AI News & Launches

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.

Microsoft has expanded its reach in artificial intelligence through a deal with Mistral, moving beyond its initial collaboration with OpenAI. Details of the partnership remain locked behind a subscription wall.

Mistral AI has released Mistral Large, a new flagship language model with advanced reasoning capabilities, natively fluent in five languages, and with a 32K tokens context window. It achieves strong results on benchmarks and is available on Azure AI. They have also released Mistral Small, optimized for low latency workloads.

Zodiac Chat is an AI-powered astrology tool used by over 30,000 users globally to generate zodiac and horoscope insights. It provides personalized advice and forecasts based on individual astrological charts and is enjoyed for its ease of use and high-quality output.

GoTrends Insight offers AI-powered keyword trend analysis, providing early insights into market shifts. Users can access comprehensive niche data from Google searches, enabling strategic decisions ahead of competitors. The platform clusters keywords by intent, offering a depth of understanding for better market positioning.

OctoMind is a tech company offering an AI-powered solution for automating end-to-end (e2e) testing. Their AI analyzes a given URL to generate and automatically fix Playwright e2e test cases, aiming to detect bugs before users encounter them.

Collov AI Cabinet Design is a sophisticated AI-powered tool tailored for enterprises looking to enhance their interior design process. The solution automates the creation of cabinet designs, utilizing advanced algorithms to deliver custom, optimized layouts that seamlessly integrate with clients' spaces.

The website presents a full transcript of the historic Lighthill Debate on AI from 1973, providing insights and opinions from prominent figures like Sir James Lighthill, Professor Don Michie, Professor John McCarthy, and Richard Gregory on the feasibility and future of Artificial Intelligence.

Mamba challenges the dominance of Transformers in AI by offering similar performance while managing extremely long sequence lengths efficiently. It achieves this by utilizing State Space Models (SSMs) to avoid the quadratic bottlenecks of the Attention Mechanism and operates up to 5x faster. It sets a new standard for handling long context windows and may reshape AI interpretability, safety, and applications.

Cartoonifier.com allows you to turn any selfie into a cartoon character using AI. Create whimsical cartoon versions of yourself and your loved ones easily.

Business Plan Factory offers an AI-powered business suite designed for entrepreneurs. Users can get started with 3 free strategies and choose from purchase options for one-time use or unlimited use. AI consultants facilitate business planning and strategy.

Saner.AI offers a powerful AI 'second brain' to help solopreneurs, freelancers, consultants, product marketers, and developers capture, find, and develop ideas without the need for manual organizing. The platform is currently in beta and available for free, with plans for a freemium model including advanced features and more powerful AI.

The AI Carousels LinkedIn Post Editor & Generator is a user-friendly tool that streamlines the content creation process for LinkedIn by offering advanced styling, formatting, and AI features to enhance post quality. Preview options for different devices are available to ensure optimal readability.

MyMemo is an AI-powered platform designed to transform scattered digital content into a streamlined and intelligently managed knowledge base. It aims to assist users in collecting, organizing, and retrieving their digital information effortlessly, just like accessing a personal memory.

Members of the OpenAI Developer Forum discuss the use of ChatGPT in creating music, with one user sharing a midi track and a synthesized voice sample generated through prompts. Another user talks about using GPT for generating poetry in preferred styles, while the possibilities of GPT-4 generating complete music videos are also mentioned. A YouTube creator combining AI and manual work for music creation is recommended.

A recent study reveals that large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 generate medical information with numerous unsubstantiated claims. While some diagnoses by LLMs were successful, many statements lacked proper source verification, raising safety and reliability concerns. This underscores the challenges regulators and healthcare providers face in integrating generative AI into medical practices.

The NTIA has requested public comments on the implications of open-weight AI models. The discussion revolves around the benefits, risks, and policies related to AI models with freely accessible model weights, which can foster innovation but might also pose threats to safety and security.