AI News & Launches

SparkSocial is an AI-powered platform designed for keyword monitoring and lead generation. It enables real-time tracking, sentiment analysis, and provides auto-generated replies to engage potential customers. Notably used for social listening, competitor analysis, and brand amplification, it's leveraged by professionals seeking competitive insights and audience engagement strategies.

Camp is a modern mobile app designed to function like a scrapbook, where users can save and organize content such as thoughts, discoveries, and memories. It fosters creativity and personal expression.

Collov AI Realtime Design is an AI-powered platform offering real-time interior design and visualization solutions. Utilizing advanced AI technology, this service enables users to experiment with different styles, layouts and décor options for home spaces, providing immediate visual feedback.

Helloii is a versatile Chrome extension designed to improve your browsing experience with features like quick links, tab management, and custom reminders.

Instill Cloud is a no-code/low-code AI platform that simplifies the development and deployment of AI applications. It allows users to connect to various data sources, includes pre-built AI models, and handles infrastructure issues, with a focus on unstructured data types such as text, images, audio, and video.

GetWebsite.Report is an AI-powered tool that provides comprehensive webpage audits. It offers personalized recommendations to enhance your landing page's conversion rate by assessing SEO, usability, and messaging. The service boasts a 4.7/5 user rating and promises a 100% money-back guarantee if unsatisfied.

SiteScripter is a Chrome browser extension designed to automate repetitive web tasks using intelligent algorithms. It offers easy integration, simple setup, and smart automation features including form filling and webpage summarization.

Notega is an AI-powered writing assistant designed to enhance productivity and creativity in content creation. It provides a range of tools for strategy, ideation, post-writing optimization, and more, catering to various needs such as article ideas, proposal writing, and SEO optimization. Notega promises to revolutionize the way you write, save time, and maintain high quality with the help of AI precision.

Clay Foundation presents an open source AI model called Clay, which comprehends geospatial and temporal relations via a Vision Transformer architecture. It's adaptable for semantic embeddings, fine-tuning, and serves as a backbone for other models.

OpenAI has partnered with the Pentagon on cybersecurity projects, marking a significant shift from its previous stance against military applications. This collaboration includes potential tools to reduce veteran suicides yet maintains a ban on weapon development. AI's military integration is seen as transformative but raises safety concerns due to risks like AI-induced 'hallucinations'.

Trail of Bits disclosed a vulnerability, LeftoverLocals, allowing data recovery from GPU local memory across different processes, affecting Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and other GPUs. Significant for LLMs and ML models, it underlines overlooked security risks in ML development stacks.

Stability AI announced Stable Code 3B, a 3 billion parameter LLM specialized in code completion. It's 60% smaller than similar models, allowing use on devices without a GPU. Trained on 18 languages based on StackOverflow 2023 survey, Stable Code 3B shows state-of-the-art performance compared to same size models. It includes additional features like Fill in the Middle and extended context size. Available for AI Membership, further details in a full report.

Ethan Mollick's article on 'One Useful Thing' discusses a study with the Boston Consulting Group on AI's role in reshaping professional work, highlighting the productivity and quality gains when using AI, like ChatGPT-4, in tasks. The study also explores the concept of the 'Jagged Frontier' - tasks where AI proficiency varies unexpectedly, and introduces 'Centaurs' and 'Cyborgs' as metaphors for effective human-AI collaboration strategies.

The post by Jason Mayes and François Beaufort on Chrome Developer Blog details the challenges and solutions for automating browser testing of Web AI applications with hardware acceleration using TensorFlow.js on GPUs. It discusses the use of WebGPU, WebGL, new headless Chrome, Puppeteer, Linux Google Colab, and the correct GPU drivers to ensure consistent testing environment.

ArtificialAnalysis.ai provides in-depth analysis and comparisons of AI models and hosting providers to help users choose the best options for their needs. The site includes benchmarks on model quality, speed, and price, along with a detailed comparison of throughput vs. price across various models and hosts.

A recent study titled 'Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier' explores the impact of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality. Researchers conducted an experiment with 758 consultants from BCG, showing AI's potential to enhance productivity by 12.2% and task completion speed by 25.1%. However, tasks outside the current AI frontier saw a 19% lower chance of correct solutions. The paper describes two integration styles: 'Centaurs' who split tasks between AI and themselves, and 'Cyborgs' who fully integrate their workflow with AI.

Numerous AI safety organizations have pushed for policy changes to criminalize the release and usage of current open-source large language models (LLMs), aiming to cap AI capabilities to roughly their present levels. Despite the intent for AI security, these proposals may hinder open-source contributions, research, and development, and inadvertently support monopolization by large corporate entities. Differing safety groups have varying stances and proposed measures, but the collective impact of their efforts may have a significant — and perhaps detrimental — influence on the evolution of open-source AI technologies.

Ubique is an innovative platform designed to increase engagement, reply rates, and sales outreach by creating personalized video messages using AI technology. With advanced features such as AI voice & face cloning, dynamic backgrounds, and sales coach assistance, it caters to users seeking impactful video communication.

Equals.com provides an AI Assist feature powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo, designed to enhance spreadsheet functionality. It enables users to efficiently query datasources, analyze data with speed, and automate reporting. AI Assist offers contextually aware suggestions, on-the-fly error detection, and confidential data compliance with SOC 2 Type II.

