AI News & Launches

Wrenly offers a variety of HR tools to enhance workplace culture, including Anytime Feedback Suggestion Boxes, Surveys, Recognition & Rewards platforms, and AI Insights with a Culture Score. It provides free alternatives to paid services, like Kudoboard, for creating recognition boards to celebrate team milestones.

EasyMedia is an AI-powered online application that quickly transforms YouTube videos into optimized content for various social media platforms, offering a seamless integration and tailored output to fit format-specific requirements.

ai-renamer is a Node.js Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that utilizes AI models from Ollama and LM Studio, such as Llava, Gemma, Llama, etc., to intelligently rename files according to their contents. It supports various operations such as specifying the provider, setting API keys for OpenAI, choosing the model, and setting the base URL for different ports, along with other options.

LLM Optimize is designed to revolutionize SEO by offering professional audits to improve website rankings in AI Engines like ChatGPT and Google's AI Overview. With affordable one-time payments and thorough analysis, LLM Optimize positions websites to outrank competitors and capitalize on generative engine traffic.

Wasps is an AI-powered code review tool integrated in VSCode, developed by Gitsecure. It helps developers understand their codebase quickly, detects and fixes issues, and provides instant feedback and fix suggestions, all within minutes.

Xspiral is an innovative 3D design and collaboration platform aimed at everyone from beginners to professionals. With a no-download, real-time rendering environment, it integrates AI to assist in productivity and creativity. Features include 2D/3D design tools, animations, interactivity, and exporting options.

Leonardo.ai is an advanced AI-based platform offering a suite of tools for creators and professionals to generate art, videos, and transparent PNGs using AI technology. With features like the foundational Phoenix model and an array viewing options like Anime XL and Photoreal, it caters to various creative needs including design, marketing, and architecture.

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei predicts the AI chip shortage may continue until 2025 or 2026, as the company strives to balance supply and demand. Amidst high customer demand, TSMC is doubling efforts to expand CoWoS packaging capacity and pushing for overseas expansion with new plants in Arizona and Kumamoto. Despite comments by Donald Trump affecting TSMC's stock prices, Wei confirms no change in strategy.

Mutable.ai (YC W22) is expanding their team to enhance an AI codebase chat that surpasses RAG techniques by using LLMs and a wiki of a codebase for answering questions. They're pushing the boundaries with research on MCTS and agents to improve the codebase expert's autonomous task execution and question-answering capabilities on repositories.

Microsoft researchers have created SpreadsheetLLM to enable large language models to analyze and manage data in spreadsheets more efficiently, potentially transforming data management and analysis tasks.

ARCHIE, YOUR AI PRODUCT ARCHITECT, leverages multiple large language models (LLMs) to design and plan software applications. It significantly compresses the traditional time and cost required for creating implementation plans, architecture, and UX/UI designs, aiming to improve accuracy and reduce software defects.

Mejorar Imagen is a website that provides an online tool for image upscaling using AI technology. The service allows users to amplify their images up to 10 times and achieve a resolution of up to 12K for free. It's ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and social media enthusiasts seeking high-quality and sharp image enlargements.

Proton Mail introduces an open-source AI writing assistant 'Proton Scribe' for enhanced email composition, focusing on privacy and security. Aimed at business users, the local-processing feature ensures sensitive data doesn't leave the device. A service expansion includes web and desktop clients, and the source code is available on GitHub.

Mistral NeMo is a 12B parameter AI model created by Mistral AI in partnership with NVIDIA. It boasts a large context length of 128k tokens and impressive performance in multiple languages. The model is available under Apache 2.0 license, showcasing top-notch reasoning and world knowledge abilities.

RAGNA Desktop is a 100% private, local AI multitool designed to automate repetitive tasks and boost efficiency while ensuring data protection and compliance. It operates without cloud dependency or the need for an internet connection.

DreamPal is a virtual art gallery showcasing a curated collection of digital artwork from emerging artists around the world. It presents a unique blend of styles and mediums, accessible to art lovers globally.

Miro's Intelligent Canvas streamlines online collaboration and visualization with smart features like assisted drawing, templates, and integration with popular tools.

Builco.dev allows you to build MVPs with Next.js using AI in minutes. It automates the creation of client/server code for the Next.js 14 App Router and Server Actions, making it easier to set up and apply your MVP's wireframe and description, with full support for TypeScript, Next.js, Prisma, and Tailwind CSS.

UbiOps offers a platform for deploying AI and ML workloads as microservices seamlessly, avoiding the complexity of managing cloud infrastructure. It supports hybrid, multi-cloud environments, and integrates with popular tools for data scientists.

ToyPal presents a unique heart-shaped speaker called ToyPal One, designed to bring toys to life with personalized AI stories. A timely 15% discount is currently being offered to customers. Perfect for creating unforgettable memories for children, it offers a range of bedtime stories and educational content.

Wiz Research Team uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in SAP AI Core, potentially allowing attackers to compromise customer cloud environments and access sensitive AI artifacts. The vulnerabilities enabled unauthorized actions such as reading and modifying Docker images, gaining administrative Kubernetes cluster privileges, and obtaining cloud service credentials. All issues were responsibly disclosed and fixed by SAP before public disclosure.

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.