AI News & Launches

The Harvard Library Innovation Lab has released WARC-GPT, an open-source tool leveraging AI to explore web archives. WARC-GPT uses Retrieval Augmented Generation to create chatbots informed by web archive files, enabling natural language exploration of archived content without relying on traditional keyword searches.

EverLearns offers a 100% FREE Mindmap Generator, ideal for content creators, educators, and parents to visualize ideas effortlessly. Generate mindmaps in 5 minutes with the aid of AI, enhancing course creation efficiency.

Luxi.ai is an AI-powered virtual assistant platform designed to enhance customer support and streamline business workflows through advanced AI technology and natural language processing.

Research indicates AI may hit a bottleneck in intelligence as companies like OpenAI are depleting available human-written training data. With diminishing new content and lawsuits over data use, AI advancement could stall. Larger models like GPT-4 may exhaust data sources by 2026, while training on AI-generated data could lead to quality erosion, creating an 'autophagous loop.' Despite challenges, efficiency improvements in AI could negate the need for vast training data.

Adobe's new Terms of Service have sparked concerns among users that their unpublished and in-progress projects might be used to train AI models, with vague language suggesting the usage of automated systems like machine learning for improving Adobe's services. An update clarifies that unpublished user content is not used for training AI.

The CHERIoT RTOS scheduler has transitioned to a tickless model, improving efficiency by calculating the next required scheduling decision and only requesting timer interrupts when necessary. The tickless approach led to unexpected slower performance in the test suite, which was resolved by refining the `thread_sleep` API to differentiate between yielding and sleeping. This resulted in a 30% faster test suite completion, with anticipated benefits for other workloads.

Promptframes combine wireframing with AI prompt writing to accelerate user testing and refine UX design. These deliverables help create realistic content faster for prototypes, replacing the outdated lorem ipsum. The approach promotes efficient ideation, better collaboration, and insightful feedback for iterative design.

CodeAid, an LLM-based programming assistant, aims to balance student learning with AI help. Co-created by Austin Z. Henley and Majeed Kazemitabaar, this tool provides non-direct responses to programming-related inquiries without revealing solutions. Deployed in a C programming class of 700, CodeAid underwent a comprehensive assessment to gauge its effectiveness in educational settings.

LSP-AI is an open-source language server backend expanding AI functionalities into popular code editors. It integrates completion tools with large language models, focusing on assistance rather than replacement of software engineers.

NotezAI is a smart note-taking assistant that elevates the process of recording and organizing notes. With features like instant audio-to-text conversion, smart summaries, and ease of organizing notes, NotezAI serves as an invaluable tool for professionals and students alike.

ColdHunt is an AI-powered platform designed to help users generate hyper-personalized cold DMs for Instagram, enhancing their outreach capabilities. The service offers plans to suit various needs, from hobbyists to businesses, with a free tier available. Advanced features include scraping Instagram profiles for targeting, unlimited Instagram accounts support, and bulk messaging.

Travel Echo is an AI-powered phrasebook that translates conversations into 100+ languages, helping travelers and explorers communicate in different parts of the world.

CleanerPro is an AI-powered Shopify application designed for e-commerce store owners to enhance their product images. Users can remove unwanted objects, enhance image resolution, compress image weight for better performance, and remove backgrounds with simple clicks.

Microsoft's and Google's AI chatbots, Copilot and Gemini respectively, are steering clear of providing answers to questions about who won the 2020 US presidential election, instead redirecting users to other search tools. Even historical and global election results are off the table for these chatbots. While competitors like ChatGPT-4 and Meta's Llama offer direct answers, Google and Microsoft remain cautious, especially amidst the spread of election misinformation.

The article discusses GPT-4o's process of encoding high-res images into tiles and posits speculative CNN architectures for the transformation. It questions the number 170 used by OpenAI for token counting and suggests strategies such as pyramid strategy for image encoding. Finally, it explores GPT-4o's approach towards OCR and its handling of alpha channels in images.

LaterCut is an AI-powered video tool designed for social media content creators, enabling them to ship shorts 10x faster. It offers a variety of templates geared towards different use cases like podcast shortening, chat voiceovers, and more, providing a three-step process for creating engaging videos for platforms like Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.

The blog discusses AI's role in Google's software engineering, presenting recent advancements in AI-powered tools like code completion, review comment resolution, and adapting pasted code. It highlights the effectiveness and productivity gains from these tools and outlines anticipated future enhancements.

Driver AI is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to enhance their web application using Next.js, React, Vercel, and Tailwind CSS. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience and will join a distributed team across US time zones, working on performance optimization and integration with backend systems.

