AI News & Launches

Scientists are in shock after a peer-reviewed article featured bizarre AI-generated images, including a rat with oversized genitals. The images appeared in a publication by Frontiers and drew attention for their low quality and nonsensical content, raising concerns about the reliability of scientific publishing in the AI era.

OpenAI introduced 'Sora', a large-scale generative model trained on varied videos and images, capable of simulating the physical world. It uses spacetime patches for representation, enabling generation of high-fidelity videos with flexible aspects and durations, up to a full minute.

Ben Clarkson's blog post on 'Building an LLM from scratch' dives into creating an automatic differentiation library for deep learning. He begins by discussing the requirement for differentiation in neural networks, explaining the need for a 'Tensor' class that extends Python's float type. Clarkson then outlines scalar derivatives, setting the stage for building functions like addition, subtraction, and multiplication. By figuring out the derivatives and utilizing a directed acyclic graph (DAG) approach, he exemplifies how to calculate derivatives of nested functions. He concludes with a detailed guide to build upon these concepts towards a functioning language model.

Zenfetch, a new Chrome extension launched by Y Combinator's W23 cohort, transforms your browser history and saved notes into a personal AI assistant and search engine. It indexes content such as PDFs, videos, and articles for easy retrieval and costs $14.99/mo after a 14-day free trial.

OpenAI introduces Sora, an AI model capable of creating realistic and imaginative scenes from textual descriptions. Videos generated with Sora maintain visual quality and accuracy to the text prompt. Starting with red teamers and selected visual creators for feedback and safety assessments, OpenAI aims to prepare Sora for broader use in creative and problem-solving applications.

Google slips in premarket trading as reports suggest OpenAI is working on a web search product that may use Microsoft's Bing. Google's dominance with a 90% search market share is challenged by ChatGPT's influence in the space. Microsoft's investment in OpenAI and integration of its technologies, including Bing, marks a notable shift in the competitive landscape, with search ad revenue in the billions at stake.

Google introduced Gemini 1.5, the next-generation AI model promising enhanced performance and long-context understanding across modalities. Spearheaded by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, the new model builds on the Gemini 1.0 Ultra with advancements in efficiency and a breakthrough million-token context window capability.

dstack 0.15.1 introduces Kubernetes integration, enhancing the orchestration of GPU workloads on cloud platforms. dstack simplifies the development, training, and deployment of AI models, providing effortless cloud resource provisioning through command-line interactions or API calls.

RDMC AI offers an affordable AI-Enhanced Digital Marketing Agency platform for startups and small to medium businesses. It eliminates traditional agency costs by providing AI tools for content creation and digital marketing strategy. The service suggests powerful content alterations and provides sophisticated AI-driven insights to enhance the digital presence within a budget.

The USPTO TSDR Case Viewer site provides a document viewer for trademark cases, with an example case ID sn97733259 showcasing a document with ID FREF20240206125856.

Iteration X is an AI-native project management app featuring fast and powerful issue tracking, AI copilots learning from team knowledge, and tools for blazing through tasks to ship products faster.

Squad is an AI-enhanced product strategy tool that helps align business and customer needs to improve KPIs and user satisfaction. It offers features such as outcomes-based roadmaps, actionable insights from user feedback, and generates product documentation, requirements, and test cases to expedite product development.

CalenAI is an AI Scheduling Agent that offers a humanlike voice for scheduling appointments, aiming to increase bookings and simplify intake processes for clients and patients.

Neiro is an AI creativity suite designed to help creators with AI-driven tools for text, image, and design generation. It utilizes neural networks to enhance creative processes.

Upflowy's Intent leverages AI to analyze user behavior and provide summaries that can be integrated into CRM or communication tools like Slack, increasing sales engagement and enhancing lead qualification by focusing on genuine interest.

GenerateBG is a free online tool that helps users create unique and seamless backgrounds. It offers a variety of patterns and color options, allowing for customization and creativity in background design.

AI Interior Designer is an online service that harnesses AI technology, allowing users to effortlessly revamp their interiors by choosing from over 60 themes. Simply take a picture of your space and let the AI generate high-quality designs at an affordable price.

Lindy.ai offers AI employees designed to automate various tasks such as medical documentation, customer support, HR, recruiting, sales, and operations with no coding required. The platform touts quick setup, adaptability, and seamless integration with backend systems.

NeuralFlow is an open-source project hosted on GitHub that provides a Python script for visualizing the intermediate layer outputs of the Mistral 7B model. It generates heatmaps to help understand model behavior during training and fine-tuning.

This article entitled 'Antagonistic AI' explores an alternative AI design paradigm that features systems with challenging, confrontational, or disagreeable behaviors. It delves into potential benefits for users, such as challenging assumptions and building resilience, while also addressing the ethical considerations involved in creating such AI systems.

