AI News & Launches

John Gruber discusses Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2023 award for Humane's AI Pin, questioning the merit given the product hadn't shipped at the time of award and now appears to be a failure. A footnote reveals Time's owners are investors in Humane.

Wisecut is an AI-powered video editor that automatically turns long videos into engaging viral clips. It offers features like AI highlight detection, storyboard-based editing, smart background music, auto captions/translations, and time-saving cuts for silences, minimizing editing time while maximizing content production.

AMD has expanded its reach in the commercial market with the unveiling of its Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors. Featuring the advanced 'Hawk Point' 8040-series for commercial laptops and workstations, alongside the Ryzen 8000 'Phoenix' APU models for commercial desktop PCs, these new chips are equipped with a neural processing unit for AI workloads.

Silicon Valley's Rivos Inc., a chip developer focused on AI, raised over $250 million, backed by Matrix Capital and others. Rivos plans to target demand for AI applications that do not require the highest-end chips, offering a cost-effective solution.

AI cloud startup TensorWave is betting on AMD's Instinct MI300X GPUs to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI accelerator market. With planned deployment of 20,000 MI300X units, they offer faster performance & larger memory than Nvidia's H100, at a fraction of the cost.

IMGPT-One is an AI-powered marketing tool that simplifies ad creation by generating custom, visually appealing ad creatives from a given URL. It analyzes webpages, understands branding and style, and auto-generates ad copy, providing a comprehensive ad solution for entrepreneurs and marketers. The platform is trusted by industry professionals and offers a hassle-free experience with a 100% free trial.

Vidyard introduces AI Avatars, augmenting its video messaging platform to create scalable, personalized videos using hyper-realistic AI avatars from just a script. Ideal for sales and marketing, this feature uses a custom or stock AI avatar, supporting over 25 languages and enabling engagement across various business communication needs.

Muzaic is a generative AI Soundtrack-as-a-Service that offers custom soundtracks. It allows for true time adjustment and personalization across five musical dimensions. It provides high-quality full stereo audio and is unique due to its understanding of music theory.

Seomaker.ai is an advanced AI-based SEO and marketing tool designed to enhance online content creation and optimization. It provides a range of features including Copywriter AI for long-form content, SEO website audits, competitive analysis, rank tracking, and marketing tools to increase clicks, conversions, and sales. The platform offers a 7-day free trial without the need for a credit card.

An investigative report suggests that AI systems like 'Lavender' and 'Where's Daddy?' are used by the IDF to identify and target individuals in Gaza. These systems accelerate the military 'kill chain,' but risk misidentifying targets and causing casualties among innocents.

EleutherAI introduces Pile-T5, a new variant of the T5 model trained on the Pile dataset with the LLAMA tokenizer for improved code-related tasks. Pile-T5 outperforms previous T5 models in various benchmarks, offering vast improvements on code tasks. Researchers can access models and scripts, including intermediate checkpoints for in-depth study.

Limitless AI introduces the world's most wearable AI that helps preserve conversations and interact with a personalized AI. Enhance meeting experiences with automatic notes, transcription, and summaries while ensuring data privacy through the Confidential Cloud.

Medium has updated its Partner Program policy to ban AI-generated content. Starting May 1, 2024, stories entirely produced by AI will be removed from Medium's paywalls and may lead to exclusion from monetization efforts. The platform emphasizes human storytelling and will only allow AI to assist with clarity or language barriers, requiring clear disclosure of AI usage in articles.

Backend Engineer (Engineer #4) at Recall.ai, providing a universal API for meeting video, audio and metadata. Offering $170K-$220K salary with 0.20%-0.70% equity, open for San Francisco, CA or remote candidates. Over 3 years of experience required.

Michal Gorny proposes a ban on AI-assisted contributions to Gentoo, citing copyright concerns, quality issues, and ethical considerations, including copyright violations by AI tools, poor generation quality, and AI's negative societal impact.

FastBots.ai offers an intuitive platform for creating custom AI-powered chatbots using OpenAI's GPT language models. With no coding required, users can quickly import data, customize their bot, and integrate it onto their websites for enhanced customer interaction and support in multiple languages, ensuring 24/7 assistance.

IXORD Notes is a free AI-powered to-do list application that helps in planning, task management, and reaching goals. It allows users to make notes via typing or voice messages, offers an AI-powered assistant named 'ixy' for content creation and code writing, and is designed for work and personal life harmony.

Breezemail is an AI-powered email management tool designed to combat inbox chaos by categorizing emails into smart categories. It uses natural language processing to identify important emails, keeping your inbox clutter-free, and is currently offering a 7-day free trial for Outlook users.

Collectif.ai is a software tool designed for SaaS teams, aiming to optimize product development and user experience by converting customer interactions into a stream of actionable insights. It leverages GPT-4 for automatic transcription, tagging, summarization, and insight generation.

