ChatGPT Plugins statistics, explore plugins for academic research

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📈 Quick Stats

There’s now 878 ChatGPT plugins in the plugin store, of which 32 were released in the past week.

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🚀 Categories with most new launches

📊 Data & Research - 79 plugins (4 new)

👨🏻‍💻 Web Development Tools - 61 plugins (4 new)

🔮 Miscellaneous - 98 plugins (4 new)

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🏷️ New plugin categories on whatplugin

👨🏻‍🎓 Academic Research - 23 plugins

Student or researcher? This list includes all plugins dedicated to help superpower your research by searching for scientific publications, as well as helping with typically tedious tasks like citations.

📁 Document Formatting - 13 plugins

All plugins related to converting the chat output into some sort of downloadable format (PDF, XLSX, CSV, HTML, and so on).

📖 PDF conversations - 11 plugins

Talk to your PDF documents with these plugins. Contains plugins related to information retrieval and analysis of your PDF documents.

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🛋️ Plugin Spotlight: A+ Doc Maker

A+ Doc Maker - Generates a variety of file formats in seconds, including PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, and HTML.

Prompt examples:

"Create a PDF with the following content: [paste your content]"

"Summarise these articles and generate a DOCX file with the results" (this would be an example when using it with another plugin for reading multiple articles, such as Browserop)

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Powerful together with plugins that give you real-time online access. Check out this video demo.

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🖇️ Plugin Combination of the Week

Ai PDF + daigr.am + A+ Doc Maker

🔥 Try this: Ask ChatGPT to summarise a lengthy PDF report containing financial data, ask it to visualise that data, and give you the output as an excel file.

Inspired by this demo.

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🤖 Chatbots Trends

• Custom Instructions for ChatGPT – a feature to give ChatGPT consistent background info, and users more control over the output – is now available to free users. This move makes OpenAI more competitive against other rising (free) alternatives, including Google Bard and Claude 2.
• Search engines – Google, Bing, etc. – are currently facing high costs of using large language models to fulfil searches; these companies are trying to balance the short-term losses of LLM-powered searches vs winning the market. The current costs of serving LLMs to customers at scale is holding these companies back from releasing the best versions of their products. While using LLMs are (mostly) an ad-free experience at this point, the need for monetisation to defend the high costs might change that in near future.
• Chatbots are now starting to take your orders at Drive-Thrus. Wall Street Journal recently featured technology made by a company called Presto utilising OpenAI’s GPT model to take orders and communicate with drive through customers. The solution is currently in use at about 350 US locations.

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👍 Social Media Platforms embracing AI

Generative AI is on virtually all tech companies’ radar these days, including the largest social media platforms.

• Tinder introducing AI photo selection feature; helps users select 5 photos from their photo album that best represent them for their dating profile.
• Instagram rumoured to be working on labelling content that is generated or edited by AI with “generated by Meta AI”.
• YouTube experimenting with AI videos summaries (there's several useful ChatGPT plugins for summarising YT videos already).

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