U.S. regulators, including the Justice Department and the FTC, have agreed to launch antitrust investigations into Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia. This decision aims to scrutinize the dominant roles of these players in the artificial intelligence industry.

Dragonfly, a new vision-language model, uses a breakthrough multi-resolution zoom-and-select architecture to enhance visual understanding. It achieves improved performance on commonsense visual QA and image captioning benchmarks.

Discover how 'structlog' enhances LLM app observability without specialized tools. Eduardo Blancas explains a simple yet effective monitoring approach using JSON logs and thread-local context to provide robust monitoring for LLM-powered apps.

Qwen2 is an evolution of the Qwen1.5 language model, featuring pretrained and instruction-tuned models in multiple sizes, state-of-the-art performance across benchmarks, significant improvements in coding and mathematics, and extended context length support. It is trained on a diverse set of languages, with enhanced multilingual and code-switching capabilities. The models are open-sourced, and the team encourages community collaboration.

The article highlights what industry leaders are calling the 'most exciting moment' in technology since the advent of WiFi. It centers on the introduction of AI capabilities in personal computers, marking a significant milestone in computing and technology markets.

This article presents arguments for a sui generis right to not be subjected to AI profiling using publicly available data, emphasizing the risks of social control, stigmatization, and impact on personal autonomy and democratic processes.

Ainave Community is a BETA platform for AI enthusiasts to share knowledge, get inspired, and discover breakthrough ideas. It offers discussions on various AI-related topics, trending themes, and lists the best tools in the field.

Redev at uimagine.io offers a service to transform ideas into design and code. Clients can describe their ideas, attach screenshots, and explain styles to receive both the UI/UX design and the implemented code.

SleepyTales is an innovative platform offering AI-powered bedtime stories designed to help improve users' sleep experience. By leveraging artificial intelligence, it creates personalized and immersive narratives to aid relaxation and promote a restful night's sleep.

BeeDone is celebrating its launch, offering a productivity and task management desktop app. You can access it through the provided desktop app link or open the link directly in your browser.

Zendesk AI Alternative, My AskAI, offers affordable AI customer support integrated into Zendesk's live chat widget. Compared to Zendesk's AI, My AskAI is 5-10 times cheaper, with AI conversations costing $0.10 each, allowing for significant cost savings.

BeeDone is a gamified AI task management app designed to help users crush tasks, maintain habits, and stay productive. The app offers features like task metadata generation, flexible habit systems, and productivity tournaments, available in freemium and premium plans.

Riffo is your AI helper designed to save hours of file organization guesswork. This easy-to-use tool is embedded in your menubar for one-click use, supports most file formats, and allows for batch renaming with custom naming conventions. Try it now!

Go Eliza offers a platform with various services, including a referral program, the ability to sign up for an account and a newsletter subscription.

Perfect Wiki is an AI-powered help center integrated into Microsoft Teams, designed to help teams effortlessly manage company knowledge with features such as SOPs, FAQs, manuals, and AI chatbot responses. It offers weekly AI-generated reports, customizable knowledge bases for each department and team, and language-responsive answer generation.

AI Summary Helper is a Chrome extension that allows users to generate AI-powered summaries for web content. It integrates with Send To Kindle, providing personalized summaries for on-the-go reading.

Databutton is an AI-powered platform that allows users to build and deploy SaaS products rapidly. Offering a natural language interface for app creation, users without programming expertise can ship their ideas in days, utilizing APIs and AI services.

Microsoft caught state-backed hackers using its AI tools for cyberattacks, raising concerns about online privacy and the shifting baseline of what's considered acceptable surveillance by cloud service providers. The trend parallels overfishing in oceans, where generative AI tools track users to improve services and sell ads.

The article presents a compelling argument for the plausibility of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by 2027, based on the rapid progression from GPT-2 to GPT-4, discussing trends in compute, algorithmic efficiencies, and 'unhobbling' gains that could lead to another significant leap in AI capabilities.

Writer AI Studio is an AI development platform, providing AI apps and workflows integration, utilizing Developer Tools, Graph-Based RAG Technology, and AI Guardrails for creating, governing, and analyzing generated content. It ensures data privacy and enables app customization.

Stable Audio Open has been introduced as an open source model for generating brief audio samples and sound effects. Designed for creatives in music and sound design, it allows generation of up to 47 seconds of audio from text prompts, including drum beats, ambient sounds, and more.

This paper, titled 'To Believe or Not to Believe Your LLM', delves into uncertainty quantification in large language models (LLMs). It aims to detect unreliability in model outputs by focusing on epistemic and aleatoric uncertainties.