email.
if‑else node
A decision point in a workflow that chooses different paths based on whether a condition is true or false.
structured output schema
A defined list of fields (e.g., Sentiment, Category) that tells the AI to return data in a predictable format instead of free text.
{{name}} placeholder
A tag you insert into a prompt that gets automatically replaced with the actual name value from a previous step.
model dropdown
The menu in Langdock where you pick which AI model (like Claude or GPT‑4) will answer your query.
Abacus.ai
prompt
A text description you write that tells the AI what to create or do.
vertical video (9:16)
A video format taller than it is wide, common for phone screens like Instagram Stories.
horizontal video (16:9)
A widescreen video format wider than it is tall, typical for YouTube or presentations.
media plan
An outline generated by the AI that lists each scene, its length, camera moves, text and music before making a video.
upscale
A tool that increases the resolution of an image or video to make it look sharper.
Route LLM
A button that lets the system automatically pick the best language‑model for your question.
ChatLLM
The chat window where you type prompts and receive AI answers within Abacus Studio.
credits
Units that count how much of your paid usage an AI request consumes.
mini models
Low‑cost versions of big language models that run without using your credit balance.
Deep Agent
An advanced AI mode that can search the web, write code and design slides all from one instruction.
Thinking Mode
A setting you enable so the AI knows it should do more complex work like generating a full presentation.
hero section
The top part of a webpage that usually contains a large image or headline, which the AI can build from a design mockup.
Genspark
Super Agent
A GenSpark feature that takes one natural‑language question and returns a brief overview with pros/cons and an action plan.
Spark Page
The Deep Research tool that creates a full web‑page with sections, citations and an AI copilot from a single query.
AI Slides (Guide Mode)
A mode in the AI Slides app that asks you about audience, style and length before automatically building a presentation deck.
AI Sheet
An assistant that turns plain English instructions into tables, formulas and charts inside a spreadsheet.
AI Docs
A tool that expands an outline prompt into a multi‑section long‑form document with headings and paragraphs.
AI Developer
A feature that converts a design brief into ready‑to‑copy HTML, CSS (and optionally JavaScript) code for a website.
Nano Banana
The image‑generation model GenSpark uses to create pictures from text descriptions.
Gemini VO3
One of the video‑generation models that can synthesize short clips based on a textual prompt.
Claw
GenSpark’s chat‑based AI agent that you can command via Slack, WhatsApp or Telegram to run research, create documents and more.
Speakly
A voice‑to‑text tool that cleans up spoken input into a clear written prompt for GenSpark agents.
Hub
A shared workspace where you can collect related documents, sheets, slides, designs and videos for a project.
Mark to edit
An instruction you give to an AI agent to modify a specific element in an image or slide, such as changing a jacket’s color.
Perplexity Max
Perplexity Computer
A feature that breaks a user’s goal into sub‑tasks and runs the best AI model for each task in parallel.
Outcome‑Focused Prompting
Writing a prompt that describes the desired final product instead of step‑by‑step instructions, letting the system decide how to achieve it.
Perplexity Profile
A saved set of custom instructions that automatically apply to every new conversation you start.
Focus Feature
An option that limits searches to a chosen source category such as Academic, News, Social or Web for more relevant answers.
Collections
Named groups that store related chats and an overarching role prompt so future conversations inherit the same context.
Attach PDFs
A button that lets you upload PDF files to a chat so the AI can read and cite information from them.
Deep Research Mode
A toggle that tells Perplexity to produce an in‑depth, multi‑section report with tables and citations automatically.
Scheduled Tasks
A setting that creates a recurring query you define, delivering results at chosen intervals via email or notification.
Spaces Collaboration
Shared workspaces where multiple users can add chats, files, and prompts to co‑author projects in real time.
Connectors
Integrations that link external services like Gmail or Google Drive so the AI can fetch or write data directly from them.
Model Selection
A dropdown that lets you choose which underlying language model (e.g., GPT‑4, Claude) will answer a specific query.
Voice & Dictation
A microphone icon that records spoken questions and can read answers aloud for hands‑free interaction.

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