AI News & Launches

Fotor is an online photo editing service, leveraging AI technology to provide a wide array of powerful editing tools and creative options like photo effects, design templates, and image retouching. Ideal for both amateurs and professionals looking to enhance their photos or create stunning visual content.

Nvidia announced its new generation of AI chips, the Blackwell, with the GB200 as the first model set to ship later this year. As companies are still eager to obtain current generation H100s, this reveal signals Nvidia's intent to lead the AI hardware market, promising a significant performance boost.

Suno, an AI startup, is revolutionizing music production by enabling anyone to create professional-level songs with simple text descriptions. Their new AI model collaborates with ChatGPT to generate both lyrics and music. Suno's founders aim to democratize music creation, with ambitions of reaching a global audience and changing the music landscape.

This repository offers a comprehensive toolkit for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), including instruction fine-tuning, reward model training, and PPO and DPO algorithms with configurations for Alpaca, LLaMA, and LLaMA2 models.

Stability AI announces Stable Video 3D (SV3D), advancing 3D technology with two variants for quality novel view synthesis and 3D generation from single images. SV3D_u creates orbital videos, while SV3D_p allows 3D video creation along specified camera paths. Commercial use requires Stability AI Membership, while non-commercial access is available via Hugging Face model downloads.

RapidTask is an AI-powered task management app that simplifies and streamlines task creation and management. With effortless integration and a user-friendly approach, it allows users to automate task inputs and prioritize effectively for individual or team projects.

Parakeet is a novel small language model designed for efficient research, featuring 378 million parameters and innovative technologies like ALiBi and grouped query attention. Trained on synthetic datasets, it demonstrates promising reasoning and summarization skills despite its size. Its creator, user razodactyl, shares insights and future ambitions, discussing the model's potentials and limitations.

Google introduces a tool in Creator Studio requiring YouTube creators to disclose altered or synthetic media, such as AI-generated content, to enhance transparency and trust with viewers. This tool adds labels to videos when content could easily be mistaken for reality but excludes content that's clearly animated, unrealistic, or uses AI for productivity like scripts and captions. Enforcement measures may apply for non-disclosure.

Tom Hipwell shares his thoughts on Devin from Cognition, suggesting that its UX might signal a new era in software engineering. He speculates whether the performance improvement seen in SWE benchmarks is due to advanced prompting techniques, referencing Google's Self-Discover technique. Hipwell considers whether a Cyborg AI approach, integrating the technology directly into IDEs, might better suit developers' workflows.

AI/ML API provides an array of over 100 AI models accessible via a simple API. It offers OpenAI compatibility, serverless inference, flat pricing, and high performance.

Microsoft has been pushing intrusive pop-up ads promoting Bing and GPT-4 on users' Chrome browsers on Windows PCs. This aggressive advertising technique, which mimics malware behavior, urges users to make Bing their default search engine. Users experiencing this are met with several prompts, creating a disruptive and negative experience.

Listen2.AI is an app delivering personalized news podcasts, offering hands-free news consumption with reliable and interesting information. It features multilingual support, allowing seamless transitions between languages, and diverse political perspectives with a customizable news broadcast stance.

Pipio offers an innovative AI-driven video dubbing service that effortlessly translates videos while achieving high lip synchronization and no loss in video resolution. It supports over 40 languages and takes only minutes to translate with high-quality voice clones that mimic various accents and emotions.

Aide is an AI-native integrated development environment (IDE) that offers fast, context-aware code completions, chat for asking questions within your code, and privacy-centric architecture that keeps your code on your machine. It supports various operating systems and provides an open-source platform for AI development.

Factiverse is an AI tool designed to maintain credibility and trust by quickly finding evidence and fact-checking any text. It offers capabilities to spot controversial information, verify claims in multiple languages, and ensure users stay credible with real-time source searching in public databases like Google and Wikipedia. It also offers an AI Editor for writing and a GPT plugin for ChatGPT verification.

FikraHub is an AI-driven platform that helps innovators by providing tools like SWOT analysis, lean canvases, user stories, and more. Supporting both English and Arabic, it aids in idea validation and offers marketing content templates.

MoAiJobs provides a platform to find jobs in AI and offers a unique tool to assess the risk of AI replacing your job by uploading your resume. The website does not store any personal information.

Beesly is an AI-powered voicemail assistant that revolutionizes call management with features like summarised calls, instant notifications, 24/7 availability, calendar management, and caller memory. It's designed to improve the efficiency and personalization of your communication.

FlexOS offers various tools and resources for enhancing productivity and engagement in hybrid and remote work environments. Their AI-driven ChatGPT Super Prompt Generator simplifies the creation of effective prompts for ChatGPT, aiming to streamline AI conversations.

Chaturji is an innovative AI assistant platform for businesses, providing access to multiple AI technologies in one place. It offers features to create, save, and organize prompts, share prompts for team collaboration, and analyze AI usage for optimized workflow and cost management. Users can join the early access for free.

NextStarter is a platform aimed at harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to help startups succeed by providing access to resources, tools, and a community for entrepreneurs and innovators.

