From Product Hunt

Privacy-first AI tools and developer utilities lead today's launches.

Dottie — Private AI Journal iOS journaling app with on-device AI via Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude. Personal data never leaves your device when using Apple Intelligence. Voice dictation supported.
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Good Assistant — AI with Memory and Goals AI assistant with structured long-term memory, proactive messaging, and goal tracking. Creates visual timelines, handles recurring reminders, manages notes. True proactivity — only reaches out when helpful.
▲ 184 · producthunt.com
superscribe.io — Voice-to-Text + Time Tracking macOS menu bar dictation with automatic time tracking. Option+Space to speak, text streams live and auto-pastes anywhere. Projects auto-detected via semantic search. Learns your workflow over time.
▲ 16 · superscribe.io
NOTtodolist — Anti-Productivity App Helps you do less. Haptic "release" of mental burdens visualizes stress as stardust. Night Lock feature refuses to work at night, forcing disconnect. 100% local-first, no accounts, no cloud.
▲ 15 · producthunt.com
Magpie — Open-Source YouTube Summarizer Chrome extension for YouTube summaries using OpenRouter API. Access to 100+ models, some free. Bring your own key, no accounts, no tracking. Configurable prompts. MIT license.
▲ 15 · producthunt.com
ASE — Economic Layer for AI Agents Economic metadata layer extending A2A and MCP protocols. Adds cost attribution, delegation, and settlement events. Enables agents to exchange economic intent, not just tasks. For governed agent economies.
▲ 15 · github.com
From Reddit

Sonnet 5 leak makes waves. ChatGPT getting ads. Mistral ships Vibe 2.0.

OpenAI rolling out ChatGPT ads starting Feb 6 $200k minimum commitment from advertisers, $60 CPM pricing. 900M weekly active users being monetized. Targeting retail, streaming, and connectivity brands initially. Limited tracking to start.
Mistral Vibe 2.0 — Terminal coding agent upgrade Powered by Devstral 2. New features: custom subagents, multi-choice clarifications, slash-command skills, unified agent modes. European Claude Code competitor gets serious.
Falcon-H1-Tiny: 90M models that actually work TII released sub-100M specialized models with hybrid Mamba+Attention architecture. The tool-caller variant hits 94% accuracy. Proves narrow models hallucinate less than giant generalists.

Quick hits from AI research and business.

vllm-mlx: 21-87% faster than llama.cpp on Apple Silicon Research paper shows significant throughput gains for Mac users running local models.
SpaceX-xAI merger gets Musk confirmation Major AI business consolidation if formalized. Grok meets rockets.
From Reddit

Z Image Base leaks in fp32, Wan video workflows get new tools.

Z Image Base teacher model leaked in fp32 Full-precision weights accidentally released. Significantly better quality than the official bf16 version for training LoRAs and fine-tuning.
Wan 2.2 I2V Start Frame edit nodes New ComfyUI nodes for quick character and detail adjustments on start frames.
Realistic Motion Transfer with Wan 2.1 Tutorial: Apply realistic motion from reference video to static images. Reverse-engineered Wan-Move process.
From Reddit

Jellyfin finally hits Samsung TVs. Plus macOS utilities and a fun Claude Code visualizer.

Net Bar — Network speed in your menu bar Lightweight, open-source network speed monitor for macOS. Real-time upload/download speeds with a clean aesthetic. Free alternative to paid monitors.
Trove File Explorer — Native SwiftUI file manager Dual-pane, tabbed file manager for macOS. Supports Cmd+X/V cut-paste, undo/redo file operations, deep sidebar navigation. For users who miss Windows Explorer.
Claude Office — Pixel art visualization for Claude Code Watch your Claude Code sessions as an animated office. Boss = main agent, employees = subagents. 11 whiteboard modes, context trashcan that fills up, city skyline with day/night cycle.
AnyType self-hosting now available Privacy-first Notion alternative. Data on device, encrypted, peer-to-peer sync, offline-first.
ipguard — VPN kill switch for DIY setups Monitors egress IP, not interface drops. Works with any tunnel. Native Swift, no sudo.