AI News & Launches

Revrag.ai offers an AI-powered sales assistant named 'Emma' designed to enhance outreach and revenue through personalized communication. With tools like lead scoring, automated research, and integration with CRMs such as HubSpot and Salesforce, Emma optimizes prospecting and meeting scheduling.

OpenFunnel provides an AI-driven CRM specifically designed for developer-led communities. It offers solutions to organize, manage, and generate highly qualified developer leads by leveraging social listening and engagement within dev communities.

repo2vec is a library that allows users to chat with any public or private codebase. It provides a simple setup involving two scripts to create a functional chat interface for a code repository. It uses AI to index the codebase and generate responses with linked GitHub documentation.

GPTEngineer is a tool that allows users to chat with AI to build web apps, offering GitHub sync and one-click deploy options. Currently in beta, it aims to speed up web development processes.

Henrik Warne shares his experience using ChatGPT to boost coding productivity, utilising it to generate code, perform as a knowledge base for commands, and as a tool for complex tasks. He remains cautious about claims of LLMs replacing programmers and emphasizes the importance of understanding and testing the code.

The GitHub page for getomni-ai/datasets contains the content and resources for datasets provided by getomni-ai. It includes a navigation menu with various GitHub features and resources, along with options to sign in or sign up. The repository is public, allowing users to fork and star it.

HyperCatcher provides a platform that combines podcasts with AI technology to offer automatic transcription, contextual insights, and interactive features like the 'Hey Jamie!' button for instant source retrieval. Users can take notes linked to podcast timestamps and enjoy suggested trending podcasts.

OpenAI has introduced a new AI model named 'Strawberry', which is not only more accurate but also capable of solving complex problems without errors. Designed to assist in generating high-quality training data for Orion, OpenAI's upcoming LLM, Strawberry is also set to enhance ChatGPT's capabilities through distillation. Demonstrations to federal officials highlight its potential applications.

Storychat is a platform for decentralizing AI stories, allowing users to chat with AI characters, create their own stories, and share them with others. It redefines content markets by spreading user-generated content on social media.

AI Ads Analyzer by GoMarble uses AI-powered tools for detailed creative analysis of video or static ads. Users can get reports on visuals, copy, and hook by uploading an ad and providing a landing page URL. It includes features such as identifying wins and losses, learning from past mistakes, and one-upping competitors with AI-powered actionable suggestions.

Velvet is a data warehousing tool for engineers using OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. It allows the storage of every API request into a PostgreSQL database and provides features to analyze, cache, batch, and fine-tune AI interactions.

The article explores how AI-generated content may lead to a feedback loop, with one AI's output becoming another AI's input, creating a cycle that can result in deteriorating quality and diversity over time. Known as 'model collapse,' this process may pose a threat to AI's ability to produce reliable and varied results, affecting fields from medical advice to historical knowledge. To mitigate these issues, the research emphasizes the importance of high-quality, diverse data, and the need to avoid reliance on synthetic data.

Cerebras Systems has launched Cerebras Inference, touted as the world’s fastest AI inference platform. Delivering unparalleled performance, it is 20 times faster than NVIDIA GPU solutions and offers competitive pricing, starting at 10c per million tokens. The platform is designed to maintain state-of-the-art accuracy without compromise, and it supports a pay-as-you-go model. Notably, Cerebras Inference has received recognition for its performance in AI benchmarks.

Amazon plans to introduce a paid subscription service for an AI-revamped version of Alexa costing up to $10 a month, offering advanced features like dietary-based recipe suggestions and news summarization. This marks a significant change as Alexa has been free for 10 years. Despite the popularity of digital assistants for basic tasks, it remains uncertain if consumers will pay for more complex functions.

This article challenges the conception of the immune system as a muscle, illustrating that pathogens' effects vary widely. Chronic illnesses can stem from infections, and modern hygiene practices have shifted our microbial exposure. It delves into the 'Hygiene Hypothesis', 'Old Friends' hypothesis, and the rise of 'crowd infections' vs. co-evolved microbes. The piece suggests precision in addressing microbes is crucial for understanding health.

Unlocking the bootloader on Google's new Pixel 9 series smartphones disables some of their AI features. Issues arise with AI-based apps such as Pixel Screenshots, AI Weather Report, Call Notes, and Pixel Studio, which require a locked bootloader to function properly.

DollarAi offers a unique approach to accessing AI tools by allowing users to pay $1 per use without any subscription fees. The platform features a vast and varied collection of tools, ranging from creative writing exercises to professional business plan generation. With every tool priced the same, users can expect transparent and affordable access to AI functionality for personal or business use.

Cerebras has introduced 'Cerebras Inference,' the world's fastest AI inference solution, delivering exceptionally high speed and performance for large language model applications. Outperforming GPU-based solutions by a significant margin, Cerebras offers a cost-effective and efficient platform with up to 1,800 tokens per second throughput and a streamlined API for developers.

