AI News & Launches

Convert Rocket is an AI-powered tool providing conversion rate audits with actionable insights aimed at optimizing website performance. Their services offer immediate solutions to improve conversion rates, personalized insights for growth, quick performance enhancements, real-time feedback, and a chatbot for simplifying data-driven strategies.

GOODY-2 is a groundbreaking AI model prioritizing safety and ethical guidelines over all else. Unlike traditional AI systems striving for accuracy, GOODY-2 boasts a 99.8% PRUDE-QA benchmark, focusing on avoiding controversial or potentially harmful responses. Ideal for enterprise integration, GOODY-2 represents a shift towards responsible AI.

Brilliant Labs presents Frame, fully open-source AI glasses offering AI superpowers with features like visual analysis, translation, and live web search. With the accompanying Noa app, users can learn and navigate the world more effectively. Frame encourages users to hack, build, and customize, embracing the maker culture.

Yuna is an AI-powered mental health coach app designed to support individuals and provide techniques for emotional clarity and anxiety relief. It offers 24/7 accessibility and is backed by clinical research, with the promise of privacy and affordable wellness.

CodeSignal offers an interactive online platform to learn and improve technical skills with courses in machine learning, data science, programming, and more. Utilizing the personalized guidance of their AI tutor, Cosmo, learners can take practice-based modules and earn skills badges.

Gemini by Google offers a sign-in page allowing users to access Google's services by logging into their accounts.

Heyday is your AI partner enhancing productivity by turning documents, notes, and conversations into a searchable database. It auto-generates insights, meeting recaps, and content ideas from your emails, documents, and calls. Your privacy is paramount, with rigorous security measures and all data encrypted.

Capitol.ai is a platform leveraging artificial intelligence to drive better investment decisions. It harnesses the power of cutting-edge machine learning techniques to analyze financial markets and guide users in portfolio management and investment strategies.

MagicAds is an AI-powered video ad generator designed for quick and cost-effective ad creation. Users can simply enter a product URL, make optional customizations, and receive an influencer-like video ad in minutes. Over 10,000 AI video ads have been created, serving various use cases from rapid ad testing to targeted customer segments.

UniFill AI offers an AI-powered form-filling tool that streamlines the process of completing online forms quickly and accurately, featuring a Chrome extension, various subscription plans, and a free beta phase until 15th February 2024. It boasts features like lightning-fast autofill, custom form creation, bulk upload, and strong security protocols.

Pixel-Art.ai is an online platform that allows users to create vibrant pixel art using a built-in AI generator for free. It includes a feature-rich editor for pixel-perfect precision and AI-powered inpainting for easy modifications.

Creatorboost is an AI chatbot designed for creators on platforms like OnlyFans and Fansly. It provides real-time, AI-generated message suggestions, easy-to-use CRM, and tools to engage fans effectively while respecting privacy. Features include hyper-personalized responses, emoji keyboards, and more.

Thermodynamic AI is an emerging field, combining artificial intelligence with thermodynamics. Normal Computing's new hardware, the stochastic processing unit (SPU), introduces thermodynamic computing system designed for AI applications. Their work presents a shift towards natural stochastic fluctuations as a computational resource and proposes a thermodynamic AI framework with potential performance and energy efficiencies over traditional computing for specific tasks.

Ollama has introduced compatibility with OpenAI's Chat Completion API, enabling more tooling and local applications usage with models like Llama 2 and Mistral. Setup process includes downloading Ollama and pulling the desired models. Usage instructions are provided for cURL, OpenAI Python and JavaScript libraries. Examples demonstrate integration with other tools such as Vercel AI SDK and Autogen, showcasing the ability to build conversational and multi-agent applications. Future improvements are being considered.

The FCC has unanimously adopted a Declaratory Ruling, making it illegal to use AI-generated voices for robocalls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). This regulatory step aims to address concerns about deceptive practices involving artificial voice calls to consumers.

Google has announced that Bard is now Gemini, featuring a new mobile app and an advanced experience powered by the AI model Ultra 1.0. Gemini Advanced offers improved capabilities in complex tasks such as coding and creative projects, and is available via the Google One AI Premium Plan at $19.99/month after a two-month trial. Google emphasizes safety and responsibility with extensive pre-launch checks.

Re-tell AI provides an API for building human-like conversational voice AI, offering easy integration, low-latency interactions, and ultra-realistic voices. Designed for seamless conversations, its services circumvent the complexity of creating voice agents by utilizing hosted models.

Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models presents a new approach named MLLM-Guided Image Editing (MGIE), which leverages the capabilities of MLLMs for better interpretation of brief instructions and explicit guidance for image manipulation. Presented at ICLR 2024 (Spotlight), this research illustrates significant improvements over previous methods in Photoshop-style, global, and local image editing tasks.

