AI News & Launches

Arcads.ai offers an innovative AI-powered tool to create emotionally engaging video ads instantly from text. With an array of AI actors and the ability to produce bulk variations, it's designed for digital marketers looking to streamline video production, save costs, and increase efficiency.

Hetzner is revising its billing structure starting March 2024 with changes to invoices, introducing hourly and consumption-based billing similar to Cloud products. This update aims for user-friendly product billing. Transitions include pro-rata March billing, retro-active April invoicing for March use, with a full transition by May. Invoices will reflect actual hours used for products, and customers can expect a shift in the invoicing day monthly to improve customer support.

AgentX provides a user-friendly platform to build custom AI chatbots for businesses, integrating with popular services like Slack, WhatsApp, and Shopify. It offers a no-code solution with early access available, aiming to deploy ChatGPT in under 5 minutes without the need for credit card information during sign-up.

Monic.ai is an all-in-one AI-powered study space designed to enhance learning by offering tools to create quizzes, flashcards, and summaries. With a user base of over 100,000 students globally, it provides features like chat with files, AI-tutor, and smart practice modes, all engineered to make study sessions more effective.

Blobr is an AI business assistant designed to help users make informed decisions by consolidating and reconciling data from various SaaS tools. It offers actionable insights, with an emphasis on ease of integration and understanding the data origin.

GuestLab is an AI-powered tool designed to assist podcasters by generating well-crafted intros, topics, and insightful questions for interviews. It expedites the research process, allowing hosts to focus on delivering engaging conversations. The service offers a forever-free plan alongside tiered subscription options catering to varying levels of podcasting experience.

Survicate provides AI-powered surveys to gather real customer insights quickly and efficiently. Effortless multi-channel survey distribution and no-guesswork metrics like NPS, CSAT, and CES help you measure user experience across all touchpoints. Native and custom integrations make it easy to connect with tools like Salesforce, Intercom, and HubSpot.

SynthMind's studio introduces an AI-powered chat research tool that helps users effortlessly gather information and conduct research directly through conversations with an AI entity. This innovative tool simplifies the research process with its AI researcher skill, accessible via the provided link, and is promoted on Product Hunt.

Dopplio is an AI-Personalized Sales Video platform designed specifically for recruiters, coaches, and lead generation marketers. It offers the ability to automate cold video outreach by personalizing spoken words and backgrounds infinitely using AI, thus increasing outreach efficiency. Users can create video templates and Dopplio's AI will generate personalized videos, potentially improving response rates and saving hours of manual work.

AskAI Ltd. offers a Free AI Email Assistant designed to draft replies to any email. With customizable response tones and contextual enhancement options, it aims to streamline customer support communication.

Village is a versatile platform designed to streamline community management, project tracking, and team collaboration, providing intuitive tools and features for organizations seeking efficiency and engagement.

Fast food chain Wendy's has announced plans to test dynamic, AI-powered pricing in 2025. The prices of their menu items will vary based on demand and weather, similar to surge pricing in rideshare apps. They will invest $20 million in digital menus for US-based stores and an additional $10 million to enhance their global system.

Intel announced their roadmap extending to 2027, with plans to introduce their 1nm process technology, projected as the 10A node, by late 2027. Preceding this, the 14A (1.4nm) node is set for production in 2026. The roadmap additionally highlights the pursuit of fully AI-automated factories featuring collaborative robots ('Cobots'), aiming to enhance manufacturing efficiencies.

Qualcomm is an enterprise on Hugging Face, focusing on scaling AI to create new possibilities. They provide a range of pre-optimized AI models for on-device applications in vision, audio, and speech, available on Snapdragon devices and across the Android ecosystem.

Txtyourex encourages individuals to move past their ex-texting habits by offering a supportive chat service designed to transform the urge to text an ex into an opportunity for emotional healing.

Google has initiated a private program engaging publishers to use an unreleased suite of generative AI tools, providing beta access for content production and feedback in return for a five-figure sum. This program, part of the Google News Initiative, has triggered discussions regarding its implications for journalism and content creation.

The European Commission is analyzing Microsoft's €15M investment in Mistral AI after they introduced a powerful language model, prompting regulatory scrutiny over potential market distortion and Big Tech's influence in the AI sector.

Klarna has launched an AI assistant developed by OpenAI, which has handled 2.3 million customer service chats in its first month. The assistant performs the work of 700 agents, decreases repeat inquiries by 25%, and reduces resolution time from 11 mins to under 2 mins. Available in 23 markets and communicating in over 35 languages, it is expected to generate a $40 million USD profit improvement for Klarna in 2024.

Nexto is a Chrome Extension harnessing AI to instantly generate actionable follow-up tasks from email threads and sales call transcripts, directly in Gmail.

Project FTK is dedicated to accelerating innovations in child and young adult cancer treatments through strategic investments and partnerships. They focus on supporting research and development to make promising therapies available to patients faster.

