AI News & Launches

ImageKit AI offers an advanced image processing and digital asset management platform, utilizing AI and Generative AI for efficiency. Features include generative fill, smart cropping, background removal, shadow addition, on-the-fly image creation using text prompts, image variation generation, visual quality improvement, and AI-powered tagging and search within their DAM system.

Reiden.ai is a powerful productivity tool that acts like a personal keyboard shortcut copilot, aiming to save users time by suggesting efficient shortcuts across multiple applications. It features a real-time workflow analysis, customized recommendations, and promotes ergonomic efficiency, all while emphasizing user privacy.

Prismy is a GitHub-native, AI-powered localization platform designed to save hours and ensure high-quality translations for businesses seeking to ship their products in multiple languages more efficiently. Key features include tailored AI translations, GitHub conflict avoidance, and effortless integration.

PlayNode.app is an online platform designed to enhance creativity with the help of AI. It allows users to create workflows, manage tasks, and integrate with React Flow. Features include adding boards, saving, sharing, and clearing workflows. The best experience is on desktop or laptop.

Convo is an AI-moderated platform designed for qualitative user research. It offers the depth of one-on-one interviews combined with the breadth of survey scalability. Convo supports multilingual responses and provides real-time insights with its automatic data analysis.

Prisma Optimize provides an AI-driven analysis of database queries, offering actionable recommendations to improve performance. It supports insightful query metrics and integrations with popular databases, assisting in query optimization for faster application development.

Highperformr offers a comprehensive suite of AI-powered social media management tools ideal for startups and small to large businesses. It simplifies publishing, team collaboration, analytics, and audience engagement.

LOTUS is a state-of-the-art visual foundation model presented in arXiv 2024, using diffusion techniques for zero-shot dense geometry prediction tasks. Its novel approach and fine-tuning protocol allow it to excel in depth and normal estimation benchmarks with minimal training data, outperforming other methods in quality and efficiency.

A discussion on Hacker News explores the best practices for adding guard rails to LLM responses without disrupting streaming functionality. Participants share insights on using regex filters, LLAMA Guard, token sampling, and fine-tuning stop words for optimal performance.

Ichigo is an open-source, real-time voice AI project rebranded from llama3-s. It extends the text-based LLM's 'listening' capabilities, using an early fusion technique to combine text and audio inputs. The maintainers of Ichigo showcase ongoing progress, invite collaboration, and provide both tutorials and tools for engaging with the project.

Foyle is an AI system designed to make the operations of software deployment and management easier for developers without extensive knowledge in DevOps, by translating intent into executable commands within VScode notebooks.

GitHub repository 'qc_npu_benchmark' provides a code sample to benchmark models on Qualcomm's Windows PCs, specifically on Microsoft Surface tablets equipped with Qualcomm's NPU. The benchmarking reveals suboptimal NPU performance, achieving only a fraction of the claimed capabilities.

In a recent article, Pete Warden expresses his disappointment with the AI performance of Qualcomm's NPUs on Windows tablets. Despite the chips' promise of up to 45 trillion operations per second, Warden's benchmark tests using foundational AI operations only achieved 573 billion ops/sec, which is less than 1.3% of the advertised capability, and four times less than an Nvidia RTX 4080 in his gaming laptop. He speculates that the issues may stem from the software stack and hopes for future improvements through software updates.

Mistral AI announces world-class edge models, Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, offering unparalleled efficiencies for on-device and at-the-edge applications. Setting benchmarks in knowledge, reasoning, and efficiency under 10B models, they are ideal for a range of use cases from smart assistants to autonomous robotics.

Wandpen is an AI writing assistant designed as a Chrome extension that provides distraction-free assistance for writing tasks. It offers users the ability to rewrite their emails and text with AI support, aiming for clarity and confidence in communication.

The website provides in-depth analysis and coverage of the political debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, featuring articles, opinion pieces, and user discussions.

Tattoon is a website dedicated to everything related to tattoos, offering designs, care advice, inspiration, and artist showcases to enthusiasts and professionals alike.

FAQWidget.ai is an AI-powered service that generates a targeted FAQ widget for websites, aiming to drive engagement and increase sales. It offers instant generation, SEO-friendly content, no coding requirements, and options for customization and targeted keywords.

Prediko provides AI-assisted inventory management solutions for Shopify brands, offering tools like demand planning, insights, analytics, supply planning, raw materials management, and purchase order management. The services aim to streamline inventory KPI tracking and purchase decisions, minimizing stockouts and maximizing revenue.

Dash by Dropbox is an AI-powered platform that combines universal search, content organization, and access control. It connects with apps like Google Drive, Outlook, and Dropbox, to centralize work operations.

Packmind is a revolutionary platform designed to accelerate team learning and enhance engineering performance through AI integration and the promotion of best coding practices.

