AI News & Launches

Serra Cloud provides a secure platform for users to sign up and manage their cloud storage with ease, featuring advanced authentication methods and a user-friendly interface.

Command AI offers a platform for unobtrusive user assistance catered towards product, marketing, and customer experience teams. Their services include AI-guided nudges, personalized user onboarding, support agents, and proactive assistance through in-app help and feedback collection. Their approach prioritizes non-irritating, flexible user support with personalization at its core.

Facebook acknowledges scraping public data of all Australians to train AI without opt-out. Meta's privacy director, Melinda Claybaugh, confirms the practice while stating that accounts of users under 18 are exempt. The company offers opt-outs in the EU due to legal uncertainties surrounding privacy laws, but not in Australia. This revelation occurs amidst discussions about online harms to children and impending Australian privacy law reform.

Umbra Space, a 9-year-old company, operates a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite fleet that provides high-resolution imaging for spotting objects such as aircraft, even under camouflage or adverse weather conditions. They have an open data programme which offers free SAR imagery, which would otherwise cost millions. Mark Litwintschik demonstrates the use of a deep learning model SARDet-100K and a framework MSFA to detect aircraft in SAR images, highlighting challenges and potential for further research.

Research firm Gartner forecasts a decline in the demand for GPUs as AI moves out of the brute force phase. Generative AI is only suitable for five percent of workloads, and composite AI is becoming more favorable.

Scripe is an AI-powered content creation platform designed for creators, teams, and businesses to efficiently create viral LinkedIn posts. It boasts a personal branding workspace for generating content up to 12 times faster than traditional methods, offering features like voice-to-content, analytics, and content strategy, trusted by industry professionals.

A discussion on instructing Language Learning Models (LLMs) not to 'hallucinate' is brought forth on Gist by user yoavg. The idea, initially sounding 'silly', gains legitimacy upon reflection. The post articulates that LLMs, if properly trained, could indeed reduce hallucinations - false or misleading information generated by the AI. The method involves fine-tuning the models with instructions like 'don't hallucinate', and evidence suggests that different internal mechanisms can be leveraged for remembering versus improvising responses. The gist acknowledges the possible existence of undesired consequences when LLMs always try to avoid hallucinations.

Saara Inc. offers AI-powered solutions for ecommerce, including EcoReturns for managing returns and exchanges, CoLoyalty for group loyalty programs, and EcoShip for intelligent logistics. They are soon launching CoSell, an AI-powered affiliate sales solution designed to boost sales through creators, affiliates, and resellers.

Fine.dev offers AI Workflows to accelerate the development lifecycle by automating mundane tasks such as upgrading dependencies, analyzing pull requests, generating documentation, triage issues, improving code quality, fixing bugs, creating tickets, and patching vulnerabilities.

Hoop is an AI-powered task management app designed for busy professionals to automate task capture and prioritization across various communication platforms like Slack, Meet, Email, and Zoom. It features AI task capture, auto-labeling, focus mode, and maintains data security and privacy.

Ask Fellow Copilot is a feature within the Fellow app that enhances meeting productivity, offering a way to quickly obtain meeting insights and create follow-ups. Users can get answers to specific questions about their meetings, generate follow-up emails, and easily catch up on missed meetings. It is trusted by productivity-focused teams and ensures compliance with SOC 2 Type II and GDPR certification.

Rainbow Weather app offers a super accurate rain forecast, leveraging AI technology to provide timely and precise weather information. With notifications tailored to your exact location, the app ensures that you'll never get caught in the rain unexpectedly. The mission of Rainbow Weather is to keep people safe and informed with reliable weather updates.

Harrison.ai introduced Harrison.rad.1, a radiology-specific AI model, surpassing other models in the FRCR 2B Rapids exam with a score of 51.4 out of 60. The technology is poised to enhance global healthcare and presents emergent capabilities in multimodal functions, prioritizing clinical accuracy.

Meshy is a pioneering 3D modeling software that utilizes AI to empower artists and creators in generating 3D models, textures, and artworks efficiently. Meshy's toolkit supports various styles and integrates with other software, offering multilingual API support and exporting options for different file formats.

Product 487462 on Product Hunt is a cutting-edge technology platform that has been featured as a top pick by the community. The platform offers unique solutions to streamline digital workflows and enhance productivity for its users.

AI Blaze offers a range of powerful shortcuts to enhance productivity by triggering GPT-4 for fast AI writing and editing. Users can respond to emails, rewrite texts, and correct spelling on any webpage with customizable dynamic prompts.

IndigoAI is a suite of desktop and web applications designed to enable the future of work with artificial intelligence, offering tools for team collaboration and productivity enhancement.

A community platform, Marshmallow, unites people through local events, offering event exploration, connection with like-minded individuals, event organization tools, and an authenticity-ensuring feedback system.

Transfusion introduces a novel method to train multi-modal models on both discrete and continuous data, combining language modeling with diffusion techniques. The pretraining of various sized models up to 7B parameters showcases significant scaling benefits over traditional methods, especially in uni- and cross-modal contexts.

A study by the University of California - Merced revealed an alarming level of trust in AI for making life and death decisions. Subjects influenced by AI advice, which was deliberately randomized in a simulated drone strike scenario, showed overtrust even when informed of AI's fallibility. The findings highlight the need for caution in AI trust in high-risk situations.

