AI News & Launches

16x Prompt is a desktop application designed for developers, to streamline prompt creation for coding tasks with ChatGPT. It features easy integration with GPT-4, formatting instructions, local data privacy, and no setup required for immediate use.

Glide (YC W24), an AI-assisted technical design doc editor, has been launched on Hacker News. It helps developers plan changes without diving directly into code, using steps to index project code, generate solution outlines, and create implementation plans, all with AI assistance. The product aims to improve efficiency in designing technical changes, currently free for individuals seeking feedback.

A WIRED article reveals a surge in YouTube tutorials advocating the creation of AI-generated kids videos. Channels like Yes! Neo and Super Crazy Kids appear to use AI for content creation, perhaps without human oversight. This trend raises concerns about quality and the potential risks of exposing children to unaudited AI-generated content.

Sameer Ajmani, Engineering Director at Google, explores the roles of Go, Python, and Rust in AI applications. He shares his journey from Python to Go while addressing Python's limitations in production. Ajmani suggests Go is ideal for production AI because of its performance and reliability, contrasted with Rust's safety and Python's ease for prototyping.

The article explores how AI is shifting the tech job market based on 20M job postings. It highlights the booming demand for AI and ML engineers, declines in other engineering roles, and notes that although demand for AI is high, salary increases are modest due to a sufficient supply of AI talent.

Typper BI is an AI-powered Business Intelligence tool designed for custom data integration and seamless analysis, with features such as chart creation in chat, custom dashboards, query assistance, and smart suggestions. It emphasizes data security with trusted partners and end-to-end encryption.

PitchBob.io is an AI-powered pitch deck generator and entrepreneurial co-pilot offering tools for early stage startup founders and corporate entrepreneurs. It provides products like AI-generated pitch decks, business plans, and financial models, as well as services like investor outreach and pitch deck consulting. PitchBob.io boasts a trusted user base of tech entrepreneurs and provides promotional discounts and perks to various entities like universities and startups.

Firebender.com is the premier destination for fans of the elemental bending arts, focusing on the mastery of firebending within the popular Avatar animated series. Offering exclusive content, in-depth lore explanations, bender training tutorials, and a vibrant community.

GetProps.ai offers a powerful, low-latency proxy designed to monitor, track, and monetize AI applications using Open AI. It features user breakdown, error and latency tracking, pricing insights, and cost reduction methods. The platform promises easy integration and a variety of plans that cater to different needs, with options ranging from an open-source plan to custom enterprise solutions.

Rendernet.ai is a cutting-edge technology company specializing in advanced AI-based rendering solutions for diverse industries, aiming to revolutionize visual content production with speed and scalability.

Codara AI Code Review is a GitHub application that offers automated code reviews using AI. It provides instant feedback with suggestions, improvements, and flags potential issues in pull requests. The app is language agnostic and features an accompanying CLI tool.

ProductlyAI serves as an AI Product Manager, integrating with tools like Gong, Intercom, Zoom to log and categorize customer feedback in one place, providing AI-driven summaries directly to Slack.

Cyguru is a state-of-the-art Security Operation Center platform that democratizes cybersecurity for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by leveraging advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide seamless infrastructure monitoring without specialized equipment or binding contracts.

NexxtSupport offers a no-code AI chatbot solution tailored for customer engagement. The platform features lead collection, analytics, multilingual support, and shopping assistance, leveraging a recommendation engine to enhance the customer experience and sales.

Langy is an AI-powered application designed to help overcome language barriers. It detects, translates, and provides clear explanations for any language, simplifying communication for users globally.

Toolmark.ai is a no-code, drag-and-drop AI tool builder that allows users to create AI-powered text, images, and voice tools. The platform supports a range of AI models, including OpenAI and Google Gemini, with more to come. Users can define custom AI prompts, personalize tool theming, monetize creations, and embed tools on their websites.

In 'Among the A.I. Doomsayers,' Andrew Marantz explores the community of thinkers in California who grapple with the potential risks of artificial intelligence, ranging from optimists to doomsayers fearing A.I. could lead to human extinction. The article delves into the lives and philosophies of individuals within this community as they debate A.I.’s future impact on humanity.

Transformer Debugger is a tool by OpenAI's Superalignment team for investigating behaviors of small language models. It combines interpretability techniques with sparse autoencoders to enable rapid exploration of model behaviors.

A paper titled 'Stealing Part of a Production Language Model' by Nicholas Carlini et al. was submitted to arXiv on March 11, 2024. The authors introduce a model-stealing attack that can extract the embedding projection layer of black-box language models. They confirmed the hidden dimensions of OpenAI's Ada, Babbage, and gpt-3.5-turbo models and discussed potential defenses and implications.

Google outlines its approach to post-quantum cryptography, recognizing the future threat quantum computing poses to current cryptographic standards and detailing their efforts to design quantum-resistant algorithms.

Midjourney has banned all Stability AI employees following a near 24-hour service outage allegedly caused by data scraping from two accounts linked to the AI rival. The outage, preventing image generation on Midjourney, was discussed in a business update call where botnet-like activity was attributed to Stability AI employees. As a response, Midjourney bans any company's employees causing such disruptions. CEO of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque, is currently investigating, denying any intentional wrongdoing.

In this latest blog 'Behind the Compute', Stability AI benchmarks compute solutions comparing Intel Gaudi 2 accelerators with Nvidia's A100 and H100. The tests involve training Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Beluga 2.5 70B models. Gaudi 2 shows 1.5 times training speed of H100 and 3x more images processed per second compared to A100. While A100 excels in optimized inferences, expectations are high for Gaudi 2's ongoing optimization to meet or surpass A100 performance. The findings highlight the need for powerful, efficient, and cost-effective computing alternatives like Gaudi 2 in the AI industry.

