AI News & Launches

Benjamin Breen highlights the potential of AI role-playing as a historical simulation tool in his books 'The Age of Intoxication' and 'Tripping on Utopia.' He discusses its use in education, emphasizing experiential learning, and shares results from a student survey that supports its effectiveness. Despite accuracy challenges, AI's ability to facilitate 'historical empathy' is a significant advantage. The article includes examples of AI simulating LSD experiences from the 1960s and a physician from the 1680s, illustrating AI's utility as a creative and educational aid.

Jeremy Howard and Eric Ries announced the launch of Answer.AI, an AI R&D lab focusing on converting fundamental research into practical products. Supported by a USD10m investment from Decibel VC, Answer.AI is a fully-remote team aiming to harness AI's capabilities. The lab will work on original research, fine-tuning smaller AI models for practical applications, and promoting ethical AI use.

AirBrush is an AI-powered online platform providing professional photo editing tools and services. It offers efficient headshot generation for both individuals and teams, with customizable backgrounds and outfits. Their services come with various plans, starting as low as $4.99, for high-quality corporate headshots without the need for a physical photoshoot.

tldraw is a simple yet powerful online drawing tool that supports various vector graphics operations and real-time collaboration. Users can quickly create diagrams, sketches, and notes, making it a versatile tool for both individuals and teams.

macOSpilot is a Voice and Vision powered AI assistant for macOS that answers questions about applications using screenshots and OpenAI APIs. It takes a screenshot and transcribes a spoken question to provide the answer in context and audio.

PromptForge is a browser extension designed to improve the user experience with AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, MidJourney, and ClaudeAI by simplifying prompt creation, sharing, and execution. It offers a range of features like community prompts, quick continue, customization, and more.

Ideaflow is dedicated to creating an ecosystem where humans and machines collaborate to tackle the world's most pressing issues. Their initial focus is on a notebook designed to augment human intelligence, capable of connecting information across various sources.

Brief is a news platform providing curated top stories and comprehensive articles across various topics including science, technology, news, crypto, finance, gaming, and more. Users can select their interests and receive focused content.

EnVsion is a powerful video platform designed to boost productivity for teams by providing an easy way to import, transcribe, and take detailed AI notes of video calls, such as Zoom interviews. It streamlines the process of extracting key insights from video content, aiding UX, Product, and Sales teams to work more efficiently.

MagicDocs is an AI-powered document management tool designed to organize, rename, summarize, and extract key data from documents. It provides users with features like intelligent labeling, document summarization, effortless collaboration, and enterprise-level security, streamlining efficiency and saving clients significant amounts of time.

Intelogos provides an automated performance management platform for teams. It collects real-time performance data, generates insightful analytics, offers suggestions for improvement, and facilitates better team engagement.

Recast Studio offers an AI-powered marketing assistant that helps podcasters effortlessly create video clips, show notes, blog posts, social posts, emails, and titles from their podcast episodes. With Recast, users can unlock the full potential of their content for increased reach and engagement.

Startuptools.ai is a platform that enables quick sign-in and registration process through the provision of a magic link sent to the user's email. It also supports Google sign-in for user convenience.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly considering an investigation into Microsoft's investment in OpenAI, checking for potential antitrust violations. Despite significant funding from Microsoft, OpenAI remains nominally independent. The FTC's decision on a formal probe remains pending, while the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has started its own assessment of the partnership.

Lead your racing team to victory in TrackMind, a chat-based AI racing game. Plan your strategy, overcome various challenges, and win rewards while tackling unique tracks and weather conditions.

BricksLLM is a cloud native AI gateway designed to simplify the operations of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3.5 and others in production environments. It serves as a proxy to OpenAI, providing API keys with rate limits, cost limits, and TTLs for enhanced access control.

Cerebras introduces gigaGPT, a compact codebase allowing training of GPT-3-sized models with 565 lines of code. Building on Andrei Karpathy's nanoGPT, gigaGPT leverages Cerebras' expansive hardware capabilities to train models exceeding 100 billion parameters without third-party frameworks or complex scaling techniques, maintaining simplicity and hackability while enabling significant scaling.

