AI News & Launches

Google's carbon emissions have risen nearly 50% since 2019, according to their 2024 environmental report. This significant increase is attributed to the energy consumed by data centers and supply chain operations driven by the growing advancements in and demand for artificial intelligence. Google's commitment to net-zero emissions by 2030 faces challenges, although the company highlights their data centers' energy efficiency and efforts to reduce the AI's environmental impact.

Rapport offers the technology to create, animate, and deploy emotionally intelligent characters that can engage in meaningful dialogue with users. Supporting any language and providing accurate lip-sync, these characters can be integrated across various platforms to humanize AI interactions and enhance user engagement.

Pretzel is an advanced open-source alternative to Jupyter, adding features like AI code generation and editing, inline tab completion, sidebar chat, and error fixing capabilities. It's compatible with existing Jupyter configurations and designed for easy migration.

Vitamin AI is a robust AI-powered platform aimed at enhancing business productivity by centralizing information, facilitating communication, providing efficient client assistance, and enabling swift content creation. Offering a 14-day free trial with no credit card required along with an array of tools for marketing, customer support, HR, administrative tasks, and sales, it revolutionizes business processes and client engagement.

Venngage Muse enhances the design process with its AI-driven design suite featuring a broad range of customizable templates for infographics, brochures, posters, and more specialized content. It streamlines marketing, business, HR, and creative workflows with tools for copy improvement, collaborative editing, and accessibility.

Wanderboat.ai is an innovative platform offering personalized travel assistance through the power of artificial intelligence. It simplifies the planning process for your next adventure.

Global Sites AI provides a boilerplate project for building fast and secure static sites with multi-language support, using i18next for seamless translations. It includes features like a sitemap generator and HTML validations.

Creaition is a platform for endless visual creation, leveraging advanced AI to allow users to effortlessly create stunning objects through an all visual workflow. It offers features like an inspiration feed, the ability to generate endless variations, and tools for seamless design blending. It's tailored for the new era of design with options for brand model training and precision editing.

Sabrina Ramonov’s AI Love Island is a multi-agent text-based dating simulation game inspired by reality TV shows. This version of the game features a dynamic where contestants go through rounds of dates, facing elimination unless they mutually choose each other. With unique AI-generated contestant profiles and the addition of personality traits, the game seeks conversational depth and emotional engagement. Sabrina outlines future plans for more organic conversations and visual UI enhancements.

Meta faces charges by the EU for violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA) with its 'pay or consent' ad model for Facebook and Instagram. The model offers users a paid, ad-free experience or a consent-based ad-supported version but lacks a free alternative with minimal data use for ads. EU regulators argue this choice doesn't allow for free user consent to data combination. If found guilty, Meta could be fined up to 10% of its worldwide revenue.

TabOS is an all-in-one browser extension that transforms your new tab page into a personalized desktop offering tab management, AI-chats, notes, images, and RSS-feeds. It's designed to improve productivity by organizing tabs, utilizing AI assistants and document tools, and staying updated with an integrated RSS reader.

GlobalSeo provides an AI-driven solution to translate and SEO optimize websites in 93 languages, enabling businesses to reach a global audience easily. Their platform integrates seamlessly, offering instant translations, top SEO rankings, and scalable plans fit for different business sizes.

AAIELA is an open-source project on GitHub that enables users to edit images using audio commands. The project combines AI models for computer vision, speech-to-text, language models, and text-to-image inpainting.

In Australia, researchers have utilized AI methodologies to involve birds in designing artificial structures that mimic the key habitat features of large old trees. Large old trees are critical for bird habitats, but less than 5% of grassy box gum woodlands remain. The study involved harnessing AI to interpret spatial data of trees and predict bird behavior, leading to prototyping designs for better artificial habitats. This method acknowledges trees and birds as contributing participants in the design process.

Finetuned models of Mistral, Llama3, and Solar LLMs have shown higher accuracy than OpenAI's models for structured data extraction tasks, as detailed by Alex Strick van Linschoten.

SciEnHub is an online platform providing access to a plethora of scientific resources, research papers, and educational content for science enthusiasts and researchers.

WebSim is an integrated development environment by Netwrck, designed to save, run, and share code directly within a web application.

PromptEasy.ai is a platform that enables users to fine-tune GPT models with no technical skills required. Intended for various applications such as copywriting, problem-solving, and sentiment analysis, the service is accessible via a simple three-step process. As part of its version 1 launch, PromptEasy.ai is currently free for all users.

Summer AI offers a widget that can be installed on your blog to provide AI-generated summaries. It suggests products, offers context insights, generates subscriber content, and provides detailed user engagement statistics without impacting SEO negatively.

BrainyAI offers a unique one-stop AI chat hub where users can engage with top-tier AI models like GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and others for group chats, searches, document reading, and writing assistance. All features are available for free on the Chrome Web Store.

