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 introduces ‘Apple Intelligence’ and partners with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into its operating systems – Apple announced its new personal AI system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, which includes a partnership to bring ChatGPT to Siri and other system-wide Writing Tools.
• OpenAI partners with Color Health on a GPT-4o-powered copilot for cancer care – OpenAI is collaborating with Color Health to build an AI copilot that helps doctors create personalized cancer screening and treatment plans by analyzing patient data and clinical guidelines.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices at his companies over ChatGPT integration – Citing security risks, Elon Musk stated he would ban Apple devices from his companies if Apple integrates OpenAI’s technology at the operating system level.
• Mistral AI raises $640 million at a $6 billion valuation – French AI startup Mistral secured €600 million in a new funding round led by General Catalyst, significantly increasing its valuation and strengthening its position as a major European AI player.
• AI search startup Perplexity is raising $250M+ and plans to introduce ads – Perplexity is in talks for a new funding round that would value the company at $3 billion, and it plans to begin selling advertisements in its search results.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI launched its most advanced text-to-image model, Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a smaller and more efficient model that excels at photorealism, detail, and typography.
• Figure demonstrates its humanoid robot learning to make coffee – Figure released a video of its Figure 01 robot learning to make coffee by watching a human, achieving the full multi-step task after just 10 hours of video training.
• Raspberry Pi’s stock soars after $202 million IPO – The maker of low-cost single-board computers, Raspberry Pi, saw its shares surge over 30% in its London Stock Exchange debut after raising £179 million ($202M).
• Cohere For AI releases Aya 23, a family of open-source multilingual models – Cohere’s research lab launched Aya 23, a new set of open-source models that significantly improve coverage for 23 languages, including many underserved ones like Somali and Uzbek.
• AI cloud provider CoreWeave offers to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific for $1B – CoreWeave has proposed a $1 billion all-cash deal to buy Core Scientific in a move to expand its data center infrastructure to support growing AI workloads.
• Microsoft researchers develop ‘history compression’ for infinite-context AI models – A new technique from Microsoft Research allows transformer models to process infinitely long sequences of information with fixed time and memory by compressing past information.
• Sakana AI introduces an ‘evolutionary’ method to merge open-source AI models – Japanese AI lab Sakana AI has developed a technique that uses evolutionary algorithms to automatically combine different open-source models to create new, more powerful ones without traditional training.
• Luma Labs launches Dream Machine, a high-quality text-to-video generator – Luma Labs released Dream Machine, a publicly available and highly anticipated AI model for creating realistic and complex video clips from simple text prompts.
• Google presents AMIE, a medical AI for diagnostic reasoning and conversations – Google Research detailed its AI system AMIE, which is designed to conduct medical interviews, reason about symptoms, and has shown diagnostic accuracy and empathy on par with human doctors in studies.
• Character.AI introduces Character ID to create AI voices from samples – The popular AI chatbot platform launched Character ID, a new feature that can create a digital voice clone from a 10-second audio sample, allowing users to make characters that sound like anyone.
• Legal AI startup Harvey is raising funds at a $2 billion valuation – Harvey, which builds AI tools for law firms, is in the process of raising a new funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia that will double its previous valuation.
• Snowflake announces Polaris Catalog and new AI-powered features – At its annual user conference, Snowflake unveiled Polaris Catalog, an open and vendor-neutral catalog for Apache Iceberg, alongside a suite of new AI tools for enterprise data.
• YouTube is testing AI-generated summaries for video comment sections – YouTube is experimenting with an AI feature that organizes large comment sections into easy-to-digest themes and summaries for creators and viewers.
• Oracle and Google Cloud announce partnership to bring Oracle Database to Google Cloud – A new multi-cloud partnership will allow customers to deploy Oracle’s database services directly within Google Cloud data centers, simplifying data integration and reducing latency.
• SEC Chair warns that reliance on a few AI models could trigger a financial crisis – Gary Gensler stated that the financial sector’s increasing dependence on a small number of foundational AI models creates a risk of herd-like behavior that could destabilize the economy.
• Google DeepMind proposes SAFE, a method to fact-check LLM responses – Researchers introduced a new technique called Search-Augmented Factuality Evaluator (SAFE), which uses an LLM to break down its own responses into facts and verify them against Google Search to reduce hallucinations.
• Brave’s Leo AI assistant is now available on iOS – The privacy-focused browser Brave has launched its built-in AI assistant, Leo, for its iOS app, offering users features like summarizing pages and answering questions.
• Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI secures new funding from state investors – Zhipu AI, one of China’s leading AI companies, has raised fresh capital from state-backed strategic investors to fund its ongoing competition with Western counterparts like OpenAI.
• Open-source AI coding assistant Continue raises $4.2M – Continue, a startup building an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot that can be self-hosted, has raised a $4.2 million seed round.
• Researchers teach LLMs ‘system-level thinking’ to analyze complex feedback loops – A new study presents a method to enhance LLMs’ reasoning capabilities, enabling them to better analyze and understand complex systems with interconnected components and feedback loops.
• A new guide shows how to fine-tune a Llama-3 model on a MacBook – A tutorial demonstrates the process of fine-tuning the Llama-3-8B model on a personal Apple Silicon MacBook using MLX and low-rank adaptation (LoRA).
• Paper details “Mixture-of-Depths” for more efficient Transformer models – Researchers have proposed a method that makes Transformer models more efficient by dynamically allocating computation resources only to the most important tokens in a sequence.
• Gretel launches a text-to-SQL model focused on privacy – Gretel has released a new text-to-SQL model designed to work accurately with tabular data while preserving data privacy through synthetic data and other safeguards.

