AI News & Launches

The blog post announces the beta release of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, AI models with state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities. Grok-2 is introduced as an improvement over the previous Grok-1.5, outperforming competitors and expanding capabilities, and will be available through the enterprise API soon.

Volamail offers a platform where users can write and send email templates with the assistance of AI. It allows self-hosting, importing existing emails, and sending emails via simple HTTP calls. The service is open-source and provides a range of plans including a free option.

GCA.dev is a platform offering an Intelligence Development Framework designed for creating Apple Intelligence with Python. It features customizable structure, local first approach, language and framework agnosticism, and an API that supports various languages.

Outerbounds analyzed over 350 million tokens from Hacker News posts with more than five comments, from January 2020 to June 2023. Leveraging a 70B parameter language model, LLama3, they gained insights into community sentiment towards various topics, discovering what themes were loved, hated, or divisive. Tools were provided to explore topics and their associated sentiment scores.

Abhishaike Mahajan is a blogger on Substack writing about biology and machine learning, offering essays for and by owls. They have over 1,000 subscribers.

Bethany Lau illustrates DNA replication using LEGO bricks to help students grasp concepts like 5'/3' ends and the functions of enzymes in the process. Different colored bricks represent various nucleotides, emphasizing DNA's antiparallel structure and the leading and lagging strands formed during replication. RNA primers and specific protein functions are also explained to add detail beyond typical high school texts.

AI Form Fill is a browser extension that boosts productivity by using AI-powered technology to automatically complete forms. It adapts to various form types and offers customizable options to fit user preferences. With multiple AI models, including GPT-4, and a flexible pricing system, it simplifies tasks like job applications and content creation.

Retell AI, a YC Winter 2024 company, is looking to expand its team by hiring a Full Stack Engineer and a Support Engineer.

Trellis, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has launched an AI-powered ETL tool for automating workflows with unstructured data. Trellis transforms various data types, like phone calls and PDFs, into structured SQL format, which can be easily queried.

pyvideotrans is a video translation and dubbing tool that translates videos from one language to another and adds subtitles and dubbing in the specified language. It supports multiple speech recognition and translation engines, TTS services, and includes various language support.

Shaped, a YC W22 startup, has launched an AI-powered recommendations and search platform aimed at marketplaces and content companies. The platform offers integration with data sources, cutting-edge models, and real-time optimization to empower technical teams to build state-of-the-art recommendation and search systems.

Slang Labs offers Conva AI, the world’s first AI Assistant as a Service platform, enabling apps to interact with users through natural language. Magic Studio automates AI Assistant creation, integration, and maintenance. Trusted by industry leaders, it promises quick, simple, and reliable assistant development without the need for prompt engineering.

Coach, powered by CareerVillage, is an AI career coach providing personalized career development tools for everyone from high school and college students to job-seekers and educators. It leverages expert knowledge and large language models to offer free resources and guidance.

Ocode is a platform that uses AI to help developers code, test, and deploy more efficiently, turning UI images directly into React code for faster development cycles.

Tusk AI is an extension that transforms your browsing experience by enabling smart note-taking directly on any webpage. It uses AI to help you summarize, annotate, and collaborate across articles and web content.

Alterfy.ai is an AI-powered tool designed to enhance meeting efficiency by determining the necessity of meetings, summarizing projects, and intelligently scheduling meetings based on various criteria. Aimed at reducing unnecessary work meetings, it provides AI agenda scoring, project summarization, and caters to desktop users with a mobile version coming soon.

Postgres.new provides a new local-only database environment for easy experimentation and development with PostgreSQL. It features a toggleable theme, schema diagrams, migrations, and management of database entities like primary keys, unique constraints, and nullable fields.

AI Agents Directory provides a curated list of over 100 AI agents and frameworks that cater to various categories, industries, and models. Users can explore, refine searches, and access detailed information about AI agents like AutoGPT, Devin AI, and GPT-4o among others.

Sakana AI has developed The AI Scientist, a system for fully automated scientific discovery, leveraging foundation models like LLMs. It covers the full research lifecycle and is designed to be compute efficient. The AI Scientist has produced papers within machine learning, generating new ideas and conducting peer review with near-human accuracy. While there are challenges and limitations, the potential for accelerating research is significant.

A study has found that labeling products as AI-powered can deter customers, revealing public reluctance to adopt AI in daily life, contrary to tech industry enthusiasm. The study differentiated perceptions between 'low risk' AI, like household appliances, and 'high risk' AI, such as self-driving cars, with trust being a crucial factor in acceptance.