The National Archives is set to introduce 'Archie AI', a public-facing AI chatbot. Despite a ban on ChatGPT for posing a security risk, Google's Gemini AI has been promoted to enhance employee productivity. Employee concerns over AI's role in archiving accuracy, data security, and environmental impact arose during a presentation.

Meta showcases new open AI hardware designs including a new AI platform and advanced network fabrics at OCP Global Summit 2024. The initiative invites collaboration to drive innovation in AI, backed by Meta's development of infrastructure like Llama 3.1 405B model and 24K-GPU clusters.

OpenAI is reportedly transitioning from a nonprofit to a for-profit company, amidst a massive $6.6 billion funding round and a $157 billion valuation. Key executives, including CTO Mira Murati, have resigned. Doubts rise over OpenAI's sustainability as it faces enormous annual losses and a potential subprime AI crisis, despite ambitious revenue projections.

Command AI, formerly known as CommandBar, is being acquired by Amplitude. The product remains operational and will eventually integrate with Amplitude's stack to improve user experiences. The acquisition follows a partnership on a popular integration and aims to make software easier to use. The Commander AI team thanks investors, customers, and users for their support over 4.5 years.

Researchers have revealed methods for inserting invisible text into prompts and outputs of AI chatbots like Claude and Copilot, exploiting Unicode quirks to create steganographic channels. This allows for covert communications and potential data leaks.

A Hacker News user kchnkrml seeks recommendations for fine-tuning a Language Model (LLM) for documentation interaction to make information in their framework's documentation more accessible to new users. They would like the model to map plain text questions to documentation resources.

Talkstack.ai offers AI-powered customer support and sales agents, capable of complex tasks in multiple languages, without pre-recordings or trigger words. AI agents can provide reminders, support, marketing, and scheduling services, boasting 98% automation and enterprise-grade security.

Perplexity: Ask Anything is an AI-powered search and discovery app designed for Mac users. It offers features such as Pro Search, voice or text prompts, Thread Follow-Up, cited sources for answers, and a personal archive. It is available for pre-order and will be released on October 24, 2024.

Gradio is a Python library that allows you to rapidly create web interfaces for machine learning models. It is designed to make ML models more accessible by providing a user-friendly interface. Gradio interfaces can be embedded, shared, and hosted permanently on platforms like Hugging Face Spaces.

Gait is an AI collaboration tool designed for developers. It integrates with editing environments to capture AI-generated code alongside the prompts and conversations that led to its creation. It promotes understanding of AI-assisted code and improves team collaboration by saving these details in the version control system.

Strella offers AI-moderated interviews with instant synthesis, providing businesses with quick and scalable human insights to power smarter and faster decisions. The platform simplifies the study creation, participant recruitment, interview moderation, and analysis processes for user research.

Code2.AI is a platform that transforms your codebase into AI-ready insights, offering smarter code suggestions that accelerate development. It supports any coding language and generates full, functional code seamlessly integrating with your existing project.

Claap is an innovative platform that automates sales tasks by integrating elements like meeting recordings, CRM enrichment, and AI-driven sales coaching. It assists sales teams by saving time on administrative functions and providing AI-generated emails, meeting summaries, and deal analytics. Claap is designed to streamline sales processes and is used by over 300 companies.

Dovetail 3.0 introduces a suite of new features and enhancements that automate insights from customer data, integrate with productivity tools, and offer a redesigned interface. The update includes AI analysis, calendar sync for automatic data import, enhanced customer query capabilities via Slack and Teams, segmentation tools, and an expansive participant recruiting database.

Zapata AI, a leading startup in quantum software, has ceased operations due to an accelerated payment demand of $2.5 million by Sandia Investment Management LP. The unforeseen shutdown occurred after a partnership announcement with MAG Aerospace.

StackBlitz introduces bolt.new, a dev sandbox with AI features for developers to prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps. The online platform offers a new way for coding directly in the browser with capabilities enhanced by artificial intelligence.

Play 3.0 mini has been released, featuring high-speed, reliable, and conversational voice AI in over 30 languages and accents. The new model touts industry-leading speed and accuracy, alongside 50+ new AI voices available, with an emphasis on reliability and natural conversational experiences. The mini model is cost-efficient, supports text-in streaming, and provides high accuracy for critical use cases.

This gist provides examples of how to use OpenAI's Structured Output feature for extracting data from financial disclosures and police blotters. The gist offers Python scripts and results using the pydantic library to define schemas for parsing documents with minimal to no data preparation.

AlphaCodium, created by Qodo, effectively enhances OpenAI's o1 model capabilities by implementing a novel code generation process leveraging System 2 thinking. The tool shows a significant improvement in solving coding problems with greater accuracy through a structured iterative approach, moving beyond quick intuitive responses to reasoned and validated solutions.