Trending AI Tools:

• Claude 3 – A new family of AI models from Anthropic that claims to outperform GPT-4 in several key benchmarks.
• Viggle – A novel video generation AI that animates a character from a still image using motion from a source video.
• Ideogram 1.0 – A text-to-image generator that excels at rendering coherent text and offers a ‘Magic Prompt’ feature for more detailed image descriptions.
• Pika 1.0 – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from text and images, now featuring sound effects and lip-syncing capabilities.
• Devin – The world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer that can handle entire development projects from a single prompt.
• Suno – An AI music generation model that can create two-minute-long, radio-quality songs from a simple text prompt.
• Gleen – An enterprise-grade RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) platform for creating accurate and secure generative AI applications.
• Krea – A real-time AI image generation tool that enhances images, creates patterns, and offers precise control over the creative process.
• Sora – OpenAI’s highly anticipated text-to-video model capable of generating high-fidelity, minute-long videos from text prompts.
• SWE-agent – An open-source agent that can autonomously fix bugs and issues within GitHub repositories by interacting with an agent-computer interface.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice and dubbing platform that can translate audio and video into 29 languages while preserving the original speaker’s voice.
• HeyGen – A generative AI platform for creating professional videos with customizable avatars, voice cloning, and text-to-speech.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI-powered video editing and generation platform for creators.
• Tome – An AI-powered tool for creating compelling presentations and narratives from a simple text prompt.
• Durable – An AI-powered website builder that can generate a complete website with copy and images in under a minute.
• Uizard – An AI-powered design tool that transforms hand-drawn sketches into high-fidelity wireframes and functional prototypes.
• Lindy – An AI employee designed to handle administrative tasks like calendar management, email drafting, and contact lookups.
• GPT-Pilot – An open-source development tool that acts as a coder buddy to help write scalable applications from scratch.
• MindStudio – A no-code platform that enables you to quickly build and deploy custom AI applications for various use cases.
• PhotoGuard – A tool that “immunizes” images against unauthorized AI manipulation by making them resistant to generative AI editing.
• Windsor – An AI platform for sending personalized videos to customers at scale by cloning your voice and face.
• Supernormal – An AI platform that automatically transcribes and summarizes your meetings, providing instant, high-quality notes.
• Sidekick – An AI-powered meeting transcriber that joins your calls to help you remember and recall every detail discussed.
• Scribble to Art – A tool that transforms your simple doodles and scribbles into detailed and sophisticated works of art.
• Ajelix – An AI toolkit that generates Excel and Google Sheets formulas, scripts, and templates from plain text descriptions.
• Luminal – An AI-powered spreadsheet tool that instantly cleans, transforms, and enriches data with a simple interface.
• Godmode – A web-based chat interface that provides access to a wide range of large language models without needing API keys.
• Gradio – A Python library that allows developers to quickly build and share web interfaces for their machine learning models.
• Ruff – An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust, designed to be a drop-in replacement for existing tools.
• Hunch – An AI-powered tool that helps you make better and faster decisions by organizing pros and cons and scoring your options.
• Fine-Tuner – A tool that allows you to create a custom AI chatbot that learns from the information within your Notion databases.
• Aomni – An AI-powered B2B data provider that helps you find and research your next customers.
• Supertools – A curated and searchable directory listing hundreds of the best AI tools available.

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