The 5 Best AI Business Ideas For Beginners In 2026

AI Language Lessons [0:26]

• People are earning thousands monthly by using AI to generate language lessons, often in the form of AI podcasts uploaded to YouTube.
• Channels focusing on conversational English are seeing immense growth, with one seven-month-old channel generating over 4 million views per month.
• A five-month-old channel is already achieving 3-4 million views monthly, demonstrating sustained momentum.
• These channels can be monetized once YouTube's requirements are met, with estimated payouts of $3-$8 per 1,000 views.
• One channel is estimated to have earned up to $160,000, averaging over $32,000 per month.
• AI tools like Wondercraft allow for the creation of podcast episodes for as low as $2.50, a significant cost reduction compared to traditional methods.
• The workflow involves using Wondercraft for script generation and voice-over, Nano Banana Pro (accessible via Gemini Pro) for host images, and a video editor like ClipChamp for assembly and captioning.

The average payout is $3 to $8 per 1,000 views.

UGC AI Influencers [05:50]

• AI creators are generating videos that mimic User Generated Content (UGC) ad videos for products.
• Monetization occurs by linking to Shopify stores for drop-shipping or by using TikTok Shop's affiliate program for commissions.
• One AI influencer account, less than two weeks old, generated over $9,000 in sales for a Christmas bow product via TikTok Shop.
• Another video from the same account went viral with over 80,000 views, estimating over $12,000 in sales.
• The workflow involves using AI image generation (Nano Banana Pro) to create visuals of influencers with products, followed by animation using VEO3 or Cling.
• For monetization without a TikTok Shop affiliate account (which requires 1,000 followers and specific country residency), setting up a Shopify drop-shipping store is an alternative.
• Build Your Store AI can create a Shopify store in under 10 minutes for as little as $2, including a 3-day Shopify trial and AutoDS integration for automating orders.
• Products like a viral Christmas bow can be drop-shipped, with a markup applied to the supplier's price.

This is what drop shipping is. It's when you sell products without having inventory on hand yourself.

Niche AI Novels [11:28]

• AI enables the rapid creation of niche books targeting hyper-specialized readers, a difficult feat before AI.
• A romance ebook focused on the hockey niche, published independently on Amazon Kindle, estimates sales of 298 to 375 copies per day.
• This book is estimated to be earning between $1,379 to over $1,736 daily.
• The workflow for creating these novels is free, starting with Perplexity for niche research, identifying specific reader demands.
• Claude, an AI chatbot prioritized for empathy, is used for writing, brainstorming outlines, plot twists, and chapters.
• Kindle Create, Amazon's free software, is used to convert manuscripts into Kindle-ready files.
• Nano Banana Pro can be used to generate book covers for these AI-written novels.

And we can estimate how much this book is making, too, because it was published independently for free through Amazon's self-publishing service, KDP.

AI Print on Demand Store [14:35]

• Starting an AI print-on-demand store is presented as a profitable business for passive income.
• Identifying trending products on marketplaces like Etsy and Amazon is the first step, such as t-shirts featuring viral memes or niche designs.
• A t-shirt design related to the "67" TikTok meme is estimated to have generated between $84,000 to over $101,000 in sales in one month.
• Another t-shirt in the sports niche with over 1,000 sales and a Christmas niche t-shirt with over 3,000 sales in a month are also highlighted.
• The workflow involves using ChatGPT for niche brainstorming, Nano Banana Pro for generating design images, and Canva Pro (with a 30-day free trial) for enhancing and preparing print-ready files.
• Canva Pro's AI background remover and image upscaler are used to ensure high-resolution, transparent designs.
• Printify and Printull are recommended print-on-demand apps that integrate with marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, and Etsy, handling production and shipping.

And the really cool thing about Nano Banana is if you want to make any changes, you can just type what you want and it will edit it for you.

Choose One AI Videos [18:35]

• These videos feature montages of AI-generated clips of unusual or interesting scenes, posing questions like "which would you choose?" to encourage viewer comments and engagement.
• One such video, released just last month, went viral on TikTok with over 100 million views.
• TikTok's Creative Rewards program offers monetization, with creators earning between 15 cents to $1 RPM (revenue per 1,000 views).
• The viral video is estimated to have earned between $15,000 to over $100,000.
• Monetization requires videos to be 1 minute or longer and meeting follower count criteria, with country restrictions applying.
• These videos also perform exceptionally well on YouTube, with one example garnering over 9 million views in one month and utilizing the YouTube Partner Program.
• The workflow involves using ChatGPT for brainstorming creative scene ideas, Nano Banana for generating the AI images, and VEO3 (or Cling for European users) for video generation.

See, isn't it crazy? AI has just changed everything.