AI News & Launches

The article 'You can't build a moat with AI' by Vikram Sreekanti and Joseph E. Gonzalez discusses how differentiating AI applications is a challenge and why simply using LLMs (Large Language Models) isn't enough. The authors argue that real differentiation comes from the data fed into models and stress the importance of data engineering to build a competitive edge in AI applications.

Holodeck is an innovative system created by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, University of Washington, and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. It automates the generation of 3D embodied AI environments based on language descriptions. Leveraging GPT-4 for commonsense knowledge and a vast collection of 3D assets, Holodeck efficiently tailors environments to specific prompts like style or objects. The system is validated by extensive human evaluations showing preference over manual designs.

STORM (Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking) is a system developed by Stanford University researchers. It uses Large Language Models (LLM) to curate knowledge by conducting internet-based research and generating Wikipedia-like articles from scratch. STORM aims to assist in the pre-writing stage of article creation, especially useful for experienced Wikipedia editors.

LANDO AI specializes in creating AI-Generated App Landing Pages aimed at boosting app downloads through stunning designs. Easy start-up process with options to continue with Google or Apple.

Cohere introduces Rerank 3, a new foundation model designed to enhance enterprise search and retrieval systems. Rerank 3 offers capabilities like 4k context length, multilingual coverage, and improved latency. It's compatible with any database and can be integrated into legacy applications. Improved enterprise search, multi-aspect data ranking, code retrieval, and multilingual retrieval are some of its features. It reduces total cost of ownership and is supported in Elastic's Inference API.

The Verge's David Pierce reviews the Humane AI Pin, a screenless wearable aiming to replace smartphones by using AI and a voice-driven interface. For $699 and a $24 monthly fee, it promises efficiency without the distractions of a screen. However, Pierce finds the device unfinished and unreliable, with slow response times, limited functionality, and frequent errors that make it impossible to recommend.

eezyCollab is an affordable, AI-powered influencer marketing tool that simplifies the process of finding and collaborating with influencers. It offers features like AI-powered matching, bulk email campaigns, and reasonable rates. Users can easily describe their product and let the AI handle the matchmaking process to find the best influencers for their marketing campaign.

Google Workspace provides a suite of communication and collaboration tools, including email, calendar, file storage, video meetings, and word processing. It offers solutions tailored for businesses, enterprises, education, and more.

Slidey: presentation maker app is a mobile application designed for creating presentations quickly and easily. It offers pre-made templates and themes with simple slide creation tools, allowing users to make presentations offline on their mobile devices. Users can export presentations to PDF or JPEG formats.

Biliki AI is a travel platform dedicated to helping users plan sustainable trips effortlessly. With a focus on various travel experiences, such as cultural tours, luxury getaways, and family adventures, Biliki AI provides personalized recommendations to create memorable journeys.

Musho is an AI-powered creative assistant that integrates with Figma to help designers create stunning UI designs quickly and efficiently, boosting creativity and productivity.

Eugene Yan shares his experience building an AI coach named Tara to address his monkey mind, imposter syndrome, and the hedonic treadmill. Utilizing ChatGPT, voice interactions, and a platform called Vapi, he creates a 24/7 accessible AI coach for self-reflection, emotional clarity, and preparation for challenging situations.

HyperDoc offers a solution to streamline the sales process by generating AI-powered flashcards that summarize key selling points, helping to clear objections and close deals faster. With features like document summarization, clear insights, and success tracking, HyperDoc enhances productivity and organization for sales teams.

Captions.ai is your AI-powered creative studio for next-generation storytelling. Use AI to create studio-grade videos, scriptwriting, recording, production, visual editing, translation, and distribution. Trusted by 3M+ people worldwide.

Arena Chat is an advanced AI-powered chat platform tailored for e-commerce stores to engage visitors and convert them into customers. It offers features like smart product recommendations, automated customer service, and deep integrations with major e-commerce platforms. Available 24/7, it assists businesses in personalizing shopping experiences and managing buyer interactions with ease.

GoProfiles offers an AI-powered people platform designed to strengthen genuine connections within workplaces. It includes features such as employee directories, peer recognition, org charts, and workforce analytics to foster a positive company culture.

Aider is an AI-based command line tool for pair programming that uses GPT-3.5/GPT-4, allowing developers to edit code within local git repositories. Aider applies changes and commits with descriptive messages and can operate on existing codebases or new projects, utilizing tree-sitter to map out repositories for context-aware assistance.

RecurrentGemma by Google DeepMind is an open-weights language model based on the Griffin architecture, optimized for fast inference in generating sequences. This repository includes the model, examples, and instructions for running and fine-tuning it. With a focus on TPU optimization, it's an Apache-2.0 licensed project open to contributions.

Simon Willison reviews a flurry of activity in the Large Language Model space, including releases like Google Gemini Pro 1.5, OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo, and Mistral's Mixtral 8x22B. Willison also discusses his work on various Datasette plugins integrated with these models and notes on system prompts and their implementations.

Persana 2.0 is an AI prospecting platform that enhances outbound efforts by leveraging over 75 data sources to find, enrich, and personalize outreach. With features like dynamic data enrichment and lead scoring, Persana is rated #1 in its space for 2024. It helps companies boost revenue, save time, and generate highly qualified leads.

Prelaunch.com offers a platform where users can validate their product ideas by creating a product page with AI assistance, sharing it with a global audience of over 200 million people, and gaining insights through tailored surveys to make informed decisions on whether to pursue their idea.

