AI News & Launches

A CNET survey highlights consumer skepticism towards AI in smartphones, with only 18% prioritizing AI for upgrades and 45% reluctant to pay for AI features. Consumers favor battery life, storage, and camera quality over AI, and privacy concerns also emerge over AI integration into mobile devices.

Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton, known as the 'Godfather of AI', predicted radiology job obsolescence due to AI advances, stating 'deep learning will outperform radiologists within five years.' Eight years later, the reality is nuanced, with AI yet to replace radiologists and the field facing a historic labor shortage. The radiology community discusses the significant role AI will play in the future, yet acknowledges the importance of human adaptability and training in the field.

AuditNOW offers a revolutionary solution for fleet brand audits using artificial intelligence to increase efficiency. The platform dramatically reduces manual work and audit costs, while providing complete visibility of fleet assets. It's designed for industries including logistics, retail, public transport, and construction.

Kusho.ai is providing a revolution in software testing by automating API tests and ensuring developers release bug-free software. The company has secured $600,000 in pre-seed funding lead by Antler.

Allyson.ai is a cutting-edge artificial intelligence assistant designed to improve productivity through voice commands and intelligent automation. It offers a seamless interaction experience, allowing users to focus more on their work and less on repetitive tasks.

Cerebras announces a significant performance boost to their Inference solution running Llama 3.1-70B, achieving 2,100 tokens per second, representing a 3x speed increase from the previous version. This update, compared to the best GPU solution, is 16x faster and sets a new benchmark in AI model inference speeds, making it possible to create more responsive and intelligent applications.

Pixyer is an AI-powered tool that provides professional product photography services for e-commerce businesses, allowing users to create high-quality realistic product photos quickly and easily without traditional photography setup. Users can simply upload an image, select the style, and download AI-generated product photos.

AWS Lambda Logs Viewer is a terminal-based user interface application that allows users to view AWS Lambda function logs across multiple profiles and regions. It offers features such as quick access to recent logs, custom date range selection, and real-time log filtering.

BestInterest is an app designed to make coparenting more peaceful, utilizing AI-powered mediation to improve communication. It allows coparents to use the app without the need for an agreement, helping to keep interactions child-focused and out of court.

AIxBlock offers a comprehensive platform for the easy productization of AI models using decentralized computing resources. It empowers users with full control over data privacy and scalability, supporting functions like training, deploying, and monetizing AI models.

HeroStuff is an online retailer specializing in superhero and pop culture merchandise. From apparel to collectibles, they offer a wide variety of items for fans of all ages.

This article discusses the principle that AI problems can often be addressed by applying additional LLM (Large Language Model) calls. It emphasizes the transition from debates about RAG versus fine-tuning to a consensus on multi-technique approaches. Demonstrating how compositional LLM calls enhance reliability, reduce costs, and improve quality, the authors advocate for their approach's usefulness in avoiding exorbitant costs and latency issues by incrementally improving systems with targeted data.

Skyvern automates browser-based workflows using LLMs and Computer Vision, providing an API to automate workflows on various websites.

GitHub Issue Helper is a Chrome extension developed by krshubham that uses AI to summarize GitHub issues and suggest solutions. It offers options for customization and is installable in developer mode.

Skyvern, created by Suchintan and Shu and part of Y Combinator's S23 batch, is an open-source AI agent designed to automate browser-based workflows using LLMs. Their cloud version is now available, providing features like real-time action viewing, livestreaming browser instances, authenticated sessions, chained prompts for complex tasks, element interaction, and memory for workflow inputs. Skyvern significantly cuts down token costs due to model advancements.

GPT Driver, created by Chris and Chris from MobileBoost, is an AI-driven tool that enables no-code creation and execution of end-to-end (E2E) mobile app tests using natural language. Users define tests that are then visualized by GPT Driver, simplifying the testing process and minimizing maintenance, even in dynamic and changing app environments. Launched initially in April 2023 and used by teams including Duolingo, GPT Driver aims to reduce the time and effort traditionally required for mobile app quality assurance.

Averi AI serves as an AI Marketing Manager, offering a single platform for crafting marketing strategies, generating content, and assembling a specialized marketing team. The platform is trained by marketing experts and is designed to both automate cumbersome tasks and connect users with vetted marketing professionals.

Skipper is a smart tool that turns Slack conversations into JIRA tickets instantly, streamlining the ticketing process with features like smart assignment and rich details, including PII encryption. It offers a seamless experience with no context switching needed.

Squadron AI offers an AI-powered code review tool that integrates with GitHub to enhance productivity by providing smart, fast, and efficient code reviews. It's equipped with features like AI pull request reviews, chat integration, issue analysis, daily reports, and advanced AI models.

Legion Health is a provider of world class psychiatric care accessible online, covered by insurance. They offer services for various mental health conditions like ADHD, anxiety, depression, and more, ensuring top-notch care led by board-certified professionals.

Dubly.ai is a cutting-edge startup leveraging AI to improve productivity. With a focus on innovative solutions, Dubly.ai provides tools and services designed to enhance business processes and personal efficiency.

