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 Delays EU Launch of New AI Features – Citing regulatory uncertainty with the Digital Markets Act.
• Perplexity AI Launches “Pages” – A new feature that converts search queries into comprehensive articles or presentations, raising concerns about its impact on publishers.
• ElevenLabs Launches Text-to-Music Generation – The voice AI startup has launched a new model, entering a competitive field with rivals like Suno and Udio.
• Amazon Commits $230M to AI Startups – The investment will be in AWS credits and resources to support early-stage generative AI companies.
• Legal AI Startup Harvey Conducts Layoffs – The OpenAI-backed company, once valued at $715 million, has laid off a significant portion of its go-to-market team.
• Walmart Tests Humanoid Robots – The company is using robots from Sanctuary AI to perform manual labor tasks like packing and applying labels in a Canadian store.
• Character.ai Reportedly Raising New Funding – The round includes investment from Google and values the company at $5 billion.
• Google Scales Vision Transformer to 22B Parameters – The ViT-22B model achieved state-of-the-art performance on various image understanding tasks.
• LinkedIn Rolls Out New AI Job-Seeking Tools – The tools help users discover opportunities, get application advice, and research companies.
• Pika Labs Releases ‘Animate Image’ Feature – The new tool allows users to animate their own still images, turning them into videos.
• Slack Offers AI Features on Free Plans – All users on free plans now have access to features including conversation summaries and channel recaps.
• Klarna’s AI Assistant Handles 2/3 of Customer Chats – The assistant is performing the equivalent work of 700 full-time human agents.
• Microsoft Open-Sources Florence-2 – A powerful vision model capable of handling diverse tasks like captioning, object detection, and segmentation through text prompts.
• New Project Simplifies Mistral-7B Fine-Tuning – The open-source project allows developers to fine-tune the model on their own data using a single consumer-grade GPU.
• Google DeepMind Introduces Film – A new pipeline for generating high-quality, consistent 3D content and scenes from text or image prompts.
• Stanford Study Finds LMs Can Be More Persuasive Than Humans – The study found people often find AI debaters more trustworthy and convincing than human ones.
• Anthropic Co-Founder Calls for AI Regulation – Daniela Amodei penned an op-ed calling for proactive government regulation to mitigate catastrophic risks from advanced AI.
• AI-Capable PCs to Comprise 80% of Shipments by 2028 – A new market forecast from Canalys predicts the significant market shift.
• Salesforce Integrates GenAI into Marketing and Commerce Clouds – The new tools help businesses create personalized online shopping experiences.
• UK AI Safety Institute Opens San Francisco Office – The move is to collaborate more closely with US AI companies, researchers, and government.
• Google Research Develops ‘Safe Self-Refinement’ – A technique that allows language models to improve their own safety by identifying and correcting harmful responses.
• Nature Explores AI for Novel Protein Design – An article explores how new AI tools are helping scientists design and generate novel proteins from scratch, which could accelerate drug discovery and material science.
• IBM Report Details C-Suite Approach to GenAI – The report from IBM’s Institute for Business Value covers the challenges and opportunities of implementing generative AI.
• Nature Study: GenAI Speeds Up Writing, Lowers Quality – A study found that while generative AI significantly speeds up academic writing, it often results in papers of lower quality.
• Sacra Analyzes Funding for AI Video Startups – The analysis breaks down the significant venture capital funding raised by leading AI video startups, including Luma, Pika, and Runway.
• Guide to Building AI Apps with dbt and Hex – A guide demonstrates how to build and deploy AI applications by combining the dbt Semantic Layer with Hex’s app-building capabilities.