The study by Van Pham and Scott Cunningham explores the forecasting abilities of ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 using two prompting strategies, emphasizing that ChatGPT-4's narrative prompts significantly improve prediction accuracy, particularly in economics and major event outcomes.

DeBlank Colors offers a comprehensive range of color samples, including hex codes, color harmonies, and suggestions for design projects.

Evelyn is an AI tutor that engages students with a Generative UI. It is based on Next.js with Vercel AI SDK 3.0 and incorporates tools from OpenAI.

FireCrawl is a web crawling tool that converts websites into LLM-ready markdown, removing the need for a sitemap and handling dynamic JS content. It offers various subscription plans suitable for different scales of web scraping needs.

Generative AI startup Imaginary Machines launches StockCake and StockTune, offering over a million free, high-quality AI-generated stock photos and nearly 100,000 music tracks to the public domain, aiming to democratize media access and looking to monetize via ads or subscriptions without jeopardizing free access.

Ken Kantzer shares insights from using over 500 million GPT tokens at his startup, highlighting the differences between community narratives and practical usage. Key lessons include the advantage of less detailed prompts, the sufficiency of simple chat APis over complex language tools, and the utility of streaming APIs for user experience. GPT struggles with hallucinations and generating null responses but shows reliable context analysis and task execution.

MIT scientists have utilized AI technology to identify a compound, semapimod, that targets dormant, metabolically inert bacteria which traditional antibiotics fail to kill. This discovery can potentially address one cause of recurring infections and combat antibiotic resistance, a global health threat.

Pastebin.ai is a feature-rich online pastebin where users can share text and code snippets with options for syntax highlighting, protection, and URL monetization. The platform includes over 150 syntax languages, customizable paste settings, and folders for organization.

Kazimir AI is an online platform that offers the ability to fill and validate PDF forms with their InstaFill AI feature, significantly reducing the time and errors associated with manual form entry. The site also hosts AI-generated images of actors, sports figures, and social media celebrities.

Azyri is an AI copilot for healthcare, offering a free bone age assessment tool intended for professionals, students, and AI enthusiasts. Accessible from mobile devices, it provides estimates without the intention of giving medical advice.

Expense Badger is an online service that converts PDF invoices and JPG files into spreadsheets for easier expense management. Users can upload their files, and the service extracts the billing information to create a detailed spreadsheet while renaming the files for better organization.

Interview with AI provides a unique tool that uses artificial intelligence to help individuals prepare for job interviews. It offers a personalized interview preparation roadmap based on the job description input, includes quizzes for self-assessment, and the ability to practice with AI through mock interviews.

Claud is an innovative AI-powered app that serves as a dream journal and interpreter, designed to help users record, understand, and explore their dreams. With a user-friendly interface and advanced AI for dream analysis, Claud offers a seamless experience for dreamers and oneirologists alike.

Everlyn AI offers 24/7 AI Tutors to personalize and enhance the learning experience for students, providing instant support and automated assessments for a more efficient classroom.

ChatSlide is an AI-powered communication platform designed to enhance team collaboration and streamline conversations. With innovative features and a user-friendly interface, ChatSlide is redefining how teams interact and manage their workflow.

This paper analyzes the capability of pre-trained large language models, such as Llama2, GPT-4, and Claude 3, in performing regression tasks without further training or updates. Findings suggest these models can rival traditional supervised methods on complex datasets, scaling well with the number of in-context exemplars.

A TikToker, Brianna Janel, was trapped inside her Tesla Model 3 for approximately 40 minutes during a software update in 115-degree heat. She followed Tesla’s warnings not to open doors or windows during the update to avoid damaging the vehicle. Concerns arose from this incident about the safety of occupants during Tesla's update process.

Artisan AI, a Y Combinator W24 batch company, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer with 3+ years of experience, offering $110K-$150K and equity options. Location is flexible, with options in San Francisco, New York, or Remote. Role involves Python development, API creation, and CI/CD pipeline maintenance.

Research paper 'Increased LLM Vulnerabilities from Fine-tuning and Quantization' examines how downstream tasks such as fine-tuning and quantization affect vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), with tests on frameworks like Mistral, Llama, MosaicML. Outcomes show such tasks reduce jailbreak resistance, suggesting the need for enhanced security measures.

Apple is set to update its Mac lineup with M4 chips focused on artificial intelligence capabilities starting in late 2024. The new chips, expected to come in various models including Donan, Brava, and Hidra, will power the iMac, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro through late 2024 and early 2025.

In an interview with Ben Thompson, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian discussed Google’s enterprise AI strategy, highlighting the importance of choosing an open AI platform over individual models. He touched on how integrating AI into products and core processes can transform businesses and gave examples of use cases in various industries. Kurian also mentioned the advancements in Google Cloud's AI and infrastructure offerings, including improvements to Google’s models and the announcement of the million context window for AI.