AI News & Launches

Omi is a centralized platform for managing finances, contracts, and vendors, offering simplified onboarding, powerful controls, and integration with existing procurement tech stacks.

Namify is an AI-powered brand name generator that offers users a robust suite of tools to create unique and memorable brand names for various types of businesses. It provides checks for domain availability, social media usernames, and trademarks, along with a free logo for domain purchases.

OpenAI partners with Oracle and Microsoft to expand the Azure AI platform onto Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, bringing additional capacity to support OpenAI's extensive user base and AI innovation. The collaboration will leverage OCI's superior AI infrastructure to meet growing demand and advance AI developments.

Elon Musk has withdrawn his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. The lawsuit was originally filed in California state court over a breach of contract and fiduciary duty related to the transformation of OpenAI into a for-profit entity. The case was built on a questionable legal foundation and was dismissed without prejudice.

General Catalyst has co-led a €600M Series B funding round for Mistral AI, underscoring the company's significant impact on the AI sector since its inception one year prior. Emphasizing Mistral's European roots and open approach to AI, General Catalyst sees Mistral as a torchbearer for product innovation and a driver for transformative AI technology.

At WWDC, Apple announced their partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT natively to iOS 18. In a follow-up interview, Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea discussed Apple's AI ambitions, including a potential future integration with Google Gemini.

An insightful explanation about the importance of the attention mechanism in generative models, detailing how it is central to advancements in AI model capabilities.

Coqui TTS (Text-to-Speech) is an open-source deep learning toolkit for generating speech from text. It includes state-of-the-art models, tools for training new models, and utilities for dataset analysis and curation. It is battle-tested in both research and production environments.

Researchers from Meta, USC, CMU, and UC San Diego open-sourced MEGALODON, an LLM with unlimited context length. The model, which has computational efficiency and better performance on various benchmarks compared to Llama 2, employs chunk-wise attention and sequence-based parallelism.

AI-generated 'slop' content plagues the web, masquerading as human-made and creating an overload of useless information. Developers and tech experts are concerned about its impact and are discussing ways to differentiate and manage AI-sourced material.

Apple unveils its comprehensive AI strategy at WWDC 2024, showcasing on-device models, privacy-centric cloud computing, and third-party model integration. Apple Silicon drives on-device and data center AI, challenging Nvidia's dominance and presenting a partnership with limited benefits for OpenAI. Siri is set to experience a 'ChatGPT moment' with enhanced AI agent features.

Invisibility Inc. offers a productivity app with AI integration, letting users control interactions through keyboard shortcuts and providing unlimited access to the latest AI models without multiple subscriptions.

Soloist.ai offers a seamless platform to launch a coaching website without the need for coding. It provides a custom domain connection, SEO enhancement for better visibility, client review imports, direct booking capabilities, and a mobile responsive design.

TeamCreate offers AI workers for various departments like Finance, Sales, Marketing, and more. These AI coworkers integrate with over 200 apps and can be managed via Slack. They are customizable, no-code, and adapt quickly, akin to a fast-learning employee.

Apple introduces Private Cloud Compute (PCC), a new cloud intelligence system offering unparalleled privacy for AI processing in the cloud. PCC ensures that users' data sent to the cloud remains private and inaccessible to anyone other than the user, not even to Apple. Built with custom Apple silicon and a hardened OS, PCC integrates iOS security technologies like Secure Enclave and Secure Boot to protect user data during cloud processing.

Apple Intelligence introduces AI capabilities across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, offering writing tools, creative image options, and an enhanced Siri. It emphasizes on-device processing for privacy and integrates ChatGPT for expanded expertise.

Elai.io is an AI-powered video creation platform enabling users to generate avatar-based training videos with interactivity from text. Serving a global audience, it supports 28 voice languages and offers features like voice cloning, automated translations, and a library of avatars and templates.

Thread is an AI-powered Jupyter Notebook that combines OpenAI's code interpreter with a Python notebook's environment, allowing users to edit and rerun code. It runs locally and can be used for free with your API key.

TechScape examines the emergence of 'AI-ese,' a linguistic style stemming from chatbots trained by outsourced African labour. This has implications for how AI and regional linguistic traits interact. New AI gadgets, such as a standalone hardware portal and AI pendants, are gearing up to integrate AI more seamlessly into our lives, despite concerns around their efficacy and impact.

Guru Web Tools offers a variety of online tools, including SEO, image editing, PDF conversion, and web development utilities, accessible right from the browser for an efficient digital workflow.

SmartEReply is an AI-powered assistant designed to enhance LinkedIn™ engagement by creating personalized comments, managing direct messages, and optimizing posts. The platform offers an array of features aimed at streamlining social interactions and improving online presence for professionals and businesses.

The blog post 'Understanding The Burnt-out Brain' by Massa Mohamed Ali effectively maps out the intricate ways in which chronic stress and burnout impact brain function. It explains how prolonged stress leads to anatomical and functional changes, particularly the thinning of the prefrontal cortex and increased activity in the amygdala. The decrease in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and the weakening of neural connections result in mood swings, loss of focus, and difficulty in learning new skills. The recovery process involves addressing the root cause of stress and implementing Maslach’s six key factors along with regular reflection and breaks.

Tak.chat offers a GPT-4o AI-powered assistant tailored for e-commerce platforms like WooCommerce and Shopify. The service boasts 24/7 sales automation with features such as real-time answers to customer inquiries, live store data, a hassle-free setup, and analytics for data-driven decisions. Users can start for free with no credit card required.

Alva AI is a browser extension that serves as your AI co-pilot, designed to enhance your productivity by assisting with various tasks such as organization, messaging, and image generation. It offers a suite of AI-powered features across chat management, grammar correction, and translation, aiming to simplify your online workflow.

Afforai is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence and business optimization solutions. They offer a range of products and services designed to enhance operational efficiency and data-driven decision-making for businesses across various industries.

Adobe sparked a backlash with an update to its terms of use, leading users to believe it might utilize user-generated content to train its generative AI models. Adobe's CSO Scott Belsky clarified that Adobe does not train on customer content and access is for service functionality. Despite Adobe's clarification, there's a lingering distrust among creatives around generative AI.

Apple Inc. plans to unveil its AI initiatives at the upcoming WWDC developer conference on Monday, in an effort to solidify its stance in the AI industry. Amid the rise of advanced AI tools like ChatGPT, Apple, once an AI pioneer with Siri and other features, is now striving to catch up and demonstrate its prowess in the increasingly competitive sector.

SiteProfile offers discounted subscriptions during beta testing, featuring an AI-powered API for comprehensive website information, including real-time screenshots, AI-generated content, social links, contact info, and SEO insights with plans suitable for varying business sizes.

Inspectus is a visual tool for large language models, smooth in Jupyter Notebooks, and easy to install via pip. It offers diverse views into language model behaviors with features like Attention Matrix and Heatmaps for query tokens, key tokens, and dimensions.

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.