Note from Matt: Below is an AI-generated list of AI news and tools. Our bot scours the internet daily to find AI news. Because it’s AI, it often finds older news or non-AI news and adds it to the mix. It also seems to break links often. We’re constantly working on improving the automation but this should, for the most part, ensure no AI news ever gets missed

The Latest AI News:

• Apple unveils ‘Apple Intelligence’ AI features for its devices – Apple has unveiled ‘Apple Intelligence’, a new personal AI system integrated across iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that brings powerful generative models to its core apps for summarizing text, creating images, and taking actions across apps.
• Apple partners with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into its ecosystem – Apple is integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, allowing Siri and other system tools to tap into the chatbot’s capabilities for more complex queries at no cost.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Following Apple’s announcement of its OpenAI partnership, Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies, calling the integration an “unacceptable security violation.”
• Mistral AI raises $640M at a $6B valuation – Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI has secured $640 million in a new funding round led by General Catalyst, valuing the OpenAI rival at $6 billion.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn search queries into articles – AI search engine Perplexity has launched a new feature called Pages, which allows users to generate and publish comprehensive, well-cited articles or reports on any topic from a single search prompt.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 38% in London IPO – Shares of Raspberry Pi, the company known for its low-cost single-board computers, jumped as much as 38% on their first day of trading following the company’s London Stock Exchange IPO.
• Runway introduces Gen-3 Alpha video model – Runway has unveiled Gen-3 Alpha, its newest and most capable video generation model, promising significant improvements in generation speed, fidelity, and control over structure and style.
• Stability AI announces the release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI has announced the upcoming public release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, its most advanced text-to-image model to date, noted for its high performance and ability to run on standard consumer GPUs.
• Microsoft makes Inflection’s AI model available on Azure – Microsoft has made Inflection-2.5, a large language model developed by the team from Inflection AI that it recently acquired, available for developers and businesses to use through its Azure cloud platform.
• Character.AI introduces voice cloning for its AI chatbots – The popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI has launched a new feature that allows users to clone their own voice for their AI characters with just a 10-second audio sample.
• AI helps discover new drug candidate for aggressive brain cancer – Researchers at Lund University have used an AI model to successfully identify a new drug candidate that can kill glioblastoma, a currently incurable form of brain cancer.
• Ex-Baidu executives launch new AI search engine ‘Genspark’ – A team of former Baidu executives has launched Genspark, a new AI-native search engine designed to compete with Google and Perplexity by generating summarized “Sparkages” from multiple sources.
• Regulators investigate social media influencer’s AI trading firm – The SEC and CFTC are investigating whether a trading firm run by social media personality Austin, who promoted its AI-driven strategies, may have misled investors about its performance and technology.
• Saudi Aramco’s venture arm invests in autonomous driving AI startup – Waabi, a startup developing a unified AI system for autonomous driving, has raised $200 million in a Series B round that included an investment from Saudi Aramco’s venture capital arm.
• Chinese OpenAI rival Zhipu AI raises funds at a $3.5B valuation – Zhipu AI, one of China’s leading generative AI startups, is raising fresh funds from state-backed investors at a new valuation of approximately $3.5 billion.
• Legal AI startup Harvey lays off its litigation team – Harvey, the OpenAI-backed AI startup focused on the legal industry, has laid off its team of litigation-focused attorneys as it reportedly shifts its product focus.
• Spotify expands its AI Playlist feature to more users – Spotify is rolling out its AI Playlist feature, which lets users create playlists from creative text prompts, to more users on Android and iOS in the U.S., U.K., and Australia.
• Analysis shows Nvidia’s growing influence on the S&P 500 – A recent analysis shows that Nvidia’s stock performance is having an outsized impact on the S&P 500 index, with the chipmaker’s trajectory increasingly dictating the market’s movements.
• Uncody is an AI-powered website builder – Uncody is a new tool that allows users to create and launch fully functional websites in minutes by describing their needs in simple text prompts.

Trending AI Tools:

• Krea AI – A platform for real-time AI image and video generation.
• Mistral Large – A new flagship large language model from Mistral designed to compete with top-tier models like GPT-4.
• Le Chat – A conversational AI chatbot that provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with Mistral’s language models.
• Pika – An AI video generation tool that can create and edit videos from text and images, and has recently added a sound effects generator.
• EMO – An AI model from Alibaba that generates realistic talking and singing videos from a single portrait photo and an audio clip.
• Viggle – An AI video model that can understand realistic human motion and apply it to a static character in a video.
• Azure AI – Microsoft’s cloud platform that offers a suite of AI services and now provides access to Mistral’s AI models.
• Lindy – An AI assistant designed to handle administrative tasks like calendar management, email drafting, and meeting coordination.
• Hunch – An AI-powered tool that organizes pros and cons to help users make better and faster decisions.
• Cognito – An AI tool that automates CRM data entry for sales teams by listening to sales calls and updating records.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for creating artistic and high-quality visuals from text prompts.
• OpenAI’s Sora – OpenAI’s text-to-video model capable of generating high-fidelity, minute-long videos from text prompts.
• Runway – An advanced web-based AI video editing suite with a wide range of magical tools for creators.
• Google’s ScreenAI – A new vision-language model from Google specifically designed to understand user interfaces and infographics.
• Airo – An AI agent that integrates into your phone’s operating system to proactively manage tasks, apps, and information for you.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice and sound effects generation platform known for its realistic and expressive audio outputs.
• Leonardo AI – A full-stack AI image generation platform for creating high-quality assets for creative projects.
• Synthesia – A leading AI video creation platform that allows users to produce professional videos with AI avatars.
• Bland AI – A platform for building and deploying AI phone agents that can handle thousands of inbound or outbound calls simultaneously.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that enables the creation of studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Snoozy – An AI-powered application that generates personalized, illustrated bedtime stories for children.
• Magic Patterns – An AI tool for e-commerce brands that generates unlimited, on-brand product photos without a physical photoshoot.
• Diagram – A company that builds intelligent design tools and plugins like Magician and Genius for Figma.
• Gencraft – An AI art generator that allows you to create unique photos and videos from text prompts.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that creates notes and answers questions from any document, presentation, or media file you upload.
• Replicate – A platform that makes it easy for developers to run open-source machine learning models via a cloud API.
• Katalist – An AI-powered tool that assists e-commerce brands in creating high-quality product videos quickly.
• Promptbox – A tool that helps you save, organize, share, and use your AI prompts across all your favorite AI tools.
• Aomni – An AI-powered platform that automates the generation of targeted lead lists for B2B sales and marketing teams.
• AE Studio – A software and AI development studio that partners with companies to create and implement custom AI solutions.

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