The Open Message Format (OMF) specification on GitHub defines a lightweight API contract for conversational agents. It standardizes the schema for user and assistant exchanges, promoting interoperability and simplifying integration with various client-side UI tools and language models.

ESPN's AI recap of Alex Morgan's final professional match failed to mention her, raising questions about the effectiveness of AI in capturing the full scope of sports events. Sports legend Alex Morgan played her final match for San Diego Wave, which ended in a 4-1 loss to North Carolina Courage. The moment when Morgan removed her cleats and tearfully waved goodbye was omitted from the recap, though it was significant for her, the NWSL, and U.S. women's soccer. ESPN later updated the recap to include Morgan and also posted a separate article highlighting the emotional evening.

ReadPartner AI is a personal assistant tool offering AI-powered summaries for news, websites, videos, and documents in multiple languages. It includes an easy-to-use Chrome extension, customizable settings, and analytics to track time savings. Users can receive custom digests via email or messages, with tailored content preferences.

Retain AI by Chatdesk is a Shopify app designed to help brands increase customer retention by sending personalized winback emails automated by AI, tailored to individual customers based on purchase history. The service promises higher conversion rates for these targeted emails.

Keak is an innovative platform offering continuous website improvement through its AI agent capable of running and managing A/B tests automatically. The service simplifies the process of optimizing websites by generating variations, launching tests, and retraining the AI model based on test results, thus enabling self-improvement of websites.

Meshy offers AI-driven tools enabling creators to generate 3D models swiftly. It features text-to-3D, image-to-3D, text-to-texture capabilities, and seamless integration with standard industry software for artists, game designers, and developers.

Shortwave offers an AI-powered email experience with features such as AI writing, advanced search, instant summarization, and easy scheduling. Aimed at improving productivity, it helps users organize their inbox with custom tabs and bundles, turn emails into to-do lists, and control email delivery schedules.

Noteex is a sleek, modern web application designed for efficient note-taking and document organization. It supports markdown editing and offers users a distraction-free interface to enhance productivity.

Ahmad Osman shares his experience of creating a powerful AI server in his basement, equipped with 8 RTX 3090 GPUs and 192GB of VRAM to run Meta's Llamma-3.1 405B. The server features a high-end motherboard, CPU, and substantial memory. Future blog posts will cover assembly challenges, PCIe technology, benchmarks, and AI model training.

Grammar expert June Casagrande employed AI to write an article about a new coffee shop to compare to her human-written piece. The AI-generated article, showcasing a polished voice interspersed with cliches and nonspecific sentences, failed to capture essential details that interest humans and convey the meaning of words, such as the coffee brand's reputation among Michelin-starred chefs.

Church Loom is a platform designed to make sermon content creation seamless for churches. It allows users to upload sermons, receive transcripts, and create various contents like email blasts and social media posts in under 10 minutes. The service offers a custom prompt feature for tailored content and simple pricing plans, including a lifetime access option.

Marshmallow is a community-focused platform that unites individuals by helping them host and discover local events. It allows users to explore nearby activities, create their own events, and connect with others who have shared interests. The platform prioritizes authentic connections and provides a feedback system to ensure a trusted user base.

An increasing trend in the appearance of GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar has been identified, marking a concern for the integrity of scholarly communication. Misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu published an analysis revealing that many of these questionable papers deal with policy-relevant subjects and can easily be found alongside credible research, thereby posing a threat to public trust in science and the potential for evidence manipulation.

The blog post describes how LLM inference frameworks have reached a 'memory wall,' limiting further speed enhancements. It explains misleading metrics, urging developers to understand their system's limits and choose a suitable framework. Practical advice on using optimizations like quantization and sparsity with caution is given, along with the significance of using well-validated models. Lamini's inference engine is designed with these aspects in mind, supporting different GPUs and scenarios while emphasizing caution in memory-intensive LLM operations.

WakaTime offers automatic time tracking and programming metrics for developers. It integrates with various IDEs to help understand coding activity.

Trupeer is an AI-powered platform that converts simple screen recordings into professional videos and detailed guides, simplifying the content creation process for product videos and documentation without the need for technical expertise in video editing or writing.

CX Genie is an AI-powered platform offering 24/7 customer support solutions designed for boosting engagement and driving growth. With a focus on AI chatbots, help desks, workflow automation, and ticket management, it aims to reduce support costs and improve efficiency for businesses of all sizes.

Eduardo Blancas explores minifying HTML in the context of providing content to GPT-4o for data extraction. His findings suggest no performance degradation when HTML tags are removed, offering a way to reduce computational costs. Detailed experimentation reveals that GPT-4o can accurately answer structured and unstructured questions without HTML structure.

Infinity AI introduced a new tool called Infinity which generates realistic AI characters that can speak synchronously with audio input. The proprietary video diffusion transformer model was trained for approximately 11 GPU years or around $500k. Despite some limitations, including slow processing times, the model can handle multiple languages, learned some physics for realistic movement, and can animate different types of images. It can even handle singing, offering possibilities for creators to generate unique videos by simply typing a script.

The study investigates the impact of generative AI on software developer productivity and finds a 26.08% increase in task completion rate when using GitHub Copilot. This result comes from analyzing three field experiments conducted at Microsoft, Accenture, and a Fortune 100 electronics manufacturer across 4,867 developers. Notably, less experienced developers experienced more significant productivity enhancements.