AI News & Launches

GetAvatars.ai offers hyper-realistic AI-generated photos, turning selfies into professional headshots. The platform provides an easy 3-step process for creating AI avatars suitable for social media, dating apps, and professional profiles.

OpenAI's GPT-5 may arrive in summer 2024, potentially revolutionizing AI communication. Two sources revealed GPT-5 demos to some customers. CEO Sam Altman has been vague about its release, but it's expected to feature major improvements in conversation and task execution.

Themeisle, a company known for its WordPress themes and plugins, has open-sourced QuickWP, an AI-powered site builder based on OpenAI, FSE themes, and WordPress Playground. The tool allows users to generate personalized WordPress themes. The announcement post explores the project's evolution, technological stack, and invites the community to participate by utilizing the code made available on GitHub.

SheetSavvy AI leverages AI technology to enhance spreadsheet functionality, offering tools such as AI-Powered Formulas, Script Generation, and real-time data import. Designed for users of all levels, it simplifies data tasks without the need for coding and is integrated directly into Excel and Google Sheets.

DemoTime is the premier platform for startups and businesses to showcase their products via online demos. Easily view and interact with a range of products in a virtual environment.

CommentBuddy.ai is an AI-powered platform designed to help users create engaging comments for social media platforms effortlessly. With multi-platform support, the service offers instant comment suggestions, a Chrome browser extension, and is backed by artificial intelligence.

Managr is an AI-powered writing assistant designed for Marketing & PR professionals. It streamlines the content creation process by offering tools for research, idea generation, writing, optimization, and analysis, helping teams save up to 8 hours each week.

Examly offers an educational platform with mock exams, writing help, and a vocabulary app designed to aid students preparing for competitive exams like the 11 Plus, GRE, and TOEFL. The programs feature daily quizzes, animations, progress tracking, and real exam simulations with immediate feedback.

Synapsy Write is an AI-driven writing copilot leveraging OpenAI's GPT-4 for high-quality text generation. It offers ease of use, versatility, and the capability to create various types of content including tables and essays. Dedicated to open-source, Synapsy Write invites collaboration on their GitHub repository, upholding the Peyronnet Group's commitment to community-driven development.

FlirtLikePro is an AI-based flirting chatbot platform that offers witty responses, dating advice, and personalized support for various dating scenarios. Users can use this service to get creative bios, ice breakers, witty replies, date ideas, pickup lines, and nicknames to enhance their dating game.

Podwise is the go-to app for podcast enthusiasts seeking to efficiently extract and manage knowledge from their favorite shows. Offering AI-powered summarization, lightning-speed access, and a mindmap feature, it streamlines podcast consumption and boosts learning.

Albert AI is a Slack application that integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT technology, enabling users to interact with AI directly in Slack threads. It operates with a bring-your-own-license model and does not record conversation history.

WEVO offers effortless UX research with WEVO Pulse, providing instant website, prototype, and messaging feedback. It features AI-driven analysis using data from over 1 million users to help improve digital experiences rapidly. Get accurate insights and save time, with a 7-day free trial available.

Vapi.ai is a voice Artificial Intelligence platform designed to empower users with virtual assistant and voice interaction capabilities across various devices and applications.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints established guiding principles for using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Elder Gerrit W. Gong introduced these principles, emphasizing reliance on the Spirit, wisdom, and trusted sources while implementing AI. The guidelines focus on spiritual connection, transparency, privacy, security, and accountability, aiming to use AI positively without replacing human connection with God and maintaining ethical standards.

Dr. Phil Winder's article discusses the best practice for incorporating private knowledge into Large Language Models (LLMs), comparing Retriever-Augmented Generation (RAG) and fine-tuning methods. The text highlights how these approaches can ingest knowledge and which could be the most effective for domain-specific problems.

A significant blocklist for uBlock Origin and uBlacklist prevents display of AI-generated content in image search results. The GitHub repository maintained by user laylavish hosts extensive instructions for installation and use, including 'nuclear' options for more aggressive filtering. Users can contribute to achieving cleaner search experiences, particularly on platforms such as Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing.

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OpenAI's GPT Store, designed as a marketplace for AI-powered GPTs, is confronting spam issues. Despite review processes, the store is inundated with suspect GPTs, potentially violating copyright and promoting academic dishonesty. GPTs impersonating public figures or representing trademarked characters add to the complexity. OpenAI benefits from the store's integration with ChatGPT Plus, but without stronger moderation, the store risks remaining problematic.