Extropic is developing a revolutionary hardware platform designed to go beyond digital computing constraints and foster powerful Generative AI applications. Their approach leverages natural matter fluctuations for computation, providing orders of magnitude better speed and energy efficiency than existing CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs. Their technology emphasizes stochastic analog circuits and superconducting chips, which are highly energy-efficient and suitable for mission-critical applications including those used by governments and large corporations.

Soundry AI is a music creation platform that uses artificial intelligence to empower musicians. It offers a VST3 plugin and a desktop application for both Windows and MacOS, specifically designed to generate unique and high-quality sound samples. With a focus on innovative AI technology to assist in music production, Soundry AI promises ease of use and the ability to create an unlimited number of sound variations.

AIChatbot is a SaaS platform providing AI-powered chatbots for customer service, which can resolve up to 90% of support inquiries. With 24/7 availability, multilingual support, and GDPR compliance, it's designed to boost sales and lead generation without coding knowledge.

MaternityPhotoshoot.com provides an affordable and quick alternative to traditional maternity photoshoots with AI-enhanced photos. Customers can snap their selfies and receive 50 professionally touched photos within 24 hours for $19.

Picurious.ai transforms pictures into gateways of discovery, inviting users to explore a world of learning through AI-driven insights. Unfold stories behind every image, from art and nature to architecture and beyond.

Stock Market GPT is an advanced AI-powered tool offering smarter investment strategies and the ability to compare public companies quickly. It is designed to provide the most accurate data, allowing for comprehensive investment research 24/7, using the latest GPT-4 model.

IconiAI offers a personal AI assistant and an all-in-one platform for generating a wide variety of AI content quickly, including texts, images, code, and chat, with multi-language support, advanced analytics, secure payment gateways, and custom templates.

OHMYBOT is an online tool that enables users to build custom chatbots for their landing pages without any initial fees. It supports various chatbot and image generation models, including ChatGPT3.5, Llama2, DallE2, and Stable Diffusion, offering round-the-clock chat capabilities even without user sign-in.

Mediscribe Pro offers an AI-powered solution designed to assist healthcare professionals with medical scribing, charting, and documentation. The platform provides HIPAA & PIPEDA compliant services, and allows users to select from template options, add medical context, and engage with the software for additional notes. With a variety of plans, Mediscribe Pro aims to save time and increase efficiency in medical practices.

The article critiques the pervasive extractive nature of various technology platforms, including AI, crypto, social media, ride-hailing services, and streaming platforms. The author argues that these services prioritize profit and growth over genuine value to society, often leading to the exploitation of resources, privacy, and labor. They call for simpler, transparent businesses focused on solving real problems, as opposed to speculative products that externalize issues.

The Financial Times' CEO John Ridding shares insights on the publication's strategic approach to AI, subscriber engagement, and ongoing growth, particularly in the U.S., aiming for a global paying audience of 3 million by 2028.

Introducing Yi model family, developed by 01.AI, consisting of language and multimodal models. The family includes 6B and 34B pretrained models extended to chat models, long context models, depth-upscaled models, and vision-language models. Achieving strong performance on benchmarks and human preference rate, the performance is attributed to high data quality. Pretraining involved 3.1 trillion tokens of English and Chinese corpora with a unique data-engineering pipeline. The paper further explores extending context length and depth via continual pretraining for improved performance.

LlamaGym is a GitHub project designed to simplify the fine-tuning of LLM agents with online reinforcement learning. It introduces an Agent class to handle conversation context, reward assignment, and more, making it easier to experiment with LLM-based agents across Gym environments.

Tenstorrent, led by Jim Keller, introduces Grayskull, a RISC-V alternative to GPUs optimized for AI tasks. With a focus on ease of programming and scalability, the Grayskull-powered DevKits come in two versions, e75 and e150. The company’s collaboration with Japan’s LSTC to build a 2nm AI Accelerator aims to boost AI performance in the region. Grayskull DevKits support a range of AI models and are available for purchase.

Transform your business with the 280 ChatGPT Business Prompts on Notion, designed to increase revenue and automate tasks. Suited for entrepreneurs aiming for a $10,000/month business, this toolkit offers sales, ads, and marketing strategies.

At MWC 2024, Hyodol exhibited a ChatGPT-enabled AI doll targeted at the elderly to combat loneliness and offer automated companionship. Priced at $1,800, the doll can converse, issue health reminders, and its interactions can be monitored remotely. Despite ethical questions about privacy and dependency, such robotic companions are already employed to assist the lonely, suggesting a trend towards further acceptance of social robots in senior care.

A recent article from Scientific American discusses the risk of AI-generated content corrupting the training data for future AI models, leading to 'model collapse' where errors compound through successive iterations. Researchers observed this through experiments with language models and diffusion models, noting issues even with modest-sized AIs. The article underlines the potential for increased bias against marginalized groups, the dangers of AI entering model training undetected, and the challenges in differentiating between human and synthetic data.

STMicroelectronics unveiled the new STM32MP2 microprocessors, marking the STM32 family's leap to 64-bit with the Arm Cortex-A35 core. Catered for edge AI and 3D applications, these chips boast up to 1.35 TOPS NPU performance, support for 1080p displays, and are designed to operate 24/7 for a decade with extensive temperature ranges. Ready for the US Cyber Trust Mark, they aim for a June volume production start.