Juicy AI offers cutting-edge solutions in artificial intelligence and machine learning, harnessing the power of algorithms to drive innovation and efficiency in various industries.

Stico - AI Face Swap Sticker is an innovative app that transforms your selfies and photos into personalized stickers. With AI-powered editing tools, dynamic face swapping, and seamless integration with texting apps, it's designed to enhance your communication with a touch of humor and creativity.

Byrdhouse is a comprehensive web-based meal planning and food journaling platform designed to help users manage their nutrition and eating habits. It provides tools for tracking meals, monitoring nutrient intake, and creating personalized meal plans.

OpenModerator offers AI-powered moderation tools designed to keep online communities safe. They provide an API and an open-source npm package for moderating text and images. The service does not require a credit card to sign up and is available for a free trial.

OpenAI addresses initiatives to ensure the integrity of worldwide elections in 2024. Efforts include abuse prevention, transparency around AI-generated content, and access to accurate voting information. Collaborating with diverse teams, they focus on safety features and policies to curb harmful applications, such as misleading deepfakes or impersonations.

Ned Luke, known for his role as Michael De Santa in GTA 5, condemned AI company WAME for creating an unauthorized voice chatbot imitating his voice. After voicing his disapproval, the bot got removed from the internet. Luke tagged Rockstar and SAG-AFTRA in his complaint and criticized the union’s handling of AI voice rights, calling for better protection against such ethical breaches.

Dan Corin attempted to finetune the OpenAI language model to solve the NYTimes word game 'Connections.' Despite initial difficulties and dataset issues, the resulting model showed slight improvements over the baseline model. The project highlighted the nuanced process of prompt engineering and dataset creation for machine learning tasks.

The tech industry is facing a paradox: despite significant investments in artificial intelligence, there's a growing trend of job cuts. Companies like Google and Amazon are laying off workers even as they pour billions into AI startups such as Anthropic. More than 5,500 tech jobs have been lost in early 2024, adding to a pattern of layoffs that reflect changing demand and the influence of AI on the job market.

An AI-designed battery that uses up to 70 percent less lithium has been developed, potentially addressing issues with lithium scarcity and environmental impact. The battery's novel material, intended for solid-state batteries, was identified by AI from millions of candidates. It presents a new approach to making batteries more sustainable.

The IMF has released a report warning that nearly 40% of jobs worldwide could be affected by AI, potentially exacerbating inequality. High-income countries are at greater risk, with 60% of jobs potentially impacted, compared to 40% in emerging markets and 26% in low-income countries. Kristalina Georgieva, the chief of the IMF, emphasized the need for policymaking to prevent increasing social tensions. This concern arises as the World Economic Forum in Davos focuses on the pros and cons of AI.

The Motte published an indepth analysis comparing the performance of ChatGPT-4 and ChatGPT Plus against the challenges presented in Advent of Code 2023. The test aimed to assess the AI's programming problem-solving abilities, with a focus on finding out where ChatGPT begins to fail and examining if LLMs have reached a performance plateau.

Pinokio is a versatile browser designed to let you install, run, and control any application on your computer with a single click. It facilitates programmatic control of software through scripts shared within its community.

Life Story AI offers a unique service that enables individuals or their family members to effortlessly document their life stories with the help of an AI assistant named Lisa. The platform transcribes spoken anecdotes into text, offers grammar and spelling corrections, formats the narrative into chapters, and produces a customizable hardcover book with the option to add personal photographs.

AiWatchfulCompanion is a technological breakthrough in remote caregiving, designed to alleviate the stress of caring for loved ones from a distance. With an array of AI-driven features such as real-time viewing, instant notifications, and health analysis, this tool redefines the caregiving experience, offering peace of mind and a stronger connection to those in need.

Friz is an AI-powered social media manager for direct-to-consumer brands. It helps in creating contextualized social media calendars and ads effortlessly. The platform offers services like brainstorming, content editing, publishing management, and provides analytics to improve decision-making processes. Multiple plans are available, including add-ons for advanced features.

Gotalk.ai provides studio-quality AI voiceovers swiftly with advanced AI algorithms and deep learning technology. Personalize your voiceovers with a variety of languages and customize voice characteristics for diverse applications such as YouTube, e-learning, radio adverts, and phone system greetings.

WhisperAI is an AI-powered creative subscription service that supercharges businesses with fast turnaround times for custom, generative AI content. It offers a monthly subscription with unlimited revisions and streamlined project management for various creative needs such as product imagery and digital ads.

IdealCustomers-AI.com helps startups identify and connect with their ideal customer base using AI-driven ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) analysis. The platform offers tailored strategies for product development, marketing precision, and sales efficiency, aiming to maximize ROI and save time for growing businesses. It includes starter and advanced pricing plans, with a satisfaction guarantee.

AI Picasso offers revolutionary AI-generated illustrations, avatars, and dances with just an image upload. It makes AI creation more accessible with features such as AI avatars from personal photos, custom LINE stamps with AI avatars, pet transformations, enhanced profile images, and the trending AI beauty maker tool.

Qlary offers an AI-powered call center solution designed for easy deployment without code, acting as a business companion for customer support. The service integrates features like real-time transcription, topic detection, and summarization while providing a managed local number for handling calls.

GPT for GMAIL™ is an AI-powered email writing tool for Gmail Workspace, offering one-click email drafting, translation, and rephrasing, saving users time.