AI News & Launches

The Thoughtworks Technology Radar from October 2024 highlights the growing influence of AI and machine learning in software development, particularly in the use of AI-powered coding tools. It maintains that balancing AI assistance with human expertise is critical. New technologies like Rust and WebAssembly are gaining traction, with a significant focus on language models and tools supporting AI development.

Herodot is an AI-powered travel guide app that offers immersive exploration experiences, supporting narration in 20 languages with various characters. It allows users to learn about attractions or artwork by snapping a photo or tapping an object on the map.

SideSpace is an all-in-one virtual workspace for collaborative teams, offering tools like shared spaces, task tracking, and project management to enhance productivity and streamline workflows.

A mental model for understanding Linux files and links, exploring inodes, hard and soft links. The relationship between files, their data blocks, and inodes are explained, along with how pathnames serve as labels and the distinction between hard and soft links in filesystem handling.

Cloudgov.ai is an innovative cloud cost management platform leveraging AI to optimize multicloud environments. It provides detailed insights, anomaly detection, and IaC remediation while integrating seamlessly with tools like Jira and Slack for improving financial visibility and operational efficiency.

Quantera is an AI-augmented platform providing instantaneous insights and verified data to speed up equity research and decision-making for investors. With access to over 3.5 million searchable documents, information on 525+ public companies, and 40k+ data points, Quantera offers features like financial health metrics, risk factors, corporate governance details, AI-enabled forecasts, market risks assessments, and press release summarization.

SRE.ai offers AI agents tailored to Salesforce DevOps to facilitate smarter collaboration and expedited deliveries. The platform boasts natural language processing capabilities, enabling fast deployments, error resolution, and advanced simulations for release insights, fully integrated across the development stack.

Parafact offers real-time AI-driven fact-checking services that evaluate the accuracy of text using reliable sources. It provides instant results with citations, supports various types of writing, and allows integration via a developer-friendly API.

OmniVision-968M is heralded as the world's smallest vision language model optimized for edge devices, providing a 9x token reduction over traditional models, achieving enhanced accuracy and reduced computational costs.

InspectMind AI is seeking a Software Engineer to join their team. Responsibilities include developing AI algorithms, implementing backend services, and ensuring overall system reliability. The role requires expertise in Python, deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch, and cloud services like AWS or GCP.

The blog details an exploration into OpenAI's ChatGPT containerized environment, revealing how prompt injections allow interactions with internal structures. It describes the sandbox environment capabilities, file management techniques, and accessing inner GPT instructions, highlighting the implications of such interactions for security and privacy.

AI companies OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are facing roadblocks in AI advancements. OpenAI's Orion, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Opus are not meeting expectations, challenged by data quality, cost, and theoretical limits. Efforts continue to improve models and explore new data approaches.

O2's artificial intelligence 'Granny' named Daisy is designed to converse with phone scammers, keeping them occupied to prevent them from targeting real customers. Trained with real scambaiter content, Daisy is indistinguishable from a real person, capable of wasting scammers' time with rambling stories. The AI highlights the need for vigilance against fraud, especially as fraudulent activities soar in the UK.

Curiosity XR offers immersive technology solutions that blend augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to create engaging and interactive experiences. They specialize in creating dynamic content and platforms for their clients to harness the full potential of XR.

Luke Marsden discusses the increasing accessibility of AI engineering thanks to open source models and modern development tools. No longer reserved for those with advanced degrees, AI engineering can now be approached with familiar tools like IDEs, git, and CI/CD pipelines, leveraging open source models to keep data private and comply with regulations.

Veed.io's Slides to Video tool is an online service that allows users to convert their slides into a seamless video with voice-over. It offers a simple and user-friendly interface for content creators and professionals to enhance their presentations and share them as engaging videos.

ZEPIC is an AI-infused customer engagement platform designed to unify data and channels, thus enabling marketers to establish deeper connections and achieve real business impact. Offering a 14-day free trial, the platform boasts in-built Customer Data Platform (CDP), cross-channel activation, and insightful analytics for creating winning campaigns.

Recall.ai has announced the launch of its new Output Media feature, enabling the generation and streaming of low-latency audio and video into video conferences. With a focus on real-time interactivity, AI agents can now react to meetings dynamically.

Turn any computing devices into your own AI cluster. Kalavai is an open-source platform that aggregates resources from multiple machines to create an AI supercomputer. It's designed for research groups and organizations to unlock the power of available hardware for AI projects.

Speek is an AI-powered assistant that guides users on websites with voice and an animated mouse, improving user navigation and support. It's designed for SaaS companies, e-commerce, financial services, healthcare portals, and educational platforms.

