AI News & Launches

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection, has been appointed by CEO Satya Nadella to lead a new organization called Microsoft AI, which will focus on advancing Copilot and other consumer AI products. Karén Simonyan, co-founder and chief scientist at Inflection, will join as Chief Scientist, along with several other talented members of the Inflection team.

Benjamin Breen discusses Margaret Mead and John von Neumann's early contemplations on AI and computing on the Mindscape podcast. The article includes Breen's insights on Mead's 1968 interview where she mentions the simulation hypothesis and von Neumann's awe for computers. The concept of self-improving AI systems was already being considered in the late 1940s and early 1950s, demonstrated by Mead's recollection of von Neumann's ideas. Breen ties these historical discussions to the current AI policy divergence between the US and Europe, highlighting Mead's anticipation of modern debates.

Inflection has announced a strategic shift to focus on their AI studio business, offering custom generative AI models and its new API housed on Microsoft Azure. Two co-founders are moving to lead Microsoft AI, while Sean White is the new CEO. The popular AI, Pi, remains available with no changes to service.

Denmark is partnering with NVIDIA to set up a national AI innovation centre featuring one of the world's top AI supercomputers. The project, orchestrated by Novo Nordisk Fonden and EIFO, intends to catalyze advancements in healthcare, life sciences, and green technology. The 'Gefion' supercomputer, operational in 2024, signifies a powerful leap in Denmark's AI research capabilities.

EndOfText.app is a platform designed to simplify AI prompt engineering by offering AI-powered edits, automatic rewrites, and test case generation to improve prompts for various AI models and applications.

CelebrateAlly is your AI-powered celebration companion, streamlining the process of planning events like weddings, birthdays, and anniversaries. By harnessing the power of AI, it offers personalized celebration planning, speech writing, and gift suggestions. The service boasts an ad-free experience with both free and premium options, all aimed at creating memorable moments.

Content Codex offers AI-enhanced content marketing strategies for brands. It provides tools for instant insights, time-efficient execution, and adaptive market strategies, enabling brands to connect with their audience and stay ahead of trends.

CoFounderAI is a platform designed to connect entrepreneurs and innovators, providing tools and resources for co-founding successful tech startups. The site offers AI-driven matchmaking to find the perfect business partner and supports networking with professionals.

Wiseone is an AI-powered Chrome extension designed to boost productivity by improving your daily web search and online reading. It offers features like summarization, complex information simplification, diverse perspectives, and multilanguage support.

TheyDo offers a platform that leverages AI to transform customer research into insightful journey maps quickly, enabling enterprises to make customer-centric decisions efficiently.

ContextQA offers a robust test automation platform leveraging low-code, no-code solutions to accelerate software delivery by efficiently managing backlogs and enhancing product quality. With a suite of tools for UI, Mobile, API, and Salesforce testing, ContextQA empowers teams of all skill levels to improve testing processes and outcomes.

Paddle is a comprehensive merchant of record platform designed for SaaS businesses, offering solutions such as real-time subscription analytics, pricing strategies, churn reduction, billing, tax compliance, and more. It provides a six-week AI Launchpad program to help AI startups scale.

NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 is a state-of-the-art rack-scale solution that powers real-time trillion-parameter models, offering up to 1,440 PFLOPS FP4 Tensor Core throughput, and connects 36 Grace CPUs with 72 Blackwell GPUs through NVLink.

Q-bot app brings a customizable conversational AI experience leveraging GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models for voice interactions, image creativity, and computer vision. It mirrors personal styles, supports verbal conversations, and interactive storytelling without a subscription.

CrawlQ AI provides AI-powered market insights for businesses by leveraging advanced AI technologies like GPT-4, Google Gemini, and more. It reduces research time, scales growth, and crafts messages that resonate with the target audience, offering a range of pricing options tailored for every business stage.

CyberChat offers an AI-powered chat solution designed for website integration, providing users with instant automated customer service and interaction capabilities in Russian language.

Fotor is an online photo editing service, leveraging AI technology to provide a wide array of powerful editing tools and creative options like photo effects, design templates, and image retouching. Ideal for both amateurs and professionals looking to enhance their photos or create stunning visual content.

Nvidia announced its new generation of AI chips, the Blackwell, with the GB200 as the first model set to ship later this year. As companies are still eager to obtain current generation H100s, this reveal signals Nvidia's intent to lead the AI hardware market, promising a significant performance boost.

Suno, an AI startup, is revolutionizing music production by enabling anyone to create professional-level songs with simple text descriptions. Their new AI model collaborates with ChatGPT to generate both lyrics and music. Suno's founders aim to democratize music creation, with ambitions of reaching a global audience and changing the music landscape.

This repository offers a comprehensive toolkit for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), including instruction fine-tuning, reward model training, and PPO and DPO algorithms with configurations for Alpaca, LLaMA, and LLaMA2 models.

