AI News & Launches

Blaze is an AI-powered marketing tool that automates lead generation and outreach by analyzing online signals. It streamlines the marketing process by targeting potential customers and engaging them across various channels, offering a comprehensive suite of tools for modern marketers.

Autoreels.ai offers a platform to create unique, captivating faceless videos designed for easy sharing and monetizing on social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, complete with features like automated video generation, scheduling, and branding customization.

Jobright.ai is a revolutionary job search platform that leverizes cutting-edge AI to personalize guidance throughout the job search process. Offering tools like AI Job Match, Resume AI, and insider networking connections, Jobright simplifies each step toward finding a job, securing 400,000+ new jobs today and over 8 million in total.

Beeond AI helps organizations to accelerate digital transformation with enterprise AI solutions. The company focuses on various industries providing AI-driven innovation and expertise.

AuraFlow v0.1 offers an open-source large scale flow-based generative model for text-to-image creation. It exemplifies the vitality of collaborative AI development and showcases improvements in model scalability, zero-shot learning rates, and re-captioning methodologies. The model is now available for the community to build upon.

The COPIED Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by a group of senators, aims to combat unauthorized use of journalists' and artists' work by AI models. It would establish NIST standards for content origin and synthetic content detection, mandate AI tools to attach origin information, and allow content owners to sue for unauthorized use or tampering with authentication markers.

Andrei Karpathy initiated a discussion about reproducing GPT-2 using llm.c on a single 8XH100 node for $672, highlighting the simplicity and efficiency of the process and providing detailed instructions for setting up and training the model.

FlashAttention-3 brings new optimizations on Hopper GPUs, achieving 1.5-2.0x the speed of its predecessor with FP16 and nearly 1.2 PFLOPS with FP8, all while reducing quantization error. These improvements enhance efficiency and enable longer context AI models.

A high school student, Aryan Kapoor, achieved a SpaceX-style vertical landing with a model rocket after three years of development. The rocket employs thrust-vector control and a custom flight computer for navigation.

FluentPal is an innovative language learning platform that leverages AI teachers to help users master foreign language speaking skills. Users can engage in role-playing situations and converse with AI renditions of famous personalities in multiple supported languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, and Deutsch.

Jeff Geerling shares his frustration with AT&T's AI-powered chatbot, which confounded WiFi with Internet issues. Despite being a savvy programmer, Jeff eventually resorted to asking for a human support rep after being stuck in a loop with the chatbot. An unhelpful human rep ignored Jeff's data and suggested switching WiFi channels to fix his significantly slow Internet speed, not realizing that WiFi was entirely disabled.

Crawlr Labs offers real-time competitor monitoring solutions designed to turn shoppers into buyers by providing businesses with actionable competitor insights. With products like Crawlr Vision and automated reporting, businesses can refine their pricing strategies with confidence.

Learnbase is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance the educational journey for students, professionals, and enthusiasts. It offers organization of notes, tracking of progress, and AI chat assistance.

AIEditor is a next-generation rich text editor that is easy to use, supports any framework due to being based on Web Component, and provides extensive features for AI-powered text manipulation, including spelling and grammar checks, word expansion, condensation, translation, and summarization capabilities. It offers unlimited users and applications under LGPL license.

AnyoneCanAI offers a suite of tools and resources designed to empower individuals and teams to incorporate artificial intelligence into product design. Features include an AI Ideation Room, Brainstorming Kit, and a library of Case Stories, Guides, Books, Articles, and Videos on AI design, tech, and business strategies.

Microsoft's new AI, VALL-E 2, can reproduce human voices from a few seconds of audio, reaching human parity in speech generation. Despite its capabilities, Microsoft is not releasing VALL-E 2 to the public due to potential misuse, such as voice spoofing or impersonation.

Chipmaker AMD announces its acquisition of Finnish AI startup Silo AI for $665 million, signaling AMD's strategic move to compete more robustly with industry rival Nvidia.

FranzAI is an intelligent MVP email assistant leveraging ChatGPT-4o technology to automate email workflows such as setting reminders and managing tasks without any installation or signup. It offers up to 150 free AI email replies, with exciting pro features, like near unlimited responses and attachment handling, in development.

Raijin.ai, an AI-powered Customer Discovery and Intelligence Hub, assists teams in accelerating product development by aggregating customer conversations for relevant insights. With features like AI-driven thematic analysis, report writing, transcription, tagging, and segmentation, Raijin.ai is tailored for user researchers and product analysts, outshining general AI tools like ChatGPT with enhanced functionality and team collaboration.

