AI News & Launches

Wednesday's most notable calls on Wall Street include a variety of ratings for companies like Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, and more. Analysts offer insights on stock valuation, potential market catalysts, and strategic partnerships, affecting investment banking revenue and stock performance.

An Ask HN thread discusses the ethical considerations of developing AI products amid the current hype. Users share experiences of project traffic, ethical dilemmas, and attracting 'get rich quick' individuals to the field. One recounts an interview illustrating the startup rush to adopt AI, while others suggest benefiting from AI is reasonable.

Everi, a technology company in the gaming industry, is offering a remote full-time Software Developer position with a salary range of $101,000 to $120,000 per year, inclusive of a comprehensive benefits package.

Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus has overtaken OpenAI's GPT-4 in the Chatbot Arena rankings for the first time since the leaderboard's inception, signaling a significant shift in AI language model capabilities and market competition.

Databricks introduced DBRX, an open large language model (LLM) on March 27, 2024, setting new benchmarks for efficiency and performance. DBRX features a fine-grained mixture-of-experts architecture with faster inference and enhanced training FLOP efficiency, offering significant improvements over existing models like GPT-3.5 and LLaMA2-70B. DBRX Base and DBRX Instruct models are available on Hugging Face under an open license.

The newly released 'Claude 3 Opus' by Anthropic outperforms OpenAI's models on Aider's code editing benchmark, completing 68.4% of Python coding tasks successfully within two tries. Although marginally better than the 'GPT-4 Turbo', it is slower and more expensive. Claude 3 Sonnet is similar in capability to the 'GPT-3.5 Turbo'.

Call an AI offers on-demand conversational AI bots through phone calls. Users can interact with a variety of AI bots such as a therapist, daily planner, and tech support. The service provides unique AI experiences like personalized conversations, schedule adherence, and diverse integrations, all available 24/7.

Superpipe is a lightweight framework designed to build, evaluate, and optimize LLM pipelines for structured outputs such as data labeling, classification, and tagging. It offers a way to measure the accuracy, cost, and speed, supporting the optimization of models and parameters.

Hoory is offering a limited-time 40% discount on AI-powered customer support automation, reducing holiday stress for support teams. Promo code HOHOHOORY valid until December 31. Various pricing plans available with a 30% discount using promo code HOORYHUNT30, including features like Omni-Channel Inboxes and AI-driven support.

Weavely is a form-building tool, designed as a Figma plugin, that generates pixel-perfect web forms from Figma designs. It allows complete design freedom, includes features like conditional logic, AI form generation, and integrates with various apps like Notion, Google Sheets, and Airtable or 6000+ apps via Zapier.

Miraa is an AI-powered application that specializes in bilingual subtitles and learning. It transcribes media into actionable material and allows for seamless echoing to pace your learning. Interactive elements help chat with AI for questions and real-time translations make language barriers disappear.

Unlock the potential of AI with Airtable's platform, designed to integrate AI across business operations without code. Propel your business with tools for app building, connected data, and governance at scale.

GoatStack.AI offers an AI Agent for personalized updates on scientific papers, targeting researchers and AI enthusiasts. With 6283 members, the platform reads over 4000 papers daily, providing essential insights and fostering a community through events.

Dubo is an AI-powered SQL workstation that enhances productivity with features like database-aware SQL autocomplete and SQL query generation from natural language questions. It offers a free trial, supports a range of databases, and provides a Python SDK.

PrettyPolly is an AI-driven language learning platform that focuses on improving conversational skills by enabling users to practice speaking with an AI from day one. Over 9,000 users have utilized the platform in the last three months, proving its popularity and effectiveness. PrettyPolly's innovative approach includes realistic oral conversations, fluency score tracking, and personalized feedback for each saved conversation.

Talkie AI is a virtual conversation platform that allows users to engage in chat experiences with various characters from different universes including games, animes, and movies. The platform offers a unique interactive experience for storytelling and personal entertainment.

WonsultingAI offers an array of AI-powered tools to streamline your job search, enabling tracking of job applications, resume building, and more. With services like InterviewAI, AutoApplyAI, ResumAI, and CoverLetterAI, job seekers can harness technology to optimize their employment pursuits with ease.

Alice is a privacy-focused desktop app aimed at boosting productivity by leveraging AI models like GPT-4. It offers chat functionality with a great UI and reliable results, keyboard shortcuts, pre-built prompts for automation, and can be integrated with other apps to execute commands.

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL have developed a tool called 'distribution matching distillation' that speeds up AI image generation significantly, enabling high-resolution image creation 30 times faster than before, while offering a balance between speed and detail.

Dopeloop.ai offers a variety of music-making apps designed to foster creativity using AI. These apps include beat generators, loop sync tools, and melody creators compatible with multiple devices, helping to generate royalty-free music for users.

A recent study titled 'GPT-4V(ision) Unsuitable for Clinical Care and Education: A Clinician-Evaluated Assessment' has been submitted to arXiv. The paper, authored by Senthujan Senkaiahliyan and others, evaluates the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-4V in medical image interpretation. It concludes that despite identifying and explaining images, such as CT scans and MRIs, the model's diagnostic accuracy is poor, and it poses risks to patient safety when used for clinical decisions.

