AI News & Launches

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.

The newly released 'Claude 3 Opus' by Anthropic outperforms OpenAI's models on Aider's code editing benchmark, completing 68.4% of Python coding tasks successfully within two tries. Although marginally better than the 'GPT-4 Turbo', it is slower and more expensive. Claude 3 Sonnet is similar in capability to the 'GPT-3.5 Turbo'.

Call an AI offers on-demand conversational AI bots through phone calls. Users can interact with a variety of AI bots such as a therapist, daily planner, and tech support. The service provides unique AI experiences like personalized conversations, schedule adherence, and diverse integrations, all available 24/7.

Superpipe is a lightweight framework designed to build, evaluate, and optimize LLM pipelines for structured outputs such as data labeling, classification, and tagging. It offers a way to measure the accuracy, cost, and speed, supporting the optimization of models and parameters.

Hoory is offering a limited-time 40% discount on AI-powered customer support automation, reducing holiday stress for support teams. Promo code HOHOHOORY valid until December 31. Various pricing plans available with a 30% discount using promo code HOORYHUNT30, including features like Omni-Channel Inboxes and AI-driven support.

Weavely is a form-building tool, designed as a Figma plugin, that generates pixel-perfect web forms from Figma designs. It allows complete design freedom, includes features like conditional logic, AI form generation, and integrates with various apps like Notion, Google Sheets, and Airtable or 6000+ apps via Zapier.

Miraa is an AI-powered application that specializes in bilingual subtitles and learning. It transcribes media into actionable material and allows for seamless echoing to pace your learning. Interactive elements help chat with AI for questions and real-time translations make language barriers disappear.

Unlock the potential of AI with Airtable's platform, designed to integrate AI across business operations without code. Propel your business with tools for app building, connected data, and governance at scale.

GoatStack.AI offers an AI Agent for personalized updates on scientific papers, targeting researchers and AI enthusiasts. With 6283 members, the platform reads over 4000 papers daily, providing essential insights and fostering a community through events.

Dubo is an AI-powered SQL workstation that enhances productivity with features like database-aware SQL autocomplete and SQL query generation from natural language questions. It offers a free trial, supports a range of databases, and provides a Python SDK.

PrettyPolly is an AI-driven language learning platform that focuses on improving conversational skills by enabling users to practice speaking with an AI from day one. Over 9,000 users have utilized the platform in the last three months, proving its popularity and effectiveness. PrettyPolly's innovative approach includes realistic oral conversations, fluency score tracking, and personalized feedback for each saved conversation.

Talkie AI is a virtual conversation platform that allows users to engage in chat experiences with various characters from different universes including games, animes, and movies. The platform offers a unique interactive experience for storytelling and personal entertainment.