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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 it with your peers? It's an exciting time for ai enthusiasts, as several platforms offer free access to cutting-edge models for everyone to test 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 fast and easy-to-use interactive ai playgrounds that provide custom models and are free to use. Some of the platforms even offer free access to proprietary models.
1. HugsChat
HugsChat is my favorite, although I have ChatGPT Pro. I use HuggingChat daily because of its user interface, quick response generation, and ability to switch between models.
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Hugging Face offers its users the most advanced open source models and discontinues older, less efficient models. Therefore, you can be sure that you will receive the best ai experience for debugging code, 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's fast and the user interface is interactive and easy to navigate. The key feature of the Poe ai playground is that it allows you to test all the latest generation open 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 by system prompt, model type, and knowledge source.
3. Chat with LMSys
LMSys Chat It is known for its chatbot arena leaderboard, but 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 prevent me from using it daily:
- The bad user interface.
- Website loading time.
- Lack of availability of models in direct chat.
You have to participate in Area Battel to access the preparatory models.
4. ai SDK
ai/” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>ai SDK is another simple and fast ai playground. It also provides access to major open source and closed source models. To access cutting-edge models like GPT-4-turbo, you may have to subscribe to Vercel Pro. But in my opinion, some of the free models available here are not freely available on other platforms. Therefore, it would be useful if you used it with the combination of Poe or Chat LMSys.
<img decoding="async" alt="Vercel ai SDK ai Chat UI” width=”100%” src=”https://technicalterrence.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1716552115_221_5-free-AI-playgrounds-that-you-can-try-in-2024.png”/><img decoding="async" src="https://technicalterrence.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1716552115_221_5-free-AI-playgrounds-that-you-can-try-in-2024.png" alt="Vercel ai SDK ai Chat UI” width=”100%”/>
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ai SDK does not require login to use and can compare multiple models at the same time. It is fast and provides additional options to modify and improve the model response. Additionally, you can sync the message or use each model for a different message.
5. Worker ai
ai.cloudflare.com/” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>Worker ai I recently made myself known. It's fast and easy and provides access to open source ai models. What is special about this platform is that you can add multiple inputs (users and attendees) to create a history or context for the LLM to understand and respond appropriately. Other than that, it loads quickly and does not require any registration.
<img decoding="async" alt="ai Chat UI for Workers” width=”100%” src=”https://technicalterrence.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1716552115_105_5-free-AI-playgrounds-that-you-can-try-in-2024.png”/><img decoding="async" src="https://technicalterrence.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1716552115_105_5-free-AI-playgrounds-that-you-can-try-in-2024.png" alt="ai Chat UI for Workers” width=”100%”/>
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I kept it at the bottom because it is simple, lacks basic features, doesn't have all the best ai models, and above all, there is no way to adjust the model parameters to improve response.
Conclusion
If you want to access all the ai models and experience the magic first hand, I suggest you check out 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, LLM, and multimodal models.
In this blog, we learn about five areas of ai play that you should use in 2024. They will help you access top-of-the-line LLMs for free; some don't even require registration.
Abid Ali Awan (@1abidaliawan) is a certified professional data scientist who loves building machine learning models. Currently, he focuses on content creation and writing technical blogs on data science and machine learning technologies. Abid has a master's degree in technology management and a bachelor's degree in telecommunications engineering. His vision is to build an artificial intelligence product using a graph neural network for students struggling with mental illness.
