AI News & Launches

OpenAI's $175 million startup fund was reportedly managed by a non-existent person named Jacob Vespers in 2023. The person now in charge is CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI claims documents filed with the California Secretary of State were fabricated and denies Vespers' existence.

An extensive analysis by Henley Wing Chiu shows how AI, particularly after the release of ChatGPT, is affecting freelancing jobs, with writing, translation, and customer service jobs experiencing significant declines. Conversely, software development, graphic design, and video production remain resilient with increased demand and pay rates.

Wefaceswap is a generative AI SaaS service that offers high-quality, effortless media transformations with faceswap technology. With easy uploading, no installation, and affordable pricing, Wefaceswap caters to both individuals and professionals looking to create engaging content.

Walla.my offers an AI Analysis tool accessible through a sign-in portal. Users are redirected to a demo of AI Analysis after logging in.

Rustic UI is a cutting-edge design framework geared towards enhancing User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) through multimodal conversational interfaces. It enables seamless adoption of Multimodal Conversational UX in AI platforms with a Figma component library and JavaScript library for simplified and consistent design and development.

Dive into a collection of over 100 AI-powered side hustles designed to innovate your income streams. This roadmap to financial freedom caters to those eager to integrate AI into their earning strategies. Unlock the potential of AI for generating profit in creative fields like text, art, music, 3D, and video modeling.

IntelSwift is a software development company providing services such as mobile application development, web solutions, and IT consultancy. They focus on delivering high-quality products through comprehensive research and innovative solutions.

Documents naming a fictitious person, Jacob Thomas Vespers, as the manager of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund, have been dismissed as fabricated by OpenAI. The filed documents listed Vespers Inc., tied to an affordable housing complex address, raising doubt about the legitimacy of the filings. OpenAI's spokesperson has indicated the documents are illegitimate, with no records of the claimed individual's existence. OpenAI later filed a corrected document listing Sam Altman as fund manager, and the incident's details remain unclear.

TnT-LLM: Text Mining at Scale with Large Language Models presents a two-phase framework using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate label generation and assignment for text mining. The zero-shot, multi-stage reasoning approach creates refined label taxonomies, and LLMs generate training samples, enabling efficient and accurate classification at scale. Extensive experiments demonstrate the efficacy of TnT-LLM compared to state-of-the-art baselines.

A Hacker News user by the username 'eerop' is seeking resources to build a personalized AI for communication within an online community. They're considering using ChatGPT but are open to other specific solutions.

Xiaomi has unveiled its electric car model SU7 at a price of 215,900 yuan ($30,408), which is $4,000 cheaper than Tesla's Model 3 in China. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun acknowledges selling at a loss but aims to beat Tesla with better specifications on over 90% of features except two areas where catching up could take 3-5 years. Launch event accessories and a potential premium version called 'Max' were also showcased.

NymphLens AI photo generator bot for Telegram allows users to create AI-generated photos without the need to film them. It offers an innovative way for users to generate images in various personas like superheroes, pilots, graduates, farmers, and dancers.

The Qwen Team introduces Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B, a new mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with only 2.7 billion activated parameters that matches the performance of 7B models. It reduces training expenses by 75% and increases inference speed by 1.74 times, offering significant improvements without compromising performance.

In a comprehensive and technical conversation, Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken dive into the intricacies of building and understanding the inner workings of advanced language models like GPT-7. They touch upon various topics including the scaling of AI, feature spaces, interpretability research, and the future of AI safety and alignment.

OpenAI shares a preview of a model called Voice Engine that creates custom voices from text input and a 15-second audio sample. The technology powers preset voices for APIs and enables realistic speech generation, but is handled cautiously due to misuse potential. Early applications include reading assistance, content translation, reaching global communities, and aiding non-verbal individuals.

Tweet AI is an AI-driven platform that generates creative tweets and replies to boost engagement and follower growth on Twitter, fine-tuned on millions of viral tweets. Launched in 2022, it serves over 3,600 users including marketing agencies, digital creators, and ghostwriters. With its Chrome Extension, Tweet AI allows for one-click replies and facilitates consistent Twitter activity for its users.

Newoaks.ai offers a 24/7 SMS conversational appointment booking solution that can help achieve 50% more appointments with just 5 conversations through Custom ChatGPT and Claude.

This NY Times article by Zvi Mowshowitz, with graphics by Sara Chodosh, discusses the political biases exhibited by AI chatbots. Notably, it mentions the controversial rollout of Google’s Gemini Advanced chatbot and a study by David Rozado showing AI models' leanings. The necessity to monitor these biases is emphasized due to their potential influence on public opinion and political polarization.

