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:

• Scarlett Johansson ‘Shocked and Angered’ by OpenAI Voice – Scarlett Johansson stated she was “shocked and angered” after OpenAI released a new ChatGPT voice that she claims is “eerily similar” to her own, despite her previously declining an offer to voice the assistant.
• Microsoft Introduces Team Copilot – At its Build conference, Microsoft introduced Team Copilot, transforming its AI assistant into a meeting facilitator and project manager within tools like Teams and Planner.
• Humane Seeks Buyer After Rocky Ai Pin Launch – AI device startup Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer for its business for $750M to $1B, just a month after the rocky launch of its Ai Pin.
• Mistral AI Raising $600 Million at $6 Billion Valuation – French AI startup Mistral AI is reportedly raising around $600 million in a new funding round that would value the company at $6 billion.
• OpenAI Disbands ‘Superalignment’ Team – OpenAI has disbanded its “Superalignment” team focused on long-term AI risks, following the high-profile departures of its leaders Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike.
• Google DeepMind Unveils Video and Audio Generation Model – Google DeepMind introduced a new generative model capable of producing video with synchronized, realistic audio, including sound effects and dialogue, from text prompts.
• Elon Musk’s xAI Nears $6 Billion Funding Deal – Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is close to securing a $6 billion funding round that would value the company at $18 billion.
• Microsoft Launches Phi-3-vision for On-Device AI – Microsoft launched Phi-3-vision, a new small, multimodal AI model that is powerful enough to run locally on mobile devices and can analyze both images and text.
• Google’s AI Overviews Criticized for Dangerous Answers – Google’s new AI Overviews in Search are being criticized for providing bizarre and sometimes dangerous answers, such as suggesting users add glue to their pizza.
• Investors Await Nvidia Earnings to Gauge AI Market – Investors are eagerly awaiting Nvidia’s quarterly earnings report this week, with the results expected to significantly influence the direction of the entire AI stock market.
• Microsoft and G42 to Invest $1B in Kenya – Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 are investing $1 billion in a digital ecosystem package for Kenya, which will include a new green data center and AI model development.
• Perplexity AI Launches ‘Pages’ to Create Articles from Searches – Perplexity AI launched “Pages,” a new feature that can instantly convert search queries or topics into comprehensive, well-structured articles, reports, or guides.
• Pika Labs Adds AI Sound Effects to Video Generator – AI video generator Pika Labs has introduced a new “Sound Effects” feature that can automatically add relevant audio to generated videos.
• Legal AI Startup Harvey Seeks Funding at $2B Valuation – Harvey, a startup that develops AI software for the legal industry and is backed by OpenAI, is in talks to raise new funding at a valuation of at least $2 billion.
• ElevenLabs Launches AI Audiobook Creation Tool – AI voice company ElevenLabs has launched an AI Audiobook Creation Tool, allowing authors and publishers to create audio versions of their books using its text-to-speech technology.
• AI Work Assistant Haystack Emerges with $200M in Funding – Haystack, a startup building an AI assistant to search and summarize workplace data, emerged from stealth with $200 million in funding from investors including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
• UK and US Sign Landmark AI Safety Agreement – The United Kingdom and the United States have signed a landmark agreement to collaborate on AI safety science, establishing a formal partnership between their respective AI Safety Institutes.
• Study Finds Anti-Labor Bias in Leading AI Models – A new study reveals that leading AI models like ChatGPT exhibit a significant pro-corporate, anti-labor bias in their responses to economic and workplace-related questions.
• AMD Develops New AI Chip for Chinese Market – AMD confirmed it is developing a specialized AI chip for the Chinese market to comply with U.S. export restrictions.
• LinkedIn Tests AI Feature for Job Postings – LinkedIn is testing a new AI-powered feature that allows job seekers to ask questions about a specific job posting to get quick answers on topics like company culture or team size.
• CoreWeave Reportedly Plans IPO for Early 2025 – Cloud computing provider and Nvidia partner CoreWeave is reportedly planning an IPO for the first half of 2025 that could value the company at over $16 billion.
• HeyGen Launches Real-Time Streaming Avatar – HeyGen has launched Streaming Avatar, a new feature that allows users to create a real-time, interactive AI avatar for live streams and conversations.
• Meta Developing Advanced AI Smart Glasses – Meta is developing a more advanced version of its smart glasses that will feature a viewfinder and AI capabilities to identify objects and translate languages.
• Researchers Develop Method to Safely Modify Pretrained Models – Researchers have developed Safe Latent Diffusion, a method that can remove concepts like nudity, violence, or specific artistic styles from pretrained models without retraining them.
• Together AI Releases Developer Suite for Open-Source Models – Together AI has released its Developer Suite, including tools like Together Inference and Fine-tuning, to help developers build applications on open-source AI models.
• Salesforce Announces Einstein Copilot for Tableau – Salesforce announced the general availability of Einstein Copilot for Tableau, which allows users to explore data and create visualizations using natural language.
• Paul Graham Publishes Essay on Improving Writing – Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham published a new, detailed essay on how to improve one’s writing skills.
• VAST Data Acquires Strike Graph – AI data platform company VAST Data has acquired compliance automation startup Strike Graph to enhance its data security and governance capabilities.

