AI News & Launches

Piclooks provides free, AI-generated profile pictures perfect for mockups, marketing or any other commercial use, with no credit required.

Wondercraft is an AI-powered audio studio designed to create high-quality audio content like ads, podcasts, and audiobooks using AI voices. With a library of 300+ hyper-realistic voices in various languages and accents, Wondercraft provides tools for collaboration, easy editing, and seamless music and sound effect integration, catering to creators, marketers, and educators for efficient audio content production.

LLMWare.ai specializes in accelerating AI-powered productivity with a focus on financial, legal, compliance, and regulatory-intensive industries. They offer small specialized language models, an AI framework for SLMs, and an open-source integration environment.

Google has launched a new alert for Gmail's 2.5 billion users about a sophisticated AI-driven phishing scam. The scam involved attackers using fake account recovery notifications and advanced AI to mimic voice calls from genuine Google support numbers. Sam Mitrovic, a Microsoft consultant, nearly fell victim to such a scam and shared the experience publicly. To combat scams, Google has formed the Global Signal Exchange with the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and the DNS Research Federation.

DIAMOND is a reinforcement learning agent that utilizes a diffusion world model for training, leading to enhanced performance in Atari games due to the better capture of visual details. The model achieves a new best human normalized score on the Atari 100k benchmark. The code and agents have been made available to encourage further research.

Kuration AI offers innovative tools to curate and enrich lead databases using AI agents, providing a time-efficient solution for B2B research with a Freemium business model and integrations with over 100 tools. The platform boasts a client base including UBS, Microsoft, and Airbnb, and complies with ISO 9001 standards.

A study titled 'Machine learning and information theory concepts towards an AI Mathematician' by Yoshua Bengio and Nikolay Malkin looks into the challenges AI faces in mathematic reasoning. Leveraging info-theoretical approaches, the essay considers what makes a mathematical statement interesting, aiming to discover conjectures rather than proving them. It suggests the desirable theorems should succinctly summarize all provable statements while being accessible.

A Swiss company, Iprova, is revolutionizing the invention process by harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to automate and accelerate the generation of new, patentable ideas. Their AI-powered system scans vast swathes of literature and suggests novel inventions by connecting disparate fields, offering clients a competitive advantage in the race to innovate.

Swarm, managed by the OpenAI Solutions team, is an experimental framework for building, orchestrating, and deploying multi-agent systems, focusing on agent coordination and execution with the use of simple abstractions such as 'Agents' and 'handoffs'. It is intended for educational purposes and exploration of ergonomic interfaces for multi-agent systems.

WPS Office is an AI-powered Office Suite that enhances productivity by providing seamless MS Office compatibility. It offers AI Spell Checker, AI Translation, PPT beautification, AI Content Generation, and Smart Photo Editing. Free to download with awards from AWS, G2, and recognition by entities like UNESCO and the Mac App Store.

Illuminate is an experimental website by Google that requires users to sign in to engage with its content. It seems to be associated with Google's suite of applications.

Prime Intellect announces the launch of INTELLECT-1, a 10-billion-parameter AI model trained using decentralized methods. The initiative invites global contributions and aims to democratize AI development. Partners include Hugging Face and SemiAnalysis.

The blog post by Han Lee on September 20, 2024, titled 'AI Winter Is Coming' discusses the issues in AI focused on the dichotomy between 'producers' (creators) and 'promoters' (marketers). It highlights the worrying trends in academia, such as paper mills with catchy titles, citation rings, reproducibility crises, and the prioritization of quantity over quality in publishings. The article also critiques industry research practices of hoarding valuable techniques and the echo chamber effect in AI circles leading to misinformation. Lee predicts an impending AI winter, which he believes may ultimately be beneficial by filtering out promoters and paving the way for real, substantive advancements in AI.

Dario Amodei presents a vision of how AI could drastically improve human life within 5-10 years after powerful AI systems emerge. He emphasizes the potential positive outcomes if risks are managed effectively, including advancing biology, neuroscience, alleviating poverty and inequality, enhancing democracy, and helping society address work and meaning in an AI-driven world.

The GitHub project lm.rs, created by Samuel Vitorino, demonstrates minimal LLM inference using Rust and is aimed at running language models on the CPU without relying on machine learning libraries. The project includes benchmarks and download links for models and tokenizers, as well as instructions to convert models to the LMRS format.

Hamming AI is seeking a Product Engineer to join their fast-paced team, dedicated to building the next generation of AI-powered applications.

anything.world offers a mesh generation service capable of turning words into interactive 3D experiences using advanced AI technology. This enables creators to generate endless virtual worlds and assets.

Chunkr is a vision model based PDF chunking tool created by Lumina AI Inc., designed for effective and efficient processing of large volumes of PDFs. It uses state-of-the-art vision models and OCR to extract structured data at high speed.

Augment UI is a CSS framework that allows for a more expressive and customizable design system through the use of HTML attributes. It offers a unique approach to styling components with various augmentations without writing CSS.

Talespinner is an innovative platform designed to empower both educators and students by providing interactive tools for digital storytelling and creative writing. The service leverages multimedia elements to enhance engagement and learning experiences in classrooms and beyond.