Infinity AI Studio is a platform offering advanced data analysis and machine learning capabilities, designed to automate processes and enable users to gain insights from their data.

OpenAI's recently unveiled GPT-4 Turbo with Vision model exhibits poorer performance on coding benchmarks compared to its predecessors, achieving a low 62% completion rate on aider's code editing benchmark. It has also been noted for its tendency towards 'lazy coding', where it provides incomplete code fragments with placeholders rather than functional code. Despite this, aider has integrated support for GPT-4 Turbo with Vision.

OpenAI is reportedly gearing up for a series of legal challenges as it faces scrutiny over its products and business practices. The company is said to be preparing for both defense and offense in a legal landscape that is becoming increasingly complex for AI technology providers.

EDOM.AI provides a platform where entrepreneurs can create and grow their businesses using artificial intelligence modeled after the thought patterns of successful business leaders like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. The site offers access to strategies employed by major companies and the secrets of billionaires to inspire user success. The AI is constantly evolving, with the current model named Edom 1.0 Genesis.

Google Research recently introduced ScreenAI, a visual language model designed for user interfaces (UI) and infographics. It's engineered to improve upon the PaLI architecture and employs a flexible patching strategy from pix2struct. With 5B parameters, ScreenAI achieves state-of-the-art results and is accompanied by three new datasets: Screen Annotation, ScreenQA Short, and Complex ScreenQA.

Intel announces the new Gaudi 3 AI accelerator at Intel Vision event on April 9, 2024, for enterprise Generative AI (GenAI) market. The Gaudi 3 addresses the AI gap with 4x AI compute, 1.5x memory, and 2x networking bandwidth compared to its predecessor, aiming to provide a flexible, open-standard solution for AI systems and applications.

Google has announced the launch of its new AI chip, Cloud TPU v5p, an alternative to Nvidia's AI chips, and a new Arm-based chip, Google Axion, to compete with CPUs from Microsoft and Amazon. The TPU v5p is designed to train large language models significantly faster than before. Google remains a major customer of Nvidia, using its GPUs and integrating Nvidia's latest chip, Blackwell, into its AI Hypercomputer. The Google Axion CPU offers enhanced performance and energy efficiency, and is available for Google Cloud services.

Google introduces Vids, a new app in the Workspace suite designed for making collaborative videos at work. With no extensive video production experience required, the app lets users combine assets and add voiceovers or self-recorded video, aiming to replace traditional slide decks. It integrates with Google's other tools, and while it shares some tech with YouTube, it is distinct in its focus on workplace productivity. Vids is set to have a public beta in summer 2024.

Chat2DB is an intelligent SQL client and reporting tool for databases, integrating ChatGPT capabilities, offering support for numerous databases including Redis, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Features include AI-driven SQL development, intelligent reports, and proactive data exploration.

A paper titled 'AI Consciousness is Inevitable: A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective' by Lenore Blum and Manuel Blum was submitted to arXiv on 25 Mar 2024. It explores consciousness from a Theoretical Computer Science angle, developing a formal machine model inspired by Alan Turing's and Bernard Baars' work, arguing that machine consciousness is inevitable.

Reflectr AI is an artificial intelligence-powered journaling app that offers personalized feedback and insights to its users. It has received an Honorable Mention in Google Play's Best of 2023 for Best with AI. Users are praising the app for its conversational features, intuitive insights, and motivational aspects to keep journaling. Reflectr is available for both iOS and Android platforms.

AI2 introduces OLMo 7B, a truly open Large Language Model (LLM). Released with pre-training data and training code, it offers transparency in AI development, enabling scientific testing and innovation. Experts like Yann LeCun and Eric Horvitz have supported this move towards open-source AI research.

Professional Go players have improved their skills and become more creative after being bested by AI systems like AlphaGo. With the advent of AI, players have surpassed previous limitations, embracing new strategic moves and sequences, some derived from AI patterns, others uniquely human.

The 'llm.c' repository on GitHub, created by user 'karpathy', is a project focused on providing a simple, raw C/CUDA approach to large language model (LLM) training, bypassing the need for the heavy dependencies like PyTorch or cPython. The repo includes a concise but efficient GPT-2 training example and aims to expand with more optimized versions and modern architectures.

The analysis of Hacker News reveals a decline in active contributors and a shift in topic interest from business to artificial intelligence in 2023. Regular story sharing is key to success on the platform, rather than chasing high-impact stories. The study uses about 40M items from HN's APIs, and the author contemplates the platform's future direction and potential.

The Reddit page at the provided URL appears to be a subreddit that discusses ChatGPT and other AI topics. The page features a variety of topics and resources, including gaming, sports, business, crypto, television, and celebrity news.

Parea AI evaluates the tool usage capabilities of Anthropic's Haiku and compares it with GPT-4 Turbo. Although GPT-4 often performs better, in certain scenarios, Haiku demonstrates superior performance.

WiseMap.ai offers an AI-powered mind mapping tool that transforms ideas into mind-maps, boosting brainstorming and planning. It enables instant map creation with innovative AI assistance, without requiring sign-ups or payments. Users can explore examples, enjoy unlimited edits, share their maps, and look forward to upcoming collaborative features.

Melodis is an AI music creation platform that allows users to generate unique melodies and create personalized playlists. Users can explore trending music, discover new tracks, and enjoy a library of favorites. The website features a variety of musical tracks with different themes ranging from the latest hits to timeless classics.