Trending AI Tools:

• ElevenLabs – An AI platform for generating realistic text-to-speech voiceovers and new sound effects.
• Video-NeRF-Player – An NVIDIA tool for real-time, interactive exploration of 3D scenes generated from 2D videos.
• Sora – OpenAI’s text-to-video model capable of generating high-fidelity, minute-long videos from text prompts.
• Dream Machine – A new text-to-video model from Luma Labs for creating high-quality, realistic video clips from prompts.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool for creating full, high-quality tracks complete with vocals and instruments from text prompts.
• Devin – An AI agent designed to operate as an autonomous software engineer, capable of handling entire development projects.
• Suno – An AI music and song generation tool that creates impressive musical tracks with vocals from a simple text prompt.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator that creates highly artistic and detailed visuals from text prompts via Discord.
• Viggle – A video generation AI that can animate a character from a still image to precisely match the movements in a separate motion video.
• Pika – An AI video generator and editor that can create and modify videos using text, image, or video prompts.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its superior ability to reliably render coherent text and words within images.
• Claude 3 – A family of powerful AI models from Anthropic known for their high performance, large context windows, and strong reasoning capabilities.
• ChatGPT – A conversational AI model from OpenAI for generating text, answering questions, and assisting with a wide variety of tasks.
• Gemini – Google’s family of multimodal AI models that can understand and process text, images, audio, and video.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources from the web.
• OpenDevin – An open-source project aiming to replicate and build upon Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer.
• Cursor – An AI-first code editor designed for pair-programming with an AI, offering features like code generation, debugging, and auto-fixes.
• Story to Design – A Figma plugin that automatically turns user stories or prompts into editable UI designs.
• DreamGaussian – A method that generates high-quality 3D assets with realistic textures from a single image in seconds.
• Flowty – A real-time, browser-based, sketch-to-image canvas that allows you to draw and see the AI-generated image appear instantly.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI-powered platform for generating and editing video content with a wide array of magic tools.
• Phind – An AI search engine and pair programmer for developers that provides code examples and technical answers.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating videos with talking avatars, automatic translations, and voice cloning.
• Synthesia – A platform for creating professional-looking videos with realistic AI avatars, eliminating the need for cameras and microphones.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI meeting assistant that joins your calls to transcribe, summarize, and analyze voice conversations automatically.
• Zeroscope V2 XL – An open-source text-to-video model for generating high-resolution, watermark-free videos.
• Channel – A tool that connects to your business databases and allows you to ask questions in natural language to get answers and build dashboards.
• e2b – A platform providing secure, sandboxed cloud environments for AI agents to operate in, allowing them to run code and use tools safely.
• Tome – An AI-powered tool for creating and designing compelling presentations, documents, and stories from a simple prompt.
• Beautiful.ai – A presentation maker that uses AI to automate the design and formatting of slides, ensuring they always look professional.
• Durable – An AI-powered website builder that can create a business website complete with images and copy in just a few seconds.
• Chatbase – A platform to build and train custom AI chatbots using your own data, such as documents or website content.
• Wondercraft – An AI audio studio for easily creating podcasts, advertisements, and audiobooks using text-to-speech technology.
• Superhuman – An email client that uses AI to help you sort, prioritize, and respond to emails at high speed.
• Greyling – A mobile app that provides access to chat with various leading AI models like GPT-4, Claude 3, and Gemini in one place.
• Kore.ai – An enterprise-grade conversational AI platform for designing, building, and managing advanced virtual assistants.
• Any Video – A serverless API that lets developers build video applications using different video generation models.

Sponsors:

• Vultr – A cloud GPU platform for effortlessly deploying AI & ML models at a fraction of the cost of hyperscalers.
• E2B – An operating system for AI agents, providing a secure sandboxed cloud environment where agents can use tools to achieve complex tasks.
• Replicate – A platform to run open-source models like Llama 3 with a cloud API.
• Notion – A connected workspace where AI can summarize notes, write first drafts, and find answers instantly.
• Smartsheet – An enterprise platform for modern work management that uses generative AI to help teams build solutions, automate workflows, and analyze data.
• Polymath – A platform that allows you to automate any business process in minutes by building AI-powered workflows.
• BrightData – A platform that provides access to the highest quality public web data for training AI models.
• Supabase – An open-source Firebase alternative with a redesigned dashboard for improved developer experience.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• beehiiv – The newsletter platform built for growth, used by publications like The Neuron.
• Double – An AI research assistant that goes beyond search engines to provide comprehensive answers with citations from multiple sources.