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  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet Becomes a Favorite AI Productivity Tool

    Claude 3.5 Sonnet Becomes a Favorite AI Productivity Tool

    IBL News | New York

    Anthropic’s assistant Claude 3.5 Sonnet is having a significant impact on the enterprise AI market.

    It’s currently enhancing workflows across industries by improving team collaboration and productivity.

    Essentially, it centralizes knowledge and AI interactions in one accessible space.

    Gen AI practitioners are sharing use cases developed with Claude 3.5’s Sonnet chatbot that weren’t possible with GPT-4o.

    Also Claude 3.5’s artifacts can help teach.

    Ethan Mollick, author and professor, showed how in a startup financing class created a compelling interactive simulation.

    These are some other cases beyond the classroom:

    • Website creation
    • Sound effects generation
    • Building Google Calendars
    • Creating interactive books for children
    • Simulations and visual demonstrations
    • Creating learning dashboards

  • ElevenLabs.io Launched an AI Voice App that Narrates Text Content On the Go

    ElevenLabs.io Launched an AI Voice App that Narrates Text Content On the Go

    IBL News | New York

    ElevenLabs.io has launched an iOS app that narrates text content, including books, PDFs, ePub, and docs, for users on the go.

    The ElevenLabs Reader App allows the user to choose a voice.

    This text-to-speech tool is available in English for the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. residents. The company has set a waiting list for Android users.

    Available voices include deceased actors like Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and Sir Laurence Olivier.

    “Adding them to our growing list of narrators marks a major step forward in our mission of making content accessible in any language and voice,” said the start-up.

    The partnership with the stars’ estates comes two months after ChatGPT-maker OpenAI was criticized for introducing a synthetic voice eerily similar to Scarlett Johansson’s character in “Her.”

    Johansson said she was “shocked, angered and in disbelief” that the company would use her likeliness likeness after she turned down a partnership opportunity with OpenAI.

  • AWS Launched App Studio to Build Internal Enterprise Applications

    AWS Launched App Studio to Build Internal Enterprise Applications

    IBL News | New York

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced several product developments during its annual summit in New York, including an App Studio that enables enterprise non-technical users to build internal applications with simple prompts.

    Available under a limited preview, AWS App Studio “opens up application development to an entirely new set of builders,” said Dilip Kumar, vice president of applications at AWS.

    The company claims App Studio is better than most low-code development tools, which do the job but fail to produce fully secure apps that comply with enterprise privacy and security policies.

    It competes with other app creation platforms such as Creatio’s Quantum and Salesforce Platform.

    Currently, enterprise operations depend on data-heavy internal processes and workflows.

  • Microsoft Open-Sourced GraphRAG Python Library to Extract Insights from Text

    Microsoft Open-Sourced GraphRAG Python Library to Extract Insights from Text

    IBL News | New York

    Microsoft Research announced this month that it open-sourced GraphRAG, a valuable Python library that extracts insights from text.

    It uses LLMs to automate the extraction of knowledge graphs from datasets and text documents.

    “GraphRAG is a structured, hierarchical approach to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), as opposed to naive semantic-search approaches using plain text snippets,” explained the company in a blog post.

    Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique to improve LLM outputs using real-world information.

    RAG searches for information based on a user query on private datasets, data that the LLM is not trained on and has never seen before, such as an enterprise’s proprietary research, business documents, or communications.

  • Poe Introduces ‘Previews’, Which Like Antrophic’s Artifacts Allows to Create Webapps in the Chat

    Poe Introduces ‘Previews’, Which Like Antrophic’s Artifacts Allows to Create Webapps in the Chat

    IBL News | New York

    Poe, Quora’s subscription-based cross-platform aggregator of chatbots, introduced yesterday a feature called Previews that lets users build interactive web experiences directly in chats. It requires paying $20 per month for Poe’s premium plan.

    Previews works particularly well with LLMs that excel at coding, including Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Gemini 1.5 Pro.

    These applications include games, animations, drag-and-drop interfaces, and data visualizations, and support HTML output with CSS and Javascript functionality.

    Users can also leverage Poe features like multi-bot chat, file upload, and video input to help you build your custom web applications.

    They can be shared using a dedicated link. These are some examples:

    Poe said it plans to introduce support for additional formats in the coming days and weeks.

    Previews are like Anthropic’s recently introduced Artifacts: dedicated workspaces where users can edit and add to AI-generated content like code and documents.