David Luan of Adept discusses why Google failed to create GPT-3 and proposes multimodal agents as the path towards AGI. He emphasizes the importance of agents executing tasks with high reliability, the shortcomings of chatbots as the sole interface for AI, and Adept's distinction as an enterprise-focused company providing solutions for complex workflows.

Adam Karvonen presents findings on manipulating Chess-GPT's internal world model to alter its chess playing skill level and board state representation. Experiments involved the use of linear probes and simple additions to the model's activations to increase and decrease the perceived skill level of players, demonstrating a deeper understanding of chess through self-supervised learning. Despite the model's smaller size and limitations, these interventions showcase Chess-GPT's ability to predict next tokens in chess games, suggesting only partial success due to the primitive state of machine learning interpretability. The full work is detailed in a paper and additional resources including code and datasets are available on GitHub.

The article details the creation of a highly capable DIY AI training server named WOPR with seven Nvidia RTX 4090 GPUs. The author emphasizes the DIY nature and potential for occasional PCIe errors when using tools like Deepspeed ZeRO-3 but maintains the system is largely stable and efficient. The setup includes an ASROCK Rack ROMED8-2T mainboard, an AMD Epyc 7002/7003 series CPU, and 512GB RAM. The system is targeted at AI hobbyists and is a cost-effective alternative to commercial solutions like Tinybox.

The blog post by Brandon Ngacho discusses a solution to coordinate emails requiring future action with calendar events. The author created a tool that assists in formatting these actionable items directly into a calendar via an add-on, leveraging Language Learning Models (LLM) like ChatGPT and open-source alternatives like Mistral Instruct model.

A Hacker News thread discusses various non-AI tech projects users are working on, ranging from app development to enterprise software. The conversation highlights the community's diverse interests beyond the current AI trend.

Sander Dieleman, a Research Scientist at DeepMind, writes about modelling music directly in the waveform domain, detailing successes and challenges in generative models like WaveNet and SampleRNN. He discusses the development of adversarial and likelihood-based models, emphasizing the computational demands of waveform modelling and the potential for future research, including adversarial models catching up with likelihood-based models.

Theo, an AI robot, is now an essential part of combating disease in Dutch tulip fields by identifying and eliminating infected bulbs to prevent the tulip-breaking virus from spreading.

Kapa.ai is seeking a full stack engineer with 3+ years of experience to join their seed-stage AI startup. The position offers $80K - $120K salary with equity options, is fully remote, and involves working with cutting-edge AI and systems design.

Martin is a state-of-the-art AI butler designed to function like Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S. Users can interact with Martin via text, email, or voice, allowing for a seamless and intuitive human-AI interaction. With integrations to calendar, email, and multiple search engines, Martin adapts to the user's habits and needs, offering proactive assistance such as scheduling, sending reminders, and providing information.

Background Supply offers a collection of stunning AI-generated backgrounds for design projects. Users can browse and download 6K resolution backgrounds and access Midjourney prompts to customize designs. Collections include various themes like Metallic, Neon, Twilight, and more.

Kobble.io offers a platform to monetize APIs by adding authentication, analytics, and payment processing. It simplifies setup, allowing developers to focus on their core product while managing user permissions and syncing with Stripe for payments.

DermaQ offers a dermatology-AI assistant named Pulse, providing free hair loss diagnosis and personalized advice for skin and hair care. Powered by data from medical journals, Pulse offers accurate symptom prediction, treatment guidance, and lifestyle recommendations like diet and sleep protocols.

Remove Background by Radaar is an online tool designed to help users automatically and quickly remove backgrounds from their images. With the ease of a single click, users can transform their photos by making backgrounds transparent, ideal for creating professional-looking graphics, product photos for e-commerce, or any other situation where a cutout image is required.

Creatie.ai is a platform leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance creativity and productivity in various fields. It offers innovative AI-driven tools and solutions to streamline workflows, generate ideas, and facilitate complex tasks.

AI Anywhere provides an innovative platform for seamless messaging and communication with advanced AI integration, enabling users to interact in real-time.

Vocab Scrabble is an engaging online game designed to enhance your English vocabulary within 60 seconds per round by guessing words from AI-provided letters. Aim to guess as many words in five minutes to improve your vocabulary skills substantially.

Earnie is a personal finance AI designed to help users save money effortlessly. It connects with bank accounts to track spending and find opportunities to save.

Moirai is a novel time series foundation model designed by Salesforce AI Research for universal forecasting. It addresses challenges such as handling multiple frequencies, varying dimensionality, and flexible predictive distributions. The research introduces LOTSA, a large-scale dataset for training, and demonstrates robust zero-shot forecasting capabilities across various domains.

The article discusses the trend of AI datacenters relocating to areas near nuclear power plants, as they provide cheap, low-carbon energy which is appealing for power-intensive operations. NE Edge seeks to build AI datacenters adjacent to a 2GW Millstone nuclear power plant in Connecticut, but faces local concerns over electricity costs. AWS and Microsoft are also exploring nuclear-powered options for their datacenters.