AI Tools

AI Applications and Tools for Research Collaboration and Management for Faculty and Students

What is it? “Academic Cloud” is a web-based platform operated by the GWDG that provides access to various AI applications as well as tools for research collaboration and management. 

What are the possible applications? The platform allows users to work with text, images, video, and audio files, and additional digital tools can also be utilized.

What AI applications are available? Chat AI supports a wide range of language models in the Academic Cloud, which are hosted on the GWDG’s infrastructure or via vetted external providers. 

Internally hosted LLMs include, among others…

• Apertus 70B Instruct 2509
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
• Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512
• Gemma 3 27B Instruct
• GLM-4.7
• InternVL 3.5 30B A3B

… and many more. 

A continuously updated, detailed overview of all models available in Chat AI can be found in the official GWDG model overview.  

Who is it for? Faculty, staff, and students at RPTU

How and where?  Academic Cloud is provided by the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG). 

DSGVO compliance? Further information on Academic Cloud’s DSGVO compliance can be found here: https://academiccloud.de/de/privacy/ 

How do I get access? Access is free for RPTU members with an RHRZ account via Shibboleth authentication (“federated login”).

Educational AI services for teachers and students

What is it? “EDU-KI-Chat” is a web-based platform that integrates various AI models.

What are the possible applications? The platform enables users to work with text and code and offers features specifically tailored for use in a higher education setting.

The application areas of the available AI models vary and cover a range from everyday queries to more complex analyses and programming support.

In addition, the EDU-KI-Chat can be integrated into OpenOlat courses via LTI.

What AI applications are available? Codestral 22B, DeepSeek R1, DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B, InternVL2.5 8B MPO, LlaMA 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct, LlaMA 3.1 SauerkrautLM 70B Instruct, Meta LlaMA 3.3 70B Instruct, Meta LlaMA 3.1 8B Instruct, Meta LlaMA 3.1 8B RAG, Mistral Large Instruct, Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct, Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct, Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct, Qwen QwQ 32B

Here you will find an overview of the integrated AI models. Additionally, the model cards provide information on further technical features of the available language models. 

Who is it for? Faculty, staff, and students at RPTU

How and where?  Provided by the Rhineland-Palatinate Virtual Campus (VCRP) for Rhineland-Palatinate universities at https://chat.edu-ki-rlp.de/login

DSGVO compliance? Further information can be found here:https://www.vcrp.de/service/datenschutzerklaerung/or https://chat.edu-ki-rlp.de/dse.html

How do I get access? Access is available to RPTU members with an RHRZ account via Shibboleth authentication. The EDU-KI Chat can be integrated into OpenOlat courses via LTI.

AI applications, digital tools, teaching materials, and professional development

What is it? „fobizz“ is a web-based platform that provides access to various AI applications.

What are the possible uses? Working with text, images, video, or audio files; additionally, other digital tools can be used and teaching materials can be created.

Which AI applications are available? Claude (4 / 4.5), DeepSeek R1 Distill, GPT (-4o / -4o mini / -5 / -5 mini / -OSS / -oss small), Llama (3 70B / 3 8B), Mistral Mini, Qwen 3, DALL·E 3, GPT-Image 1, FLUX.1, Nano banana, TTS-1, Azure Speech, Whisper

Here you will find an overview of the integrated AI models.

Who is it for? RPTU faculty in the field of teacher education

How and where? https://fobizz.com/

DSGVO compliance? Teachers can provide students with DSGVO compliant access to AI assistance via their classrooms created in fobizz. Students do not need a user account and can work under a pseudonym—no personal data is collected.

How do I get access? The RPTU provides a limited number of licenses for teachers in teacher education.  
Licenses are issued in cooperation with the Center for Teacher Education. Please direct license requests to the following contacts at the Center for Teacher Education:
Kaiserslautern campus: jung.david[at]rptu.de 
Landau campus: k.gierl[at]rptu.de

For technical questions, please contact RPTU Support at: ki-sltools[at]rptu.de

AI-based image generation services for educators and learners

What is it? Image AI is a web-based tool that currently uses the FLUX.1 [fast] AI model to generate images from text inputs. 

What are the possible applications? Image AI enables the generation of images from text inputs in English and German. Various settings for width, height, brightness, contrast, and saturation can be adjusted. Additionally, up to 16 images can be created simultaneously. The AI model currently in use, FLUX.1 [fast], is released under the Apache 2.0 license and can be used for private, academic, and commercial purposes.

Who is it for? Faculty, staff, and students at RPTU

How and where? Provided by the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG); access via the Academic Cloud at https://image-ai.academiccloud.de/

DSGVO compliance? Further information can be found here: https://docs.hpc.gwdg.de/services/image-ai/data-privacy.de/index.html or https://docs.hpc.gwdg.de/services/image-ai/faq/index.html 

How do I get access? Access is free for RPTU members with an RHRZ account via Shibboleth authentication (“federated login”).

AI-based transcription services for teachers and students

What is it? Voice-AI is a web-based tool that uses Whisper technology (large-v2) to transcribe and translate audio data. 

What are the possible applications? Voice-AI enables the transcription of audio data from various source languages, including English and German. Additionally, the service offers the option to translate the transcribed texts into English. The results can be downloaded in various formats (plain text, SRT, VTT). 

Who is it for? Faculty, staff, and students at RPTU

How and where? Provided by the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), accessible via the Academic Cloud at https://voice-ai.academiccloud.de/

DSGVO compliance? Further information can be found here: https://docs.hpc.gwdg.de/services/voice-ai/data-privacy.de/index.html or https://docs.hpc.gwdg.de/services/voice-ai/faq/index.html

How do I get access? Access is free for RPTU members with an RHRZ account via Shibboleth authentication (“federated login”).