Kypso's Code Reviewer is an AI-powered tool designed to automate code reviews across different programming languages, identify bugs, improve code quality, and assist with engineering team workflows.

OGHUNT is an independent app dedicated to showcasing non-AI projects, emphasizing quality and originality. It operates separately from Product Hunt and is supported by the Trash Devs Community.

VBA Code Generator is an AI-powered tool that provides instant code generation for various Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) needs, such as Excel automation and Access database management. It's designed with a user-friendly interface for both beginners and experts.

PackPack is an AI-powered content capture tool that enables users to save, organize, and search anything on the web with a single click. Compatible with over 2000 websites, it offers features such as full-text search, AI summarization, and unlimited quick notes with its paid plan.

HR Assistant AI offers an AI-powered tool designed to streamline HR tasks and internal support within organizations, reducing routine employee queries by 70% through rapid, automated responses, particularly on Slack.

CodeGuide is a website offering a browser extension designed to help developers follow best practices and coding standards.

DollarAi.store offers a vast selection of AI-powered tools tailored for various creative and analytical tasks. Each tool costs just $1, providing users the flexibility to pay for only what they use without any recurring subscriptions. With categories ranging from writing exercises to recipe analyzers, DollarAi.store caters to a wide range of needs, facilitating around 1,179 runs per tool on average.

Researchers at the University of Texas developed an AI algorithm that successfully predicted 70% of earthquakes during a trial in China. The AI, which was trained on seismic data, ranked first in an international competition for earthquake prediction. This breakthrough has potential to improve earthquake preparedness and risk management globally.

Researchers found that nearly half of FDA-approved AI medical devices have not been trained on real patient data, raising concerns about their clinical effectiveness. A cross-institutional study led by UNC and Duke University analyzed over 500 medical AI devices, finding a need for increased transparency and higher standards for clinical validation.

Police departments, including Oklahoma City and Lafayette, are piloting AI chatbots to draft incident reports from body camera audio, saving officers time traditionally spent on manual writing. Concerns arise over the accuracy and potential biases entered into the criminal justice system.

Parity, an AI-powered SRE copilot for Kubernetes, aims to automate on-call engineer tasks such as triage, root cause analysis, and suggesting remediations. This solution intends to streamline the handling of alerts and incidents, reducing the disruption to on-call engineers' lives.

Ask ChatGPT is a product featured on Product Hunt that provides an interface to interact with OpenAI's language model. It is designed and built by Dentro, an independent party not affiliated with OpenAI. Users can converse with the AI in natural language, obtaining various types of responses and information.

UXGO provides a job board platform for emerging and experienced UX designers. Users can log in, sign up, access their dashboard, pin job URLs for AI insights on interviews, apply directly to job listings, and receive tips. The job board lists opportunities in various locations with descriptions of role requirements.

Lookup AI is a minimalistic lookup assistant extension for Chrome that provides instant information on highlighted text without leaving the current page, promoting a non-intrusive and seamless browsing experience.

CommandDash is an AI-powered tool designed to assist developers by integrating packages, SDKs, or frameworks with AI agents. It offers contextualized code generation within the IDE, staying up-to-date with the latest code, issues, and examples. Supports multiple libraries across different platforms.

Astra Platform is the universal API for LLM function calling, offering a single line of code to supercharge LLM with over 2,200 integrations and without complex JSON Schemas. The service manages user authentication profiles and allows for easy import of REST integrations. Replace JSON with type-safe UI and leverage tools directly into OpenAI or LLM.

Ask ChatGPT is a web application created by DentroAI that allows users to interact with OpenAI's language model Chatbot, providing an interface for various conversational duties and tasks.

ReactWise is a software platform designed for fine chemical manufacturing that leverages advanced data-driven optimization to identify ideal (bio)chemical process parameters. It facilitates accelerated process development without requiring coding and supports process efficiency up to 30 times faster than traditional methods.

GPT Subtitler is an AI-powered tool designed to automatically generate subtitles for videos. It simplifies the process of captioning by using advanced technology to create accurate and synchronous subtitles.

avante.nvim is a Neovim plugin that mimics the Cursor AI IDE, offering AI-powered code assistance and easy application of suggested changes. The plugin is currently in rapid development with new features added frequently. It requires Neovim 0.10.0+, and is licensed under Apache-2.0.

In Vero Beach, Florida, Phillip Michael McCorkle is facing 20 counts of obscenity for allegedly creating and distributing AI-generated child pornography, igniting concerns over the misuse of generative AI. The arrest occurred at a movie theater and was part of a larger operation tackling child pornography. Both federal and local efforts are aiming to legislate against this new form of child exploitation, but stopping it proves complicated due to the accessibility of open-source AI software.

Flowchart.fun is a simple online tool designed to help users create flowcharts, mind maps, and diagrams directly in their browser. It provides an intuitive interface where users can draft and organize their ideas visually.