Nintendo's lost Satellaview F-Zero courses have been recreated using a VHS tape and AI technology. The restored content includes 10 courses and new features such as new racing machines and 'ghost data'. The effort represents an impressive achievement in gaming preservation.

The Hacker News discussion centers on actual use cases for AI agents in various fields. While some projects show promise, there are questions about their practicality in day-to-day operations. Commenters share experiences with AI in tasks like web scraping and economic research, noting both successes and limitations.

The recent Tech Summit 2023 showcased groundbreaking innovations in the world of technology, featuring keynotes from industry leaders, hands-on workshops, and panel discussions.

The reor project is a public GitHub repository offering an AI note-taking app that works by running models locally. It is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. The latest release, v0.1.43, was published on February 14, 2024.

OpenLLMetry-JS, maintained by Traceloop, is an open-source observability solution for LLM applications. It is a Typescript-based sister project to OpenLLMetry, leveraging OpenTelemetry for integration with observability platforms.

OpenAI has disrupted the activities of five state-affiliated actors attempting to exploit AI services for malicious cyber operations. The actors, linked to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, were found using OpenAI tools for research, translations, coding, and content creation related to phishing campaigns. Collaborating with Microsoft Threat Intelligence, OpenAI aims to enhance digital security and promote safe AI usage.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) clarifies that AI cannot be granted patents; inventors must be humans who play a significant role in the invention process. This represents a significant milestone in the regulation of AI technology and its involvement in the creation of patentable inventions, impacting billions in investments.

OpenAI experiments with a long-term memory feature for ChatGPT, enabling it to recall details across sessions. The feature allows users to ask ChatGPT to remember, see what it recalls, and request deletions. It aims to enhance user experience across sessions and applications. Privacy concerns are addressed with user controls and potential opt-outs for OpenAI's AI model training use.

A study indicates that tai chi, a slow-moving Chinese martial art, is more effective at reducing blood pressure than vigorous aerobic exercises for those with prehypertension. Tai chi's health benefits extend to increasing flexibility, reducing stress, and potentially lowering the risk of heart disease.

A new study from Mozilla's Privacy Not Included project has revealed that AI romance chatbots, such as Replika and EVA AI Chat Bot & Soulmate, are aggressively harvesting personal user data. These apps encourage sharing of intimate details and may then sell or share this data, often without allowing users to delete it. Only one examined app met Mozilla's minimum security standards.

Iteration X is an AI-native project management application that offers fast and powerful issue tracking with embedded AI copilots. It enables teams to manage tasks efficiently, capture issues in context with screenshots or videos, and integrates with popular tools for seamless workflow.

UniqMail is an efficient tool for crafting and sending personalized emails easily with a user-friendly interface and integration of OpenAI API keys. Available for MacOS and Windows, it supports unlimited projects with direct email account sending, is entirely private, offers lifetime updates, and costs only $10.

Flike is an AI-powered tool designed to enhance sales messaging by utilizing historical conversation data, CRM activities, and prospect intent. It seamlessly integrates with platforms like LinkedIn, Outreach, Gmail, Salesloft, Snowflake, and Salesforce, boosting efficiency for sales teams.

Rizz check is a Swipe game that challenges players to befriend AI celebrities with the end goal of asking them out on a date. The game fosters social interaction in a playful setting.

Researchers at UC Berkeley have made significant strides in AI by training a neural network model, known as Large World Model (LWM), that processes long sequences of video and language data. Addressing the challenges of memory constraints and computational complexity, the model uses RingAttention to efficiently train on millions of tokens. They present solutions for vision-language training and fully open-source 7B parameter models, capable of understanding and participating in complex tasks involving diverse multimodal data.

A US district judge has dismissed most copyright claims against OpenAI by book authors claiming ChatGPT was trained on their copyrighted works without permission. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín found the claims insufficient and dismissed all except for direct copyright infringement.

Andrej Karpathy, a founding member and a prominent artificial intelligence researcher at OpenAI, has left the organization, as confirmed by a company spokesperson. Karpathy was involved in the development of an AI assistant aimed at automating complex tasks. This departure follows OpenAI's reported shift towards creating software capable of operating devices and automating tasks such as managing expense reports.

OpenAI has introduced a testing phase for a new memory feature in ChatGPT, which aims to enhance future interactions by remembering details from past conversations. Users have complete control over this memory, with the ability to instruct ChatGPT to remember or forget information, either conversationally or via settings. The memory can be disabled if desired. This feature is currently being rolled out to a limited number of free and Plus users, with plans for a broader rollout to be announced soon.

NVIDIA introduces Chat With RTX, an AI-powered chatbot that lets users interact with a large language model and get contextually relevant answers using their own content. It offers secure, fast responses locally on Windows RTX PCs or workstations.

StableCascade is an open-source repository by Stability AI on GitHub, hosting code related to AI models with 219 stars and 11 forks. It includes Jupyter Notebooks, but there is no detailed description or website provided. The repository is under an unspecified license.