AI News & Launches

CreatorKit offers a tool called Emotive AI Actors for generating user-generated content (UGC) and video ads that feature real emotions for improved authenticity and higher conversions. The service provides AI voices capable of speaking any language, dozens of AI actors, and the ability to create affordable UGC at scale.

GitHub Spark is an innovative AI-powered platform aimed at enabling users to build and share personalized micro apps aptly named 'sparks'. Built with a managed runtime, a natural language based editor, and a shareable, remixable app ecosystem, it ushers in a new era of personal software customization without the need to write or deploy code.

Sharefable offers AI-powered interactive product demos, tailored to engage prospects and boost conversions. Their platform is designed for easy creation, organization, and sharing of demos, receiving high praise on G2 with a 4.9 rating.

Trove provides real-time merchant intelligence by deciphering financial transactions, offering insights into user spending patterns. With a developer-first approach, it enriches data with details such as merchant identities and geolocation.

Introducing Hiring Assistant, a new AI agent by LinkedIn Talent Solutions that automates time-consuming hiring tasks, helping recruiters focus on the human aspects of their job. It offers candidate sourcing, admin management, and provides proactive updates.

Browser AI Kit presents a collection of AI-powered tools that run directly in your web browser, offering features such as Audio to Text, Remove Background, and Text to Speech. The platform prides itself on convenience, security, multifunctionality, and being free of charge.

Jay F. discusses his failed ticket scalping startup, aimed at predicting concert ticket prices using data science. Despite creating a sophisticated data model and infrastructure, he faced technical challenges, stiff competition from professional brokers, and moral conflicts. The venture didn't succeed, providing him with insights into the industry's flaws and the importance of infrastructure in arbitrage operations.

DeepSeek has launched version 2.5 with enhanced general and coding capabilities, outperforming major AI models in machine learning benchmarks. It offers API access and improved web interaction at competitive pricing and supports 128K context length. The newest iteration secures top places in AI leaderboards and comes with open-source availability.

Trieve offers an all-in-one search solution that includes semantic vector search, full-text search, and AI-powered recommendations and analytics. Providing both API and no-code solutions, it enables the swift setup of industry-leading search in 30 minutes. Trieve is built on open-source models, with the option for self-hosting.

Hamel Husain's blog provides a comprehensive guide for AI teams on streamlining AI evaluation using the concept of Critique Shadowing. The post outlines a step-by-step method to build an LLM-as-a-Judge system that aligns with business goals by involving principal domain experts, generating diverse datasets, and iteratively refining the evaluation process. Emphasizing simple metrics, expert critiques, and error analysis, the blog details how careful data examination rather than complex judges creates business value.

LlamaPReview is an AI-powered GitHub PR Review Assistant offering 1-click install, automatic PR review with contextual analysis, support for all major languages, and is currently totally free.

Stanford University's Hazy Research released improvements to ThunderKittens, offering faster, more efficient kernels and cute quirks. Their work enhances computing for new architectures, emphasizing the performance advances in attention architecture and integration of demo models.

Intel is innovating with AI Flame Graphs, visualizing AI and GPU hardware profiles alongside the software stack to potentially reduce US power usage significantly. The tool is previewed on the Intel Tiber AI Cloud and showcases performance issues in AI accelerators for optimization.

Wand is an AI-powered drawing app designed for iOS that transforms sketches into fully-rendered artwork within seconds. It also offers real-time editing and style customization geared for artists. The app includes features like a custom brush engine, multi-layer support, and secure private models. It's designed to enhance creativity, save time, and help artists learn faster.

MightyDocs is a MacOS-based AI assistant that provides accurate answers from the latest developer documentation, tailored for specific tech stacks. It interacts with your computer locally, ensuring privacy and immediacy of information, without sending data to external servers.

Renamify is an online service designed to help businesses find the perfect name for their brand. With a creative algorithm, it generates unique and memorable suggestions based on keywords provided by the users. It offers quick and easy solutions for brand naming challenges.

DeepBrain AI Studios is an all-in-one platform offering realistic AI avatars, natural text-to-speech, and a suite of powerful video editing tools. It transforms text to video with multi-language support, creating customized video messages and scalable content with real-time conversational avatars.

Dabarqus offers an innovative framework named RAG for Retrieval Augmented Generation, tailor-made to make private data accessible to AI language models in real-time. It simplifies the integration process with features like LLM-style prompting, multiple memory banks, REST API, native SDKs for Python and JavaScript, and LLM-friendly outputs.

More than 25% of new code at Google is generated by AI according to CEO Sundar Pichai. This AI-generated code boosts efficiency and productivity. Despite fears of job loss, the AI enhances employees' capability to work faster and do more.

A study predicts generative AI could produce between 1.2 and 5.0 million metric tons of e-waste by the end of the decade, due to outdated AI hardware in data centers. Calls for a circular economy approach are highlighted.

