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Best Free AI Tools for Students and Researchers

20 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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A short conversational YouTube video transcript in which two speakers compare free AI tools for students and researchers. They contrast OpenAI, Perplexity, and Deep Searcher, noting Perplexity produced faster and more comprehensive reports in the speaker’s experience, and recommend using whichever free tools are available (and Deep Searcher for running code on local data).

If I'm a student I have a lot of AI tools I can use. Which one should I use? I mean I'm going to use OpenAI because they have a free version, right?
Even Perplexity also has a different right. Perplexity usually takes less time to do the research. I ran OpenAI and it took like a long time to generate a report but I asked the same question from Perplexity and it was much faster. Faster with more comprehensive. The report was in my opinion better. There are a bunch of them I think and they are as I said, more or less very similar. What I would do, I just go with the free tools that I have access to. If I want to just run code, maybe run it on my local data and things like that. Then I would go with Deep Searcher from Is.
That one open source?
Yes, yes, it's actually open source and you can even use it as a command line tool.