Motiff is an AI-powered professional UI design tool designed to enhance the efficiency of design and collaboration within teams. It offers a variety of features including cloud collaboration, prototyping, and a dedicated Dev Mode for developers, all at a cost-effective price.

Tyler Neylon's article presents a mind model aiming to conceptualize the future of digital minds with features like agency, learning, thinking, and introspection. It proposes a data-flow architecture mapped out in a detailed manner aligning closely with AI technologies to potentially create conscious digital entities equipped with human-like behaviors.

Omniplex is an open-source project focused on creating an AI-driven platform. The project is currently undergoing active development, prioritizing core functionality and essential feature implementation. It provides a starting point for open-source contributions and plugin development, with a roadmap to future enhancements.

Goldman Sachs reports on the disappointing return on investment for AI, citing that tech companies may face a long wait for substantial profits. Despite plans to invest over $1 trillion, issues such as data center shortages and high initial costs could lead to unsatisfactory results for many companies.

Figma announces use of user content to train its AI, with opt-out available before mid-August. Features include design generation, background removal and more. Data used includes text, images, and usage logs. Figma collaborates with OpenAI and Jasper AI for AI functionalities. Concerns rise over data privacy and IP rights. Opt-out option set by default for certain plans; users can toggle settings for others.

Respired.io offers an AI-Powered Social Media Solution designed specifically for startups to create, schedule, and analyze posts with ease. Their startup program provides significant savings and tools to maximize social media impact, streamline content strategy, and engage effectively with the audience.

Plus AI for PowerPoint is an innovative tool designed to create and edit PowerPoint presentations using artificial intelligence. Install it as an add-on, generate presentations with AI assistance, and refine with ease. Plus AI supports any language and works within both Google Slags and PowerPoint. An essential tool for streamlining presentation creation and enhancing productivity for individuals and teams.

MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks cautions the public on overestimating generative AI's capabilities. While impressive, he believes it does not match human performance. Brooks highlights the difference between AI output and human competence. He refers to his own company, Robust.ai's use of robotics in warehouses as an example, emphasizing practical solutions over elaborate AI systems.

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NuExtract is a structured information extraction model fine-tuned on a high-quality synthetic dataset for better performance. Utilizing the phi-3-mini, it's designed to work with an input text and a JSON template to extract specific information. The model emphasizes extractive capabilities, using text directly from the source. Additional versions include NuExtract-tiny and NuExtract-large, catering to different performance needs.

The Hugging Face's Open Large Language Models (LLMs) Leaderboard blog post details updates and news regarding the ongoing developments and rankings in the world of AI and large language models. The site includes a leaderboard showing the performance of various models, discussions on metrics, and community contributions.

Breaking Analysis on 'Gen AI is passé. Enter the age of agentic AI' addresses the transition from generative AI to agentic AI, highlighting enterprise applications over consumer use, including examples like Amazon's supply chain. Key companies in the agentic AI field and future implications for the enterprise are discussed.

Mooncake is the serving platform for Kimi, an LLM service provided by Moonshot AI. It features a KVCache-centric disaggregated architecture designed to meet the demands of high-load scenarios by balancing throughputs and meeting latency SLOs. The architecture leverages underutilized resources efficiently and provides significant performance improvements over traditional methods. Initial technical report released on June 26, 2024; detailed discussions also available in a Chinese blog.

Microsoft exposes 'Skeleton Key' AI technique bypassing content safeguards in AI models. The threat enables harmful content generation by models, including Microsoft, Google, and Meta. Fixes are in progress using tools like Azure's Prompt Shields.

Microsoft CEO of AI comments that most online content is 'freeware', sparking lawsuits from various content creators for training AI models without permission.

NovelistAI is an innovative platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to create unique novels, stories, and interactive books. It offers tools for generating custom cover images and converting texts to audiobooks. The website hosts a library with a wide range of genres, supports over 30 languages, and provides different pricing plans to cater to various user needs.

The debate on AI's impact on the power grid has been stirred by recent reports from Bloomberg and The Washington Post, but a closer examination reveals that generative AI, while significant in energy consumption, does not equate to the total energy usage of data centers. Concerns over AI's energy demands need to be contextualized within the broader growth of data centers that preceded the AI boom.

SmartGrip is an AI-powered on-course grip assistant developed with PGA TOUR certified coaches. It uses real-time technology to enhance grip, improving ball flight and consistency off the tee.

ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is reportedly creating 'hallucinated' links when referencing its news partners' key investigations. Instead of providing actual URLs to sourced content, ChatGPT generates fake links leading to '404 error' pages. This issue impacts at least 10 big-name publications, such as The Associated Press and The Atlantic. OpenAI is yet to implement promised citation features and is currently unable to guarantee accurate linking in ChatGPT.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticizes the development of closed-source AI platforms, suggesting it limits the potential for cultural and technological diversity, and compares it to attempts at 'creating God.' The company announced testing AI avatars on Instagram, as Zuckerberg discusses Meta's future in AI and integration into smart wearables.