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Juicy News 📰

Some noteworthy news headlines and updates in the world of AI and big tech from the last 7 days:

Mozilla's New Subscription to Protect Your Data: Firefox maker Mozilla introduces a new subscription service to safeguard your information from data brokers. The Verge

Azure OpenAI Service Now Available in Azure Government Cloud: Microsoft announces the availability of Azure OpenAI service in Azure Government cloud, aiming to advance government missions. Microsoft Developer Blogs

Roblox rolls out real-time AI translation: Roblox has introduced a new AI translation tool for its platform, enabling real-time text translation in 16 languages. is this the start of true global multiplayer? Toms Guide

Labeling AI-Generated Images on Social Media: Meta introduces a new feature for labeling AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Meta

Elon Musk's AI Startup Courts Potential Investors: Elon Musk's AI startup pitches access to the 'Muskonomy' to potential investors, seeking investment. Business Insider

Meta Publishes Prompt Engineering Guide for Llama 2: Meta releases a prompt engineering guide for Llama 2, providing insights into the platform. THE DECODER

Bumble's AI Tool Blocks Scam Accounts: Bumble introduces a new AI tool that identifies and blocks scam accounts and fake profiles. TechCrunch

Google's Advanced AI Model Gemini Ultra: Google announces the upcoming availability of Gemini Ultra, its most advanced AI model, this week. MSPoweruser

Korea’s Best-Funded AI Semiconductor Startup: A Korean AI semiconductor startup aims to challenge Nvidia with Samsung-made chips. Forbes - Innovation

Mozilla Accuses Microsoft of Using "Dark Patterns": Mozilla accuses Microsoft of using "Dark Patterns" to promote Edge on Windows. MSPoweruser

Hugging Face Launches Open Source AI Assistant Maker: Hugging Face introduces an open source AI assistant maker to compete with OpenAI's custom GPTs, offering a new alternative in the AI landscape. AI News | VentureBeat

UK Government Urged to Embrace LLMs: Tech experts urge the UK government to adopt a more positive outlook for LLMs to avoid missing out on the 'AI goldrush'. TechCrunch

TikTok Users Upset Over Missing Music: TikTok users express frustration over missing music, highlighting a significant issue affecting user experience. Wired

Google Maps Enhanced with Generative AI: Google Maps is set to be "supercharged" with generative AI, promising enhanced features and functionality for users. The Verge

Microsoft and OpenAI in Talks for Robotics Startup Investment: Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly in discussions to invest $500 million in humanoid robotics startup Figure AI, signaling a potential collaboration in the robotics industry. Business Insider

Research Corner 🧐

An AI Paper from UT Austin and JPMorgan Chase Unveils a Novel Algorithm for Machine Unlearning in Image-to-Image Generative Models. Source

Microsoft Researchers Introduce StrokeNUWA: Tokenizing Strokes for Vector Graphic Synthesis. Source

A recent AI Paper from CMU and Apple Unveils WRAP: A Game-Changer for Pre-training Language Models with Synthetic Data. Source

An AI Paper from China Introduces SegMamba: A Novel 3D Medical Image Segmentation Mamba Model Designed to Effectively Capture Long-Range Dependencies within Whole Volume Features at Every Scale. Source

Researchers from ETH Zurich and Microsoft Introduce SliceGPT for Efficient Compression of Large Language Models through Sparsification. Source

This AI Paper from China Introduces ‘AGENTBOARD’: An Open-Source Evaluation Framework Tailored to Analytical Evaluation of Multi-Turn LLM Agents. Source

By The Way 🤯

AI Assistants Have Mastered 90% of Common Tasks: Anthropic research finds conversational AI has reached 90% proficiency at typical tasks. Source

The AI market size is expected to reach $407 billion by 2027. Source

_{(Thoughts: 2027 is 3 years away, but in AI development 3 years is like 30 years… so who knows right} 😀₎

AI is expected to see an annual growth rate of 37.3% from 2023 to 2030. Source

AI could displace 400 million workers but is also estimated to create 97 million jobs. Source

Latest Tools(and Tech) 🤖

BuildAI - AI-powered Web Apps

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HuggingChat - Alternative to OpenAI GPTs

HuggingChat has released Chat Assistants - an alternative to OpenAI GPTs - allowing users to package and share prompts with the community. It allows users to create custom AI chatbots with a name, avatar, description, and underlying language model. Users can choose from 6 open source models and share their Assistant's URL. The feature is still in beta and has some areas that need improvement to match OpenAI GPTs, such as adding RAG and enabling web search.