Walle provides a secure and easy solution for agents to make purchases without storing card information, using a payments proxy for any headless browser environment.

GiddyGiddy offers an innovative platform where users can engage with hyper-realistic AI companions for conversation and companionship, aiming to alleviate loneliness and social fatigue. Features include personal AI Hosts, InstaMe, NowStory, VibeChat, and personalized memory interaction, with both free and in-app purchase options.

Vidify is an innovative tool designed to effortlessly create videos from Shopify product images using AI. The app makes product detail pages more engaging by turning static images into dynamic video content. It's trusted by Shopify users and provides a fast and efficient solution to video creation, taking just 2 minutes to generate a video that can be further customized with prompts or a specific ending image. Moreover, Vidify enables users to create shoppable Instagram Reels, enhancing the e-commerce experience.

In 'Taming randomness in ML models with hypothesis testing and marimo,' Davide Eynard discusses how randomness affects ML model behavior and the evaluation of their performance. The author introduces hypothesis testing with a hands-on marimo app, explaining why understanding statistical testing is crucial when comparing different ML models. The article emphasizes the significance of hypothesis testing in determining the best-performing machine in terms of stochastic outcomes.

SagaLabs offers AI-powered story localization for various story-driven content, focusing on professional, nuanced translations tailored for storytelling. They support over 200 languages and offer services suitable for earning globally, with features for creators to monetize their work.

Penguin Random House has taken a firm stance against the use of their copyrighted content by AI systems. The company reinforces the importance of intellectual property rights and opposes any unauthorized copying or distribution of their works by artificial intelligence platforms.

Tempo.app is a modern GUI Git client for macOS designed to replace CLI operations with a user-friendly interface. It features AI-powered staging and message generation, making Git tasks simpler and more efficient.

Altnado provides an AI-powered alt text generator that improves SEO and accessibility for images on websites. It supports various platforms including Wordpress, Shopify, Wix, and others. Just by adding a single line of code, Altnado automates alt text generation, saving time and effort while offering SEO benefits.

LLMD: A Large Language Model for Interpreting Longitudinal Medical Records is a paper that introduces a language model trained on a vast corpus of medical records to analyze patients' medical histories effectively. The model, named LLMD, is fine-tuned for tasks such as normalizing metadata and abstracting high-level representations, with an emphasis on patient care data over a decade-long period from up to 140 care sites. The study demonstrates that LLMD outperforms both general and domain-specific models, providing notable improvements in interpreting real-world patient data.

Unsloth AI has addressed a critical issue in Gradient Accumulation that has been affecting training and finetuning of language models (LLMs). The bug led to higher training losses for larger gradient accumulation steps. The Unsloth AI team formulated and implemented a fix, resulting in improved accuracy for gradient accumulation that aligns with full batch training. Updating Unsloth and using their fixed trainer, as advised, can significantly lower associated errors.

The GitHub repository 'Tamagotchi' by Barqawiz provides a collection of Tamagotchi characters designed to give AI assistants a unique identity, inspired by the classic virtual pet device of the same name. The project features characters that can be controlled manually or through AI assistance.

Kagi has introduced an AI Image Filter to improve image search results by downranking and labeling AI-generated images, providing users with the option to exclude them altogether. Users can also block specific websites featuring AI or low-quality imagery.

MotherDuck has announced a new SQL function called prompt(), which integrates small language models such as OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini into SQL data warehouses. The function is designed for text generation, summarization, and structured data extraction without separate infrastructure. It is now available in Preview for MotherDuck users to apply advanced natural language processing techniques more cost-effectively and with simplicity.

The AI Mathematical Olympiad Progress Prize is a Kaggle competition aimed at advancing artificial intelligence in solving complex mathematical problems. Participants develop models that can crack math olympiad questions, with a chance to win prizes and contribute to educational AI research.

Google has introduced new customization options for NotebookLM's Audio Overviews, allowing users to guide AI host emphasis and expertise level. The update paves way for NotebookLM Business, integrated with Google Workspace, with features geared towards business, university, and organization use, emphasizing data privacy and security.

Adobe's Project Turntable, revealed at the MAX conference, showcases an advanced AI-driven image rotation tool that allows full 3D rotation of 2D vector art while maintaining original design aesthetics. This innovative concept impresses with its ability to intelligently fill in unseen image details during rotation.

Smart Invoices is an AI-powered mobile application designed to simplify invoicing and financial management for business owners. It features advanced AI-driven technology for creating professional invoices quickly and offers tools like automatic tax & discount calculation, cloud storage, and customizable branding.

Token Counter is an online tool designed to count tokens for various AI models to manage API costs, estimate processing times, and adhere to model limits. It utilizes the recommended tiktoken library for OpenAI models for high accuracy and supports multiple languages.

CodeAnt's AI Code Review is an automated service that helps improve the quality of code by providing insights and suggestions for better coding practices. It leverages AI to analyze code and highlight areas that could be optimized or refactored for better performance and maintainability.