ZotGPT Services By UCI, For UCI
ZotGPTChat
ZotGPT Chat is a free AI tool for UCI students, faculty, and staff, offering features like multiple models, chat history, file uploads, and a large context window. For class-related use, follow your instructor's guidelines. Built with Microsoft Azure AI, Amazon AWS, and open web technologies, it operates securely within UCI's infrastructure.
ZotGPTCreator
Build custom AI chatbots tailored to administrative tasks, research projects, and specialized workflows. It supports document uploads, website scraping, and configurable AI models to deliver personalized, data-driven assistance. Available for staff and instructors.
ZotGPTClassChat
Integrates AI into classroom experiences by enabling students to interact with course materials through AI-powered chats. It allows instructors to organize content into modules, upload documents, create custom prompts, and monitor student engagement to enhance teaching and learning.
ZotGPTAPI
Provides UC Irvine faculty and staff with secure, scalable access to OpenAI GPT 4 for integrating AI into research and projects. Hosted on Microsoft Azure with a dedicated management tool, it offers a $200 usage credit and ensures privacy through strict data protection protocols. $200 credit per user available at no cost.
ZotGPT LearnAcademy
Academy is a training initiative designed by OIT to help everybody become AI-literate and confidently use generative AI tools like ZotGPT. Through concise, engaging courses, it teaches foundational concepts, prompt engineering, workflow integration, and custom assistant creation to support innovation in teaching, research, and administration.
ZotGPT LearnPrompt Library
A curated collection of ready-to-use prompts designed to showcase the diverse capabilities of large language models like ZotGPT. It serves as both a practical toolkit and a source of inspiration, helping users explore, adapt, and create prompts for tasks ranging from teaching support to data analysis and creative ideation.
News & Updates
What's New with ZotGPT?
New ZotGPT services available now!
OIT is happy to announce that new services are available as part of the ZotGPT portfolio:
- Creator enables any faculty or staff member to create and share custom chatbots with the University community or a pre-identified group. Augment the bots knowledge with information from a UCI website or uploaded documents.
- ClassChat provides a purpose-built chatbot experience for instructors to structure content and provide students with a guided chat experience to engage with their content.
If you have any questions, get in touch—email oit@uci.edu.
Students - Academic Honesty Reminder
Always use AI-generated content ethically and transparently, and follow your instructor's guidelines if you use AI for coursework. If you're unsure whether or how your instructor would like you to use AI, don't make assumptions. Ask them. If you use AI-generated content and represent it as your own original work, this can qualify as academic misconduct and may have consequences for your student status.
ZotGPT In The News
- ZotGPT Now Integrates with OneDrive and Google Drive
- August 4, 2025 •UCI OIT News
AI Services from UCI Partners
OIT provides these tools as UCI-contracted resources offering greater degrees of privacy and security than the publicly-available commercial versions of these tools. In line with UCI's values of equity, diversity, and inclusion, generative AI not only offers broad opportunities for teaching, learning, and research but also has the potential to replicate and reinforce social biases, to spread misinformation, and to have disproportionate effects on communities and their environments.
Microsoft Copilot
Copilot is a chatbot using Microsoft Prometheus (Powered by Bing and GPT-4 series LLMs) and DALL-E3 that provides a generative chat experience featuring text extraction, image generation, PDF summarization, and other useful features.
Google Gemini
Gemini is a chatbot that helps users brainstorm ideas, develop plans, and find different ways to get things done.
Zoom AI Companion
Zoom AI Companion features include meeting transcription, summarization, Q&A, and more. Features need to be enabled via the Zoom web portal. Users are notified when a meeting is AI-enhanced.
Comparing Supported Generative AI Solutions
Microsoft Copilot
Up to P3
Saved chats
Text extraction(from images only)
Image analysis
Image generation(using DALL•E 3)
Voice chat
Internet responses(using Bing)
Extended memory
Faculty, Staff, & Students
Use UCI Microsoft Account
Microsoft Prometheus (Powered by Bing and GPT-4 series LLMs), DALL•E 3
Sign in with your UCI Account
Up to P3 (P4 with MOU)
Saved chats
Text extraction(from DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF, HTML, images, text)
Image analysis
Image generation
Voice chat
Internet responses(Creator)
Extended memory
Faculty, Staff, & Students
Use UCI Account
Built by UCI, for UCI.
Google Gemini
Only P1 or P2
Saved chats
Text extraction(from images only)
Image analysis
Image generation
Voice Chat
Internet responses(using Google)
Extended memory
Faculty, Staff, & Students
Use UCI Google Account
Gemini
Sign in with your UCI Account
AI Privacy Considerations
- For ZotGPT Chat and Microsoft Copilot: Your chats are not used by Microsoft, UCI, or OpenAI to train AI models as long as you authenticate using your UCI credentials. Your chats are confidential.
- For Google Gemini: Your chats are not used by Google to train the Gemini model as long as you authenticate using your UCI credentials.
- If you sign in using a personal account to one of these services, then your content may be used in accordance to the relevant policies for each given service.
Built With ZotGPT
Build something interesting with ZotGPT that you'd like to share with the UCI campus? Let us know and we'll feature it here!
ScholarConnect
ScholarConnect uses ZotGPT's API to turn faculty CVs into data: data that we can use to update faculty profiles and highlight their research, teaching and service activities.
- Keeps faculty profiles up-to-date while saving faculty time.
- Helps people from outside of UC Irvine find and connect with our faculty.
- Facilitates collaboration and resource allocation across departments.
ZotDesk
ZotDesk is an AI-powered chatbot designed to provide 24/7 IT support for the UCI community.
- Offers instant answers to a wide range of IT-related questions
- Available round-the-clock for convenient assistance
- Streamlines the process of resolving common tech issues
Learn More
Learn about Generative AI for Teaching & Learning
In order to best serve our students, we need to engage with generative AI in meaningful ways across the curriculum.
Find out what UCI is up to in the AI space
From research to implementation, researchers, faculty, staff, and students are working on exciting AI and ML projects!
Protect yourself and UCI
Learn all about data classification levels and what sorts of data are safe to provide to these generative AI tools.
Use AI Chatbots Securely
AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Copilot offer advanced responses, but raise security and privacy concerns for submitted data.
UCI Bren School of ICS AI, ML and Natural Language Processing Research
Research in AI is concerned with producing machines to automate tasks requiring intelligent behavior. Examples include computer vision, bioinformatics, constraint-based problem solving, text understanding, data mining and smart sensor networks.
New GenAI Learning Paths Available in Udemy
UCI affiliates with access to Udemy can now explore the new learning paths to enhance their GenAI skills. These online courses are good for a general overview as well as in-depth knowledge related to specific roles.