Greetings and Welcome to this week's AIBrews - your thoughtfully curated guide to the most promising AI products, learning resources and a concise roundup of the week's impactful news. The aim is to provide a balanced selection in the rapidly changing AI landscape, ensuring our readers stay informed without feeling overwhelmed. Please let us know how we can further optimize your experience and save you time.
Without further ado, let's dive in.
In today’s issue:
AI Pulse: Weekly News and Innovations at a Glance
AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week
AI Skillset: Learn & Build
🗞️ AI Pulse: Weekly News and Innovations at a Glance
Luma AI has released a new Unreal Engine plugin for creating realistic 3D scenes using NeRFs. It utilizes fully volumetric rendering and runs locally, eliminating the need for mesh format adjustments, geometry, materials or streaming [video].
Meta has released Segment Anything Model (SAM): a new AI model that can "cut out" any object, in any image, with a single click. Meta also released Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset (SA-1B), that has 400x more masks than any existing segmentation dataset [Link to Demo. Details]
Bloomberg introduced BloombergGPT, a 50 billion parameter language model, trained on a 700 billion token dataset, that supports a wide range of tasks within the financial industry [details].
Auto-GPT, an experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous trended on top on GitHub and reached 14.1K stars. It can write its own code using GPT-4 and execute python scripts. This allows it to recursively debug, develop and self-improve. See this video.
Builder.io, the drag & drop headless CMS, has included AI features in their visual editor to let users generate responsive designs and apps with AI and edit them using natural language [details].
Socket Security launched Socket AI – a ChatGPT-Powered Threat Analysis tool. Socket is using ChatGPT to examine every npm and PyPI package for security issues and discovered 227 vulnerable and malware packages in just 2 days [details].
Amazon has announced a 10-week AWS Generative AI Accelerator program, open to startups globally [details].
France, Ireland and Germany may ban ChatGPT over privacy concerns after Italy's recent ban of the AI chatbot [details].
Expedia launched a beta version of its in-app conversational trip planning experience, powered by ChatGPT, which offers personalized travel. recommendations along with intelligent shopping features [details].
Zapier adds Claude by AnthropicAI as the newest AI assistant tool integrated with its no-code platform [details].
🔍 🛠️ AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week
e2b
e2b (english2bits) is an open-source IDE powered by AI agents. The developer writes a short documentation or a technical spec in plain English and then lets the AI agent do the actual work. The AI agents have access to tools like writing to a file, running code, running commands, installing dependencies, deploying, etc.
TypingMind
TypingMind is client for your ChatGPT API with many convenience features like chat history search, organizing chat in folders, web search for ChatGPT, voice input and more. It includes a prompt library, support for creating prompt templates, built-in AI characters like “Stand-up Comedian”, “Backend Software Engineer”, “Academic Researcher”, etc. to provide better answers. You can also upload a document and ask questions about it, set default output language, tone, writing style, format, etc.
Puffmetrics
AI-powered interview preparation tool that offers simulations that closely mimic real interview scenarios and can be tailored to industry-specific situations. The AO also provides real-time feedback for the simulated interview.
Literally Anything
Transform natural language into simple apps, UI, widgets, websites, games, forms etc. Support for dynamic data and app monetization coming soon.
SocialPostGPT
A free GPT-4 powered open-source tool that generates tailored social media posts and accompanying images for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Codewand
An innovative GPT-4 coding assistant that can build and deploy web apps using voice commands. See this video by the builder McKay Wrigley where he shows a demo.
📕 AI Skillset: Learn & Build
LinkedIn is making over one hundred AI courses free through June 15, 2023
A free detailed guide to Prompt Engineering
Midjourney added new powerful features --repeat that lets you batch-run a single prompt, /describe, which lets you upload an image and get four prompts that describe it which can then be used for generating similar images and a permutations feature. See this thread and video to learn how this can be helpful.
A guide to adding AI to any SaaS product.
Thank you for reading AI Brews! If you have any thoughts, questions or just want to say hello, please don't hesitate to hit reply. Mariam
That's quite a comprehensive look and, scarily, still somehow doesn't begin to scratch the surface on the sheer amount of AI-based stuff that keeps coming out every day. It's enough to give us (or me, at least) a mild case of FOMO on a daily basis. Thanks for a cool overview!