Spice.ai is an active alpha-stage project providing a unified SQL query interface and runtime for locally materializing, accelerating, and querying data tables from databases, data warehouses, or data lakes.

AI21 Labs releases Jamba, the first Mamba-based SSM-Transformer AI model. Boasting a 256K token context window, Jamba fits 140K tokens on an 80GB GPU, optimizing memory and throughput. With open weights under Apache 2.0, it outperforms comparable models and will be available on Hugging Face and NVIDIA's platforms.

Eggnog, a YC W24 startup, introduces an AI video platform allowing users to create consistently looking characters across scenes using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). The platform addresses the issue of character inconsistency in AI-generated videos and offers a playground for users to create and remix characters and scenes freely.

A groundbreaking evolution in GPU technology is on the horizon with the expected arrival of a 1 trillion transistor GPU. This leap forward is enabled by advances in semiconductor technology encompassing new materials, lithography improvements, and innovative 3D system integration enabling chips to extend beyond the 2D scaling limits. Crucial to AI's exponential growth, these advances promise to significantly enhance computational power and energy efficiency, essential for the next generation of AI applications.

A review of OpenAI's Developer Community from its launch in March 2021 reveals over 100,000 posts by 20,000+ users, focusing on APIs, GPT Builders, Prompting, and more. A comprehensive dataset was compiled for analysis, offering insights into common issues and developer sentiment toward OpenAI products. Visualization tools like Atlas map clusters and trends, while sentiment scores reflect user experiences.

The GitHub repository 'ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt' comprises a list of AI agents and robots designed to be blocked via the robots.txt file. The project is open-source and contributions are encouraged. The repository is licensed under the MIT license.

The HueHive website offers tools for finding concise domains, generating color palettes, images, and regex patterns. It leverages ChatGPT to suggest domain names and provides various services for design, developers, and more.

LeapLife is an AI-powered mental wellness platform offering personalized journaling and therapeutic chat services. It aims to improve mental health with mood boosts, daily check-ins, and reflections, available 24/7 without waitlists or appointments. Privacy is prioritized, and the AI learns about users over time to provide a tailored experience.

RAFA AI offers a team of AI agents designed to help investors build wealth. It provides tools for risk management, unusual options activity monitoring, and real-time portfolio insights. The app delivers precomputed analysis levels, eliminating the need for manual technical analysis.

Redesign with AI is a cutting-edge tool that utilizes artificial intelligence to assist in redesigning user interfaces. It provides a seamless integration of AI technology to help designers and developers enhance their products.

Delfiny AI offers an AI Marketing Assistant for digital advertising, focusing on improving Google and Facebook campaigns with data-trained AI. It enables instant consultancy, competitive analysis, and personalized advice through its AI-powered digital marketing assistants.

AI-generated code recommendations are causing a security stir as they occasionally 'hallucinate' non-existent software packages, which can then be turned into real, malicious packages, downloaded and used by developers. Security researcher Bar Lanyado's study reveals the risk by creating a benign PoC using the name of one such imagined package. Notably, Alibaba's GraphTranslator mistakenly recommended an AI-invented package, already 'created' by Lanyado, and downloaded thousands of times before being identified as fake.

The article reflects on the history of AI and the 1958 promise of human-like machines with the introduction of the Perceptron, comparing historical claims to modern AI expectations. It outlines the booms and busts in AI development, discusses the progression to today's AI capabilities, and cautions against repeating past mistakes.

Bezi AI empowers 3D apps and game designers to create faster and more collaboratively with advanced AI-driven tools. Gain 20 free credits upon signing up for a limited time, and experience the ease of prototyping, generating 3D assets, and grayboxing all within one platform. The Bezi editor also enables real-time team collaboration and in-app commenting for efficient design workflows.

Sendspark is a video communication platform that allows users to create personalized sales videos with AI. It offers features like AI Voice & Video Cloning, Dynamic Backgrounds, and Personalized Video Pages, making it possible to personalize a single video for thousands of viewers. Users can integrate Sendspark with email platforms for scalable delivery.

Trimmr.ai is an AI-powered platform designed to turn long videos into engaging shorts for various social media platforms, leveraging automation and artificial intelligence. It provides users with tools such as automatic captions, AI-powered editing, and customizable graphic assets to streamline the video editing process for content in any language.

The BeagleY-AI is an open-source hardware platform by BeagleBoard.org, featuring the Texas Instruments AM67A Arm-based vision processor, designed for industry-standard form-factors. It supports up to 4 TOPS Edge AI acceleration, 4GB LPDDR4 memory, WiFi 6, and multiple high-speed interfaces.

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.