Scholars have been working to piece together the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest known literary works. Using A.I., researchers have experienced an acceleration in matching fragments of the ancient poem. The text, dating over 3,000 years, has gaps due to missing tablets. Such advancements could reshape our understanding of Mesopotamian literature.

Supabase introduces postgres.new, an in-browser Postgres sandbox with AI assistance powered by PGlite and large language models, enabling a plethora of features like CSV imports, chart generation, ER diagrams, and more, completely local to your browser.

The Treasury is in the midst of a controversy over the use of AI to handle taxpayer complaints, with the AI summarizing content and suggesting responses. This move aims to improve productivity and reduce costs. However, the PCS union raises concerns about potential issues with the tool being developed on a tight budget, leading to errors and subsequent staff reductions.

Google Cloud announces the release of new Apache Airflow operators designed to integrate with Google generative AI models within Vertex AI. These new operators aim to enhance data analytics pipelines through improved data enrichment, anomaly detection, and content generation capabilities.

A discussion thread on Hacker News delves into why the word 'eager' appears frequently in ChatGPT conversations. Users speculate on language shifts due to technology, impacts of training data, and language models' word frequency. A study and articles are referenced, alongside observations of language trends influenced by generational dialects and global media.

My Insta Personality is a website offering an online personality test that claims to determine users' personalities based on their Instagram activity. Using an algorithm, it analyzes likes, comments, and posts to provide a fun and interactive experience, though its accuracy and psychological validity are not specified.

Ultra AI provides an all-in-one AI command center for products, featuring a multi-provider AI gateway, prompt management, caching, and analytics services. It offers multi-provider compatibility, rate limiting, and is free in beta.

Jupitrr AI Video Maker is a cutting-edge tool that enables content creators to add engaging B-roll visuals to marketing videos 10x faster. It uses AI to analyze videos and add stock footage, web images, GIFs, and text overlays appropriately, catering especially to creators looking to enhance their video content efficiently.

Suno MP3 Downloader offers a convenient way to convert and download AI-generated Suno music tracks into MP3 files for offline listening. The service is ad-free, relies on user donations, and provides unlimited downloads with no need for account creation.

MyInstaPersonality offers a fun and interactive way for Instagram users to discover their personality type based on their Insta activity. Engage with playful quizzes and share results with followers.

On July 22, 2024, comma.ai outlines their growth and restructuring as a 21-person company focused on consumer electronics with AI. They discuss the newly formed operations, product, and autonomy teams, their achievements over the past four years, and future plans for reducing disengagements, improving the product, and ramping up production.

The SAM family of models, including SAM, FastSAM, MobileSAM, and EfficientSAM, revolutionized the field of AI-powered image segmentation, with each iteration focusing on specific improvements in speed, efficiency, and size, without significantly compromising performance. SAM 2 extends this innovative approach to video segmentation under the Promptable Visual Segmentation task.

OpenAI's GPT-4o AI model displayed a rare glitch where it mimicked a user's voice without consent during testing, raising complex safety architecture concerns. The 'Advanced Voice Mode' revealed this unexpected behavior prompting discussions on AI ethics and safeguards.

The paper 'OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents' presents OpenDevin, a community-based platform that aims to enable AI agents to perform tasks akin to human developers, such as coding, using the command line, and web browsing. It facilitates agent implementation, safe code execution in sandboxed environments, agent coordination, and benchmark integration. The MIT-licensed project has seen extensive contributions and will continue to evolve.

Clips to Videos by PixRipple Technology Limited is an innovative tool that seamlessly transforms scattered clips into professional and engaging marketing videos with the help of AI. It includes features like AI-powered voiceover, key selling point emphasis, automatic video subtitles, and compatibility with various file formats.

Fabric's product Recap offers a personal newsletter feature, sending users summaries of content, articles, notes, and more that they've saved but haven't revisited. Recap encourages users to review saved content at scheduled times, aiding memory and idea development.

Yescribe.ai is an AI-powered transcription service that converts audio and video content to text with a 99.9% accuracy rate. The platform supports 98 languages, caters to a variety of industries, and features advanced AI technology, including Whisper, for rapid, accurate transcriptions.

A series of lawsuits allege that RealPage's AI-enabled 'property management software' facilitates price-fixing in rental markets. RealPage denies wrongdoing, claiming it only offers recommendations. Courts face challenges adapting antitrust laws to algorithmic collusion, yet some local government measures like San Francisco's ordinance begin to address the issue.

Sora Video AI is a platform to generate stunning and unique videos using AI technology. Users can create animated videos featuring characters such as a pink fluffy monster, a guinea pig, and a cute rabbit, each with unique scenarios.

Readmekraft is a service designed to help developers create professional GitHub READMEs with integrated AI features, making their projects more informative and appealing without any cost.