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Chaport - Customer Messaging Platform

Chaport is a customer messaging platform that offers live chat, chatbots, and multi-channel support. It helps businesses engage with customers in real time, automate sales and support with chatbots, and encourage customer self-service through a knowledge base. The platform is available on various devices and can be integrated with other apps. It also provides features like auto-invitations, typing insights, saved replies, detailed customer info, group chats, file sending, widget customization, multilingual chat widget, and real-time reports. Customer testimonials praise its simplicity and effectiveness. Over 30,000 teams are using Chaport for customer communication.

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OpenGPTs - Open Source AI ChatBots

OpenGPTs is an open source project that allows you to create customized chatbots with more flexibility than closed solutions like OpenAI. Key features include sandbox for modifying chatbots, custom actions, tools, analytics, drafts & sharing, and a marketplace. It offers different language models and the ability to add new ones. You can deploy your chatbot easily via LangServe. OpenGPTs provides an open framework for creating tailored chatbots with unmatched control and customizability.

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Roboflow - Visual Data Management System

Roboflow is a visual data management system that offers features such as bringing images and videos from various sources, filtering, tagging, and segmenting data, using text-based semantic search, and applying labels automatically. It also provides tools for developing, improving, and managing models, as well as scalable deployment options. The system includes project management features for job assignment, labeling instructions, and notifications, as well as secure role-based access.

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Alter AI - AI Headshot Generator

Alter AI is a an AI Headshot Generator that helps you transform your selfies into stunning professional headshots using AI. Get high-quality headshots generated from uploaded photos, and a set of 40 to 120 images. The AI technology ensures that the results maintain a natural appearance.

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Humbot - AI ‘Humanization’ Technology

Humbot offers cutting-edge AI humanization technology to bypass AI detection, including most frequently used AI content detection tools such as Originalityai, ZeroGPT, Content at Scale, Winston AI, Copyleaks, Turnitin and GPTZero. It promises fast, undetectable, and high-quality rewriting of AI-generated text, ensuring original outputs with low plagiarism scores.

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Dorik AI - Website Builder Tool

Dorik AI is a website builder that uses AI to create websites with SEO-optimized text and relevant images. It offers easy-to-use features and allows users to create websites in four simple steps. Dorik AI offers different pricing plans for personal, business, and agency use, with features such as custom domains, AI site generation, unlimited storage, and white-label options. The platform also provides a 14-day refund policy.

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X Post/Tweet Of The Week 🐦

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Summary: Adeus is an open-source AI wearable device that allows users to own and manage their personal AI data. It consists of a mobile/web app, a hardware device (currently Coral AI, soon Raspberry Pi Zero W), and Supabase, an open-source backend and database. The setup involves purchasing the required hardware, setting up Supabase, and deploying the app. The project welcomes contributions and aims to provide a personal AI experience that is private and owned by the user. The device has known bugs and areas for improvement, and the community is encouraged to get involved in building a personal AI that is truly owned by the individual.

Check it out on GitHub here.

Word Of The Week 📖

RAG (Retrieval-augmented generation)

RAG (Retrieval-augmented generation) is an AI technique that improves generative models by retrieving facts from external sources, enhancing their accuracy and reliability. It combines retrieval-based AI with generative AI models to improve their quality using external knowledge sources.

Use Case Examplesof RAG

Question Answering Systems: 🤔📚 RAG can be used to enhance question answering systems by retrieving relevant information from external sources to provide accurate and comprehensive answers to user queries.

Content Generation: ✍️📖 RAG can be applied to content generation tasks such as summarization, paraphrasing, and text generation, where it can retrieve factual information from external sources to improve the quality and accuracy of the generated content.

Chatbots and Virtual Assistants: 🤖💬 RAG can be integrated into chatbots and virtual assistants to enhance their ability to provide contextually relevant and accurate responses by retrieving information from external knowledge bases or databases.

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