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AI Wave-makers

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AI Wave-makers

A list of people and things I've noticed lately

Nick Silhacek
Apr 14, 2023
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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).

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Agent GPT

website, discord

Associated individuals
  • Asim Shrestha

Description

One of several attempts to wrap a UI around the experience of multi-agent task threading.

Luddite score: 4

Auto-GPT

discord

Associated individuals
  • Significant Gravitas

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

github

Associated individuals
  • Yohei Nakajima

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

Associated individuals
  • Jerry Yue

Details

Jerry is building Imagica and Natural.

Luddite score: 4*

Builder.io

website, discord, twitter

Associated individuals
  • Steve Sewell

Details

Several products and features here, including the namesake product, a designer GPT assistant, and a Figma AI plugin.

Luddite score: 4

Camel AI

website, slack, twitter

Associated individuals
  • Guohao Li

  • Hasan Hammoud

  • Hani Itani

Details

This one is more academic, and it explores the idea of agents communicating with each other.

Luddite score: 1.5

Cognosys

website, discord

Associated individuals
  • Sully Omarr

Details

Another agent experience with a UI wrapper.

Luddite score: 4

CollectiveGenius

github

Associated individuals
  • Phantastic

Details

This is a depot for various agents that have been tuned for specific functions.

Luddite score: 2

Flowise AI

github, discord, twitter

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

website, discord

Associated individuals
  • Matt Wolfe

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

website, discord, twitter

Associated individuals
  • Arnaud Benard

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

website

Associated individuals
  • Lonis H

Details

An agent wrapper—one of the latest.

Luddite score: 4

GPT-Warren

github

Associated individuals
  • Mayo Waoshin

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

website, twitter

Details

Mckay is building products like Codewand and ChatbotUI.

Luddite score: 3.5*

Nomic AI

website, discord, twitter

Associated individuals
  • Andriy Mulyar

Details

Big new thing: GPT4All

Luddite score: 3

Perplexity AI

website, discord, twitter

Details

Product for getting answers to questions for particular online contexts.

Luddite score: 4.5

Playground AI

website, discord, twitter

Associated individuals
  • Suhail Doshi

Details

A growing agglomeration of AI capabilities.

Luddite score: 4.5

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