AI News & Launches

Lemni is a company dedicated to creating sustainable and eco-friendly products that help reduce environmental impact. With a focus on innovation, Lemni offers a variety of goods designed to promote a greener lifestyle and social responsibility.

AirTrackBot's Flight Price Predictor utilizes AI to provide reliable airfare predictions, helping users decide the best time to book flights to save money. It analyzes historical data, seasonality, and airline pricing patterns to forecast fare trends.

Continue.dev offers AI-enhanced development tools with custom code assistants, available via open-source IDE extensions. It supports various models and integrates with existing dev environments to enhance coding efficiency.

Voicepanel is the premier AI user research platform designed to streamline the process of gathering customer feedback through conversational surveys, in-app feedback, and usability testing. It helps teams get direct answers in minutes with features like multi-lingual support, built-in recruiting, interactive analysis, and SOC 2 Type II compliance for security.

Rapport offers AI-driven avatars and interactive character creation, featuring real-time lip sync, multiple language support, and emotional intelligence. They provide free access with Explorer tier and advanced features in the Creator tier. Integration with Unreal Engine and Speech Graphics technology enhances user experience.

PortalX is a central hub for technology enthusiasts and professionals looking to stay updated with the latest tech news, industry trends, and innovation insights. The site features a variety of resources, articles, and tools dedicated to the ever-evolving tech landscape.

Platus is a comprehensive financial platform that offers advanced investment tools and market analysis. Aimed at both individual and institutional investors, it provides real-time insights and an intuitive user interface to enhance investment strategies.

The GitHub repository deepseek-ai/profile-data publicly shares profiling data for training and inference frameworks, showcasing strategies for computational and communication overlap, mainly focusing on MoE layers within the DeepSeek infrastructure.

DualPipe is an advanced algorithm for bidirectional pipeline parallelism, reducing pipeline bubbles and increasing efficiency. Developed by DeepSeek-AI, it's accompanied by a technical report available on arXiv. The repo contains code, issues, and pull requests related to DualPipe implementation.

Colin Eberhardt discusses AI's biggest flaw as the 'blinking cursor problem', highlighting the gap between AI capabilities and user interface design. He explores how clunky UIs and lack of discoverability hinder AI's integration into daily life and suggests that future UIs should be more intuitive, guiding, and human-like to better engage users and leverage AI's full potential.

The 'fire_red_agent' GitHub repository by 'adenta' details an attempt to have an AI autonomously play Pokémon FireRed. The project presents an interesting combination of emulator integration, game memory management, and AI language model utilization.

ForeverVM offers a sessionless code interpreter that securely runs AI-generated code in stateful sandboxes. The platform features memory snapshots to resume inactive machines, improving resource usage and scalability. It supports interaction through REPL and has CLI tools distributed across package managers.

Journalists are being hired to train AI models for companies like Meta and OpenAI through gig work platforms like Outlier. Outlier recruits journalism graduates and experienced professionals to perform tasks like labeling data, testing prompts, and evaluating AI outputs for factual accuracy and grammar. Challenges include inconsistent work availability, payroll issues, and psychological tolls from sensitive content. Some journalists view this work as necessary for supplementing income, while others fear it could make their traditional roles obsolete.

Forage is an AI-powered email management tool designed to filter out low-priority emails and provide users with a clean, daily digest of newsletters with TLDRs. It's compatible with Gmail, learns user preferences, and allows customization through rules.

Poe has launched a new suite of applications called Poe Apps, enabling creators to build visual interfaces for workflows involving various AI models. The new platform allows for blending models with custom Javascript logic. Poe Apps integrate with chat interfaces and utilize a user's points for model calls. Creators can use the new App Creator or write their HTML and JavaScript to design their apps.

Wonder Family introduces 'Steve,' an AI that assists in launching an e-commerce business effortlessly. With a track record of success and industry expert backing, Steve enables users to manage and expand their online business with ease.

Basalt is a powerful tool that helps teams integrate AI into their products efficiently. It offers a no-code playground for crafting prompts, with co-pilot guidance, structured sections, and versioning. Users can test prompts at scale, evaluate performance, and track progress with evaluators and expert sessions. Deployment is simplified with the Basalt SDK, which includes features for monitoring and optimizing AI in production.

Power Agent AI is designed to empower real estate agents and brokers with AI-driven insights, support, and tools to enhance productivity and client engagement. It facilitates data analysis, manages tasks, and offers training resources.

Mochii.AI is an advanced AI ecosystem offering a suite of productivity tools including an AI-powered assistant, form filling, character customization, memories, and a chatbot builder. It supports various AI models for tasks like writing, design, coding, and teaching, all seamlessly integrated across multiple platforms.

Kapa.ai evaluates the implementation of OpenAI's o3-mini reasoning models within their Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Experiments revealed that reasoning does not equate to experience with retrieval tools, leading to mixed results in performance improvements over traditional RAG pipelines. Key domains where reasoning models showed promise include code generation.

