AI News & Launches

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.

Translized offers a Translation Management System that empowers products with seamless, cost-effective solutions tailored for developers and product managers. The platform boasts high-quality localization services, developer time-saving tools like APIs and SDKs, and a variety of workflow integrations.

Klipy is an all-in-one Growth Management Platform designed to aid in revenue growth management by recording, analyzing, and coaching all activities with AI. It offers features such as enrichment, Auto CRM, pipeline orchestration, call analytics, and playbooks.

What beats rock is a simple web-based game themed around the classic rock, paper, scissors game. Players are challenged to choose the correct tool to beat a rock displayed on the screen.

Comprehensive, free calculator to estimate the costs for various LLM APIs including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more, with up-to-date rates as of July 2024. Prices are given per model, context size, and tokens, helping to choose the right service for AI projects.

AudioScribe is an AI-powered tool that converts spoken audio into well-structured written notes, facilitating productivity for tasks such as project planning, brainstorming, and email writing.

The article articulates why achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by 2027 is plausible, based on the trends in deep learning, compute power, algorithmic efficiencies, and 'unhobbling' gains. GPT-4's progress is leveraged to project future capabilities, suggesting another leap in model intelligence could occur in the following years, potentially leading to AGI.

RouteLLM is an open-source framework introduced in 2024 for optimizing Language Large Model (LLM) routing, aiming to reduce costs without degrading quality. It offers a drop-in replacement for OpenAI's client, and is compatible with multiple LLMs, making it highly efficient and cost-effective. The framework also facilitates easy integration of new routers and models, and provides in-depth instructions for calibration, evaluation, server setup, and configuration.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, along with international partners including the FBI, CNMF, AIVD, MIVD, and the DNP, issued a warning about a covert disinformation tool called 'Meliorator.' This AI-enhanced software is utilized by affiliates of the state-sponsored Russian media organization RT to create and manage fictitious online personas for spreading disinformation to benefit the Russian Government.

In south-west Spain, a court has sentenced 15 schoolchildren to one year's probation each, for creating and dispersing fake naked images of their female classmates using AI. The minors, aged 13 to 15, were convicted of child abuse imagery and offences against moral integrity. They must attend gender and equality classes, and learn about the responsible use of technology.

Former Humane Strategic Partnerships Lead Brooke Hartley Moy and Head of Product Engineering Ken Kocienda have founded Infactory, an AI fact-checking startup. Infactory differentiates itself by knowing when to use and when not to use AI, using LLMs for natural language interfaces without impacting the accuracy of results. Aimed at enterprise customers, it seeks to offer trustworthy data, will soon launch seed funding efforts, and plans to launch in a few months.

The webcomic duo, War and Peas, addresses the issue of AI companies exploiting creative work without compensation. They discuss the impact of AI on creativity and express their disinterest in collaborating with such companies.

Moshi Chat is an online group messaging platform designed to enable real-time communication for individuals and communities with various features catering to user's needs.

Keatext is an AI-powered text analytics platform that improves people experiences by leveraging customer and employee feedback. It offers seamless setup, cloud-based analytics, real-time insights, and AI-driven recommendations to enhance satisfaction and engagement.

Threado is an AI-powered platform providing instant automated support for customer-facing teams. It integrates with Slack, MS Teams, and Chrome, offering AI Agents trained on internal knowledge for quick setup and efficient query resolution.

LightRAG is a PyTorch library designed for Large Language Model (LLM) applications. It provides a modular and robust platform for building Retriever-Agent-Generator pipelines, aimed at use cases like chatbots, translation, coding, and NLP tasks.

Despite the rise of artificial intelligence firms in San Francisco, office vacancies continue to climb, reaching a record 34.5% in Q2. Rent prices have dropped to their lowest since 2015 amidst a tech industry slowdown and a trend towards hybrid work.

Swift AI is an open-source, high-speed voice assistant that integrates technologies from Groq, Cartesia, VAD, and Vercel for robust speech detection.

Essay AI offers a free essay checking tool that enhances academic writing by identifying grammatical errors, unclear phrasing, and incorrect word usage. It is trusted by top universities and streamlines the essay writing process with features like AI autocomplete, conversation assistance, source citation, paraphrasing, outline building, and comprehensive writing issue checks.

ChatGPT users experience new CAPTCHA system, causing confusion and concerns about its necessity, especially among paying customers. The CAPTCHA tasks involve rotating objects to match a mannequin's hand direction, which users find difficult due to ambiguous 'forward' directions. Some speculate this could be a method to handle increasing demand or bolster bot protections.

Micro-Agent by BuilderIO is an AI agent that generates and iterates on code to pass given test cases. It's focused on creating definitive test cases and producing code that passes them. It's not designed to be a general-purpose coding agent, but a micro agent for specific tasks.

ImagePrompt.io offers a vast selection of prompts for crafting Midjourney art, featuring high-quality, reproducible prompts that inspire creativity. It includes curated logo prompts, unique artwork prompts, and diverse photographic categories to fuel artistic endeavors.

Apple's M5 chip is set to incorporate advanced SoIC packaging technology developed by TSMIC. Aimed at powering future Macs and AI cloud servers, this technology reinforces Apple's strategy for a dual-use design, enabling efficient thermal management. The M5 chip is in trial production with mass production expected in 2025-2026.

IEEE Xplore provides a comprehensive collection of professional and technical documents for its users. Membership benefits include various services such as username/password change, address update, and access to purchase history and documents.

The U.S. intelligence community has publicly acknowledged the use of generative AI technologies to enhance intelligence operations, with applications in content classification, search assistance, and workflow optimization for analysts.

LivePortrait is an open-source PyTorch implementation for efficient portrait animation with stitching and retargeting control, actively maintained by Kuaishou Technology. The project facilitates the animation of one's portrait with pre-trained weights and offers various functionalities including an interactive Gradio interface for better user experience.

Onyxium provides an array of AI tools in one platform, including image recognition, NLP, and speech recognition for both individual and business needs, with plans starting at $99.99/month and a free trial.

A study published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering evaluated OpenAI's ChatGPT for coding capabilities. The AI showed varied success rates, from 0.66% to 89% depending on factors like task difficulty and the programming language. ChatGPT excelled at solving older problems but struggled with newer ones due to training dataset limitations. The study also highlighted ChatGPT's ability to provide code with less runtime and memory overhead than human solutions but noted security concerns and the need for developers to guide the AI to avoid vulnerabilities.

This publication features the latest developments in the field of computer graphics, showcasing new techniques and algorithms developed by researchers around the globe. The detailed analyses and experimental results set a new benchmark for the industry.

A blog post discloses a worrying interaction where a student, when asked to verify a fact, utilized AI instead of traditional search, exposing the risk of AI generating unique, confident yet false facts, and how this challenges educators.

Moocat is an AI-powered keyboard designed to significantly improve your typing experience on Apple devices. It offers intelligent suggestions, grammar correction, smart replies, and instant language translation, catering to professionals, students, and anyone looking to enhance their digital communication.