AI News & Launches

Pixelmost is an AI-powered app design studio that provides designers, startups, and companies with a toolkit to create visually stunning app mockups and designs efficiently. It offers features like pre-designed components, AI-generated design suggestions, device frame previews, and cloud sync across Apple devices.

Dot is a personal AI created by Sam and her cofounder Jason to help reduce overwhelm for users by acting as an ultimate personal assistant. Over a year, Dot's capabilities grew from managing daily tasks to reflecting personal values and empowering self-growth. It's a reflection of the user's beliefs and helps in managing life changes, such as starting a family, by offering support and understanding.

Zebracat is an AI video creation platform that transforms text into professional videos quickly and efficiently. Perfect for marketers and content creators, it offers a diverse range of features like AI Scene Generator, text-to-speech, and AI Automated Editing, eliminating the need for costly freelancers or agencies.

Relay.app is an innovative and AI-powered automation platform designed to enhance productivity and simplify complex workflows. It features deep integration capabilities, AI actions, paths that can merge, and an intuitive user experience. Relay.app provides solutions for numerous functions including customer success, HR, marketing, and more.

Ozone.pro offers professional ozone treatment services for environmental and industrial applications, providing custom solutions that ensure safety, efficacy, and compliance with established standards.

DemoDazzle is an online boutique offering a curated collection of fashionable apparel and accessories. With a focus on trendy styles and quality, the store provides a seamless shopping experience.

Feedback provides AI-driven hotel analysis and sentiment tracking to help businesses harness the power of customer reviews. Improve customer engagement with actionable insights and competitive benchmarking.

AI-FLOW is an open-source platform offering a user-friendly drag and drop interface to connect multiple AI models easily. It allows innovators to integrate models like GPT-4, Claude, and Stable Diffusion to create custom AI tools quickly.

A group of hackers has successfully 'jailbroken' powerful artificial intelligence models in a global effort aimed at highlighting potential flaws. This underscores the increasing concerns around AI security and ethics.

Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML – Part 1, covers the basics of vector and matrix math, operations, and introduces PyTorch. With interactive quizzes and straightforward explanations, it provides a brief yet effective introduction to essential concepts in linear algebra tailored for AI and ML beginners.

The article 'My Kindle thinks I'm stupid now' by Leah Beckmann, guest-posting on Max Read's Substack, contemplates the strange phenomenon of receiving 'bedtime stories for kids and adults' ads and seemingly A.I. generated book recommendations on her Kindle. Beckmann humorously theorizes whether this shift reflected Amazon's perception of her intellectual capacity after a recent bout of parenthood-induced book purchases or if there's something more convoluted at play within the Kindle's recommendation algorithm, perhaps influenced by her search behavior or Amazon's content-generation strategies.

Colorado has enacted a first-in-the-nation law to regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence in pivotal decision-making processes in businesses, aiming to prevent bias and discrimination. This comprehensive legislation will require companies to inform individuals when an AI system is used and allow for correction of input data and filing complaints, although it stops short of individual litigations. With wide-ranging implications for industries like healthcare, housing, and employment, this regulation sets a foundation for transparency and ethics in AI deployment.

Nocket.io is an extension that simplifies the process of bookmarking, highlighting, and note-taking directly into Notion. It offers different plans with features like unlimited web page saving, AI summaries, and collaborative work support.

Featherless is a subscription-based AI model provider, offering access to a growing library of Hugging Face models, including LLaMA-3 and QWEN-2, with two main pricing plans of $10 and $25 per month for personal use. Models are uncapped in usage time and ensure privacy with no activity logs stored.

Revid.ai is an AI-driven video creation platform that enables users to create viral videos for platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok using simple text prompts. It offers a significant increase in video engagement and business growth, while allowing content creation in minutes.

Pygma is a personal AI social media manager offering a suite of tools including an AI generator for customized content, AI editor for photo editing, and scheduler for direct Instagram posting. It provides smart content planning and suggests post ideas to help grow your Instagram presence.

In her blog post, Amy Castor and David Gerard discuss the AI industry's pivot away from cryptocurrencies. They highlight the cycle of boom and bust in AI history, the current influx of venture capital funding in AI startups, and the privatization of AI winters. They argue that many AI claims are exaggerated and that much of AI development hinges on low-paid human labor. Furthermore, they suggest AI's predominant use case involves spam generation across various digital platforms, while also touching on the environmental impact of AI technologies.

tsellm is an open-source interactive SQLite shell that incorporates Language Model (LLM) support, enabling AI-enhanced database querying. The repository is actively maintained with features such as user-defined functions for SQLite queries, integration with various llm plugins, and a REPL-style shell for dynamic interaction. Usage instructions, installation guidelines, and development tips are provided in the README.

The article presents the top 9 libraries that significantly expedite the process of building Large Language Models (LLMs). It discusses the critical importance of engineering in LLM development and introduces tools for various project stages, including training, evaluation, deployment, and logging.

The Register posted an article explaining how to run a large language model (LLM) on a local PC rather than in the cloud in under 10 minutes. Utilizing tools like Ollama, one can easily set up LLMs on Windows, Linux, and Macs with support for Nvidia and M-series GPUs, and even AMD GPUs with specific guidelines.

