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5 months ago
XLSTM code release by NX-AI

xLSTM is a new RNN architecture that aims to improve upon the original LSTM by incorporating Exponential Gating, normalization, stabilization techniques, and a new Matrix Memory. It demonstrates enhanced performance on Language Modeling tasks compared to Transformers or State Space Models.

5 months ago
Superfast Microsoft AI is first to predict air pollution for the whole world

Microsoft has developed an AI model named Aurora that can accurately predict both weather and air pollution globally in under a minute. The breakthrough AI requires significantly less computational power and can predict levels of six major air pollutants over five days.

5 months ago
EnchantedPages.Ai

Enchanted Pages is an innovative platform utilizing artificial intelligence to provide personalized reading experiences. Offering a vast digital library, the site caters to avid readers of fantasy genres, ensuring access to a world of magic and adventure at their fingertips.

5 months ago
The #1 AI Product Description Generator for Ecommerce

WriteText.ai is a leading AI-powered product description generator that seamlessly integrates with WooCommerce, Magento, and Shopify. Offering unique features like keyword analysis, semantic suggestions, multilingual support, and a Chrome extension, it streamlines the content creation workflow for e-commerce platforms. Additionally, WriteText.ai provides a no-download trial and a savings calculator to demonstrate time and cost efficiency.

5 months ago
Second V2

Second.dev is an AI-powered platform for enterprise codebase maintenance, offering automated migrations and codebase intelligence. It helps engineering teams crush their backlogs by automating routine tasks and allowing them to focus on innovation.

5 months ago
OrgaNice

OrgaNice is an AI-powered HR platform designed for Slack-first teams, offering features like an org chart, birthday & anniversary celebrations, time off tracking, and engagement surveys to foster a connected and organized company culture.

5 months ago
Exante

Exante offers an AI-Powered Contract Repository aiming to provide enhanced visibility, streamline contract management, and deliver actionable insights for businesses. Designed with user-friendliness in mind, it offers automated data extraction, a centralized contract dashboard, and a personal AI assistant for contract-related queries.

5 months ago
Formshare

Formshare transforms the way you create forms by providing a platform to build free, conversational AI forms without coding. It offers an intuitive, natural language-based form creation experience with unlimited forms and responses.

5 months ago
Fliki

Fliki is an AI-powered tool that turns text into videos with AI voices. It provides a simple editor, fast creation, cost-effective solutions, and requires no technical skills.

5 months ago
Why camera calibration is so important in computer vision

This article on OpenCV.ai discusses the importance of camera calibration in computer vision, detailing how cameras capture the world and the need to correct lens distortions to extract meaningful insights. Techniques for calibrating cameras are outlined, including the use of a calibration template and addressing complex scenarios like high-mounted cameras or those in inaccessible locations.

5 months ago
New AI system detects rare epileptic seizures

USC researchers developed an AI system that identifies epilepsy by analyzing brain interactions, enhancing the diagnosis of rare seizure types. Presenting at the PAKDD conference, the system showed a 12% improvement over existing models, leveraging spatial relationships and less data for analysis.

5 months ago
Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows' New Recall AI

Microsoft's new AI tool, Windows Recall, is designed to take screenshots every five seconds to enable a natural language search of users' activities on their PCs. However, security experts warn that the tool's unencrypted database makes it vulnerable to abuse. Ethical hacker Alex Hagenah demonstrated that with his tool TotalRecall, one can extract all data recorded by Windows Recall, raising significant privacy concerns.

5 months ago
Nvidia and Salesforce double down on AI startup Cohere in $450M round

Canadian AI startup Cohere raised $450 million, backed by Nvidia and Salesforce Ventures, aiming for a $5 billion valuation. The previous valuation was $2.2 billion, and they reported $35 million in annualized revenue by March end. Cohere competes with AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

5 months ago
No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making strides

AI weather forecasting is significantly advancing as it may revolutionize predictions during the impending historic hurricane season. Utilizing extensive data sets like the publicly available ERA5, AI models provide superior outputs to traditional methods, some already surpassing decades-old global weather models without needing powerful supercomputers.

