AI News & Launches

Perplexity AI, a company creating an AI-based 'answer engine', is facing accusations of unethical practices such as dodging paywalls, plagiarism, and copyright infringement. The company has taken fire for its Pages product, which allegedly plagiarizes high-quality sources, and for ignoring the robots.txt code. Perplexity, while in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, has come under scrutiny for its underlying business practices and the potential impact on the trust that underpins the internet.

Proxlight Designer v3.0 is a tool featured on Proxlight’s website, providing users with design capabilities for app development. Users can access the source code, watch a tutorial for guidance, and download the application.

Briefy is an AI-powered tool that efficiently summarizes content into structured, concise formats. It is perfect for individuals who wish to quickly grasp essential points from lengthy materials such as articles, videos, emails, and podcasts. The tool seamlessly integrates with various platforms and supports multiple languages.

Imbue's 70B parameter AI model infrastructure guide details the process from cluster initiation to operation, including challenges faced and lessons learned. Key steps include machine provisioning, InfiniBand setup, health checks, debugging, and tooling improvements.

Researchers from the University of Hawaii have developed a physics-based model improving the forecast of El Niño events up to 18 months ahead, outperforming traditional models and rivaling AI predictions.

Question Base is an AI autoresponder designed for Slack that answers repetitive questions to save time and resources. Equipped with a 14-day free trial, the service is especially beneficial for busy managers, founders, and sales teams. It boasts quick responses within 3 seconds, learns from chat histories, and provides verified answers that users control.

Drawings Alive is a platform that uses AI technology to transform children's drawings into vibrant and colorful digital artworks. It provides several subscription plans, supports JPG and PNG files, and ensures users retain full ownership of the generated pictures.

SEO Rocket is an AI-powered tool designed to elevate websites' search engine rankings by providing insights, on-page optimization, and performance analytics.

Khan Academy has shared its dedication to enhancing AI in math tutoring through its AI tool, Khanmigo. The first full pilot year showed promise in math and other subjects. While errors do occur, efforts to refine Khanmigo include using calculators for numerical problems and a shift to a more capable language model, GPT-4 Turbo. Improvements also focus on AI responses mimicking real-life tutors. Khan Academy aims to aid students in overcoming mathematical challenges to achieve their dreams.

Intercom's Fin AI Copilot is designed to boost support agent productivity by providing instant AI-powered assistance. Capable of solving 50% of support volume instantly, it's more than just chatbot. It streamlines tasks, sources accurate information, and helps forge deeper customer relationships. Features include expert training, history-based personalized answers, centralized content, and insightful AI reporting.

Claude Sonnet 3.5 by Anthropic sets a new benchmark in Conversational AI with unprecedented speed and cost efficiency. It boasts collaborative features, superior performance, and strong privacy commitments, marking it as a leader in the AI space.

30characters is an AI-powered tool designed to help write effective search ads quickly. It generates ad copy with a focus on Google Ads, offering features like character limit understanding, easy tuning, quick imports, and saving project progress. It's trained on real ads from top advertisers for better conversion results.

Seorocket.ai is an AI-powered SEO platform designed to automate search engine optimization tasks, making it easier for businesses to grow online presence. Key features include keyword research, AI content creation, automatic publishing, and real-time performance tracking. It's trusted by over 25,000 agencies and freelancers.

Intercom offers an AI-first customer service platform for leaders, support agents, and customers, featuring insights, automation, messaging, and integrations to improve support operations and user experiences.

Study with GPT is an online education platform offering tailor-made tutorials guided by AI for various technologies such as Java, PHP, Golang, Python, and more, with a 24/7 AI Full-Stack Mentor available to assist learners.

ThisOrThis.ai is a platform leveraging artificial intelligence to help users make better decisions by comparing different items and options. It uses machine learning algorithms to analyze and present data in a comprehensible way.

Figma is an innovative design platform featuring collaborative tools and AI features that enhance productivity in design and prototyping, catering to professionals across roles like design, engineering, and product management.

Vmaker's AI Subtitle Generator is a tool that automatically generates subtitles for videos in minutes. It supports over 35 languages and offers customization options including 100+ text styles and 25+ animations. The service is free and does not add watermarks to the videos.

Dappier is a pioneering online marketplace for AI content and data rights, offering a platform for content creators to monetize their work by licensing to AI firms. It enables easy integration of content into AI applications, ensures secure data handling, and allows creators to set their own pricing.

DocsBot AI-Powered FAQ Generator is a tool that automatically generates a list of frequently asked questions for websites. It simplifies the process of FAQ creation, using advanced AI technologies provided by DocsBot.

Google DeepMind's AI called AlphaFold2 revolutionized protein science by predicting protein structures with over 90% accuracy, a task previously believed to be beyond computational capabilities. This breakthrough has opened up new avenues in biology, while also emphasizing the limitations and need for experimental validation.