Stability AI, the AI company that surged to prominence with its Stable Diffusion model, faces a major setback as core researchers including Robin Rombach leave amid financial difficulties. After a $100 million funding round in 2022, the company is experiencing a cash crunch with significant staff departures and struggles to maintain revenue.

Fathom, an AI Meeting Assistant startup, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer offering $150K - $200K, for US/CA remote full-time position. The role involves scaling infrastructure, and driving innovation with 6+ years of experience required.

CamelQA, a YC W24 company, introduces an AI-powered agent for automated mobile app testing using computer vision and natural language processing. Engineers can automate tests without maintaining scripts, and it requires no source code access, supporting various app frameworks.

Jam is an innovative family calendar app designed to simplify logistics for modern families. It offers seamless organization, coordination, and automation of schedules, tasks, and events, all in one place.

OpenAI's Sora model represents a breakthrough in video generation, taking advantage of a diffusion model called DiT for realistic textures and scenes. Scaling up, similar to LLMs, is key for rapid improvement. The model's high compute for training and inference suggests a growing demand for GPUs.

Eight Google employees revolutionized AI with the 'Transformers' paper in 2017, introducing a groundbreaking model architecture known as transformers. These models have spearheaded advancements in AI products including ChatGPT and various image generators. The authors, now recognized as pioneers, have since left Google to pursue related entrepreneurial ventures, often using transformers as the base technology.

TalkHub is a tool designed to help multilingual learners become native speakers through AI-powered learning in 100 days. It offers services like extracting subtitles, transcription, translation across 100+ languages, and focuses on user privacy with local data processing.

Collov AI Enterprise offers cutting-edge AI-native hardware designed to accelerate AI computation for enterprise applications. Our solutions ensure high-performance computing power combined with energy efficiency, enabling businesses to scale their AI endeavors effectively.

Pietra is a platform designed for entrepreneurs to create e-commerce brands. It offers tools to generate market research, product strategy, and specs, and connects users to vetted suppliers. Users can create a brand with ease, access market research, and set up their company in a few clicks.

CreatorKit's AI Product Photos offers a suite for generating high-resolution, quality product photography with AI-generated backgrounds. With a focus on eCommerce, the tool presents unlimited free generations, various templates, and integration options.

BoostKPI is a platform offering solutions to enhance performance management through advanced analytics tools and data visualization. It helps businesses understand and optimize their KPIs.

ZeroTrusted.ai offers a Large Language Models (LLM) Firewall to protect sensitive information used by LLMs. The platform ensures prompt anonymity, data privacy, and reliability for users with different pricing plans, including a free option.

Storytailor enhances storytime by offering lifelike read-aloud audio with premium plans for added magic and joy. Personalized and customizable stories foster growth in children, especially those with learning challenges. Features include unlimited story creation, full customization, and a library of engaging tales.

Watermark.PHD offers advanced digital watermarking solutions for photographers and businesses looking to protect their visual content. The service provides robust watermarking options with customizable styles, sizes, and positions.

GPT-Sidekick is a powerful AI writing assistant tool designed to help users create content quickly and efficiently. It leverages advanced language models to assist with a range of writing tasks, from generating ideas to polishing final drafts. The platform is intuitive and user-friendly, offering a diverse set of features tailored to content creators, marketers, and professionals seeking to enhance their writing process.

ThinkAny offers AI-driven solutions aiming to empower users with automated data processing and enhanced machine learning capabilities.

Adwin, a product offered by Relentlo Inc., automates and manages Google Ads campaigns using advanced AI to create, optimize, and refine advertising strategies. By analyzing business information and website insights, Adwin ensures that campaigns are effective and reach a broader audience. An easy-to-use dashboard provides comprehensive analytics and control over ad performance.

Diarupt AI provides an interactive AI platform called Persona 1.0, capable of automating video interviews, customer support, and sales operations with AI avatars. It integrates with ATS and CRM systems, offers 24/7 support, and enables the creation of custom interactive AI solutions.

Bith.AI is an advanced technology company specializing in data analysis and artificial intelligence solutions to drive business innovation and efficiency.

Steven Houser, a 67-year-old third-grade science teacher at Beacon Christian Academy in New Port Richey, Florida, was arrested by Pasco Sheriff's Office for possession of child pornography. He held two photos and three videos featuring such content, which did not include students from the school. Houser also confessed to using AI to create child erotica with yearbook photos of three students.

Scientists have utilized AI to design new antibodies, marking a significant advancement in therapeutic protein design despite the technology being far from clinical application.