  • Cornell Launches an Certificate Program and Clones a Faculty Member

    Cornell Launches an Certificate Program and Clones a Faculty Member

    IBL News | New York

    Cornell University launched an innovative online certificate program, Designing and Building AI Solutions, authored by Cornell Senior Visiting Lecturer Lutz Finger, who generated an AI clone of himself to update the courses with new content continuously.

    Lutz Finger explained that his AI clone is supercharging him to enhance his teaching capabilities.

    “In the courses, I use him as a case study to identify all of the product, business, and design decisions that need to be considered,” he said.

    This certificate program from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business also includes an AI-powered co-pilot, available 24/7, that provides coding assistance to help non-technical professionals build products.

    Available through eCornell, the program provides a hands-on deep dive into prompt engineering and machine learning applications and data handling, ethics, and compliance.

    Five online courses take learners on a virtual journey to multiple locations worldwide to examine real-life applications for AI products across industries. Finger’s style of integrated lectures provides edutainment as he visits ski slopes, cow pastures, airport terminals, and more.

    “I designed this program to be entertaining while also breaking new ground by weaving the AI tools we are learning about into every facet of the program—from actual course delivery to hands-on practice,” said Finger.

    The program is designed for managers, leaders, innovators, and anyone interested in applying AI and automation in their industry. Participants will be placed in small, virtual classes with peers to maximize learning and support networking and collaboration.

  • Vanderbilt University Releases an Open Source Gen AI Platform for Institutions

    Vanderbilt University Releases an Open Source Gen AI Platform for Institutions

    IBL News | New York

    Vanderbilt University made its Generative AI platform open source under the MIT license.

    “We run what we believe is the most advanced enterprise, open-source Generative AI platform, competitive with or better than the top commercial offerings,” said Jules White, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor on Generative AI & Professor of Computer Science. “Assistants and agents are the future.”

    The platform, named Amplify GenAI, is a model-independent solution that allows the building assistants to work with documents and PowerPoints, and access RAG. It runs privately in the institution’s AWS account.

    The cost per user (tokens + AWS bill) for unlimited access to any model from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Mistral is ~$3/mo.

    “It isn’t clear which model is best. We wanted to be model- and vendor-independent to always tap into the best-performing or most cost-effective models,” Jules White explained. “The competition between model vendors means that our costs have continued to fall while the reasoning capabilities of the models keep going up.”

     

     

  • Character.AI Introduces a Feature that Allows to Call AI Chatbots

    Character.AI Introduces a Feature that Allows to Call AI Chatbots

    IBL News | New York

    Character.AI launched a free feature last month that allows users to talk to chatbots over calls in multiple languages and with reduced latency in a two-way voice conversation. Users can also seamlessly switch between calling and texting.

    The a16z-backed startup noted that calls with AI characters can be useful for practicing language skills, giving mock interviews, and people development for games. “It’s like having a phone call with a friend,” said the company.

    Earlier in March, Character.AI launched Character Voices so users can hear the characters speak in one-on-one chats.

    Meanwhile, according to some media reports, Google is developing a customized chatbot platform to compete with Character.AI and Meta.

  • Google Rolls Out a Gen AI Side Panel on Its Everyday Apps

    Google Rolls Out a Gen AI Side Panel on Its Everyday Apps

    IBL News | New York

    Google is rolling out a side panel in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive that helps with summarizing and writing emails or brainstorming ideas.

    • It also allows ask questions and find specific information within these Google tools.

    • In Slides, users can generate new slides and custom images.

    • In Sheets, they can create tables, generate formulas, and perform data tasks.

    This Gemini-based sidebar is only available to paid Google Workspace customers or Gemini Education.

    Google is the latest tech giant to add generative AI features to its everyday apps and services. Recently, Meta brought its chatbot to Instagram and WhatsApp, while Apple added AI into Siri, Messages, Mail, and Notes. Microsoft incorporated this technology into the Office suite last year.

  • Firefox Allows Users to Choose ChatGPT, Gemini, HuggingChat, and Mistral

    Firefox Allows Users to Choose ChatGPT, Gemini, HuggingChat, and Mistral

    IBL News | New York

    The browser Firefox announced last week that it started allowing users on its experimental version, ‘Nightly,’ to choose their preferred chatbot service, including, for now, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral.

    Mozilla, the company running Firefox, plans to improve the experience before releasing it in beta.

    In a blog post, Firefox Senior Vice President Ian Carmichael wrote, “None of the models are perfect, and each has its unique strengths and weaknesses.”

    “Offering options allows experimenting with many services to find the one that’s most helpful in solving their problem,” he added.

    Almost all browsers — Chrome, Edge, Opera, DuckDuckGo, etc. — add AI features to their products.