James Stanley's blog post explores the 'user_machine' environment used by OpenAI, revealing details like usage of Debian 12, 1GB RAM, and 2 CPUs within a sandboxed system. He delves into processes, networking, and the web app's internals, gradually unpacking the ChatGPT-running system's operations. While he didn't identify any major vulnerabilities, he provided insights into file management and networking within the ChatGPT's Linux environment.

llama.ttf is an innovative font file that acts as a large language model and an inference engine. It uses the Harfbuzz font shaping engine and its Wasm shaper to execute arbitrary code for text shaping, which allows embedding an entire language model within a font. Users can run the LLM locally in any Harfbuzz-based application and engage with features like text generation without waiting for a vendor update. The 60 MB llama.ttf file can be downloaded and used like any other font in apps with compatible Harfbuzz and Wasm support.

Olaf Górski delves into the world of Vector Databases, comparing several based on his experience in a production project, highlighting the efficiency of the human brain over GPT-4 by millions times in terms of energy efficiency.

Sherloq is a centralized platform designed specifically for SQL users, providing tools for collaborative SQL query management and deeper analysis without the need for integrations. It offers features such as ad-hoc question answering, saved queries sharing, and a SQL repository for organizing team queries with tags, folders, and versions. Recognized with awards for its outstanding performance in data and analytics, Sherloq caters to data-driven enterprises and B2B SaaS companies by enhancing productivity and data security.

BloxGPT offers an AI-Driven Whiteboard solution that emphasizes real-time collaboration and multi-model AI capabilities. It provides a 'Pay-as-You-Go' pricing model without mandatory subscriptions, promoting flexibility and seamless team work. With offerings suited to individuals, teams, and large organizations, BloxGPT is a next-gen tool for idea organization and enhancement.

Intentional is an app designed to enhance productivity by enabling users to set goals for deep work sessions and blocking access to distracting websites, thus facilitating the achievement of a flow state.

Porosheets is an AI-powered educational platform designed to ease the creation of teaching resources for educators, support parents in tracking their children's academic progress, and help students self-test for better learning outcomes.

University of Washington researchers discovered that OpenAI's ChatGPT shows bias against resumes with disability-related credentials by ranking them lower. When directed not to be ableist, it reduced but didn't eliminate bias across disabilities. Research highlights need for awareness and improvement of AI hiring tools.

A study of 14 million PubMed abstracts from 2010-2024 revealed that the emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT impacted scientific literature by increasing the frequency of certain style words. At least 10% of the 2024 abstracts showed evidence of LLM usage, with the number climbing to 30% in some sub-corpora. The research highlights LLMs' influence, exceeding the significance of major global events like the Covid pandemic.

Microsoft insiders express concern that the company's focus on its partnership with OpenAI has led to less emphasis on Microsoft's own services and a departure of executives. The Azure AI team, primarily supporting OpenAI's GPT models, has repurposed its services, raising questions about the direction of innovation within Microsoft.

Sheryl Crow shares her viewpoint on the use of Artificial Intelligence in music, voicing her concerns over its potential impact on society and the humanity of artists. She discusses the unethical aspects of resurrecting artists like Tupac using AI and stresses the unique value of live performances.

Louie Mantia shared a critical perspective on training AI with online content, opposing the prevalent 'opt-out' approach. He emphasizes that owning content does not imply permission for AI training, highlighting issues with unauthorized content sharing and lack of control over content use on platforms outside of one's control.

ForVoyez offers an AI-powered API to automate the generation of SEO-optimized alt texts, titles, and captions for images, streamlining workflow for developers and enhancing search engine visibility.

MakePodcast.io is a powerful AI-powered podcast creation tool that streamlessly crafts professional podcasts in minutes. It uses OpenAI TTS and ElevenLabs Voices to turn scripts into audio content, offering a variety of voices, multilingual support, and the ability to integrate users' own voices.

Ascenscia is an AI voice assistant designed to integrate with laboratory software and machines for hands-free interactions, aiming to automate data collection, optimize workflows, and accelerate R&D cycles. It enables scientists to control data accessibility, capturing, inventory management, and perform additional tasks through voice commands.

KnoWhiz is an e-learning platform designed to help users learn various topics more effectively. It offers a personalized learning experience with tools like flashcards, structured modules, quizzes, and tests. With a range of plans, from Basic to Premium, users can choose an option that fits their learning style and goals, facilitating growth and knowledge acquisition in subjects like Criminal Law, Psychology, and Chemistry.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is innovating with a new method of advanced chip packaging to meet the surging demand for AI computing power. The world's largest chipmaker is collaborating with suppliers to develop this technology, which is expected to take several years before it hits the market.

An exploratory look at using frontier LLMs (Generative AI) for designing circuit boards, revealing their utility in pulling data from datasheets and generating code, yet indicating limitations in complex design decision-making.

Maximus-AI is an all-in-one AI Generator designed for effortless content creation. It offers intelligent tools for generating images, chat conversations, written content, code, speech-to-text transcriptions, and voiceovers. With the promise of increasing conversion rates and supercharging creative processes, it serves as a versatile digital tool.

Tellers.ai is an AI-powered video editing platform that turns text, articles, or stories into videos rapidly. It leverages machine learning to provide controllable video editing without the need for prior expertise, enabling users to reach new audiences and improve SEO.