AI News & Launches

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generative AI could produce between 1.2 and 5.0 million metric tons of e-waste by the end of the decade, due to outdated AI hardware in data centers.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.

The article provides a detailed introduction to the Raspberry Pi AI Kit, highlighting its purpose, capabilities, and how it can be used in various AI projects without the need for expensive hardware. It also guides on setting up the AI Kit with Raspberry Pi to run advanced AI models.

Smart Lead Magnet is a powerful tool that helps convert websites into lead generation machines. It offers intuitive drag-and-drop builders, instant integration, personalized lead magnets, and a variety of templates for different categories.

Join the Slated Workout Tracker Gym Log beta via TestFlight. Open the link on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac post-TestFlight installation. Test iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS apps in various languages and manage automatic updates with ease.

FILLGENIUS is an AI-powered Chrome extension designed to automate form filling. With smart AI Forms Fill Agent, users can add their data once and apply it to multiple forms across various online platforms, increasing efficiency and reducing errors.

PricingMaker is a tool that uses AI to analyze market dynamics and suggest optimal pricing for physical or digital products and SaaS. It offers subscription plans for different needs, including Basic, Pro, and Enterprise, each with their own set of features to help boost margins and competitiveness.

Ruben Dominguez Ibar and Chris Tottman interviewed Vasco Pedro, CEO of Unbabel, unveiling Halo - a device for communicating via thought using Generative AI and a non-invasive neural interface. Originally a distant dream, Halo now aids patients with ALS and 'locked-in' syndrome. It's been demonstrated at Notion's Founders retreat to high acclaim and is expected to redefine communication.

Google is gearing up to introduce 'Project Jarvis', an AI assistant functioning within Chrome, revealed at I/O 2024 and powered by Gemini 2.0. The tool aims to automate web tasks such as research and bookings. Expected to preview in December, it currently operates on the cloud, using frequent screenshots to navigate actions.

The Insta360 Ace Pro 2 is an 8K action camera co-engineered with Leica, featuring powerful hardware with a new 1/1.3" sensor, dual AI chip for enhanced image quality, and rugged design for action-packed activities. It offers 8K30fps video, superior low-light performance, and advanced stabilization.

The Open Source Initiative is poised to finalize its Open Source AI Definition (OSAID), sparking debate on the inclusivity of training data as a requirement, which has major implications for the interpretation of 'open source' in machine-learning contexts.

KitOps is an open-source project enhancing collaboration in the AI/ML domain for data scientists, developers, and SREs through ModelKit, Kitfile, and Kit CLI.

Polish radio station OFF Radio Krakow replaces DJs with AI 'Gen Z' hosts, Emi, Kuba, and Alex, as an experiment but also as a cost-saving move due to financial issues within the station. Ex-employees claim cynicism, while station Editor-in-Chief Marcin Pulit presents it as exploring AI's societal impact.

A CNET survey highlights consumer skepticism towards AI in smartphones, with only 18% prioritizing AI for upgrades and 45% reluctant to pay for AI features. Consumers favor battery life, storage, and camera quality over AI, and privacy concerns also emerge over AI integration into mobile devices.

Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton, known as the 'Godfather of AI', predicted radiology job obsolescence due to AI advances, stating 'deep learning will outperform radiologists within five years.' Eight years later, the reality is nuanced, with AI yet to replace radiologists and the field facing a historic labor shortage. The radiology community discusses the significant role AI will play in the future, yet acknowledges the importance of human adaptability and training in the field.

AuditNOW offers a revolutionary solution for fleet brand audits using artificial intelligence to increase efficiency. The platform dramatically reduces manual work and audit costs, while providing complete visibility of fleet assets. It's designed for industries including logistics, retail, public transport, and construction.

Kusho.ai is providing a revolution in software testing by automating API tests and ensuring developers release bug-free software. The company has secured $600,000 in pre-seed funding lead by Antler.