AI News & Launches

Stability AI announces the availability of Stable Diffusion 3 and its Turbo version on the Stability AI Developer Platform API, expanding the text-to-image AI model's capabilities, and partnering with Fireworks AI for reliable API performance. An open-source release for self-hosting is anticipated.

Mistral AI's Mixtral 8x22B, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model, surpasses industry benchmarks with 39B active parameters for advanced performance and efficiency. It's licensed under Apache 2.0 for unrestricted use, excelling in multilingual, mathematical, and coding tasks.

SpeedLegal streamlines contract review using AI technology, enabling users to analyze risks, understand legal terms, and get personalized suggestions. It offers a contract manager, automatic summaries and reminders, catering to various industries and contracts in multiple languages.

Karl Guttag criticizes Humane AI's pico laser projection technology as a hyped scam. Discussing its issues, he questions the utility over smartphones, citing major industry figures fooled into a $230M investment.

Ollama v0.1.32 introduces new models including WizardLM 2, Snowflake Arctic Embed, Command R+, DBRX, and Mixtral 8x22B. The update enhances VRAM utilization and splits larger models between GPU and CPU on macOS for improved performance. Various fixes and new contributors are noted.

SpeedLegal is an AI-powered platform that simplifies legal operations by offering automated document analysis, contract management, and other legal services to streamline the workload for lawyers and legal professionals.

Collato offers an AI meeting assistant and notetaker designed to transcribe and record meetings, allowing users to focus on the discussion. It lets you integrate various sources and transform notes into documents using customizable templates. The platform prioritizes data privacy, with SOC 2 certification, GDPR compliance, and military-grade encryption.

Zoom offers a comprehensive suite of collaboration tools designed to enhance productivity, streamline communications, and improve employee engagement. Their platform utilizes AI-powered features to optimize virtual meetings, team chat, phone systems, scheduling, and online whiteboard functionalities, enabling effective hybrid work and team workflows.

CompliantChatGPT offers a secure, HIPAA-compliant way to use AI-powered chatbots in healthcare. It provides data security by tokenizing PHI, enhancing productivity, and offering features like speech-to-text notes and personalized healthcare solutions.

Superwhisper is an AI-powered voice to text application designed specifically for macOS. It enables users to transcribe speech into text efficiently, supporting over 100 languages. The app boasts features such as custom vocabulary, offline functionality, and a focus on privacy and security.

A discussion on Hacker News advocates for capturing snapshots of the current web largely free of AI-generated content. Concerns arise about the increasing prevalence of AI-generated material and its impact on search relevance and information integrity. Users suggest existing archives like Common Crawl and the Internet Archive, while questioning the resources big tech companies might have and the quality of AI content.

A Vox article by Constance Grady discusses the influx of low-quality, scammy ebooks on Amazon, a trend driven by AI tools and get-rich-quick schemes. The article highlights how individuals use AI and cheap ghostwriting to create and sell ebooks infused with misinformation. It details the practices of 'gurus' like the Mikkelsen twins who teach others how to profit from the ebook grift, contributing to a marketplace flooded with garbage content.

Apple's iOS 18 is expected to introduce advanced AI features with a focus on privacy by processing data directly on the iPhone, bypassing the need for cloud services. The features, including a new in-house language model known as 'Ajax', aim for offline functionality for basic tasks, while more complex operations will still require an internet connection. This direction could provide Apple with a competitive edge in the AI space by addressing privacy concerns associated with cloud-based AI solutions.

interviewing.io refutes Bloomberg's claims of racial bias in OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing no evidence of racial bias after statistical significance testing. However, while ChatGPT isn't racist, it was found to be ineffective at judging resumes, overemphasizing pedigree over actual skill, which could disadvantage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds.

The NSA released a Cybersecurity Information Sheet titled 'Deploying AI Systems Securely,' offering guidance for protecting AI systems. It's designed for National Security System owners and the Defense Industrial Base. This initiative is led by the new NSA's Artificial Intelligence Security Center (AISC) in collaboration with international security partners, providing strategies for confidentiality, integrity, and availability of AI systems.

Megalodon presents an efficient neural architecture for pretraining and inference with unlimited context length, outperforming solutions like linear attention and state space models. The approach introduces components such as complex exponential moving average and normalized attention mechanisms to improve capability and stability. Megalodon achieves significant efficiency at a 7 billion parameter scale.

John Gruber discusses Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2023 award for Humane's AI Pin, questioning the merit given the product hadn't shipped at the time of award and now appears to be a failure. A footnote reveals Time's owners are investors in Humane.

Wisecut is an AI-powered video editor that automatically turns long videos into engaging viral clips. It offers features like AI highlight detection, storyboard-based editing, smart background music, auto captions/translations, and time-saving cuts for silences, minimizing editing time while maximizing content production.

AMD has expanded its reach in the commercial market with the unveiling of its Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors. Featuring the advanced 'Hawk Point' 8040-series for commercial laptops and workstations, alongside the Ryzen 8000 'Phoenix' APU models for commercial desktop PCs, these new chips are equipped with a neural processing unit for AI workloads.

