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 announces ‘Apple Intelligence’ and partners with OpenAI – Apple unveiled its new AI system, “Apple Intelligence,” integrating privacy-focused, on-device AI across its ecosystem and partnering with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to Siri and other apps.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Elon Musk announced he would ban Apple devices from his companies if Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, citing major security concerns.
• Mistral AI raises €600 million at a €5.8 billion valuation – French AI startup Mistral AI secured €600 million in a new funding round led by General Catalyst, significantly increasing its valuation and strengthening its position as a major European competitor.
• Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI – Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, which had accused the company of betraying its founding mission to develop AI for humanity’s benefit.
• Llama 3.1 details leak, suggesting July release with 405B model – A leaked presentation suggests Meta’s upcoming Llama 3.1, planned for a July release, will feature models up to 405B parameters and a massive 128K context window.
• Stability AI appoints Prem Akkaraju as new CEO – Stability AI has named Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of visual effects company Weta Digital, as its new chief executive to lead the company forward.
• Microsoft postpones controversial ‘Recall’ AI feature – Microsoft delayed the broad release of its “Recall” feature for new PCs, shifting it to a smaller-scale preview after facing significant privacy and security backlash from experts.
• Google scales back AI Overviews in Search after errors – Following widespread criticism for providing inaccurate and bizarre answers, Google has significantly reduced the frequency and visibility of its AI Overviews feature in search results.
• Perplexity AI is raising $250M at a $3B valuation – AI search engine Perplexity is reportedly raising over $250 million in a new funding round that would value the company at $3 billion, with support from investors like Dan Levine and Jeff Bezos.
• Snowflake acquires AI observability platform Truera – Data cloud company Snowflake has acquired Truera to enhance its AI capabilities, helping customers evaluate model quality and build trust in their LLM applications.
• 11-year-old prodigy credits AI for helping him graduate high school – An 11-year-old boy who just graduated high school used AI tools like ChatGPT to help him understand complex topics beyond the reach of his parents’ knowledge.
• Oracle partners with Google and OpenAI to extend its cloud infrastructure – Oracle announced a partnership to make its database available on Google’s cloud and a separate deal with OpenAI to provide cloud infrastructure for training its AI models.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 38% in successful London IPO – The maker of the popular low-cost computers, Raspberry Pi, saw its shares jump significantly in its market debut on the London Stock Exchange.
• AI infrastructure provider CoreWeave offers to buy crypto miner Core Scientific for $1B – AI cloud startup CoreWeave has made an unsolicited offer to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific for over $1 billion to expand its data center capacity for AI workloads.
• Alibaba’s new Qwen-VL-Max model can analyze groups of photos and answer questions – Alibaba released a new open-source vision-language model, Qwen-VL-Max, which can analyze multiple images simultaneously and respond to complex, conversational queries about them.
• AI can spot deepfake videos by analyzing light reflections in the eyes – Researchers have developed a new method to detect deepfakes by identifying subtle inconsistencies in the light reflections within a subject’s eyes, a detail that AI generators often fail to replicate accurately.
• US lawmakers probe Microsoft’s partnership with French AI firm Mistral – A group of U.S. lawmakers is scrutinizing Microsoft’s relationship with French AI firm Mistral, raising concerns about the transfer of sensitive U.S. technology.
• Cerebras partners with Dell to build AI supercomputers – AI chip firm Cerebras Systems is partnering with Dell Technologies to provide its massive AI chips and systems to power Dell’s AI factory solutions.
• OpenAI hires former Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar as first CFO – OpenAI announced it has hired Sarah Friar, the former CEO of social network Nextdoor and CFO at Square, as its first Chief Financial Officer.
• Study finds Large Language Models are better and faster at fixing code bugs than standard tools – A study from the University of Waterloo found that large language models like GPT-4 can fix software bugs more effectively, quickly, and affordably than existing automated program repair tools.
• New York passes bill to regulate addictive social media feeds for kids – The New York legislature has passed a bill that aims to restrict social media platforms from using algorithmic “addictive feeds” for users under 18 without parental consent.
• xAI plans to build the world’s largest supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee – Elon Musk’s xAI is partnering with the city of Memphis to construct a massive supercomputer, dubbed the “Gigafactory of Compute,” which is expected to be the most powerful in the world.
• Glean launches AI work assistant with new low-cost model – Enterprise search company Glean has launched a new AI work assistant that uses a suite of low-cost, specialized models to help employees search and create content.

