AI News & Launches

Voice Assistant Plugin for GPT is an Android native assistant plugin designed to integrate with the official ChatGPT app. By using simple voice commands like 'Hey Google' or 'Jarvis', you can wake up the ChatGPT voice chat feature and enjoy an enhanced voice assistant experience. This app does not share or collect any user data and is independently operated. It was last updated on July 13, 2024.

Udio has released version 1.5 of their software, bringing new features and improvements to enhance user experience.

Photolapse offers a platform to create flashcut time-lapse videos using AI to center the subject's face. By uploading up to 200 photos, users can adjust video settings and get a preview, with the option to download the video without a watermark for $5.99.

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor discuss the unreliability of AI existential risk probabilities for policy-making. They critique the use of inductive, deductive, and subjective estimations in this context and review the Forecasting Research Institute's exercise on X-risk forecasting.

Pixverse.ai is a virtual reality platform powered by AI technology. It offers immersive gaming and social experiences where users can interact in a shared environment.

Agent Crop is an innovative platform providing instant AI-based crop disease detection and plant identification. Users can upload images of their crops or plants to get quick results without the need of storing the images on the platform.

Brev.ai is a premier AI music generator that creates high-quality music compositions from text descriptions using Suno AI V3.5 technology. It offers free online access, customization options, and supports a wide range of musical styles for diverse applications.

AutoPosts AI is an AI-powered platform designed to help users create captivating short-form videos quickly and efficiently. With features like automated scripts, voice synthesis, and visual content, it simplifies the video creation process for platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.

Klee is a macOS-native AI-powered desktop application that focuses on data security by processing data on-device. It features a native macOS chat app, a truly private knowledge base, and the use of open-source large language models like Llama 3 and Mistral.

Kipps.ai is a platform that allows users to build AI assistants quickly and easily for their business. Integrating with tools such as Notion, GoDaddy, Wordpress, and Wix, it offers a powerful suite for handling incoming data from various sources.

Say my Name is an interactive web app that helps with name pronunciation by providing an easy 'Say It!' feature.

ZETIC.ai specializes in providing a server-less, on-device AI solution, enabling businesses to reduce GPU cloud server costs and secure their data better. With their technology, AI models can be directly ported to NPUs on various devices without quality loss.

CrossPrism is a MacOS application offering advanced image recognition, labeling, and keywording features for photographers. With the ability to utilize multiple CPU and GPU cores, as well as the Neural Engine, it provides powerful local auto-annotation for an unlimited number of raw photos. CrossPrism includes over 20 specialized models for various image categories and supports customizable model training for specific needs without requiring an internet connection.

MBox AI Meet elevates Google Meet experiences with free real-time transcription and AI-powered meeting summaries, no audio/video storage for privacy.

The FRIEND NECKLACE by Based Hardware is an opensource AI wearable designed to enhance personal productivity by recording, transcribing, and summarizing conversations. It's stored on your phone, ensuring privacy and portability. Available for pre-order with shipping starting Q3 2024.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, discusses the strategic choice facing the world regarding the control of AI's future. He emphasizes the need for a US-led global coalition to promote a democratic vision for AI, opposing an authoritarian approach which could consolidate power and restrict technology's benefits. Altman proposes strategies to ensure the US retains its lead in AI, highlighting the threat posed by authoritarian regimes and the need for robust security, infrastructure investment, commercial diplomacy, and international cooperation.

Read the Docs reports an increase in abusive site crawling by AI products, causing issues such as excessive bandwidth costs. The company details how one AI crawler's bug resulted in 73 TB of downloads, amounting to over $5,000 in fees, and another instance where Facebook's content downloader used 10 TB of data. Read the Docs is taking measures to address abuse, including blocking identified AI Crawler traffic, enhancing rate limiting, and CDN caching improvements.

Undermind, a YC S24 company, launches an AI-powered agent aimed at transforming the way scientific papers are discovered. Co-founded by physicists Josh and Tom, Undermind.ai is designed to mimic human research strategies and improve search results in complex scientific research. The search system engages users in a dialogue to better understand their complex research goals, then conducts a systematic search, yielding a detailed report after approximately three minutes. The goal is to provide accurate, exhaustive results for specific topics by reading abstracts and citations, with plans to include full texts in the future.

DeepMind's AI models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solved four out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), reaching the level equivalent to a silver medalist. AlphaProof employs reinforcement learning for formal math reasoning, while AlphaGeometry 2 is a neuro-symbolic hybrid that solves complex geometry problems effectively.

VirtualFit AI Image Extender is a state-of-the-art tool that expands the boundaries of an image by generating additional content to blend with the original image seamlessly using AI technology.

AI Manga Translator is an online platform allowing instantaneous translation of manga across various languages using AI-powered engines. Users can upload images and choose from a selection of top translation engines to convert comics or scans while preserving the original image structure.

