AI News & Launches

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.

An interdisciplinary study presented in the European Parliament indicates that AI training constitutes copyright infringement. The study was conducted by Prof. Dr. Tim W. Dornis and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Stober, providing insights into the technical process of training generative AI and its legal implications. It suggests that generative AI models can memorize and reproduce parts of training data, potentially violating copyright laws.

Lucas is an AI language teacher app that offers personalized lessons in multiple languages to help users improve their speaking skills through daily calls. With more than 100 personalized lessons, audio-only practice, and patient AI guidance, users may easily integrate learning into their daily routines. A fair monthly subscription model is available with a free trial offer.

AI Blaze offers fast AI writing and editing with dynamic prompts, allowing shortcuts to trigger GPT-4 on any webpage. It streamlines responding to emails and messages, rewriting text in various tones or languages, and incorporates dynamic input like clipboard content. Synchronized in real-time, it facilitates team collaboration.

FinFloh offers an Exclusive Deal for the Product Hunt Community, providing a one-stop solution for B2B Credit Decisioning with an Automated customer onboarding and credit assessment, periodic credit reviews, advanced cash forecasting, and real-time risk alerts.

The AnythingLLM repository on GitHub is a public project which provides an all-in-one Desktop & Docker AI application with full RAG and AI Agent capabilities. It has features like multi-user support, document management, and integrates with various Large Language Models, Embedder Models, Speech models, and Vector Databases.

Federal prosecutors charged North Carolina musician Michael Smith for a $10 million fraud involving AI-generated music streams. Smith created fake songs and streamed them through bots to collect royalties, involving wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. He faces up to 20 years in prison for each charge if convicted.

Christian and Ian from Maitai introduced their Self-Optimizing LLM Platform, aimed at optimizing request routing, autocorrecting responses, and fine-tuning application-specific models. It serves as a proxy between clients and LLMs, adding robustness and reliability to AI applications in production.

AnythingLLM is an all-in-one desktop AI application that provides a secure and private method for interacting with different large language models (LLMs). It supports one-click installation, flexible document handling, and runs without internet connectivity by default.

SoBrief provides access to over 73,530 book summaries in multiple languages with audio support. The service offers summaries in categories like productivity, technology, and mental health. It encourages users to learn more in less time. A free trial is available, followed by a monthly subscription of $4.99.

UserCall.co offers a sign-in page promising 10x faster & deeper insights with AI. Users can sign in using email or Google and have options for account recovery and signing up for new accounts. The website also includes links to terms, privacy, and direct contact with the founder.

Hoody AI offers a privacy-centric platform that allows users to interact anonymously with multiple large language models (LLMs). The service emphasizes user privacy by employing advanced encryption, allowing anonymous payments and access without tracking. It hosts popular AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4o mini and Anthropic's Claude 3.5, offering features such as text-to-speech and cross-platform access.

Sprig is an all-in-one product experience platform designed to help companies understand and improve their user experience. It features products like Replays, Surveys, Heatmaps, Feedback, and AI-powered tools for in-depth product analysis and recommendations.

01.AI unveils a lightweight language model designed to accelerate code development. Named Yi-1.5, it integrates directly into IDEs, providing real-time suggestions and snippets for developers. With impressive benchmarks on several coding languages, Yi-1.5 sets a new standard for AI-assisted coding tools.

Researchers found that high school students using ChatGPT as a study aid performed worse on tests. Although students solved more practice problems correctly with AI assistance, their scores on subsequent tests were lower compared to students who studied without it. Even with a tutor-like AI providing hints, there was no improvement in test scores.

Dream Unlimited, a major Canadian landlord, has faced accusations of using AI software, YieldStar, to advise on rent increases, leading to massive rent hikes. The U.S. government is currently suing the software's developer, alleging it facilitates collusion among landlords to artificially inflate rents, which could violate century-old antitrust laws. Tenants at properties of Dream Unlimited in Toronto have been significantly burdened by these rent increases, and some organized a rent strike.

Laminar is an open-source platform described as DataDog + PostHog for AI agents and RAG apps. It offers observability, analytics, evals, and prompt chains for LLM apps, with a modern stack built for scale. The project is under active development and is part of YC S24 batch.

As the California Assembly passes SB 942, requiring AI companies to offer free AI detection tools, a personal account of Grammarly's AI checker impacting a child's creativity unfolds.

Graphiti is an open-source project hosted on GitHub that facilitates the construction and querying of dynamic, temporally-aware Knowledge Graphs. It handles evolving relationships and maintains historical context, filling a niche for temporal aspects not covered by static document models like Microsoft’s GraphRAG. Graphiti is suitable for applications in various industries such as sales, customer service, health, and finance, offering sophisticated search and scoping features, and is powered by Python.