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:

• Introducing Apple Intelligence – Apple unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” a new personal AI system deeply integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, which will also feature an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
• Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI – Elon Musk has withdrawn his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, which had accused them of abandoning the company’s original non-profit mission.
• Perplexity Pages – Perplexity launched “Pages,” a new feature that allows users to create visually appealing and comprehensive articles, reports, and guides from a single prompt.
• Inflection-2.5 API – Inflection AI has made its Inflection-2.5 model, which balances performance with efficiency, available to developers through an API.
• Stability AI appoints new CEO – Stability AI has appointed Premjit Das, a former Google executive, as its new CEO to lead the company’s next phase of growth.
• Microsoft lays off hundreds from Azure cloud division – Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees from its Azure cloud division, impacting teams related to the metaverse and mixed reality.
• Snowflake to acquire Wolkenwood – Snowflake has acquired the AI observability platform Wolkenwood to enhance its monitoring and operational capabilities for large language models.
• GPT-4o is now free on Poe – Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo announced that OpenAI’s GPT-4o model is now available for free to all users on the Poe platform.
• Character.ai launches ‘Character Calls’ – Character.ai launched “Character Calls,” a new feature allowing users to have real-time voice conversations with its AI characters.
• Google introduces AI Notebook in AI Studio – Google has launched AI Notebook in its AI Studio, a new web-based notebook environment for developers to prototype and build with its Gemini models.
• Raspberry Pi launches AI Kit – Raspberry Pi has launched an AI Kit, co-developed with Hailo, to enable powerful and efficient AI processing on Raspberry Pi 5 devices.
• Sakana AI develops evolutionary model merging – Japanese AI lab Sakana AI has created a technique called “evolutionary model merging” that automatically combines different open-source models to create new, more capable ones without retraining.
• AI image detectors can be easily fooled – Researchers have demonstrated that current AI image detectors can be easily deceived by “adversarial examples,” raising concerns about their reliability.
• Figure AI officially raises $852.5M – Humanoid robotics company Figure AI has officially raised $852.5 million in its latest funding round, according to an SEC filing.
• French AI startup ‘H’ raises $220M in seed funding – Paris-based AI startup “H” has raised $220 million in a seed round from investors including Bernard Arnault and Eric Schmidt to develop foundational action models.
• Unstructured raises $40M for data processing – Unstructured, a startup that helps companies process unstructured data for use with large language models, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round.
• Mistral AI opens first international hub in London – French AI leader Mistral AI has announced plans to open its first international hub in London, appointing a former Google DeepMind executive to lead its UK operations.
• Section launches an AI Agent platform – Section has launched a new platform enabling businesses to create and deploy AI agents that can adapt their models and infrastructure based on real-time needs.
• Wayfair uses ‘Creative Sidekick’ AI for social media – Wayfair has developed an internal generative AI tool called “Creative Sidekick” to help its marketing team rapidly create engaging social media content.
• How to secure your AI models – A new guide explains methods for protecting AI models from threats like data poisoning, model evasion, and privacy breaches.
• Snowflake asserts its AI-augmented data cloud strategy – Snowflake is positioning itself as an essential platform for enterprise AI by integrating new features to help companies manage and utilize their data for AI applications.
• Microsoft AI CEO advocates for a cautious approach – Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman emphasizes a cautious, product-focused approach to AI development, contrasting with more aggressive cultures elsewhere in the industry.
• How to run Meta’s Code Llama on your own machine – A guide explains how to run the Code Llama model locally on your own computer for private coding assistance.
• Midjourney Magazine Issue 11 – The 11th issue of Midjourney’s monthly magazine, featuring interviews and a gallery of AI-generated art, is now available.
• 3D-printed pizza – A viral video shows a 3D printer creating and cooking a pizza.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically turns long videos into viral short clips for social media.
• Guidde – A tool that helps you create video documentation and how-to guides with AI.
• Surfer SEO – An AI-powered tool designed to help you write content that is optimized for search engines.
• Syllaby – An AI tool that helps you create a content strategy and generate viral videos for social media.
• ThinkBuddy – A native macOS application that provides access to various AI models like GPT-4o, Claude 3 Opus, and Llama 3 directly from your desktop.
• InsightJini – An AI assistant that analyzes customer feedback from various sources to provide actionable insights.
• Kaiber – A video generation engine that creates videos from your own images or text descriptions.
• Co-Writer – An AI writing assistant designed to work within Google Docs and across the web via a Chrome extension.
• Windsor – A tool for sending personalized AI-generated videos to customers to increase engagement.
• AutoVid.ai – A tool for automatically creating faceless videos and YouTube shorts.
• AI Story Generator – A free, AI-powered tool that assists writers in creating unique stories by generating ideas, characters, and plot twists.

Trending AI Tools:

• ChatGPT-4o – OpenAI’s flagship multimodal model that natively processes text, audio, and image inputs and outputs.
• Luma Dream Machine – An AI model that generates high-quality, realistic video clips from text descriptions and still images.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that creates complete songs, including vocals and instrumentation, from text prompts.
• Udio – An AI-powered music creation tool that generates high-quality songs with lyrics and vocals based on user prompts.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI-powered platform for generating and editing videos with various AI magic tools.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos in various styles from text prompts and images.
• Krea AI – An AI-powered design tool that enables real-time image generation, upscaling, and creation of visuals.
• Google Veo – Google’s most advanced text-to-video model, designed to create high-definition, long-form video content.
• YouTube Dream Track – An AI experiment on YouTube Shorts that allows users to create soundtracks with the cloned voices of famous artists.
• HeyGen – A video platform that uses generative AI to create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voice cloning.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generator that creates realistic, human-like speech synthesis and clones voices.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator that creates high-quality, artistic images from text prompts via Discord.
• Tome – An AI-powered tool that helps users generate entire presentations and stories from a single text prompt.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its superior ability to accurately render text within the generated images.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, cited answers to user questions.
• Poe – An AI platform by Quora that allows users to interact with a variety of different AI chatbots and models in one place.
• Gemini 1.5 Flash – A lightweight and fast multimodal model from Google optimized for speed in high-frequency tasks.
• Gemma 2 – Google’s next-generation open model designed for responsible and high-performance AI development.
• PaliGemma – Google’s lightweight vision-language model designed for tasks like image captioning and visual Q&A.

Sponsors:

• Incogni – A service that helps you automatically remove your personal information from data broker websites.
• Masterworks – A platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar artworks by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• FourthBrain – Offers a 12-week, expert-led program on generative AI for professionals looking to enhance their skills.
• Dust – A platform that helps teams build and deploy custom AI assistants without needing to manage infrastructure.
• NetSuite – A cloud-based business management software suite that provides visibility and control over financials, inventory, and more.
• beehiiv – An all-in-one platform for creating, growing, and monetizing newsletters.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that builds products for startups and enterprises.
• CodiumAI – An AI-powered tool that generates meaningful tests for your code to help you ship faster with confidence.