Neuralink and Counter Strike, Top 100 GenAI Apps, and Ideogram Launches

A few artificial intelligence links and tools to check out.

Aug 23, 2024

Morning y’all!

We made it to Friday! You totally deserve a cookie! And while you snack on that, here are some links to click to keep you busy during digestion. ✌(-‿-)✌

Ideogram is being heralded as an everything-killer and yes, the text prompts are pretty darn accurate (including text within the image). Some examples.

NVIDIA’s AI NPCs will become reality in a new mech-centric multiplayer game. Perhaps they’ll get so good that we can’t recognize them from real players. Hmm.

Transfusion is a new model via Meta that does both token prediction and diffusion.

Researchers have introduced a new approach to detecting visual misinformation that focuses on original meta-context of images.

a16z has an updated Top 100 GenAI consumer apps. Maybe you missed one or two.

An infographic of paid vs free apps for different types of functions. Always appreciate these simple visuals.

Here are some instructions on this open source project that let’s you self-host your own local AI environment.

Apparently this is Neuralink patient Alex plays Counter-Strike 2! Whoa!

HyperDash is an AI tool to create beautiful dashboards. That’s it. Waitlist is up.

Daily Bots is a real-time voice-to-voice agent with an LLM. Open source.

Contacted is an AI-powered SEO and content report for website optimization.

In the age of AI, it’s all about not repeating yourself:

So, if you’re wondering how your world might change over the next few years, do a little experiment today. Try to notice all of the ways you’re repeating yourself.
Soon enough, language models will be doing a lot of that stuff for you. And that will free you up to do more interesting things.

Eventually. Maybe. Hopefully?

Perplexity is going to start showing ads? Ugh. I guess I’m going to pull my subscription since it’s clearly not enough. I’m digging Claude these days.