5 months ago
Show HN: Shortbread App – AI-powered, romantic comics for women

Shortbread, presented by Kurukuru Inc., offers bite-sized comics perfect for indulging in the most tantalizing, binge-worthy stories on the go. Available for mobile devices, Shortbread serves up a diverse array of comics anytime and anywhere, easily accessible through both iOS and Android platforms.

5 months ago
Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?

Scott Arciszewski's blog post discusses the often undefined threat model for Encryption At Rest, focusing on web and cloud applications. He highlights the importance of clearly understanding the risks and the limitations of full disk encryption, which does not protect against an online attacker accessing application or database software. The post emphasizes the need for client-side encryption and proper key management, as well as the dangers of 'confused deputy' attacks, which can be mitigated by context-binding mechanisms.

5 months ago
Security researcher discovers Microsoft's Recall tool is woefully insecure

A security researcher found Microsoft's newly introduced AI feature, Windows Recall, on Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs, to be insecure. The data collected by Recall is stored locally and is unencrypted when a user is logged in. Although encrypted when logged out, the data is vulnerable to malware attacks when the user is active, raising security concerns.

5 months ago
Domestic Violence Statute Matcher

StatuteMatcher.org is an AI-powered platform providing real-time legal resources tailored for domestic violence survivors. It offers seamless statute matching to aid legal advocacy and is free, bilingual, and maintains anonymity. Not a substitute for professional legal advice.

5 months ago
apna AI

apna AI is India's premier multilingual generative AI app that aims to bring the AI revolution to India. It is supported by Invenics, offering tools to embrace AI technologies.

5 months ago
ChatGPT Is Down

ChatGPT service faced an outage, and OpenAI has identified and is mitigating the issue. Users were first notified of the problem as the team began investigating, followed by an identification and ongoing fix updates.

5 months ago
MailMaestro

MailMaestro is an AI email assistant compatible with Outlook and Gmail designed to help users write better emails faster, offering a 2-week free trial without the need for a credit card. Trusted by professionals, it provides a range of features for quick, high-quality, and personalized email composition with enterprise-grade security.

5 months ago
Clixie AI

Clixie AI offers an interactive video platform that transforms traditional video and audio content into engaging interactive experiences with quizzes, chapters, bookmarks, and more. Its no-code solution caters to corporate training, sales, education, and continuing education, fostering deeper student involvement and providing insightful data analytics for learning improvements.

5 months ago
DevRev Customer Experience AI Agent

DevRev offers a customer support and product experience platform powered by AI, providing self-service support and personalized search capabilities for websites and apps.

5 months ago
Time Tracking for Jira by Standuply

Time tracking standups - Jira Timesheets & Resource Planner by Standuply, Inc. is designed for Jira Cloud with an aim to automate time tracking, enhance workflow integration, and improve project deadline management. It offers AI-driven features for dynamic resource planning and task management within Slack and Microsoft Teams.

5 months ago
Underlord by Descript

Underlord by Descript is an AI-powered editing assistant positioned within Descript, providing a variety of tools for video and podcast editing, transcription, and creative content generation. It simplifies audio and video editing processes and enhances content with features like AI voices and automatic retake removal.

5 months ago
Roundtable Alias

Roundtable AI offers an easy-to-integrate API solution for cleaning survey data. It saves manual work by auto-flagging suspicious responses, supports real-time behavioral tracking, and has multilingual functionality. The platform is trusted by industry leaders and designed for speed and scalability, with over 5 million open-ends analyzed.

5 months ago
Roast My Design

Roast My Design offers a free AI-powered design audit service where users can upload their design images and receive an AI-generated critique. This platform allows designers to get quick feedback on their work.

5 months ago
Circled

Circled is a platform designed to facilitate community engagement and management, offering tools for content organization, member collaboration, and subscription-based monetization.