Silicon Valley's Rivos Inc., a chip developer focused on AI, raised over $250 million, backed by Matrix Capital and others. Rivos plans to target demand for AI applications that do not require the highest-end chips, offering a cost-effective solution.

AI cloud startup TensorWave is betting on AMD's Instinct MI300X GPUs to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI accelerator market. With planned deployment of 20,000 MI300X units, they offer faster performance & larger memory than Nvidia's H100, at a fraction of the cost.

IMGPT-One is an AI-powered marketing tool that simplifies ad creation by generating custom, visually appealing ad creatives from a given URL. It analyzes webpages, understands branding and style, and auto-generates ad copy, providing a comprehensive ad solution for entrepreneurs and marketers. The platform is trusted by industry professionals and offers a hassle-free experience with a 100% free trial.

Vidyard introduces AI Avatars, augmenting its video messaging platform to create scalable, personalized videos using hyper-realistic AI avatars from just a script. Ideal for sales and marketing, this feature uses a custom or stock AI avatar, supporting over 25 languages and enabling engagement across various business communication needs.

Muzaic is a generative AI Soundtrack-as-a-Service that offers custom soundtracks. It allows for true time adjustment and personalization across five musical dimensions. It provides high-quality full stereo audio and is unique due to its understanding of music theory.

Seomaker.ai is an advanced AI-based SEO and marketing tool designed to enhance online content creation and optimization. It provides a range of features including Copywriter AI for long-form content, SEO website audits, competitive analysis, rank tracking, and marketing tools to increase clicks, conversions, and sales. The platform offers a 7-day free trial without the need for a credit card.

An investigative report suggests that AI systems like 'Lavender' and 'Where's Daddy?' are used by the IDF to identify and target individuals in Gaza. These systems accelerate the military 'kill chain,' but risk misidentifying targets and causing casualties among innocents.

EleutherAI introduces Pile-T5, a new variant of the T5 model trained on the Pile dataset with the LLAMA tokenizer for improved code-related tasks. Pile-T5 outperforms previous T5 models in various benchmarks, offering vast improvements on code tasks. Researchers can access models and scripts, including intermediate checkpoints for in-depth study.

Limitless AI introduces the world's most wearable AI that helps preserve conversations and interact with a personalized AI. Enhance meeting experiences with automatic notes, transcription, and summaries while ensuring data privacy through the Confidential Cloud.

Medium has updated its Partner Program policy to ban AI-generated content. Starting May 1, 2024, stories entirely produced by AI will be removed from Medium's paywalls and may lead to exclusion from monetization efforts. The platform emphasizes human storytelling and will only allow AI to assist with clarity or language barriers, requiring clear disclosure of AI usage in articles.

Backend Engineer (Engineer #4) at Recall.ai, providing a universal API for meeting video, audio and metadata. Offering $170K-$220K salary with 0.20%-0.70% equity, open for San Francisco, CA or remote candidates. Over 3 years of experience required.

Michal Gorny proposes a ban on AI-assisted contributions to Gentoo, citing copyright concerns, quality issues, and ethical considerations, including copyright violations by AI tools, poor generation quality, and AI's negative societal impact.

FastBots.ai offers an intuitive platform for creating custom AI-powered chatbots using OpenAI's GPT language models. With no coding required, users can quickly import data, customize their bot, and integrate it onto their websites for enhanced customer interaction and support in multiple languages, ensuring 24/7 assistance.

IXORD Notes is a free AI-powered to-do list application that helps in planning, task management, and reaching goals. It allows users to make notes via typing or voice messages, offers an AI-powered assistant named 'ixy' for content creation and code writing, and is designed for work and personal life harmony.

Breezemail is an AI-powered email management tool designed to combat inbox chaos by categorizing emails into smart categories. It uses natural language processing to identify important emails, keeping your inbox clutter-free, and is currently offering a 7-day free trial for Outlook users.

Collectif.ai is a software tool designed for SaaS teams, aiming to optimize product development and user experience by converting customer interactions into a stream of actionable insights. It leverages GPT-4 for automatic transcription, tagging, summarization, and insight generation.

The study by Van Pham and Scott Cunningham explores the forecasting abilities of ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 using two prompting strategies, emphasizing that ChatGPT-4's narrative prompts significantly improve prediction accuracy, particularly in economics and major event outcomes.

DeBlank Colors offers a comprehensive range of color samples, including hex codes, color harmonies, and suggestions for design projects.

Evelyn is an AI tutor that engages students with a Generative UI. It is based on Next.js with Vercel AI SDK 3.0 and incorporates tools from OpenAI.

FireCrawl is a web crawling tool that converts websites into LLM-ready markdown, removing the need for a sitemap and handling dynamic JS content. It offers various subscription plans suitable for different scales of web scraping needs.

Generative AI startup Imaginary Machines launches StockCake and StockTune, offering over a million free, high-quality AI-generated stock photos and nearly 100,000 music tracks to the public domain, aiming to democratize media access and looking to monetize via ads or subscriptions without jeopardizing free access.