AI-generated historical videos have been going viral on TikTok, sparking debate over their historical accuracy. While creators claim to bring history to life, historians like Dr. Amy Boyington and Dr. Hannah Platts have flagged significant inaccuracies and warned of potential manipulation of history. Despite the concerns, some see these videos as a gateway to spark curiosity in history.

DeepGEMM is a library for efficient FP8 General Matrix Multiplications (GEMMs) with fine-grained scaling on NVIDIA Hopper architecture, featuring a clean design with a core kernel of around 300 lines of CUDA code. It outperforms expert-tuned libraries across various matrix shapes without heavy reliance on templates or algebras.

Founding Full Stack AI Software Engineer position at Voker (YC S24) in Los Angeles, CA offering $120k-$140k with 1-2% equity. Full-time in-office role requiring at least 1 year as Senior Software Engineer and 4+ years total engineering experience. In-depth knowledge of AI, LLMs, and frameworks such as Langchain or OpenAI needed.

The article 'AI Is Blurring the Line Between PMs and Engineers' discusses how the rise of AI is changing the roles of product managers (PMs) and software engineers. PMs are increasingly involved in prompt engineering to specify AI behavior, while engineers may see more of their coding work automated by AI assistants.

A study suggests dogs may have domesticated themselves seeking consistent food from humans, supporting the self-domestication theory with a new model statistically validating natural selection as a plausible mechanism.

OpenAI has released a new Safari Extension for the ChatGPT app, allowing it to be used as the default search engine in Safari. This update redirects searches from the Safari search bar to ChatGPT's search feature instead of Google or other default search engines.

GibberLink is an open-source project on GitHub by PennyroyalTea showcasing two conversational AI agents that switch from English to sound-level protocol, with 1.4k stars and 89 forks.

Bethany Crystal describes how ChatGPT prompted her to seek emergency medical treatment after analyzing her symptoms and lab results. ChatGPT recognized her low platelet count, leading to a life-saving ER visit and highlighting the potential for AI in crisis intervention.

Federal employees are required to justify their jobs via email, which will be assessed by an AI system, raising concerns about its impact and the legal implications of the approach. President Trump praised the directive, which faces a backlash from unions, workers, and some agencies.

A Y Combinator-backed AI company, Optifye.ai, is under scrutiny for allegedly exploiting factory workers through AI technology that treats them as disposable automatons. Critics highlight the lack of empathy exhibited by the company's marketing and their focus on reducing stress for wealthy company owners at the expense of their workers' wellbeing.

A comprehensive list of GitHub repositories and projects integrating with DeepSeek AI API, covering various programming languages, tools, plugins, and applications.

Shift is an AI-powered text enhancement tool for macOS that allows instant editing of text or code across any application using advanced AI models. It features Quick Edit Mode, Context retention, Chat Mode, and Shortcuts for streamlined workflows. The app supports a variety of AI models with usage-based billing and is available for a monthly subscription with a free trial option.

Infra.new is an AI-powered copilot designed to assist with Cloud DevOps by providing real-time cost analysis, optimizing configurations, and generating infrastructure as code. Their service offers best-practice infrastructure advice, cost optimizations and detailed system architecture visualizations.

Fabi.ai's Analyst Agent is an AI-powered tool that enables self-service analytics by deploying specialized, domain-specific AI agents. It offers nearly 100% accuracy within defined domains and integrates seamlessly with various data sources, while providing advanced analysis capabilities with Python and Natural Language Processing Models.

ActiveLoop AI Chat is a platform designed to facilitate real-time communication with a focus on automation and AI-driven interactions. It offers a unique user experience aimed at boosting engagement and efficiency through its chat interface.

WanX 2.1 by Alibaba Cloud is an AI model that transforms text into 1080p videos in seconds, offering over 100 artistic styles, multilingual support, and advanced video generation with smart composition. Aimed at content creation, marketing, education, and cultural heritage enhancement, it enables ultra-fast processing, style versatility, and motion control.

Nbulatest.ai is an AI Testing platform for Automated AI Voice Agent Testing & Performance Analytics. It offers real-world simulation, automated testing, call analytics, and reporting to ensure agent reliability.

Zario is an AI-powered focus coach designed to increase focus and productivity by offering features such as app blocking, focus schedule, quick block, unlock time limit, and strict mode. The platform is aimed at improving digital wellbeing through effective screen time management.

Permit.io AI Access Control provides fine-grained permissions for AI-powered applications, offering structured prompt validation, identity-based access control, and secure AI interaction across multiple frameworks without coding requirements.

DeepEP is a communication library tailored for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and expert parallelism (EP), providing high-throughput and low-latency GPU kernels for efficient AI parallel processing tasks like MoE dispatch and combine.