AI News & Launches

Internspace is a platform offering virtual internships for students. It provides online internship opportunities, connects students with potential employers, and includes AI-powered video assessments to enhance user profiles. Internspace aims to bridge the gap between talent and employers.

DayZero's Worx platform provides a user registration page at the given URL, where new users can create an account to access the service.

Intimal.ai is a revolutionary platform where love meets AI, offering personalized relationship coaching and insights. It leverages data-driven psychology to help users deepen connections and navigate the intricacies of romance effectively.

WebCrumbs.org is an online platform that provides insightful articles, tips, and resources focusing on web technology, software development, and design trends. It is aimed at professionals and enthusiasts looking to stay updated with the latest in the field.

LLM Beefer-Upper is a web app designed to enhance the quality of generative AI responses by utilizing a chain of thought approach with multiple AI agents. It offers three quality levels of services—Burger, Ribs, and Steak—each providing various levels of critique and improvement to the original output. New users receive 50 free credits upon signing up.

ChatPlayground.ai is a versatile browser extension that enhances productivity by utilizing various AI models such as GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5 for multiple tasks, including chatting, summarizing web content, and creating images. It's designed for students, researchers, and professionals looking to maximize efficiency.

Meta showcased their RoCE network infrastructure at ACM SIGCOMM 2024, aimed at large-scale distributed AI training. Authors Adi Gangidi and James Hongyi Zeng detail the design, implementation, and operation of one of the world's largest AI networks, enabling training large models like LLAMA 3.1 405B. The infrastructure includes backend and frontend networks, specialized routing, and congestion control techniques essential for handling extensive GPU workloads for AI applications.

A Washington Post analysis of 200,000 human-bot interactions from WildChat, built on the same tech as ChatGPT, reveals how AI chatbots assist with creativity, homework, coding, and even provide personal advice. The interactions show a range of usages from drafting work emails to seeking intimate advice, with a glimpse into potential privacy concerns as users share personal details.

TrendVideo AI offers a platform for generating trending videos for social media engagement with just a single click. Creators can customize their videos by selecting prompts, language, tone, and other video attributes. The service has tiered pricing plans, supports multiple languages and video monetization.

Unify is a startup featured on Y Combinator's job page that is dedicated to optimizing the fragmented LLM landscape by routing prompts to the most suitable LLM, aiming for faster, cheaper, and simpler solutions. They are currently hiring for an LLM Engineer (Contributor) position that is remote-friendly for U.S.-based applicants.

Prompt3D is an online platform that offers users the ability to view 3D models directly in their browser. It utilizes the power of WebGL and advanced graphics techniques to enable real-time, interactive 3D model viewing without the need for specialized software. The site is designed for ease of use and supports various 3D file formats.

Markable revolutionizes the way you manage bookmarks by offering an AI-powered search engine that eliminates the need for manual tagging, supports multiple formats, and ensures privacy and security. Swipe through your bookmarks to declutter, and choose from their flexible pricing plans.

ChatPlayground.ai is a Chrome extension designed to enhance productivity across various tasks using multiple AI technologies. It offers communication with diverse chatbots, AI sidebar for web content interaction, learning companion, document editing, real-time search, multilingual support, and image generation. Ideal for students, researchers, writers, and business owners.

Connector is an innovative app leveraging location and AI to enable professional networking by discovering nearby professional connections and suggesting valuable contacts using a unique Value Score technology. It offers various communication options and prioritizes meaningful connections based on shared interests and backgrounds.

Decode Investing offers an AI-driven platform for investment analysis, including tools like an AI Chat, AI Stock Market Analyst, and a Stock Screener. They provide resources such as Leaderboards, SEC Filings, and Earnings Calls, aiming to help investors make more informed decisions.

Elon Musk's companies, including SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and X (formerly known as Twitter), require a significant number of GPUs for AI and HPC projects. Due to a shortage of GPUs, Musk's new AI venture xAI, established in March 2023, has received $6.4 billion in funding and is looking to build a supercomputer with 100,000 Nvidia GPUs in a Memphis factory. The project, supported by industry partners like Supermicro and Juniper Networks, is ambitious and faces power and infrastructure challenges.

Robotic weeders, capable of using lasers and AI, maybe the forefront of agricultural innovation. As California moves toward banning harmful herbicides like paraquat, these robots offer a potential replacement for chemical weed control. However, this shift raises concerns over the future of farm labor roles. The adoption of such technology could lead to significant job changes.

Launchpage is a no-code, customizable SaaS solution that enables users to create and manage a product waitlist with ease. It features quick setup, design templates, automated emails, and real-time analytics.

Big Tech companies are signaling an initial $100 billion AI spending spree that is poised to continue growing. This significant investment hints at the critical role AI will play in the future of the tech industry.

voicechat2 is a GitHub repository for a local AI voice chat application. It uses whisper.cpp and llama.cpp for voice-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities, respectively, and includes scripts for setting up tunnel connections. The technology stack includes Python, HTML, Shell, ROCm, CUDA, and different AI models such as Whisper, Llama, and Coqui TTS.

Olovka AI is an innovative AI essay writer and learning tool tailored for students. It leverages generative AI, powered by OpenAI, to help draft perfect essays and convert them into quizzes for enhanced learning. Olovka is designed for all academic levels and fields, providing custom assistance for a variety of papers including thesis, case studies, and more.

