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:

• Luma Labs launches Dream Machine – Luma AI has released Dream Machine, a new publicly available text-to-video model that is being hailed as a powerful and accessible competitor to OpenAI’s Sora.
• Apple partners with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18 – Apple officially announced its partnership with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18, bringing its capabilities to Siri and new system-wide writing tools for free.
• Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI – Elon Musk has withdrawn his lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, in which he claimed the company had abandoned its original non-profit mission for profit.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn research into articles and presentations – AI search engine Perplexity has released a new feature called Pages that instantly converts research threads, URLs, and local files into comprehensive, well-structured articles or presentations.
• CoreWeave offers to acquire Core Scientific for $1.6B – AI cloud provider CoreWeave has made a $1.6 billion offer to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a bid to expand its infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Mistral AI closing in on $600M funding round at a $6B valuation – French AI startup Mistral is reportedly raising approximately $600 million in a new funding round that would value the company at $6 billion.
• OpenAI hires new CFO and Chief Product Officer – OpenAI has appointed Sarah Friar, the former CEO of Nextdoor, as its first Chief Financial Officer and Kevin Weil, former President of Planet Labs, as its Chief Product Officer.
• Google DeepMind unveils V2A technology for generating video soundtracks – Google DeepMind introduced its Video-to-Audio (V2A) technology, which generates synchronized music, sound effects, and dialogue based on the content of video pixels.
• Character.AI launches voice conversations with AI characters – Users can now have real-time voice conversations with millions of AI personas on the Character.AI platform with the new “Character Calls” feature.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 38% after London IPO – The maker of the popular low-cost single-board computers, Raspberry Pi, saw its shares jump significantly following its successful initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange.
• US judge rules Section 230 protects AI image generators from liability – A federal judge ruled that Section 230, which protects online platforms from liability for user-generated content, also applies to AI image generators, shielding them from blame for the outputs they create.
• Hume AI launches Empathic Voice Interface API – Hume AI has released the first Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), an API that allows developers to build applications with a conversational AI that can understand and respond to the emotional nuances in human speech.
• Collaborative Robotics raises $100M for AI-powered practical robots – The robotics company, which focuses on creating AI-powered collaborative robots for industries like logistics and manufacturing, announced a new $100 million funding round.
• Sakana AI uses evolutionary methods to create new open-source models – Sakana AI has developed a novel approach using evolutionary algorithms to automatically merge different open-source models, creating new, more capable models without direct human intervention.
• French AI startup ‘H’ raises $220M in seed funding – A new Paris-based AI company named ‘H’, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has secured a massive $220 million seed round to build foundation action models.
• Suno raises $125M to expand its AI music generation tool – AI music startup Suno, known for creating songs with vocals from a simple text prompt, has raised $125 million in a new funding round to grow its team and user base.
• US Navy using AI to identify Houthi targets in the Red Sea – The U.S. Navy Secretary confirmed that an AI model, developed under Project Lima, is actively being used to detect and track Houthi weapons and targets in the Red Sea region.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI has launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a 2-billion parameter text-to-image model that offers high-quality outputs while being small enough to run on standard consumer GPUs.
• Google announces LearnLM, a new family of AI models for education – Google has introduced LearnLM, a family of generative AI models fine-tuned for educational purposes, designed to make learning experiences more active, personal, and engaging.
• AMD details new AI chips and software to compete with Nvidia – AMD showcased its next-generation Instinct MI325X AI accelerator and outlined a yearly release schedule for new AI chips to aggressively compete with Nvidia’s market dominance.
• Medical AI can be tricked by irrelevant data in patient scans – A new study reveals that medical AI models can be easily fooled by “shortcuts” or irrelevant data, such as a pen mark on an X-ray, leading them to make incorrect diagnoses.
• Study finds AI can predict pop music hits from brain scans – Researchers have developed an AI model that can predict with high accuracy whether a song will become a hit by analyzing listeners’ brain activity through fMRI scans.
• New York lawmakers pass bill to study and regulate AI – The New York state legislature passed a bill to create a commission to study the impact of AI and provide recommendations for regulating its use by state agencies.
• Survey reveals 80% of experts find data quality more crucial than model tweaking for LLM performance – A Cleanlab survey of over 600 AI experts found an overwhelming consensus that improving data quality is a more effective strategy for enhancing LLM performance than tweaking models or training procedures.
• Google Research introduces Lumiere 3D model for text-to-3D-video generation – Google DeepMind’s new Lumiere 3D model can generate five-second, 360-degree orbital videos of objects from a single text prompt.
• Inflection-2.5 API becomes available on CoreWeave and Microsoft Azure – The powerful language model behind the Pi chatbot, Inflection-2.5, is now generally available as an API on both Microsoft Azure and CoreWeave cloud platforms.
• Getty Images partners with Bria AI for a commercially safe generative AI tool – Getty Images is collaborating with visual generative AI company Bria to create a new tool that allows users to create and edit images and videos using a library of licensed stock content.
• Microsoft is opening a new AI development hub in Helsinki – Microsoft announced the establishment of a new AI hub in Helsinki, Finland, focused on leveraging the country’s expertise in software engineering and AI.

Trending AI Tools:

• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s latest, fastest, and most intelligent AI model, which also introduces a new “Artifacts” feature for interactive content generation.
• Luma Dream Machine – An AI model that generates high-quality, realistic, and fluid video clips from text and image prompts.
• Suno – An AI music and song creation tool that can generate original music with vocals and lyrics from a simple text prompt.
• Viggle – A free AI tool that lets you animate any still image with a reference motion video, effectively making characters dance or move realistically.
• Pika – An AI video generator that can create and edit videos in various styles from text prompts or images.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generation platform that creates realistic, human-like speech in multiple languages and can clone voices.
• Mind-Video – A model that can reconstruct high-quality videos from brain signals recorded via fMRI, essentially visualizing human thoughts.
• AI Steve – An AI-powered candidate developed by a British businessman to run for a seat in the UK parliament.
• Google VLOGGER – An AI model that can generate a realistic, controllable video of a person speaking or gesturing from a single still photograph.
• Artifacts – A new feature in Claude 3.5 Sonnet that provides a dedicated workspace where users can see, edit, and build upon the AI’s creations in real-time.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing highly artistic and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct answers to questions with cited sources from the web.
• ChatGPT-4o – OpenAI’s flagship multimodal model that can process and respond to text, audio, and image inputs.
• HeyGen – A generative AI platform for creating professional videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length tracks with vocals based on user prompts.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered creative tools for video editing, generation, and special effects.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at rendering coherent text and typography within its creations.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that allows users to interact with a variety of different AI chatbots and models in one place.
• Leonardo AI – A creative platform for generating high-quality art, images, and textures for various projects using AI.
• Krea AI – A suite of AI tools for real-time image generation and enhancement, allowing for interactive creative control.
• Kaiber – An AI video generation tool that transforms images or text prompts into dynamic, animated videos with various artistic styles.
• Krutrim – India’s first AI unicorn, developing large language models and other AI products tailored for the Indian market.
• Defog.ai – An AI tool that generates and fixes data queries, helping users analyze their data without needing to write complex SQL.
• Baseloop – An AI-powered platform for building and managing internal tools and workflows with features like AI-generated UIs and automated scripting.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that enables users to create and manage their own AI agents and fine-tune language models.

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