Stability AI announces Stable Video 3D (SV3D), advancing 3D technology with two variants for quality novel view synthesis and 3D generation from single images. SV3D_u creates orbital videos, while SV3D_p allows 3D video creation along specified camera paths. Commercial use requires Stability AI Membership, while non-commercial access is available via Hugging Face model downloads.

RapidTask is an AI-powered task management app that simplifies and streamlines task creation and management. With effortless integration and a user-friendly approach, it allows users to automate task inputs and prioritize effectively for individual or team projects.

Parakeet is a novel small language model designed for efficient research, featuring 378 million parameters and innovative technologies like ALiBi and grouped query attention. Trained on synthetic datasets, it demonstrates promising reasoning and summarization skills despite its size. Its creator, user razodactyl, shares insights and future ambitions, discussing the model's potentials and limitations.

Google introduces a tool in Creator Studio requiring YouTube creators to disclose altered or synthetic media, such as AI-generated content, to enhance transparency and trust with viewers. This tool adds labels to videos when content could easily be mistaken for reality but excludes content that's clearly animated, unrealistic, or uses AI for productivity like scripts and captions. Enforcement measures may apply for non-disclosure.

Tom Hipwell shares his thoughts on Devin from Cognition, suggesting that its UX might signal a new era in software engineering. He speculates whether the performance improvement seen in SWE benchmarks is due to advanced prompting techniques, referencing Google's Self-Discover technique. Hipwell considers whether a Cyborg AI approach, integrating the technology directly into IDEs, might better suit developers' workflows.

AI/ML API provides an array of over 100 AI models accessible via a simple API. It offers OpenAI compatibility, serverless inference, flat pricing, and high performance.

Microsoft has been pushing intrusive pop-up ads promoting Bing and GPT-4 on users' Chrome browsers on Windows PCs. This aggressive advertising technique, which mimics malware behavior, urges users to make Bing their default search engine. Users experiencing this are met with several prompts, creating a disruptive and negative experience.

Listen2.AI is an app delivering personalized news podcasts, offering hands-free news consumption with reliable and interesting information. It features multilingual support, allowing seamless transitions between languages, and diverse political perspectives with a customizable news broadcast stance.

Pipio offers an innovative AI-driven video dubbing service that effortlessly translates videos while achieving high lip synchronization and no loss in video resolution. It supports over 40 languages and takes only minutes to translate with high-quality voice clones that mimic various accents and emotions.

Aide is an AI-native integrated development environment (IDE) that offers fast, context-aware code completions, chat for asking questions within your code, and privacy-centric architecture that keeps your code on your machine. It supports various operating systems and provides an open-source platform for AI development.

Factiverse is an AI tool designed to maintain credibility and trust by quickly finding evidence and fact-checking any text. It offers capabilities to spot controversial information, verify claims in multiple languages, and ensure users stay credible with real-time source searching in public databases like Google and Wikipedia. It also offers an AI Editor for writing and a GPT plugin for ChatGPT verification.

FikraHub is an AI-driven platform that helps innovators by providing tools like SWOT analysis, lean canvases, user stories, and more. Supporting both English and Arabic, it aids in idea validation and offers marketing content templates.

MoAiJobs provides a platform to find jobs in AI and offers a unique tool to assess the risk of AI replacing your job by uploading your resume. The website does not store any personal information.

Beesly is an AI-powered voicemail assistant that revolutionizes call management with features like summarised calls, instant notifications, 24/7 availability, calendar management, and caller memory. It's designed to improve the efficiency and personalization of your communication.

FlexOS offers various tools and resources for enhancing productivity and engagement in hybrid and remote work environments. Their AI-driven ChatGPT Super Prompt Generator simplifies the creation of effective prompts for ChatGPT, aiming to streamline AI conversations.

Chaturji is an innovative AI assistant platform for businesses, providing access to multiple AI technologies in one place. It offers features to create, save, and organize prompts, share prompts for team collaboration, and analyze AI usage for optimized workflow and cost management. Users can join the early access for free.

NextStarter is a platform aimed at harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to help startups succeed by providing access to resources, tools, and a community for entrepreneurs and innovators.

UNUM is a comprehensive platform designed for content creators and social media managers to plan, create, and analyze their digital content effectively. With its suite of intuitive tools, UNUM streamlines content collaboration and publication across various social media channels.

Grok is a machine learning project hosted on GitHub, with the public repository name 'grok' under the user organization 'xai-org'. It highlights an open release of the Grok-1 model with JAX example code for the implementation. There are instructions on how to download model weights and run example code, but note that due to the model's size, a powerful GPU setup is necessary. The provided code and model weights are licensed under Apache 2.0.

Noah Smith debunks the myth that AI will result in a scarcity of jobs and lower wages. He explains the concept of comparative advantage which suggests that humans will still have roles in an AI-dominated future. Smith argues that despite AI's capabilities, humanity may not only retain jobs but also earn better due to increased overall wealth driven by AI.