Stratechery's article on 'Meta's AI Abundance' by Ben Thompson details Meta's advantageous position in leveraging generative AI for its advertising and content. Thompson argues that Meta's use of machine learning for targeted ads, paired with AI-driven creative generation, could transform digital advertising, also noting the potential of AI content in user feeds. Moreover, related burgeoning AI capabilities may intensify Meta's aggregator role, affecting infinite content generation and user interface in XR technology.

Lasso AI leverages artificial intelligence to enhance sales opportunities by providing verified contact data for businesses with a web presence, LinkedIn page, and at least one employee. With its dynamic contact discovery and industry-leading accuracy, it promises a substantial increase in revenue for sales teams.

Integuru is an AI-powered agent specializing in building third-party integrations by reverse engineering platforms' internal APIs. The project provides a framework for analyzing network requests and generating Python code to automate web actions. It is an open-source initiative designed to assist developers in creating custom integration solutions.

timeOS is an AI-powered notepad extension designed to bring efficiency to online meetings by automatically organizing meeting notes into structured insights, assigning tasks, and creating summaries. It supports popular platforms like Google Meet and Zoom.

Sourcely v2 is an AI-powered tool for finding academic sources quickly and efficiently. It offers access to over 200 million papers and features advanced search filters, the ability to summarize and export citations, and a personal library to organize references. Designed for students to save time and improve research quality, plans start at $17/month, with credits available from $7.

Aptitude AI provides a platform to conduct AI-moderated interviews for scaled customer research, offering features such as custom study design, automated data analysis, and comprehensive insights for diverse use cases including churn interviews, concept testing, and usability testing.

Dashworks provides an intuitive API that makes it easier for developers to integrate various features into their applications. Their support documentation offers guides on getting started, customizing, and administering different aspects of the service.

Fables.gg offers immersive AI-powered adventures with a platform for playing D&D 5e inspired campaigns. Key features include a virtual AI game master named Franz, world-building tools, multiplayer support, and automatic tracking of game elements. Over 70,000 campaigns have been played on the platform, which is touted as an alternative to the traditional tabletop setting.

Code Spoonfeeder is a tool that helps combine all codes from a project folder into a single text file, with a maximum limit of 500MB. It features a drag-and-drop interface for easy file processing, ensuring that no files are stored and all processing is done securely.

The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ upgrade introduces two models, a 13 TOPS for $70 and a 26 TOPS for $110, both featuring Hailo AI accelerators. Its high compute power enables efficient local LLMs for real-time language processing without cloud dependency, enhancing privacy and edge AI applications.

Kyle Corbitt from OpenPipe shares his exploration of using Reinforcement Learning (RL) and a budget of $4.80 in GPU time to predict the best performing Hacker News posts. The technique, called RL from human feedback (RLHF), uses a reward model to predict the potential success of HN stories based on upvote counts. The first part of the blog post details building the reward model, identifying a dataset, training the model, and analyzing results.

Chris Constantine from Recall.ai details the troubleshooting process of a peculiar bug causing audio artifacts in their system. After a rapid growth in infrastructure, their migration away from Kubernetes resulted in customers hearing popping noises in captured audio. A complex debugging journey led to identifying excessive debug logs as the source, overwhelming a virtual serial device and inadvertently starving the CPU required for clear audio processing.

GDDR7 is poised to supercharge AI inference with high bandwidth and low latency. Released by JEDEC in March, it features up to 48 GT/s rates and 192 GB/s throughput per device. With PAM3 encoding and reliability features like on-die ECC and CAPARBLK, GDDR7 outperforms GDDR6 and will play a crucial role in the next-gen AI accelerators and GPUs.

Chat2DB is an open-source, cross-platform AI-driven database tool that simplifies database management and SQL optimizations. It provides optimal SQL generation, data security features, and supports various databases, including MySQL and MongoDB.

M9 Developer introduces an on-device coding copilot designed to automate over 95% of development tasks directly within your existing IDE. With a focus on security, quality, and contextual understanding, it enables the creation of tests, documentation, and code improvements, all while ensuring data privacy with on-prem or self-hosted solutions.

Canonical AI offers powerful analytics for voice AI systems, providing insights into call journeys, metrics, and quality evaluation. Access real-time data on signal-to-noise ratios, words per minute, voice latency, and interruptions to improve performance.

Correctly is an AI-powered keyboard layout fixer that automatically detects and corrects typing mistakes due to wrong keyboard layout usage. It supports multiple languages and customization.

Upsolve AI is a sophisticated tool that assists companies in building AI-powered, customer-facing analytics solutions with ease. It offers a variety of features such as effortless visualization, guided action, and seamless connection, aimed at simplifying the creation and deployment of analytics dashboards.

APIPark is an open-source AI gateway and API developer portal, offering services for easy management, integration, and deployment of AI services. It simplifies AI usage, enhances API lifecycle management, and provides high-performance solutions.

Moneo AI by Alva Industries offers predictive maintenance solutions, leveraging advanced algorithms to analyze machine data for optimizing industrial operations and reducing downtime. It transforms vast amounts of IoT data into actionable insights using machine learning.