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 unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of personal AI features deeply integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, which includes a revamped Siri and a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its devices.
• Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies, citing “unacceptable security” risks due to the newly announced OpenAI integration in iOS 18.
• Mistral AI raised a $640 million Series B round and launched “Le Chat Enterprise” along with a new developers platform featuring its first model for code generation, Codestral.
• AI search engine Perplexity launched Pages, a new feature that instantly converts research into comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports from a single prompt.
• Raspberry Pi launched a new AI Kit for $70, which combines its M.2 HAT+ with a Hailo-8L AI accelerator to help users build powerful AI vision applications.
• Google announced new AI features for Android, including Gemini in Messages for drafting responses and the ability for Circle to Search to solve complex math and physics problems from an image.
• An AI-discovered drug for a fatal lung disease from Insilico Medicine has successfully entered Phase II human clinical trials, a major milestone for AI in medicine.
• Character.ai introduced a new voice chat feature that allows users to engage in real-time, spoken conversations with its AI characters.
• Inflection has now made its Inflection-2.5 model, which is competitive with models like GPT-4, available to developers through an API.
• Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, its most advanced text-to-image model to date, which is now available with open weights on Hugging Face.
• China’s leading AI startup, Zhipu AI, has secured new funding from state-backed investors to support its R&D efforts in the competitive generative AI space.
• The Humane AI Pin received its first major software update, which improves AI response speed, enhances navigation, and adds the ability to manually add photos to its cloud service.
• Google DeepMind’s video generation model, Veo, can now create longer, more coherent high-definition videos of up to two minutes from a single prompt.
• Runway ML introduced a new “Multi-Motion Brush” tool that lets users paint over specific regions in an image and direct their movement using text prompts.
• Researchers are exploring how large language models can be used as “conceptual compresors” to identify patterns in data that could lead to the discovery of new laws of physics.
• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating whether investors in Inflection AI were misled about the company’s recent $650 million licensing deal with Microsoft.
• AI startup Reka launched Reka Core, its most capable multimodal model that can process text, images, video, and audio, outperforming some leading models on video understanding benchmarks.
• A new meta-learning technique called RRR (Rewrite, Rephrase, and Retry) significantly improves LLM reasoning by prompting the model to self-correct its own thought processes before giving a final answer.
• Researchers developed DoRA, a new fine-tuning technique that speeds up AI model training by 40% while improving performance by decomposing and adapting model weights more efficiently.
• A new paper from Anthropic offers insights into how large language models form internal world representations, finding that concepts like “the Golden Gate Bridge” are often represented as linear directions within the model’s activation space.
• Section raised $7 million to help companies deploy and manage AI models on-premise using their own GPU infrastructure.
• Lamini AI has released a free, short course that teaches the fundamental concepts and practical steps of fine-tuning large language models.
• A new open-source AI model called Cria enables real-time, interactive text-to-image generation that updates the image as a user types their prompt.
• An open-source tool was released that uses AI to generate characters, backgrounds, and other assets, making it easier for creators to build visual novels.
• CommandBar released an AI tool called “Autopilot” that can automatically create interactive product walkthroughs by analyzing a screen recording of a workflow.
• Flojoy is a no-code tool that allows engineers to design experiments visually and generate Python code to control lab instruments and analyze data.
• A comprehensive guide details how to build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application that runs entirely on a local machine using Ollama and LlamaIndex.
• A new paper proposes a “language-agent” method to enable Vision-Language Models to adapt to new tasks and visual conditions in real-time without needing to be retrained.

Trending AI Tools:

• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model that natively accepts text, audio, and image as input and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs.
• Veo – Google’s most advanced text-to-video generation model, designed to create high-quality, realistic videos over a minute long.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature within the Perplexity search engine that converts search queries into comprehensive, shareable, and visually structured articles.
• Project Astra – Google’s vision for a universal AI assistant that can understand, reason, and converse about the world in real-time through a camera.
• Imagen 3 – Google’s latest high-quality text-to-image generation model, excelling at rendering realistic details and understanding natural language prompts.
• Suno – An AI tool for generating original songs, complete with lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation, from simple text prompts.
• Viggle – A text-to-video tool for generating and animating consistent characters based on text prompts and images.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generator for creating realistic text-to-speech audio and cloning voices in multiple languages.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with realistic AI avatars and voices.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that provides access to a wide variety of AI chatbots and language models, including GPT-4o and Claude 3.
• Devin – An autonomous AI software engineer created by Cognition AI that can handle complex, end-to-end development projects.
• Together AI – A cloud platform that provides fast, fine-tunable, open-source large language models for developers.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for creating artistic and high-quality visuals from text prompts via the Discord platform.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered creative tools for video editing, image generation, and other motion design tasks.
• Arc Search – A new AI-powered search experience from The Browser Company that browses multiple web pages for you and creates a summarized, easy-to-read webpage in response to a query.
• Google’s Music AI Sandbox – A suite of AI-powered tools designed to assist musicians in creating and experimenting with new instrumental sounds and loops.
• MultiOn – An AI agent that can automate web tasks by understanding and executing complex instructions across different websites.
• Descript – An all-in-one audio and video editor that transcribes content and allows you to edit the media simply by editing the text.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models for generating images, vectors, and text effects within the Adobe ecosystem.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can create a complete business website with images, copy, and a contact form in seconds.
• Recast – An app that converts written content like articles, newsletters, and PDFs into a concise, human-like audio conversation.
• Lindy – An AI assistant designed to automate email-related tasks like drafting replies, summarizing threads, and managing your inbox.
• Claude 3 – A family of large language models developed by Anthropic, known for their strong performance in complex reasoning and thoughtful responses.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that creates personalized guides and itineraries based on your preferences.
• Splash – An AI-powered platform for generating unique, royalty-free music and virtual pop stars from text prompts.
• Gamma – An AI tool for quickly creating polished and engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
• Tome – An AI-powered platform designed for creating compelling presentations, documents, and narratives from simple prompts.
• Beautiful.ai – An AI-powered presentation maker that automatically applies design principles to create visually stunning and professional slides.
• Synthesia – A platform for creating professional videos with AI avatars and voiceovers from text in over 120 languages.
• D-ID – A platform that uses AI to create videos featuring talking avatars from a single image combined with text or audio.
• Vibe – A video generation tool that creates high-quality videos with consistent characters from text prompts.
• Jasper – An AI content platform that helps teams and businesses create marketing copy, blog posts, and other written material.
• Copy.ai – An AI copywriting tool for generating marketing copy, social media content, and other business-related text.
• Guidde – A tool that helps businesses create video documentation and how-to guides with AI narration and screen capture.
• Surfer SEO – An AI-powered tool for optimizing articles and content to improve their rankings on search engines like Google.
• Magic Patterns – A tool that generates UI components and frontend code from text prompts, aiming to streamline the design-to-code process.
• Glean – An AI-powered search and knowledge discovery tool that connects all of a company’s apps to help employees find what they need.
• Galileo – An enterprise platform for evaluating, monitoring, and observing large language models to ensure quality and mitigate risks.
• Openlayer – A platform for testing, evaluating, and monitoring large language models to ensure they are reliable and safe for production.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows users to easily fine-tune open-source language models with their own data.
• Mento – A platform offering personalized 1-on-1 mentorship and professional development programs powered by AI.
• Gems – A social media app for crypto users that shares advertising revenue back with its community.

Sponsors:

• Masterworks – An exclusive art investment platform that lets you invest in paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat without needing millions.
• Google Cloud Next ’24 – A conference where you can learn how the world’s leading brands are using AI to transform their businesses.
• Vellum – A platform that helps you build production-quality LLM apps by providing tools to experiment, evaluate, and continuously improve your prompts and models.
• Perplexity Pro – An AI search and conversational answer engine that unlocks premium features like file-uploading and access to the latest AI models.
• Protect AI – Offers a free security scan to discover vulnerabilities in your GenAI applications, including prompt injections and sensitive data leaks.
• BasisTech – Provides a RAG solution-in-a-box that lets you build and deploy enterprise-grade retrieval-augmented generation in minutes.
• Clay – A powerful platform for orchestrating sales and outreach by combining data from over 50 providers to find and message ideal customers.
• AE (AI Exponential) – Offers cohort-based courses to help professionals and leaders take their careers to the next level with AI.
• Taplio – An all-in-one, AI-powered tool designed to help users grow a personal brand on LinkedIn.
• TweetHunter – A comprehensive tool designed to help users grow and monetize their audience on X (formerly Twitter).
• beehiiv – A newsletter platform built for growth and used by many of the world’s top newsletters.