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- Tue 18 February, 2025 - Most powerful AI yet?
Tue 18 February, 2025 - Most powerful AI yet?
Plus, five AI tools you may have missed
WELCOME
Happy Tuesday, legends. Welcome back to another edition of The Frontier — our weekly newsletter covering the best new AI launches on Product Hunt. This week, we’ve got: an AI that generates mobile apps in seconds, a handy companion for developers, and a deep dive into the latest DeepSeek and Grok news.
TOP LAUNCHES
Generate mobile apps in seconds
TOP LAUNCHES
Bolt's integration with Expo enables users to create production-ready mobile apps through simple prompts, eliminating traditional coding barriers.
Browser Use Cloud is an open-source API that automates web tasks—like social media actions and form filling—using simple prompts, no manual coding required.
Base Chat is an AI chatbot that provides instant, source-backed answers from your company's knowledge base, integrating with platforms like Google Drive, Notion, Jira, Confluence, and Salesforce.
Zeta is an open-source edit prediction model developed by Zed, derived from Qwen2.5-Coder-7B, designed to anticipate your next code edit. The project includes a fully open dataset, enhancing collaborative development and integration.
DeepHermes 3, developed by Nous Research, is an open-source Llama-3.1 8B-based language model featuring a toggleable reasoning mode for complex tasks, combining fast responses with deep, chain-of-thought reasoning.
THE BIG IDEA
“Sir, another DeepSeek model just dropped“
DeepSeek just introduced Native Sparse Attention (NSA), a new way to make long-context AI models faster and cheaper. It reduces the compute needed for training and inference while keeping up with full-attention models in benchmarks. If it works as advertised, it could make large-scale AI more accessible without the usual hardware demands.
But the timing isn’t great. The U.S. government is already scrutinizing DeepSeek, with the National Security Council reviewing its risks and multiple states banning it from government devices. NASA and the Department of Defense have followed suit, and other countries—including Italy, Australia, and South Korea—are placing restrictions over privacy and security concerns.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s xAI just released Grok 3, a chatbot designed to improve reasoning and problem-solving. It’s available to Premium+ subscribers on X and through a new subscription service. The launch comes right after Musk’s failed $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI, which Sam Altman shot down with “no thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
Between DeepSeek’s regulatory hurdles and Musk’s attempts to challenge OpenAI, the AI race isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
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