LockChain offers an innovative web-based app for creating high-quality AI-generated QR codes that seamlessly blend with artwork. Providing watermark-free, no subscription, and credit-based generations, it increases user engagement and sales by allowing customization to match brand identity. New users receive free credits, and there are no extra fees for all unlocked features.

The paper titled 'Aria: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model' focuses on integrating multimodal information using an open-source model named Aria. With 3.9B and 3.5B activated parameters for visual and text tokens respectively, it outperforms similar proprietary models. Authors introduce a 4-stage pre-training pipeline, including stages for language and multimodal understanding as well as instruction following.

The Electronic Component Sorter uses AI to automate the identification and classification of electronic components. It supports categorization into seven classes and provides detailed information about ICs, transistors, and capacitors using a Flask-based interface.

The article 'The deconstructed Standard Model equation', published by Symmetry Magazine, dives into the complexities of the Standard Model of particle physics. Rather than just a table of particles, it's a collection of mathematical models that articulate the laws of physics in Lagrangian form. The equation is divided into sections explaining interactions between bosons, the role of the Higgs field, and the assumption of massless neutrinos, among others.

Trexlabel specializes in luxury travel and vacations that offer unique experiences, tailor-made itineraries, and personalized services for discerning travelers. Their wide array of offerings caters to those looking to explore remote destinations, indulge in exotic cultures, and enjoy high-end accommodations.

Emploio is an innovative platform designed to maximize team potential with AI-driven insights, supporting individual growth, career development and fostering a dynamic workplace culture. It offers features such as one dashboard for all employees, progress tracking, insight sharing, integration with daily tools, task management, direct communication, and career trajectory tracking.

Autonomous.ai offers smart office products designed to enhance productivity and wellness in the workplace. Their product line includes state-of-the-art standing desks, ergonomic office chairs, and office accessories that cater to a tech-savvy audience.

Coverr.co provides a collection of AI-generated videos and the tools to create them, offering a step-by-step guide by a community of AI video experts. Visitors can browse popular AI tools, explore AI-generated videos, and learn the workflows from creators.

JobJump is an online platform designed to assist individuals in finding employment opportunities and enhancing career development. It provides a range of tools and resources that cater to job seekers and professionals looking to advance their careers.

EchoNotes is a cutting-edge platform designed to enhance note-taking and meeting productivity using AI technology. It offers users the ability to quickly capture, organize, and share notes with ease.

Geoffrey Hinton, heralded as the 'godfather of AI,' wins the Nobel Prize and highlights his pride in former student Ilya Sutskever, who was involved in the firing of OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman. Hinton emphasizes the importance of AI safety amidst shifts in OpenAI's leadership dynamics.

The Open Source Initiative has reached a Release Candidate for the Open Source AI Definition v1.0 with community involvement. Changes include clarifications on Data Information sharing, complete Code for understanding training, and admissibility of copyleft-like terms. The focus is now on preparing for the final release and accompanying documentation.

OpenAI announced its new public benefit structure aimed at protecting the artificial intelligence firm from potential hostile takeovers. This move solidifies its commitment to developing and managing AI in the safest and most beneficial way to society. The decision underscores OpenAI's strategic focus on ethical development amid rapid technological advancements.

Kvistly is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance learning and team engagement through quizzes for sales training, team building, and onboarding. It offers a dynamic and interactive approach to training with real-time systems.

In 'You're holding your AI wrong', Chris DiBona reflects on the excessive use of meetings and artificial intelligence in the workplace. He recalls Google's early attempt at cost-measuring meetings and Larry Page's guidance to reduce unnecessary gatherings. DiBona criticizes the rise of AI tools attending meetings and argues for better judgement in scheduling meetings, considering environmental and productivity impacts.

ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok, has unleashed a new web scraper bot called Bytespider that outpaces rivals in collecting online data for AI training. Despite looming U.S. threats to ban or force the sale of TikTok, Bytespider scrapes data at breakneck speeds, much to the concern of those worried about privacy and copyright infringement.

OpenBB (formerly Open Business Bureau) offers open-source financial tools and data analysis for stock market research. Their Pro version provides enhanced features and more in-depth financial insights.

Flash is an AI-powered flashcard tool designed to supercharge your learning process. It offers adaptive learning technology to help you learn faster, remember longer, and ace your exams through features like AI-generated questions, collaborative study groups, and gamified elements.

The paper 'Sorbet: A Neuromorphic Hardware-Compatible Transformer-Based Spiking Language Model' introduces Sorbet, a transformer-based spiking language model tailored for neuromorphic hardware compatibility. It leverages PTsoftmax and bit-shifting power normalization (BSPN) for energy-efficient operations, distillation, and quantization to maintain competitive performance.

Florents Tselai has released a HuggingFace repository containing the 'llamafile' and 'gguf' file formats for Meltemi 7B Instruct v1.5, the first Greek Large Language Model developed by Athena Research & Innovation Center. The 'llamafile' combines a web server API, CLI, and chat application in one executable, while the 'gguf' format works with llama.cpp.