10 Must‑Have AI Tools to Supercharge Your Work and Creativity

In the era of AI explosion, AI tools act like a Swiss army knife, deeply embedding into office, design, new media, and coding, bringing unprecedented convenience and efficiency.

1. Efficiency Office AI Tools

(1) Kimi (AI PPT generation)

Core features: Generates PPT outlines, templates, and images from keywords, supports multiple styles such as business, minimalist, creative. Suitable for reports, teaching slides, product launches.

Installation guide:

Visit Kimi website and download the plugin.

Run the installer, choose Office or WPS version, accept the agreement, keep the default path.

Restart Office/WPS, find the Kimi icon on the toolbar and activate.

Practical case: Create a PPT on “New Energy Vehicle Market Analysis” by entering the keyword, selecting a business template, then fine‑tuning colors and text before exporting.

(2) OfficeAI Assistant (File format conversion)

Core features: One‑click conversion among PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, batch processing, OCR text recognition.

Installation steps: Install via Office Tool Plus, a manager for Office plugins.

Practical case: Convert a 100‑page scanned PDF contract into an editable Word document with high‑precision OCR and automatic summary generation.

2. Visual Design AI Tools

(1) Vision XL (Image upscaling and restoration)

Core features: Increases resolution up to 8K, removes blur and noise, colorizes old photos.

Installation steps: Download the Photoshop plugin, copy the .plugin file to the Plug‑ins folder, restart Photoshop and find Vision XL under the Filters menu.

Practical case: Restore a 1990s 480p photo to 4K by adjusting sharpening and denoise parameters.

(2) Anchor Crafter (AI video generation)

Core features: Generates short videos with subtitles, transitions, and multi‑language dubbing from text or audio.

Installation steps: Register on the website, download the client, create a desktop shortcut, ensure an NVIDIA GPU is present.

Practical case: Turn a 2000‑word travel guide into a 3‑minute video with auto‑matched footage and lively voice‑over.

3. New Media Creation AI Tools

(1) Yiban Assistant (WeChat public‑account writing & layout)

Core features: Long‑form generation, title optimization, automatic layout, built‑in library of over 100k viral articles.

Installation steps: Install the Chrome/Edge extension, scan QR code to bind the public account, enable AI writing.

Practical case: Produce a “618 Shopping Festival Guide” article with AI‑generated titles and one‑click layout.

(2) LinkAI (Intelligent customer service for public accounts)

Core features: Integrates large models into WeChat public accounts for automatic replies, article summarization, image recognition.

Installation steps: Register on the LinkAI platform and configure the API according to the guide.

Practical case: When a user asks for “Python learning book recommendations”, the AI replies with a list including Douban scores and purchase links.

4. Coding AI Tools

(1) GitHub Copilot

Core features: AI code assistant that suggests code based on context, supporting many languages and frameworks.

Installation steps: Search for “GitHub Copilot” in VS Code or JetBrains marketplace, install, and sign in with a GitHub account.

Practical case: Write a bubble‑sort function in Python; Copilot auto‑completes the function body.

def bubble_sort(arr):
    n = len(arr)
    for i in range(n):
        for j in range(0, n - i - 1):
            if arr[j] > arr[j + 1]:
                arr[j], arr[j + 1] = arr[j + 1], arr[j]
    return arr

# Test code
test_array = [64, 34, 25, 12, 22, 11, 90]
sorted_array = bubble_sort(test_array)
print(sorted_array)

(2) Tabnine

Core features: Deep‑learning‑based code completion for many IDEs.

Installation steps: Search “Tabnine” in the IDE’s plugin marketplace and install; restart the IDE.

Practical case: In PyCharm, typing “import” triggers Tabnine to suggest common libraries, and further typing “def calculate_” yields relevant function name suggestions.

5. Advanced Efficiency: AI + Large Model Collaboration

(1) DeepSeek + Layout Tools

Generate article drafts with DeepSeek, then import into layout tools like Yiban to refine titles and formatting.

(2) Coze + Public‑account Publishing

Build an automated workflow: hot‑topic analysis → copy generation → scheduled publishing.

(3) Tencent Yuanqi (Public‑account AI avatar)

Train an AI replica on historical articles to answer fan questions with the same tone.

6. Tips

(1) Multi‑tool Collaboration

Combine DeepSeek for drafting, Kimi for PPT, Convert for PDF, or use Copilot then Tabnine for code refinement.

(2) Copyright Awareness

Check commercial licensing for AI‑generated media to avoid legal issues.

Try these tools now and let AI become your creative accelerator.