Trending AI Tools:

• Llama 3 – Meta’s new family of high-performing, open-source large language models available for broad use.
• Meta AI – A free AI assistant powered by Llama 3, integrated across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
• Microsoft VASA-1 – An AI framework that generates hyper-realistic, lifelike talking head videos from a single image and an audio clip.
• Reka Core – A powerful, frontier-level multimodal AI model capable of understanding images, video, audio, and text.
• Mind-Video – An AI model that can reconstruct video clips by interpreting fMRI brain scans of a person watching them.
• Suno – An AI music creation platform that generates full songs, including lyrics and vocals, from simple text prompts.
• Udio – An AI tool for generating high-quality, full-length music tracks in various styles based on text descriptions.
• Viggle – A video generation AI that animates a character from a still image to match a specified motion or dance video.
• Krea – An AI suite offering tools for real-time image generation, upscaling, and creative visual enhancements.
• Kling – A new text-to-video model from the creators of TikTok’s Chinese version that can generate 1080p video up to two minutes long.
• Stable Audio 2.0 – A new model from Stability AI that can generate full, structured songs with coherent musical sections up to three minutes long.
• Opus Clip – An AI-powered tool that automatically repurposes long videos into viral short clips for social media.
• Descript – An all-in-one audio and video editor that lets you edit media as easily as a text document.
• Godmode – An all-in-one platform for creating and deploying AI agents, workflows, and web applications.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its superior ability to accurately render text within images.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered creative tools for advanced video generation, editing, and effects.
• Pika – An AI-powered platform for generating and editing videos from text prompts and images.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates routine tasks like scheduling meetings, managing email, and taking notes.
• Tome – An AI-native medium for creating and sharing immersive narratives, presentations, and documents.
• Gamma – An AI tool that helps you create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from a simple prompt.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can generate an entire business website with images and copy in under a minute.
• Guidde – An AI-powered platform for creating video documentation and how-to guides instantly.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct answers to questions with cited sources.
• ElevenLabs – A text-to-speech and voice cloning AI platform for creating realistic and expressive audio.
• Leonardo AI – An AI art generator for creating high-quality visual assets for gaming, art, and other creative projects.
• Notion AI – A set of AI features integrated into the Notion workspace to help summarize, write, and brainstorm ideas.
• Diagram – A collection of AI ‘magical’ tools and plugins designed for product designers using Figma.
• Story.com – A platform that uses AI to help you build interactive presentations and data visualizations.
• Hugging Face – A central platform and community for accessing and sharing open-source AI models, datasets, and tools.
• Groq – A cloud platform that offers exceptionally fast inference speeds for large language models on its custom hardware.
• SEC Insights – An AI-powered platform for analyzing SEC filings to quickly extract investment insights.
• Defog.ai – An AI tool that connects to your database and generates complex SQL and data queries from natural language questions.
• SQL Llama – A Llama 2 model fine-tuned specifically for generating text-to-SQL queries.
• E2B – A platform that provides secure, sandboxed cloud environments for developing and deploying AI agents.
• OpenELA – A collaborative open-source project providing a secure and reliable alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Sponsors:

• Runway – Runway is developing the Gen-3 Alpha model, which promises significant improvements in video generation structure, style, and motion.
• Intel – Intel offers Gaudi 2 accelerators as a cost-effective solution for generative AI training and inference.
• Masterworks – Masterworks is a platform that allows users to invest in fractional shares of blue-chip art.
• Brave – Brave offers Leo, a free and private AI assistant built directly into its web browser.
• beehiiv – beehiiv is an email newsletter platform with a built-in ad network designed to help creators monetize their publications.
• guidance – guidance is a company that hires senior software engineers and managers to work with leading AI companies.