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Which AI tool suits my needs?

"I want a powerful AI tool I can ask questions and create content with."

Recommendation: Use Microsoft Copilot Chat

Best all-around choice
  • Chat, summarize documents, brainstorm, and generate images
  • Powered by ChatGPT-5
  • Available to all UB students, faculty, and staff

"I want AI built into my Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint."

Recommendation: Buy Microsoft Copilot (Premium)

  • Work with content in your Microsoft 365 apps
  • Choose from ChatGPT and Claude models
  • Available to UB faculty and staff with departmental purchase

"I want AI for classroom, administrative or developer use."

Recommendation: Request BullsAI access

  • Includes a UB‑managed Large Language Model, coding and data science environments, and more
  • Available to approved UB faculty and staff

"I want to use AI to do formal research requiring large-scale resources."

Recommendation: Request SUNY AI Platform access

  • Google-powered
  • Cleared for Category 3 and Category 2 data that has been anonymized
  • Costs currently covered by SUNY
  • Available to approved UB faculty for research use only

"I want to use another AI platform that's out there."

Recommendation: Ask your departmental IT to submit a software request

  • The UBIT Software Review Team (SWRT) offers case-by-case guidance on other AI tool requests, and will work with you and your Distributed IT to securely evaluate ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.
  • Available to approved UB faculty or staff

NOTE: All AI tools listed here—when approved for use—may be used with Category 2 and Category 3 data only, except where noted.