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From GPT Pilot's innovative app development to Ollama's advanced vision models, we're witnessing a shift in how AI transforms software creation

Stay ahead with all the recent evolvements in this fast-changing world of AI. Read our latest top 10 news on the release of breakthrough models to major corporate strategies as we go over how industry leaders are building up the future of technology and society.

From GPT Pilot's innovative app development to Ollama's advanced vision models, we're witnessing a shift in how AI transforms software creation

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Top 10 AI News #weekly

In addition to writing new image processing routines, a vision encoder, and doing cross attention, the team also ended up re-architecting the way the models get run by the scheduler. 

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The top seller of customer relations management software, Salesforce pivoted its AI strategy this year to focus on agents — tools that can complete tasks such as customer support or sales development without human supervision. It launched the product, dubbed Agentforce, last month, with initial pricing of about $2 per agent conversation.

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1) UnifyApps essentially connects a company’s SaaS apps and data to each other, and lets companies build and deploy their own AI chatbots on top to interface with all the information. This approach serves to minimize AI hallucinations, because UnifyApps’ agents can essentially vet each other’s output based on the company’s data.

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2) Andreessen Horowitz partner Justine Moore introduced a new investment thesis for the firm on X on Thursday, endorsing “a new wave of ‘parenting co-pilots’ built with LLMs and agents.” She pointed to companies like Cradlewise, makers of an AI-powered baby monitor to detect a baby’s sleep pattern and rock the crib, and Nanit, which uses AI to process crib footage to tell if a baby is breathing. 

“Imagine an AI parenting companion that’s always in your corner – ready to answer questions or talk about how you’re feeling at any time of the day (or night),” she wrote. Apps like Soula use AI to gather data on the user and guide mothers through pregnancy and postpartum.  

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AI startup Mistral has launched a new API for content moderation.

The API, which is the same API that powers moderation in Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot platform, can be tailored to specific applications and safety standards, Mistral says. It’s powered by a fine-tuned model (Ministral 8B) trained to classify text in a range of languages, including English, French, and German, into one of nine categories: sexual, hate and discrimination, violence and threats, dangerous and criminal content, self-harm, health, financial, law, and personally identifiable information.

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In just a few years, AI projections have soared—McKinsey now predicts AI could add up to $25 trillion to global GDP, surpassing mobile’s impact fivefold! 🌍💰 With generative AI use cases expanding, we’re at the cusp of a multigenerational opportunity akin to the rise of FANG stocks. 📈 The question isn’t if AI will dominate, but who the true leaders will be. 🔥

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From repealing climate policies to overturning guidance on the safe development of artificial intelligence (AI), Republican Donald Trump made plenty of promises during his presidential campaign that could affect scientists and science policy. But fulfilling all of his pledges won’t be easy.

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FLUX is adding new high-resolution capabilities to FLUX1.1 [pro], extending its functionality to support 4x higher image resolutions (up to 4MP) while maintaining an impressive generation time of only 10 seconds per sample.

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Russia's internet giant Yandex plans to invest in Indonesia's artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, the Southeast Asian country's communications and digital minister said.

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World’s biggest contract chipmaker acts to ensure it is in line with US restrictions on Chinese access to latest processors

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At OpenAI, @sama and his team have overseen major leaps forward in machine learning, generative AI, and, most recently, LLMs that can reason at PhD levels.

And this is just the beginning— in his latest essay Sam predicted that ASI is just a few thousand days away. 

In this episode of our rebooted series "How To Build The Future," @garrytan sits down with Sam to talk about the origins of OpenAI, what’s next for the company, and what advice he has for founders navigating this massive platform shift.

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Best Open Source Alternatives to Proprietary Software#weekly

GPT Pilot

GPT Pilot

GPT Pilot uses Artificial Intelligence to let developers create fully functional applications fast, without requiring much manual coding.

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Latest AI Tools In CogList #weekly

Cursor AI

Cursor AI is an AI code editor that can help with AI code completion, real-time collaboration, bug detection and documentation generation.

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GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is an AI-driven code completion tool that will be suggesting code as the user types with the help of OpenAI and Claude.

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Oracle Cloud AI

Oracle Cloud AI covers a suite of services around machine learning, natural language, and computer vision to help startups with AI abilities.

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AWS Machine Learning and SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning offers services which are designed to help developers and data scientists efficiently build, train, and deploy machine learning models.

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Google Cloud AI Platform

Google Cloud's AI Platform is an end-to-end suite of tools and services on Google Cloud, designed to help businesses build AI applications at scale.

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Microsoft Azure AI

Microsoft Azure AI is a comprehensive suite of artificial intelligence and machine learning services for empowering business with AI across industries.

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NameStation AI

NameStation an AI domain name generator which can generate domain names for the user, based on users' data.

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Namelix

Namelix AI is a business name generator that analyzes keywords and user input to make a list of potential names.

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This Week's Summary

Browse through our handpicked collection of the top 10 news in AI and technology this week. Among them are releases related to the upgraded vision model-supported Ollama 0.4, Sam Altman's perspectives on the future of AI, Salesforce's aggressive plans to hire more staff and increase its revenue in sales of AI products, and innovative funding for AI-powered parenting tools. Also, come to know the new moderation API of Mistral, the bold economic projections of McKinsey for AI, and geopolitical moves by Yandex and TSMC. Each story reflects the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching implications.

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