Education
Tutoring, course building and study tools.
Character.AICharacter.AI
Chat with AI-generated characters and personas
From $9.99/mo
ReplitReplit
Browser-based coding environment with an AI build agent
From $20/mo
An AI research assistant for literature reviews
Freemium
An AI search engine that finds answers in peer-reviewed research
Freemium
Questions about education tools
Are these built for teaching or for learning?
Mostly for learning. Replit is the closest to a teaching platform — a browser-only environment means no lab machine setup and no “it works on mine” — while Consensus and Elicit are study and research tools a student uses alone. Character.AI is here for language and conversation practice, which is a use case rather than a product category.
Is it a problem that students use these to write?
The tools are not the question; the assessment is. Work that can be produced in one prompt was measuring recall, and recall stopped being scarce. The institutions handling this well changed what they ask for rather than trying to detect what was used.
What is the safest way to introduce these in a classroom?
With the citations visible. Consensus and Elicit both link every claim to a paper, which turns “the AI said so” into a source a student can be asked to check. That habit is worth more than any policy about which tools are allowed.