Trending AI Tools:

• Udio – An AI music generator for creating full-length songs with vocals and instrumentation from simple text prompts.
• Suno – An AI tool that creates original songs, complete with vocals and instrumentation, from a text description.
• ElevenLabs – An AI-powered platform for generating realistic text-to-speech audio and cloning voices.
• Midjourney – An AI image generator known for producing highly artistic and detailed visuals from text prompts.
• Krea – A suite of AI design tools that allows for real-time generation and enhancement of images and videos.
• Grok-1.5 – The latest large language model from xAI, featuring improved reasoning capabilities and a very long context window.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace – An AI-native developer environment for brainstorming, planning, building, and testing code using natural language.
• Foundry on Vertex AI – A platform from Google Cloud for building and customizing generative AI models with enterprise-grade data and tools.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from various inputs like text and images.
• Devin – An AI-powered autonomous software engineer designed to handle entire development projects from a prompt.
• Screenshot to Code – An open-source tool that converts any screenshot into clean, functional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code.
• Limitless – A wearable AI device and app that captures your conversations to create notes, summaries, and real-time transcripts.
• Kling – A new text-to-video AI model from Kuaishou capable of generating high-quality, long-duration videos.
• Galileo – An AI tool that instantly creates stunning, editable UI designs for apps and websites from a simple text prompt.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically repurposes long videos into polished, viral short clips for social media.
• Adobe VideoGigaGAN – A new AI technique from Adobe for significantly upscaling the resolution and detail of videos.
• Humane Ai Pin – A screenless, standalone AI device and software platform designed for ambient computing.
• Photo Guard – A tool that applies subtle changes to your photos to make them resistant to manipulation by generative AI models.
• Captions – An AI-powered app that automatically transcribes, adds captions, and provides editing tools for creating engaging videos.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI model, capable of a wide range of text-based tasks from writing to coding.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions using real-time information from the web.
• Runway – A comprehensive creative suite with AI magic tools for video generation, editing, and visual effects.
• Descript – An all-in-one editor that allows you to edit video and audio by simply editing the text transcript.
• Tome – An AI-powered storytelling and presentation tool that helps you generate and design compelling narratives from a prompt.
• Recast – An app that summarizes articles, newsletters, or PDFs into a concise, AI-generated audio conversation.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator particularly known for its ability to reliably render text within images.
• Leonardo AI – A platform for creating high-quality concept art, game assets, and other visual content using AI.
• Ema – A universal AI employee designed to integrate with all enterprise applications to automate tasks and boost productivity.
• Relevance AI – A developer-focused platform for building and deploying custom AI agents and tools with low code.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that allows users to interact with a variety of AI chatbots and create their own.
• Rabbit r1 – A pocket-sized AI hardware companion designed to interact with your apps and services on your behalf.
• Emu Video Edit – A research project and tool from Meta that allows for precise video editing through text, image, and region-based prompts.
• Story.com – A video creation and collaboration platform that incorporates AI features to streamline the production workflow.
• Co-Writer – A collaborative writing tool that provides real-time AI suggestions and assistance.
• Tune AI – An AI-powered tool designed to help product managers create, manage, and communicate their product roadmaps.
• DALL-E 3 – OpenAI’s advanced text-to-image model, integrated into products like ChatGPT for generating visuals from descriptions.
• Ruff – An extremely fast linter and code formatter for Python, designed to improve code quality and developer productivity.
• Uv – An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver developed by the creators of Ruff.
• Chalk – A data platform designed for real-time machine learning, helping teams manage features for model training and inference.
• MusicGen – Meta’s open-source AI model for generating short, high-quality music samples from text descriptions.
• Lemon Squeezy – An all-in-one platform that helps creators and businesses sell digital products, subscriptions, and software online.

Sponsors:

• Masterworks – An investment platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Picasso.
• Vultr – Provides enterprise-grade GPUs, including the NVIDIA GH200 Superchip, for developers and businesses to build and deploy AI applications.
• AE – A team of data scientists and engineers trusted by startups and Fortune 500 companies to solve complex AI, ML, and data challenges.
• Read AI – An AI tool that automatically writes meeting summaries with topics, action items, and key questions for platforms like Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet.
• Innovating with AI – A newsletter that helps you understand how to leverage AI and No-Code to innovate in your business through news, insights, and tutorials.
• Brave – The Brave Search API allows developers to build their own search engine or AI app using its independent search index.