5 months ago
OAM AI

OAM AI is a virtual concierge service designed to manage guest inquiries and property operations for AirBNB hosts and hoteliers. Offering seamless check-in and check-out, a reference library, instant recommendations, multi-lingual support, and a central mission control dashboard, OAM aims to reduce the workload on property managers for just $5 a month.

5 months ago
Kroolo

Kroolo is an AI-powered productivity platform designed to optimize team performance and efficiency. It offers over 80 features, including project management tools, document generation and summarization with AI, task assignment and management, and integration with 20+ apps, all with a workspace tailored to various needs. The platform facilitates agile project coordination, goal setting with OKR, chat functions, and team collaborations without requiring a credit card for its free tier.

5 months ago
Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security 'disaster'

Windows 11’s new AI-powered Recall feature, set to launch on June 18th, is criticized for potential security flaws. It takes snapshots of everything users do, stores data in plain text, and may allow malware to scrape data, warned cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont.

5 months ago
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle

The article by Narayanan and Kapoor warns against over-reliance on AI in scientific research due to issues with hype and flawed methodology leading to non-reproducible results. They discuss the prevalence of data leakage and other errors, highlighting the need for better practices and scrutiny in using AI as a tool, rather than an oracle.

5 months ago
SnapMagic (YC S15), the AI copilot for electronics, is hiring a PM

SnapMagic is seeking a Technical Project Manager for their San Mateo, CA office offering $130K-$180K/year. The role includes leadership in software project sprints, communications with stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement. Candidates should have 5+ years of project management experience.

5 months ago
Trellis (YC W24) is hiring Founding-Eng to build ETL for unstructured data with AI

Trellis, an AI-powered platform akin to Snowflake for unstructured data, is seeking a Founding Engineer with 3+ years experience and expertise in backend development and ML infrastructure. Offering a salary range of $110K to $225K with equity options, the role seeks individuals with skills in languages like Python or Go, and familiar with ML/NLP libraries. The position is based in San Francisco, CA.

5 months ago
Mamba-2 – State Space Duality

Tri Dao's recent blog post introduces Mamba-2, enhancing the earlier State Space Model (SSM) with a Structured State Space Duality (SSD) approach for efficiently processing sequences in deep neural networks. Key advancements include linear computation in SSM mode and efficient matrix multiplication in SSD mode, which enables larger state dimensions and faster training. Mamba-2's dual mode algorithm combines both approaches during training for high efficiency.

6 months ago
Linkz.ai 3.0

Linkz.ai provides live link previews to enhance user engagement, reduce bounce rates, and improve website performance. Installation is simple and quick, with just one line of code. The service includes rich previews for popular URLs and analytics with the premium plans.

6 months ago
Deepshot 2.0

Deepshot 2.0 is a cutting-edge software offering fully customizable dialogue generation and replacement, revolutionizing the way professional videos are produced. With features like multilingual translation, A/B content testing, and easy error correction, Deepshot streamlines video production for creators.

6 months ago
Advomate

Advomate is an AI-powered platform that automates legal processes such as research generation, document review, and working with legislation and case law, helping legal professionals work more efficiently.

6 months ago
CEOs could easily be replaced with AI, experts argue

Experts debate the feasibility of replacing CEOs with AI, arguing that many of a CEO's tasks are data-driven and could be handled by AI. Phoebe Moore and Anant Agarwal contribute to the debate, with some CEOs already relying on AI like ChatGPT for decision-making. Despite the potential for bias and flaws, the trend towards AI leadership, exemplified by companies like Dictador, continues to grow.

6 months ago
AMD Instinct MI325X in Q4 2024, 288GB of HBM3E

At Computex 2024, AMD announced an accelerated pace for data center AI innovation with an expanded Instinct GPU roadmap. The AMD Instinct MI325X accelerator will be available in Q4 2024, featuring 288GB of HBM3E memory. Following in 2025, the MI350 series based on AMD CDNA 4 architecture is expected to bring a 35x generational increase in AI inference performance. Dr. Lisa Su highlighted the annual cadence of leadership AI performance and memory capabilities that each generation will deliver.

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