Gep. is an AI-powered chatbot for Mac that leverages ChatGPT technologies to assist with tasks like content creation, brainstorming, and multilingual communication. It features a hotkey-triggered G-writer, customizable commands, and operates securely on your device. The app offers different themes, bookmarking, and plugin options (currently in beta). Pricing varies from free trial options to monthly subscriptions.

Ask Leo provides AI phone assistants tailored for non-technical users, enabling businesses to set up automated call-handling for various purposes without coding. Assistants can be set up instantly, function 24/7, and are customizable.

Translized offers a Translation Management System that empowers products with seamless, cost-effective solutions tailored for developers and product managers. The platform boasts high-quality localization services, developer time-saving tools like APIs and SDKs, and a variety of workflow integrations.

Klipy is an all-in-one Growth Management Platform designed to aid in revenue growth management by recording, analyzing, and coaching all activities with AI. It offers features such as enrichment, Auto CRM, pipeline orchestration, call analytics, and playbooks.

What beats rock is a simple web-based game themed around the classic rock, paper, scissors game. Players are challenged to choose the correct tool to beat a rock displayed on the screen.

Comprehensive, free calculator to estimate the costs for various LLM APIs including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more, with up-to-date rates as of July 2024. Prices are given per model, context size, and tokens, helping to choose the right service for AI projects.

AudioScribe is an AI-powered tool that converts spoken audio into well-structured written notes, facilitating productivity for tasks such as project planning, brainstorming, and email writing.

The article articulates why achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by 2027 is plausible, based on the trends in deep learning, compute power, algorithmic efficiencies, and 'unhobbling' gains. GPT-4's progress is leveraged to project future capabilities, suggesting another leap in model intelligence could occur in the following years, potentially leading to AGI.

RouteLLM is an open-source framework introduced in 2024 for optimizing Language Large Model (LLM) routing, aiming to reduce costs without degrading quality. It offers a drop-in replacement for OpenAI's client, and is compatible with multiple LLMs, making it highly efficient and cost-effective. The framework also facilitates easy integration of new routers and models, and provides in-depth instructions for calibration, evaluation, server setup, and configuration.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, along with international partners including the FBI, CNMF, AIVD, MIVD, and the DNP, issued a warning about a covert disinformation tool called 'Meliorator.' This AI-enhanced software is utilized by affiliates of the state-sponsored Russian media organization RT to create and manage fictitious online personas for spreading disinformation to benefit the Russian Government.

In south-west Spain, a court has sentenced 15 schoolchildren to one year's probation each, for creating and dispersing fake naked images of their female classmates using AI. The minors, aged 13 to 15, were convicted of child abuse imagery and offences against moral integrity. They must attend gender and equality classes, and learn about the responsible use of technology.

Former Humane Strategic Partnerships Lead Brooke Hartley Moy and Head of Product Engineering Ken Kocienda have founded Infactory, an AI fact-checking startup. Infactory differentiates itself by knowing when to use and when not to use AI, using LLMs for natural language interfaces without impacting the accuracy of results. Aimed at enterprise customers, it seeks to offer trustworthy data, will soon launch seed funding efforts, and plans to launch in a few months.

The webcomic duo, War and Peas, addresses the issue of AI companies exploiting creative work without compensation. They discuss the impact of AI on creativity and express their disinterest in collaborating with such companies.

Moshi Chat is an online group messaging platform designed to enable real-time communication for individuals and communities with various features catering to user's needs.

Keatext is an AI-powered text analytics platform that improves people experiences by leveraging customer and employee feedback. It offers seamless setup, cloud-based analytics, real-time insights, and AI-driven recommendations to enhance satisfaction and engagement.

Threado is an AI-powered platform providing instant automated support for customer-facing teams. It integrates with Slack, MS Teams, and Chrome, offering AI Agents trained on internal knowledge for quick setup and efficient query resolution.

LightRAG is a PyTorch library designed for Large Language Model (LLM) applications. It provides a modular and robust platform for building Retriever-Agent-Generator pipelines, aimed at use cases like chatbots, translation, coding, and NLP tasks.

Despite the rise of artificial intelligence firms in San Francisco, office vacancies continue to climb, reaching a record 34.5% in Q2. Rent prices have dropped to their lowest since 2015 amidst a tech industry slowdown and a trend towards hybrid work.

Swift AI is an open-source, high-speed voice assistant that integrates technologies from Groq, Cartesia, VAD, and Vercel for robust speech detection.

Essay AI offers a free essay checking tool that enhances academic writing by identifying grammatical errors, unclear phrasing, and incorrect word usage. It is trusted by top universities and streamlines the essay writing process with features like AI autocomplete, conversation assistance, source citation, paraphrasing, outline building, and comprehensive writing issue checks.