AI tools for research, administration and developers by Lausanne University - AI Strategic Unit

Midjourney

AI_research — 2023-05-15 08:43:09 UTC

Adobe Firefly

AI_research — 2023-05-15 08:51:09 UTC

ChatGPT

AI_research — 2023-05-15 08:54:44 UTC

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: UNIL's only contracted LLM

AI_research — 2023-05-15 09:01:06 UTC

Sign in with @unil.ch and check the Protected badge: the same link opens consumer Copilot otherwise. Personal data or official secrecy: use the UNIL 📘 [Sécurisé] agent, which disables web search. Legally sensitive data: forbidden here, use local LLMs.

Stable Diffusion / Stable Image (Stability AI)

AI_research — 2023-05-15 09:21:56 UTC

Downloadable weights under the Community License, not OSI-approved. Main offering is a paid hosted API.

Canva AI

AI_research — 2023-05-15 09:46:19 UTC

Microsoft Designer

AI_research — 2023-05-15 09:49:01 UTC

Semantic Scholar

AI_research — 2023-05-15 14:17:58 UTC

Consensus

AI_research — 2023-05-15 14:19:15 UTC

Elicit

AI_research — 2023-05-15 14:20:21 UTC

SciSpace

AI_research — 2023-05-15 14:23:41 UTC

Hugging Face

AI_research — 2023-05-15 14:40:52 UTC

Reference hub for open-source models.

LlamaIndex

AI_research — 2023-05-25 07:48:32 UTC

Python and TypeScript framework for RAG and LLM agents.

LangChain

AI_research — 2023-05-25 07:49:24 UTC

AI and the law: Philippe Gilliéron (in French)

AI_research — 2023-06-19 08:57:58 UTC

Video interview with a UNIL law professor and lawyer (10 min).

Whisper for transcription - Open source

AI_research — 2023-07-12 16:24:44 UTC

Pyannote for detecting multiple speakers

AI_research — 2023-07-12 16:25:05 UTC

Gemini

AI_research — 2023-07-13 12:08:14 UTC

HeyGen

AI_research — 2023-09-25 07:43:54 UTC

AI video translation and dubbing, with voice cloning and lip-sync.

OpenAI API

AI_research — 2023-09-26 08:53:06 UTC

Arena

AI_research — 2024-02-26 09:57:31 UTC

Compare popular LLMs on several performance metrics.

Claude

AI_research — 2024-06-04 09:00:45 UTC

Mistral AI

AI_research — 2024-06-04 09:05:55 UTC

Claude API

AI_research — 2024-09-04 10:54:36 UTC

Gemini API (Google AI Studio)

AI_research — 2024-09-04 10:56:13 UTC

Corv: audio and video transcription (DCSR)

AI_research — 2024-09-04 10:57:23 UTC

Whisper-based. UNIL VPN required.

Duck.ai (DuckDuckGo)

AI_research — 2024-10-04 17:27:45 UTC

Anonymised chat with several major models. Conversations are not used for training.

Scite

AI_research — 2024-10-07 09:11:13 UTC

Notion AI

AI_research — 2024-10-07 09:12:58 UTC

Energy consumption of AI models

AI_research — 2024-10-10 07:50:56 UTC

Nature, March 2025: projected electricity demand of AI and the lack of corporate transparency.

Perplexity

AI_research — 2024-10-23 10:11:21 UTC

Search-oriented assistant for online research.

eScriptorium: OCR and HTR transcription (DCSR)

AI_research — 2024-10-23 10:13:30 UTC

UNIL VPN required.

Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)

AI_research — 2024-10-28 12:57:51 UTC

Document summaries, quizzes, notes, plus audio and video generation.

How AI works

AI_research — 2024-11-22 10:16:09 UTC

Gamma

AI_research — 2025-01-23 15:36:03 UTC

AI-generated slides and websites.

DeepSeek

AI_research — 2025-01-25 17:55:50 UTC

Free alternative models.

Napkin

AI_research — 2025-05-09 10:04:45 UTC

Visuals generated from text.

Infomaniak AI Service: Swiss-hosted API

AI_research — 2025-05-09 10:05:54 UTC

Open-weight models via an OpenAI-compatible API.

AI Energy Score

AI_research — 2025-05-09 10:10:39 UTC

Energy measurements across a range of AI tasks.

Prompt tactics

AI_research — 2025-06-17 15:20:07 UTC

Connected Papers

AI_research — 2025-10-09 15:25:50 UTC

Open Knowledge Maps

AI_research — 2025-10-09 15:26:12 UTC

ResearchRabbit

AI_research — 2025-10-09 15:30:41 UTC

Artificial Analysis

AI_research — 2025-11-25 11:46:35 UTC

Benchmarks of models accessed through their APIs.

Google Scholar Labs

AI_research — 2025-11-25 14:06:20 UTC

Exploratory AI search over Google Scholar. Google sign-in required.

Claude Code

AI_research — 2026-03-13 08:47:11 UTC

OpenAI Codex

AI_research — 2026-03-13 08:47:31 UTC

Google Antigravity

AI_research — 2026-03-13 08:48:24 UTC

Agent-first dev platform: desktop app, IDE and terminal CLI. Successor to Gemini CLI.

ChatGPT - Images 2.0

AI_research — 2026-05-03 16:02:59 UTC

Gemini - Nano Banana 2

AI_research — 2026-05-03 16:06:35 UTC

Claude Design

AI_research — 2026-05-03 16:08:02 UTC

Ollama: local, unless tagged :cloud

AI_research — 2026-05-03 16:09:25 UTC

:cloud models run on Ollama's servers, not your machine, even via localhost. Use tags without :cloud.

LM Studio

AI_research — 2026-05-03 16:12:25 UTC

Run open-weight models locally (Mac, Windows, Linux).

AI_GO: which AI tool for your data?

AI_research — 2026-08-19 15:59:25 UTC

Official UNIL questionnaire. Complete it before using any AI tool. French and English versions.

Using AI at UNIL: official FAQ

AI_research — 2026-08-19 15:59:35 UTC

Permitted uses, accounts and licences.

vLLM

AI_research — 2026-08-19 16:51:57 UTC

High-throughput inference and serving engine for open-weight LLMs.

Open WebUI

AI_research — 2026-08-19 16:51:58 UTC

Self-hosted interface for local or remote models (Ollama, OpenAI-compatible APIs). Source-available, not an OSI licence.

OpenRouter

AI_research — 2026-08-19 16:51:58 UTC

One OpenAI-compatible API for hundreds of models, with price and performance comparison.

⚠ Before installing a local model

AI_research — 2026-08-20 09:59:23 UTC

Ollama, Open WebUI and Hugging Face can also call online services: check the model and its tag. Legally sensitive data: genuinely local only, via DCSR. AI_GO decides what you may use, not this board.

DCSR-LLM: open models on UNIL infrastructure

AI_research — 2026-08-20 18:39:15 UTC

Data stays on UNIL infrastructure. For personal, unpublished or internal data. Contact helpdesk@unil.ch, subject DCSR-LLM.