Nvidia is stepping up as a prominent investor in AI startups, as indicated by a recent Financial Times article. Subscribers to FT can get deeper insights into the developments around these investments which showcase Nvidia's commitment to fostering innovation in artificial intelligence.

Pikaso on Freepik offers a vast collection of vector graphics and design resources available for free download, catering to designers and creatives looking for high-quality visual content.

W4 Games has announced a tiered pricing model for their W4 Games Console Ports, allowing game developers to bring their Godot games to various consoles. The model includes three tiers: Starter, Pro, and Enterprise, with respect to team size and platform count. Varying levels of support and additional services are available, with all tiers providing full source code access.

Big Read AI is a platform that leverages artificial intelligence to analyze and process large volumes of data. The website offers AI-driven insights, providing an innovative approach to data interpretation to help businesses and researchers.

Trevor Noah has an in-depth conversation with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, discussing his recent ousting and reinstatement, the impact of ChatGPT, and the potential of AI for good and evil.

Together AI introduces StripedHyena models, showcasing the StripedHyena-Hessian-7B and StripedHyena-Nous-7B as advanced architecture alternatives to Transformers, optimizing long-context tasks with increased efficiency in training, fine-tuning, and inference.

Cold Mail Bot is an automated tool designed to personalize and send cold emails effectively. It offers automated prospect research, personalized email creation, and auto-sending features to boost engagement and save time.

Bottomright is an OpenAI powered chatbot that custom-trains on website content to automate customer support. It's easy to integrate with no coding, customizable UI, insights dashboard, and has zero wait times for customer interactions.

CopilotKit is an open-source platform designed for building in-app AI chatbots and AI-powered Textareas tailored for React web applications. It leverages LLM and langchain integrations to enhance user interaction with AI capabilities.

Fork Extension is a Chrome plugin designed to uncover the SDKs integrated within mobile apps on App Store and Google Play, and obtain publisher email and social contacts for lead generation, sales prospecting, and competitive research.

AI Assistant offers a suite of features to improve productivity and automate tasks using AI technology, including personalized suggestions, document analysis, and secure data handling.

CodeKidz offers engaging and interactive coding courses for children, aiming to equip them with essential skills in programming and computational thinking. Their platform utilizes fun activities and projects to provide age-appropriate learning experiences.

Fablerr is an AI-powered tool designed to boost social media engagement by providing context-aware, on-point messages with customizable tones. The platform promises privacy and efficiency, with a focus on enhancing digital communications across various platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, and Gmail. Users can select from different subscription plans tailored to their usage needs, starting with a free tier. Fablerr aids in creating engaging content effortlessly.

WriteMapper is a content writing tool that enhances writing productivity by using AI and mind maps, making it easier to go from idea to final draft. It offers features like brainstorming, distraction-free editing, various export formats, and rich text formatting.

Editby.ai is an AI-powered content creation platform tailored to enhance SEO and promote brand consistency. It offers features like in-depth SEO optimization, keyword monitoring, custom templates, brand style integration, and non-plagiarized content generation with built-in citations.

Campedia offers a revolutionary AI-powered camera app that answers questions about real-world images. With a simple tap and hold, users can snap a photo and ask questions about it, such as identifying plants, attractions, or even creating recipes from fridge contents. This innovative technology, known as GPT-4 Vision, allows for intuitive and interactive discovery through imagery.

GitBrain is an AI-powered Git client for macOS, offering features like AI-generated commit messages, code splitting, and automatic code summary. It's designed for Mac with a keyboard-friendly interface including shortcuts for all operations.

Mistral AI announced early access to their AI platform with new generative and embedding endpoints aimed at developers. These endpoints offer a variety of performance options, language and code capabilities, and adherence to instruction-based prompts for easier control.

Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x7B, a Sparse Mixture-of-Experts model, outperforming competitors with faster inference and strong performance across multiple languages and tasks. Licensed under Apache 2.0, it boasts 32k token context handling, impressive benchmark results, and effective instruction-following capabilities.