Codeium's Windsurf is an avant-garde IDE blending developer workflows with AI, forging collaborative and autonomous coding experiences. Its 'Flows' technology enables powerful AI cooperation, and 'Cascade' revolutionizes coding through context awareness and command execution.

Play AI provides a unique sandbox environment where users can interact with AI agents, create voice clones, and generate audio content. Featuring a user-friendly design, it offers various services including text to narration with customizable speaker voices.

Integry provides AI-powered functions for connecting AI agents with other applications, featuring customizable authentication with 250+ apps, a visual programming language for build flow, and the ability to create integration UIs without front-end code.

Lyzr AI offers Jazon, a top-notch AI Sales Development Representative designed to automate and optimize sales processes. With self-learning capabilities and customizable integrations, Jazon promises more leads, higher conversion rates, and enhanced customer connections for businesses of all sizes.

BuildShip offers a revolutionary low-code visual backend builder that simplifies the creation of powerful APIs. It is AI-powered and allows you to generate, combine, and scale workflows efficiently without writing complex code. BuildShip is trusted by leading companies and provides a variety of resources, templates, and community support to help users launch their projects quickly.

The Play.ai platform offers a space where users can experience AI-driven audio generation. Features include conversation with 2 speakers, narration, creating voice clones, and advanced voice controls like sample rate, speed, and temperature.

MIT Professor Markus Buehler developed a graph-based AI model that finds hidden links between science and art, creating novel materials inspired by abstract patterns. The approach, blending generative AI with graph-based tools, accelerates scientific discovery by revealing new concepts and designs.

Simon Willison reviews the Qwen2.5-Coder Series from Alibaba’s research team. The 32B model version is open-source and capable of running on a MacBook Pro M2, which Willison tested. His assessments based on both Qwen’s scores and Paul Gauthier’s Aider benchmarks suggest that Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is highly competitive, offering comparison with existing models such as GPT-4o and Claude 3.5. He also provides detailed insights into running different versions of the model on his Mac.

AnotherWrapper.com allows users to build AI apps quickly with backend API routes. They offer a sandbox to try AI app generation and downloadable code. The site promotes an affiliate program with commissions and additional AI-related tools and projects.

Genbler is an advanced AI-powered content creation tool offering innovative solutions like face swap, background change, image upscaling, text to anime, live portrait, and AI dream machine for personalized visual marketing and advertising.

Sincerely Karen offers a unique complaint generation tool for users to express dissatisfaction with products or services, providing a blend of humor and directness.

Elv.ai provides AI-powered content moderation solutions that help protect brands by removing hateful comments and analyzing audience sentiment. Combining AI and human moderators ensures 95% accuracy, saves social media managers 30% of their time, and supports a variety of networks and languages.

FindTruffle is a platform dedicated to discovering and tracking software technology startups, providing industry professionals with comprehensive and curated insights into emerging tech companies.

THEO is a strategic AI co-pilot, designed to help AI assistants understand the unique business context, improving productivity and ensuring nuanced, consistent AI outputs. It boosts any AI assistant's capabilities by structuring scattered business information for startups.

Najva is a native macOS voice assistant app that uses state-of-the-art on-device speech recognition combined with powerful AI models to turn voice into text instantly. It supports various languages, AI providers, and offers productivity features, designed especially for professionals like writers, developers, and medical workers.

Lamatic.ai is a managed Platform-as-a-Service with low-code visual builder, VectorDB, and integrations for building, testing, and deploying GenAI applications on edge efficiently. It eliminates error-prone hand-offs with role-based Studio interfaces and automated CI/CD. The platform is designed to reduce latency, increase developer productivity, and simplify the management of GenAI tech stacks.

Endgame is a platform that equips sales teams with insights drawn from various sources such as emails, calls, CRM, LinkedIn, and others. It helps sellers become trusted advisors by building credibility and trust with their buyers through value-driven frameworks.

Cerebrium.ai is a cutting-edge AI platform that leverages machine learning to help businesses unlock data insights and automate complex processes. The platform offers a range of tools for data visualization, predictive modeling, and algorithmic decision-making.

Draft is a productivity tool that leverages AI for task analysis and priority setting, smart calendar scheduling, and natural language processing for task categorization.

Luqo AI is an AI-powered language learning platform that offers personalized tutoring in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Turkish. It promises interactive lessons and real conversation simulations to help users improve their language skills. Features include exam preparation, vocabulary enhancement, dialogue practice, listening exercises, idioms and expressions, conversation patterns, translation, and shadowing practice.