QuizRise is an online AI-powered platform designed to streamline the quiz creation process. Users can effortlessly generate questions from various sources such as text, PDFs, YouTube Videos, and websites in multiple languages. The platform offers the ability to customize questions, share quizzes via links or embeds, and export to PDF or TXT. Additionally, QuizRise provides insightful analytics for assessing student performance.

OnlyPans offers AI-driven tailored weekly dinner plans with consideration for budget, cravings, dietary restrictions, and lifestyle. Sousy, the AI sous chef, provides up to 14 days of tailored meal plans, smart grocery lists, and maintains privacy. Available for $10/month.

Airtable offers a next-gen app-building platform that allows teams to create custom business apps without the need for coding. It leverages automations and AI to streamline workflows and integrates with various tools to become a single source of truth.

Alertfor offers a unique service where users can ask complex questions and receive alerts when the answers change. With the AQTA system, precise information is provided through continuous web tracking, keeping users informed with updated answers.

Japanese supermarket chain AEON has integrated an artificial intelligence system named 'Mr Smile' which evaluates employees' smiles and speech tones to improve customer service. The use of AI in its 240 shops nationwide intends to standardize service attitudes and includes more than 450 elements in its assessment criteria. However, this move reignited debates on workplace harassment and customer behavior in Japan.

Hooper app is now in open beta phase, offering free limited-time access. Designed for basketball players, the app employs AI to generate highlight clips and track statistics using just a smartphone. It supports different game types and offers a quick way to watch 2-hour games in 15 minutes by focusing on the best plays. Hooper caters to players of all levels with its Rookie and Pro tiers.

SIMPLtech offers a platform where users can create personal automations and tools by writing notes. It's akin to programming with natural language, making technology easier to build for those familiar with describing programs.

Big Tech companies like Meta are open sourcing powerful AI models like Llama 3.1 to commoditize AI tools, reducing costs for companies and potentially increasing their own user engagement and content generation. This echoes Silicon Valley's strategy to lower the value of product complements, thereby increasing demand for their main products.

Researchers uncover 'model collapse' when AI is trained on data generated recursively by prior models. The study, led by Ilia Shumailov and Zakhar Shumaylov, details how indiscriminate use of model-generated content leads to fundamental defects in evolving models.

Symbl.ai guides organizations on fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) like Llama 3 for customer service, emphasizing task specificity, customization, and cost reduction. The article presents a step-by-step process using HuggingFace's Transformers library, covering library installation, model downloading, data preparation, hyperparameter setting, and model fine-tuning.

MIT researchers at CSAIL have developed MAIA, an automated interpretability agent for AI models, focusing on artificial vision systems. MAIA generates hypotheses and designs experiments iteratively to interpret AI components. It outperforms baseline methods in neuron behavior interpretation and addresses biases.

Mistral AI announces Mistral Large 2, a significant advancement in AI for code generation, multilingual support, and advanced function calling capabilities. With 123 billion parameters, the model performs well on various benchmarks and promises efficient, cost-effective AI applications.

Google has achieved exclusivity as the only search engine able to return results from Reddit due to a multi-million dollar AI deal. Other engines like Bing and DuckDuckGo can no longer crawl Reddit, which has recently updated its robots.txt to strictly prohibit any scraping activities, unless under terms of agreement with Reddit.

Research by D-STAR AI presents a novel solution to the out-of-context chunk problem in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. The study introduces improvements in contextual understanding and data retrieval for a more coherent and contextually accurate generation of text.

Civitai is a platform for a creative community that showcases a range of digital artworks from simple shapes to detailed landscapes and human faces. It includes features such as model exploration, image galleries, video entries for AI Film competitions, and educational resources. Users can sign in to participate, explore, and vote for their favorite creations.

Mermaid AI is an advanced software tool designed to help users create beautiful and intuitive diagrams as if they had a professional designer at their fingertips. With just a simple description language, users can produce flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, state diagrams, and more. The tool focuses on boosting productivity and enhancing visual communication for teams and individuals alike.

Hemingway Editor Plus is an advanced AI-powered tool designed to enhance writing by simplifying sentences, fixing grammar issues, and improving overall readability. It features style adjustments, tone matching, and writer's block solutions, all while ensuring data privacy. The editor offers a free trial and various plans tailored to individual and team needs.

Moneystack offers a simple tool for visualizing finances, enabling users to enter income and expenses to foresee their financial future. It provides an easy and clear alternative to spreadsheets for managing and planning personal or business finances, allowing for the creation of long-term and short-term financial plans for free.

The ChatGPT Bottom Copy Code Button & Statistics Browser Extension, version 1.4.1, enhances the ChatGPT UI by adding a 'Copy Code' button and live code statistics, making copying and assessing code snippets more efficient.