AI Wave-makers
A list of people and things I've noticed lately
Staying up to date on all of the AI stuff is a big task. I found myself needing to put together a brain dump of all the movers and shakers I’ve been tracking the last few weeks. Since I was going through that effort anyway, why not share the results?
I’ve included below the names of all of the people and things that I could recall. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, and I won’t bother updating it, because the technology seems to literally move at the speed of light. But as of April 14, these are who I’m keeping my eye on.
Avant-garde Projects & Communities
These are pushing boundaries by the day. They are living on the edge of open source technology, and many of them have burgeoning communities growing around them.
I’m adding a “luddite score” (1-5, higher means less technical prowess needed) as a wild estimation of how technically sophisticated you might want to be to dive straight in. Asterisks are applied where I can’t even provide a good guess, or I’m doing something weird like averaging between estimates of forking from a github and what I imagine use of the final product would be like (yeah, yeah… terrible).
Agent GPT
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Description
One of several attempts to wrap a UI around the experience of multi-agent task threading.
Luddite score: 4
Auto-GPT
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Product Description
AFAIK, this is one of the two primary projects that really kicked of the recent multi-agent task threading craze.
Luddite score: 2
Baby AGI
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Details
The other of the projects that kicked things into high gear lately. ChatGPT plugin for BabyAGI created by Pietro Schirano.
Luddite score: 2
Brain AI
website, twitter
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Details
Jerry is building Imagica and Natural.
Luddite score: 4*
Builder.io
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Details
Several products and features here, including the namesake product, a designer GPT assistant, and a Figma AI plugin.
Luddite score: 4
Camel AI
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Details
This one is more academic, and it explores the idea of agents communicating with each other.
Luddite score: 1.5
Cognosys
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Details
Another agent experience with a UI wrapper.
Luddite score: 4
CollectiveGenius
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Details
This is a depot for various agents that have been tuned for specific functions.
Luddite score: 2
Flowise AI
Details
I couldn’t find a productized version of the code available anywhere, so it must be a work-in-progress.
Luddite score: 2.5*
Future Tools AI
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Details
This one is different—the only product that exists for this so far is an aggregation site. But it’s a useful site, and Matt has a great YouTube channel and a Discord server that is off the proverbial chain.
Luddite score: 5
Galileo AI
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Details
Another WIP that’s not public. I signed up for beta access a couple months ago. I was very excited by the possibility of UI design via chat that was hinted at in the videos.
Luddite score: 4*
Godmode
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Details
An agent wrapper—one of the latest.
Luddite score: 4
GPT-Warren
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Details
This is another “old” project from… late March. It was used to assume the persona of Warren Buffet to break down financials.
Luddite score: 1.5
Mckay Wrigley
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Mckay is building products like Codewand and ChatbotUI.
Luddite score: 3.5*
Nomic AI
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Details
Big new thing: GPT4All
Luddite score: 3
Perplexity AI
Details
Product for getting answers to questions for particular online contexts.
Luddite score: 4.5
Playground AI
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Details
A growing agglomeration of AI capabilities.
Luddite score: 4.5