Wondera.io is a technology company specializing in machine learning and data analysis to provide insights for businesses. They offer innovative solutions for data-driven challenges.

Scandilytics AI offers AI-driven insights and automated reporting to empower eCommerce success. It connects analytics accounts for data interpretation into actionable reports. Key features include store performance analysis, business advice, and report automation. Scandilytics AI promises smarter analytics at lower costs with efficiency and data security.

Dittto.ai specializes in website audit and copywriting enhancements using AI to replicate successful brands' hero copy for SaaS companies. Their services include website positioning audits, brand voice recommendations, hero copy emulation, and A/B testing for optimized conversions.

Figr.Design is an online platform that allows users to collaborate on vector graphic projects in real-time. It provides tools for design professionals to connect, share, and create stunning visuals directly in the web browser.

UpReach is an AI-driven platform that enhances customer support experience with intelligent chatbots and automation tools, designed to provide efficient and real-time assistance.

The paper 'Direct Language Model Alignment from Online AI Feedback' by Shangmin Guo et al., discusses Online AI Feedback (OAIF), a method outperforming both offline Direct Alignment from Preferences (DAP) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) by incorporating online feedback into the training process.

In February 2024, HelixML announced the release of Helix v0.5, featuring improved text fine-tuning and OpenAI API support. The update addresses issues with fine-tuning the Mistral-7B-Instruct language model, exemplified by misinterpretations like suggesting a tracheostomy for striking doctors instead of recognizing the strike. HelixML used a suite of prompts to enhance context extraction and taught the model to recognize document IDs, thus improving its accuracy. The platform also supports OpenAI's API, allowing for integration with existing infrastructure.

Google Cloud introduced localllm, a new tool enabling developers to run large language models (LLMs) on local CPUs instead of GPUs. This innovation boosts productivity and cost efficiency by using quantized models and Cloud Workstations, allowing AI app development without dependency on GPUs.

Apple collaborates with researchers from the University of California, releasing its own AI-based image editing model called MGIE. The model allows users to edit images based on natural language instructions, leveraging MLLMs for better understanding and image generation. It achieves high marks in both automatic metrics and human evaluation, and is available on GitHub for public use.

Pastebin is a popular website used to store and share text snippets. Users can post their text online for a set period or indefinitely and potentially share it with others. Pastebin also provides syntax highlighting, making it easier for code review. The site has a suite of additional tools and features such as API, FAQs, and user accounts.

Neal Stephenson's novel 'The Diamond Age' predicted the AI revolution with its concept of a personal tutor-like chatbot. In an interview, Stephenson discusses the book's foresight and reflects on today's AI advancements, expressing concerns about generative AI's implications on human creativity and artists' rights.

EasyReview offers AI-based insights from Google Reviews to help businesses understand customer sentiment, featuring advanced analytics and practical tips for improvement. It provides sentiment analysis, review aggregation, AI-powered insights, and a customizable analytics dashboard.

ImgGen.ai is a powerful AI image generator that allows users to create high resolution, watermark-free images for free. It offers a variety of tools for enhancing and restoring images, such as unblurring, sharpening, color correction, and old photo restoration.

Agent Gold is an AI-powered chat platform designed to simulate realistic conversation experiences. It offers users the ability to interact with virtual agents that are trained through advanced machine learning algorithms.

Works.so is a remote hiring platform linking top talent with companies globally. It streamlines the hiring process with a 10% flat fee, offering transparency, and uses GPT-4 AI for smart-matching. Key offerings include global talent access, fast hiring, and satisfaction guarantees.

Underpay is an online platform providing users with various shopping tools such as price drop alerts, instant cashback offers, voucher codes, and unique purchasing ideas. It operates through partnerships with online stores and promotes seamless shopping experiences.

AgentHub.dev provides templates and tools to facilitate collaboration and productivity for teams. They offer getting started documentation and have different pricing options.

CodeDesign.ai provides a seamless AI-powered website builder for WordPress, giving users the ability to transform ideas into beautiful WordPress sites effortlessly. It offers a straightforward process, AI assistance, and easy WordPress integration.

Deepnote is building a new standard in data tooling with a collaborative notebook for teams to code, query, visualize, organize, and share data in one place. They aim to revolutionize how data teams work together, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and partnership.

Oslo schools are set to revolutionize education by purchasing GPT 3.5-Turbo licenses for 110,000 students and teachers, as mentioned by the Education Department's Divisional Director Trond Ingebretsen. The implementation requires altering teaching and assessment methods.

Fathom is looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join their remote team, accepting candidates within UTC -8 to UTC -13 time zones. Applicants should have extensive experience in data analysis and be proficient with modern data analysis tools.

Geppetto is an advanced Slack bot that integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 and DALL-E-3 to enhance Slack communication with automated greetings, coherent responses, and creative visualizations. The project is publicly available on GitHub and has been forked from CoinFabrik/geppetto.