Avatar Architect offers a dynamic AI-integrated Notion system geared towards solo entrepreneurs, marketers, and product developers, aimed at boosting customer base through deep customer insights. It promises doubled sales and cost-effective marketing, featuring customer avatars, surveys, strategies, and custom AI assistants for personalized messaging.

D-Bot is a novel database diagnosis system that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) for managing, maintaining, and optimizing database systems. It aims to assist database administrators by providing prompt and accurate diagnosis reports, including root causes and solutions, thereby outperforming traditional methods. The system was validated on real benchmarks, including 539 anomalies across six applications, showcasing its capacity to effectively address unseen database anomalies.

Google celebrates a decade of AI advancement with its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), specialized chips that have evolved alongside AI demands. The latest sixth-generation TPU, Trillium, is designed with improved power and efficiency to further revolutionary AI model training.

Nvidia's anticipated 'Blackwell' B200 AI chip faces production delays due to a late-stage design flaw. Initially set to boost Nvidia's already significant presence in the AI cloud sector, large quantities will not ship until 2025. Microsoft, Google, and Meta have invested tens of billions in the platform, underscoring the potential impact of delays.

DARPA unveils TRACTOR, a project aiming to convert legacy C code to Rust using AI to enhance memory safety and reduce vulnerabilities. Recognizing memory safety issues with C and C++, DARPA's approach indicates a consensus in the software engineering community towards using memory safe programming languages. The TRACTOR project aspires to leverage machine learning for translating C code to Rust more efficiently and effectively, tackling technical challenges such as pointer arithmetic prohibited in Rust.

This paper explores improving the readability of Large Language Models (LLMs) outputs through Prover-Verifier Games. The authors propose a training algorithm which makes use of small verifiers and provers—both helpful and sneaky. Their studies reveal that legibility training aids humans in verifying solution correctness more efficiently.

Shannon Vallor cautions against the rhetoric surrounding 'superhuman' AI, emphasizing that these technologies lack the sentience and consciousness intrinsic to human experience. Vallor argues that equating AI problem-solving abilities with human intelligence devalues human agency and autonomy, potentially undermining our self-understanding as more than mere output generators.

aiOla has unveiled Whisper-Medusa, an innovative open-source AI model that surpasses OpenAI’s Whisper by achieving 50% faster performance without sacrificing accuracy. The advancement comes from its ability to predict ten tokens at once, significantly increasing speech prediction speed and enhancing runtime, particularly for long-form audio. Whisper-Medusa is currently offered as a 10-head model, with future plans to introduce a 20-head version.

YouTube Comment Finder and AI Analysis is a web-based tool designed to navigate the vast sea of comments on YouTube videos. It provides features such as keyword search, comment filtering and sorting, exporting, and AI-powered analysis for deeper insights into sentiment and trending topics.

Pineboards introduces the AI Bundle featuring the Hailo 8L, which combines an NVMe connection with a Hailo-8L on a Raspberry Pi 5 HAT for enhanced AI processing power. The bundle maintains a familiar software stack, efficient heat dissipation, and offers dual benefits of AI acceleration and fast NVMe storage.

Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer has returned to Google, bringing with him co-founder Daniel De Freitas and other startup employees. Shazeer previously worked on Google's LaMDA AI project. Character.AI is licensing their tech to Google and interim CEO Dominic Perella will lead the startup with its current team.

AIswers is a platform where you can ask any question and get answers from various AI models. It brings together the best AI's in one place to save time and provide different perspectives.

Activist investor Elliott Management Corp has criticized Nvidia Corp's business practices, claiming that the technology giant is in a 'bubble' and that the current artificial intelligence (AI) industry hype is 'overhype'.

OpenAI's ChatGPT is reportedly citing plagiarized New York Times articles from 'DNyuz.com', an Armenian content mill known for automated plagiarism. Despite a lawsuit by NYT for copyright infringement and measures to block ChatGPT's crawlers, the AI still uses content from DNyuz. The NYT calls this illegal use of content without consent.

MotionNX is a technology startup focused on advanced motion capture and analysis using AI-powered solutions. They offer innovative tools and services that enable users to track and evaluate movement with precision.

Choosy Chat offers a chat platform integrating various AI technologies, enabling users to interact with different chatbots like OpenAI's GPT-4, Google's Gemini Pro, and Anthropic's Claude. Aimed at delivering a seamless chatting experience, it ensures users can explore the capabilities of these advanced models with ease.

Kapa.ai, a Y Combinator-funded startup, is looking for a Research Engineer with 3+ years of experience to work on advanced AI questions and improving their machine learning models. Offering $100K - $150K salary with equity options, the role is remote with locations across Europe and allows direct interaction with the company founders.

HomeGardenAI offers a digital solution for plant enthusiasts to care for their indoor and garden plants with ease. Personalized care recommendations and growth tracking ensure your plants thrive.

Wordware.ai is a platform that revolutionizes AI app development by allowing users to build apps with Natural Language Programming, enabling faster development without the need for coding. Aimed at both tech and non-tech users, it supports collaboration, advanced technical features, and multimodal integration.