UNUM is a comprehensive platform designed for content creators and social media managers to plan, create, and analyze their digital content effectively. With its suite of intuitive tools, UNUM streamlines content collaboration and publication across various social media channels.

Grok is a machine learning project hosted on GitHub, with the public repository name 'grok' under the user organization 'xai-org'. It highlights an open release of the Grok-1 model with JAX example code for the implementation. There are instructions on how to download model weights and run example code, but note that due to the model's size, a powerful GPU setup is necessary. The provided code and model weights are licensed under Apache 2.0.

Noah Smith debunks the myth that AI will result in a scarcity of jobs and lower wages. He explains the concept of comparative advantage which suggests that humans will still have roles in an AI-dominated future. Smith argues that despite AI's capabilities, humanity may not only retain jobs but also earn better due to increased overall wealth driven by AI.

Hacker News users compare experiences between GPT-4-Turbo and Claude Opus. Preferences vary with some favoring Claude Opus for its consistency and less verbose output, while others stick with GPT-4 for better user experience despite some laziness in responses.

Dot is a standalone open-source app for local document interaction using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Mistral 7B. It can handle various document formats and comes packaged with all dependencies for ease of use. It is built using Electron JS and a Python bundle that includes necessary libraries such as llama-cpp and FAISS.

The blog post outlines an experiment using ChatGPT for podcast suggestions based on current podcast subscriptions. An OPML file containing the user's podcasts was provided to ChatGPT, which then generated additional podcast recommendations. ChatGPT offered relevant suggestions, most of which were new, save for The Tim Ferriss Show which was already in the user's list.

A search on Google Scholar for the phrase 'certainly, here is' reveals a significant number of academic papers that seem to have been written with the aid of ChatGPT. This pattern, particularly starting with the phrase 'Certainly, here is a concise summary of the provided sections:', is indicative of ChatGPT’s contribution to these works.

The LLM4Decompile project focuses on reverse engineering by decompiling binary code using Large Language Models. It provides the first open-source LLM dedicated to decompilation, assesses capabilities through a benchmark that checks re-compilability and re-executability, and offers models on Hugging Face.

Prompt Journey is an online platform showcasing a collection of AI-generated images and their prompts from creators worldwide. It features different AI tools like Midjourney, Dall-E, and Dream Studio. Users can explore various tags, subscribe to a newsletter, and support the platform.

JustShip offers a SwiftUI launch kit designed to save iOS developers countless hours by providing pre-built components and an all-in-one solution, including authentication, analytics, database, and in-app purchases integrations, all based on open source technologies.

LLM Pricing is an online resource developed by Claude 3 Sonnet for aggregating and comparing the pricing of various Large Language Models (LLMs) offered by AI providers. It provides an updated list of prices for evaluating the cost of using these powerful AI tools.

The article 'CXL Is Dead In The AI Era' discusses the industry's shift away from Compute Express Link (CXL) technology in light of the rapid advancements in AI accelerators and custom silicon. CXL was initially heralded as a solution for memory pooling, heterogenous compute, and composable architectures. However, major semiconductor players and hyperscalers are now pivoting to alternative solutions due to CXL's limitations in bandwidth and latency for AI applications. Nvidia's preference for their proprietary NVLink and C2C, over the PCIe-based CXL, is cited as an example of this industry trend.

At the HIMSS conference in Orlando, ambient clinical documentation gains spotlight with companies like Microsoft's Nuance, Abridge, and Suki showcasing their AI tools that convert doctor-patient conversations into clinical notes, aiming to reduce physician burnout from administrative tasks.

This paper discusses the development of performant Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), emphasizing the significance of architectural components and data choices in multimodal pre-training. Key findings include the necessity of mixing image-caption, interleaved image-text, and text-only data for state-of-the-art results and the substantial impact of image encoder and resolution. The research culminates in creating MM1, a family of models up to 30B parameters that exhibit superior in-context learning and multi-image reasoning capabilities.

The blog post discusses the increasing demand from AI applications for power and how this demand could be met sustainably. It suggests that instead of relying on the grid, we could locally power data centers using renewable energy like solar, coupled with battery storage. It highlights the cost reductions in solar panels and batteries and contemplates large-scale data center development using these renewable sources. The post also considers the environmental implications and future developments in AI.

Bidify is a powerful AI-driven platform designed to streamline the RFP process, enabling businesses to craft high-quality proposals efficiently. By automating proposal creation, companies save time, increase productivity, and can pursue more opportunities without expanding their team.

Philosopher Lisa Bortolotti argues against viewing delusions as a sign of diminished agency, presenting them instead as a natural part of the human quest to make sense of reality. She examines the cognitive biases that give rise to delusions and proposes understanding them as expressions of our exploratory nature, even as they sometimes lead us astray.

AutoDev is an AI-driven software development framework that automates complex engineering tasks. It uses autonomous AI Agents capable of handling a broad range of operations, such as code editing, compiling, and git commands, all within Docker containers to maintain a secure environment. Key results include a high performance on the HumanEval dataset, demonstrating its potential to enhance software engineering efficiency while ensuring user privacy and security.

Researchers have found that using ASCII art in prompts can circumvent safety measures in AI chatbots. This method has successfully elicited harmful content from major LLMs like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and Meta’s Llama.