In the article titled 'Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous', the author criticizes Mozilla.ai for attempting to use language models to summarize and analyze interview notes with the aim of reducing bias. Instead, the author argues that this approach lacks scientific rigor and merely layers multiple biases, potentially worsening the interpretation.

An article introducing the open-source LLM model Llama3 70B, which can run on a single 4GB GPU, showcasing its potential to match the performance of proprietary models like GPT-4. It details the installation process, compares Llama3 with other models, and highlights the critical importance of data quality in AI development.

Dubai-based AI engineering company LEAP 71 successfully hot-fired a liquid rocket engine named TKL-5, designed and manufactured autonomously using their Noyron Computational Engineering Model, and 3D-printed in copper. The groundbreaking engine achieved a thrust of 5 kN, with a performance of 20,000 horsepower, and completed a significant long-duration burn test in the UK.

Find AI, as launched on Product Hunt, offers advanced AI-powered search capabilities to unlock contact details and derive more accurate insights. With a focus on tech companies and individuals in the ecosystem, it's an essential tool for businesses looking for customers, recruits, or investment opportunities.

Figma introduces Figma AI, an AI-powered suite of features designed to enhance the creative process for designers. The tools assist in overcoming creative blocks, improving efficiency through better search functionality, automatic layer renaming, and much more. The beta is free through 2024, with future pricing details to come.

Splice is a cloud-based music creation and collaboration platform that integrates with your workflow and makes finding and organizing sounds, collaborating, and sharing projects effortless.

Supportbot Pro is an AI-powered chatbot designed for website customer support. Utilizing advanced machine learning algorithms, it can answer complex customer queries accurately after being trained on company data such as website content and PDF documents.

SpokenAI offers advanced voice AI and analytics services that provide meaningful insights from spoken language. Utilizing cutting-edge AI technologies, their platform enables users to transcribe, analyze, and gain valuable data from conversations.

AiTerm is an AI Terminal Assistant that enhances the command-line interface experience by providing natural language understanding, documentation on-demand, IDE-style autocomplete, and organized workflows.

Skyvern provides tools to automate browser-based workflows through AI, computer vision, and natural language processing, adaptable to any website. It offers features like explainable AI, proxy networks, CAPTCHA support, authentication, and data extraction. It's designed for scalability with API-driven execution.

Lazy AI is a revolutionary platform that enables users to build and deploy web applications using AI-powered prompts. It offers a variety of templates and app examples such as WhatsApp Reminder bot, Unlimited DALL-E-3-v2 images, and an eCommerce store with Stripe payment, streamlining the app development process.

Artifacts for ChatGPT is a Chrome extension that allows users to instantly preview and deploy artifacts created by ChatGPT. The extension is bootstrapped from a Chrome Extension Starter and is inspired by Claude Artifacts. Users can obtain artifacts through DOM monitoring, preview them in an extension side panel, and deploy them to Zeabur with a random domain.

FiddleCube is an AI-powered SDK designed to generate ideal question-answer datasets crucial for testing, evaluating, and training Large Language Models (LLMs). It offers diverse and accurate QnA datasets that auto-update with prompt and RAG changes, supporting complex reasoning and various question types.

Stanford researchers using AI methods revealed stark distinctions between male and female brain 'fingerprints' with no overlap, contrary to beliefs about a continuum. These differences notably influence cognitive functions like intelligence, with distinctive patterns predicting gender-specific cognitive performance. The study challenges the continuum hypothesis and suggests fundamental variances in male and female brain functionality.

Scene is an all-in-one web workspace facilitating the entire design process from ideation to execution, powered by a true AI assistant, Muse. It allows for co-creation, offering a seamless design environment for teams and clients, and supports one-click website publishing with adaptable blocks. Aimed at enhancing productivity and creativity, it's made for freelancers, agencies, and brands.

UC Santa Cruz researchers created a large language model as efficient as lighting a bulb. By bypassing matrix multiplication, the billion-parameter model uses only 13 watts, over 50x more efficient than standard hardware, equalling state-of-the-art models like Meta’s Llama in performance.

Materials Nexus, a UK deep-tech company, has discovered a new rare-earth-free permanent magnet, named MagNex, using an AI platform. This AI-driven process was 200 times faster than traditional manual methods. MagNex offers a sustainable solution to the growing demand for powerful magnets in electric vehicles and various technologies, reducing material costs by 20% and carbon emissions by 70% in comparison to traditional rare earth magnets.

Firefox is incorporating generative AI features, starting with small-scale tests in Firefox Nightly. A recent update includes an AI-powered accessibility feature for generating alt-text locally, ensuring user privacy. Mozilla will also conduct an opt-in experiment for Nightly users, offering integrated AI services like ChatGPT and others in the browser sidebar for enhanced productivity.

Large language AI models described as 'open source', like those from Meta and Microsoft, are under scrutiny for not fully disclosing code and training data. A study by language scientists created a ranking to assess the openness of AI models, which has implications for the upcoming EU Artificial Intelligence Act. The most open models were found to be from smaller entities, contrasted with 'open-washing' practices of larger firms.