EasySpeak is an advanced teleprompter app that allows users to record videos flawlessly, generate scripts with AI, and share or export videos easily. It provides various features for professional video creation and offers multiple subscription plans catering to different user needs.

Social Champ provides a variety of free social media tools including username and hashtag generators, caption creators, and a range of analytics features to enhance social media management and strategy execution.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the controversy surrounding the Gemini AI tool, calling its racially biased responses 'completely unacceptable.' The tool faced criticism for generating problematic images and text, showing bias in responses regarding race. Pichai committed to making structural changes, updating guidelines, and improving processes for better AI guardrails.

RecurseChat offers a personal AI chat app with features like offline capabilities, full-text search, and the importation of ChatGPT history. It allows chatting with multiple models in one session, including with images, and is focused on privacy with a secured macOS App Sandbox. The app is fully customizable in both appearance and AI personality.

A look into the consequences of outsourcing tasks to AI highlights the risk of 'skill erosion,' where people forget how to perform tasks they have delegated to technology. This article provides examples, including real-world incidents, discusses research on this trend, and shares strategies to retain crucial skills while using AI.

GitHub user codemakerai-dev proposed an auto-generated comments addition to the Spring Boot codebase via Pull Request #39754, using a custom fine-tuned AI model. The PR sparked discussion on the usefulness and implementation of such contributions but was ultimately closed by a Spring Boot team member.

Magic Document Formatter is a web-based application designed to easily format and style documents. It offers users a streamlined workflow for editing text and applying various formatting templates to create professional and well-organized documents. Users need to access the tool via a desktop browser as it is not supported on mobile devices.

Mistral AI has launched their beta access to Le Chat, a conversational assistant showcasing the capabilities of Mistral models. Le Chat is a multilingual tool that interacts with Mistral Large, Mistral Small, or Mistral Next models and has a system-level moderation to prevent sensitive topics.

Superhuman is marketed as the fastest email experience ever made, offering AI-powered features designed to help teams save time and focus on what's important. They claim that using Superhuman can give users back 4 hours every week and help them fly through their emails twice as fast, eliminate email anxiety, and be more responsive.

ThinkBuddy provides an AI-powered productivity assistant designed specifically for MacOS, featuring functionalities like voice interaction, screen capture queries, text actions, and voice transcription. The app offers integration with various AI models, ensuring users get a native-like experience. Starting for free, it offers the chance to upgrade for additional features.

Post Cheetah offers advanced AI-powered SEO tools designed to create effective SEO strategies without the cost of consultants. Features include AI-driven keyword research, content generation, scheduling, and reporting, geared towards simplifying SEO and saving time and money.

M1 Project offers an AI-driven Facebook Ad Generator tool that creates ready-to-use ad copy and detailed targeting options designed to yield high conversion rates. Their solution is optimized for businesses seeking efficiency and effectiveness in their Facebook ad campaigns, supporting users with tailored ad suggestions, targeting accuracy, and a seamless ad creation process.

Sendbird offers a no-code solution for creating AI chatbots tailored to business needs to automate customer engagement, sales, and support. With a customizable UI, insights from customer interactions, and a multitude of features such as multilingual support and analytics, Sendbird's AI chatbot enhances customer service across various industries.

AdsGency AI is an integrated digital marketing platform that utilizes generative AI to produce creative ad content, aiming to revolutionize advertising by providing tools for optimizing ads based on historical data.

Namely offers a joyful and easy journey to find the perfect name for your baby. It is an AI-powered baby name generator available on mobile platforms, featuring thousands of unique names tailored to your story.

B.C. lawyer Chong Ke was reprimanded for citing two non-existent cases created by ChatGPT in a divorce case. Intended as precedent for a father to take his children to China, the AI-generated cases were discovered as fake, resulting in a Supreme Court judge ordering Ke to pay costs and review other files for AI-generated content.

Billionaire investor Marc Rowan's Apollo Global Management has voiced concerns that the current AI-driven market valuations exceed the dotcom bubble's excesses, contrasting with analysts like Dan Ives from Wedbush Securities, who remain bullish on AI stocks. Amidst a record-setting market cap gain by Nvidia, powered by demand for AI chips, economist Torsten Sløk sees a fragile economic equilibrium and potential rate corrections by the Federal Reserve.

A Hacker News discussion where users share experiences and insights on switching from GPT to custom models, including fine-tuning, model comparisons, and hosting recommendations.

Discussion on the subreddit 'LocalLLaMA' explores recent changes by Mistral AI towards closed models and the OpenAI-related landscape, with community reaction to these shifts in open-source AI development.

SciPhi-AI's R2R repository on GitHub offers a framework for rapid development and deployment of production-ready RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems, designed to ease the transition from experimental models to robust applications.