AI News & Launches

The paper 'Does Generative AI Facilitate Investor Trading? Evidence from ChatGPT Outages' by Qiang Cheng, Pengkai Lin, and Yue Zhao examines the impact of ChatGPT outages on investor trading and stock price informativeness. It documents a decrease in trading volume, short-run price impact, return variance, and bid-ask spreads during outages, especially for firms with concurrent news releases. The study constructs a firm-specific measure for GAI-assisted trading intensity and suggests a positive correlation with long-term price informativeness.

NoMindBhutan, Bhutan's first AI startup run by seven college sophomores, faces a challenging path. Despite securing high-profile clients such as the Bhutan National Bank and Drukair, infrastructural limitations hinder wide-scale app launch. Their journey underscores the need for an evolving AI ecosystem in Bhutan.

Traceloop, a Y Combinator W23 company, introduces a monitoring platform for detecting hallucinations in Large Language Model (LLM) applications. With the use of OpenTelemetry, Traceloop offers real-time metrics to identify when an LLM app fails or produces incorrect responses at scale, focusing on issues such as faithfulness and relevancy.

AI Magicx introduces revolutionary coding tools with Gemini Flash 1.5 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. With 35K+ users, AI Magicx Coder provides intelligent code analysis, real-time previews, multi-model support, and generates detailed documentation to streamline the coding experience.

Sprig Heatmaps is a powerful tool for visualizing user interaction within products at scale, leveraging AI to analyze behavior trends, identify user pain points, and measure the impact of new features to inform product iteration.

Zavata is an AI-powered platform revolutionizing the hiring process by automating interviews with AI technology, providing data-driven feedback, and integrating seamlessly with existing ATS. With round-the-clock availability and personalized experiences for candidates, Zavata speeds up hiring and offers fair, skills-based assessments.

LangCall offers AI-powered call handling services that navigate phone menus, wait in queues, and manage conversations for you. It connects you with human agents when needed and allows you to view conversations in real-time. Their service provides hold-free calls, fully automated AI call management, and an easy-to-use web interface.

CommandAI is a suite of command line utilities enhanced with the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence, enabling advanced functionalities directly from your terminal. You can easily install it via npm.

Waveform.ai offers AI-powered voice forms for data collection in customer interviews, employee surveys, lead generation, and market studies, presenting a smart, efficient, and engaging alternative to traditional survey methods.

AI-powered phishing has emerged as a major cyber threat, exploiting generative AI to create convincing scams. Leveraging tools like WormGPT, attackers automate personalized campaigns to spoof domains. Sinch Mailgun discusses AI phishing, its implementation, and protection measures, highlighting AI's profound impact on email security.

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Silicon Valley leaders, including Sam Altman of OpenAI, are pushing for programs that provide no-strings-attached cash payments as a form of guaranteed income, responding to AI's impact on the job market. Despite political resistance in some states, the support for basic income is growing, with significant measures proposed in Oregon and big studies like the Unconditional Income Study highlighting potential benefits.

Mistral AI introduces Codestral Mamba, an open-source Mamba2 language model specialized in code generation, leveraging linear time inference with the ability to model sequences of any length, suitable for code productivity.

Hironobu Suzuki's 'The Engineer’s Guide To Deep Learning' is an introductory document for engineers to understand the Transformer model. It provides Python code examples, fundamentals of neural networks, RNN, NLP, and attention mechanisms, with a focus on practical, hands-on learning.

OpenAI employees have alleged that the company issued overly restrictive non-disclosure agreements, blocking them from raising safety concerns about the company's AI technology to federal regulators, such as the SEC. Specifically, they state that these agreements prohibited them from disclosing security violations without company consent and waived their rights to whistleblower compensation.

Exo is an experimental open-source project hosted on GitHub that allows you to run your own AI cluster using everyday devices, such as smartphones and computers. It provides wide model support and dynamic partitioning to optimize resource use and has an easy installation process.

The Drive AI introduces an AI-powered platform for team projects, offering AI-driven insights on class resources, a collaborative workspace, and chat channels for effective team communication. Designed for students, educators, researchers, and writers, it aims to enhance productivity and learning experiences.

Cols.ai offers an AI-based phone calling platform designed for seamless, human-like voice communication. Users can connect with telephone systems, handle inbound calls, and make outbound calls with personalized context to drive sales and enhance customer satisfaction.

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.