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:

• Figure AI raises $675M for its humanoid robot – The company developing humanoid robots secured funding from investors including Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA to scale up AI training, manufacturing, and hiring.
• Microsoft hires Inflection AI’s co-founders and key staff – Inflection’s co-founders Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, along with most of their team, have joined Microsoft to lead a new consumer AI unit called Microsoft AI.
• Amazon completes its $4B investment in Anthropic – Amazon has invested an additional $2.75 billion into AI startup Anthropic, finalizing a commitment of up to $4 billion to compete with rivals like OpenAI.
• OpenAI previews its ‘Voice Engine’ model for voice cloning – OpenAI revealed a new model that can replicate a person’s voice from just a 15-second audio clip but is delaying a public release due to safety concerns.
• Pika Labs raises $80M for its AI video platform – AI video generator Pika has raised $80 million in a Series B round led by Spark Capital to expand its team and continue developing its video generation technology.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn prompts into articles – The AI search engine introduced a new feature that converts search queries or prompts into comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports with citations.
• Mistral Large is now available on Amazon Bedrock – AWS has made Mistral AI’s flagship model, Mistral Large, available to customers through its Amazon Bedrock service, expanding enterprise AI options.
• Runway introduces ‘Multi Motion Brush’ for video control – This new tool for Runway’s Gen-2 model allows users to isolate and apply different directions and amounts of motion to multiple parts of an image-to-video generation.
• Google’s ‘Genie’ AI can generate playable 2D video games – Researchers at Google DeepMind have developed a new AI model that can create interactive, playable 2D game worlds from a single image or text prompt.
• Midjourney adds ‘Character Reference’ for consistent characters – The popular image generation tool released a new feature that allows users to create consistent characters across multiple images by referencing an existing character’s image URL.
• Suno V3 for AI music generation is now available to all users – The latest version of the AI music generator, capable of producing higher-quality, two-minute songs from text prompts, has been released for all users.
• ElevenLabs launches AI-powered sound effects generator – The voice synthesis company has released a new tool that can generate a wide range of sound effects and ambient sounds from simple text descriptions.
• Microsoft’s VASA-1 model creates lifelike talking faces from a single photo – New research from Microsoft introduces an AI framework that can generate realistic talking head videos with expressive facial expressions and synchronized lip movements from a single image and an audio clip.
• Google’s VLOGGER AI animates people from a single photo – A new research model from Google can take a single still image of a person and an audio clip to generate a high-quality video of that person speaking and gesturing.
• The EU officially approves the landmark AI Act – The European Parliament has passed the world’s first comprehensive set of laws to regulate artificial intelligence, establishing risk-based rules for AI applications.
• Claude 3 Opus overtakes GPT-4 on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard – Anthropic’s most capable model, Claude 3 Opus, has officially surpassed GPT-4 as the top-ranked model based on blind, human-preference votes.
• Stability AI releases Stable Video 3D – This new model from Stability AI can generate 3D videos of objects and create orbital views from a single input image.
• Apple is in talks to integrate Google’s Gemini into the iPhone – Reports indicate Apple is negotiating with Google to license its Gemini models to power new generative AI features coming to the iPhone later this year.
• Databricks acquires AI startup Lilac – The data and AI company has acquired Lilac, a platform that helps developers explore and analyze unstructured data, to enhance its own data intelligence capabilities.
• Microsoft integrates Suno to bring song creation to Copilot – Users can now generate complete songs with lyrics and vocals directly within Microsoft Copilot through a new plugin integration with the AI music service Suno.
• Intel and Naver partner on an AI chip platform for cloud services – Intel is collaborating with South Korean tech giant Naver to develop a custom AI chip platform to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the accelerator market.
• GitHub launches Copilot Enterprise for large businesses – A new tier of the AI coding assistant is now available for $39 per user per month, offering tailored AI features and code analysis for entire organizations.

Trending AI Tools:

• ElevenLabs – A voice synthesis company that also provides an AI tool to detect if audio was generated by its platform.
• OpenVoice – An open-source voice cloning model that can replicate a voice and generate multi-language speech from just a few seconds of audio.
• Ideogram – A free AI image generator that excels at creating images that include coherent and legible text.
• Looka – An AI-powered platform that helps you design a complete brand identity, from your logo to a website.
• Midjourney – A powerful AI image generator whose latest version, V6, features major improvements in prompt understanding and text generation.
• Pika – A text-to-video generation platform that creates short video clips from text prompts and is now publicly available.
• Suno – An AI music and song generator that can create original tracks, complete with vocals, from a simple text prompt.
• Gemini Pro – Google’s powerful multimodal AI model, which is now available for developers to use through an API.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with source citations.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered tools for advanced video and image editing and creation.
• Character.ai – A platform for creating and interacting with AI chatbots that has now introduced a group chat feature for multiple users and AIs.
• Viggle – A new video generation model that allows for fine-grained control over character motion using text prompts.
• Leonardo AI – A platform for generating high-quality images, textures, and art assets for creative projects.
• Krea – A suite of AI tools featuring real-time image and video generation capabilities for creative professionals.
• Gencad – An AI tool that generates 3D computer-aided design (CAD) models from text descriptions or images.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI assistant for meetings that records, transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes your voice conversations.
• Sunburst – A new multimodal AI model developed by academic researchers that can accurately answer questions about images.
• Gamma – An AI tool that helps you create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text prompts.
• Plask – An AI-powered animation tool that provides browser-based motion capture from video footage.
• Vidyo.ai – An AI-powered tool that automatically edits long-form videos into short, shareable clips for social media.
• Pictory – An AI video generator that transforms long-form text content such as blog posts into engaging summary videos.
• Beautiful.ai – An AI presentation maker that automatically handles the design and layout of your slides as you add content.
• Google AI Studio – A free, web-based tool for developers to quickly prototype and build applications using Google’s Gemini models.
• LXI – A new application that allows you to create and customize your own unique AI personas for interaction.
• Godmode – An all-in-one web platform designed for creating, testing, and deploying generative AI agents.
• V-IRL – A research model that enables robots to learn complex manipulation tasks by watching videos of humans performing them.
• LLaVA-Plus – A general-purpose multimodal AI that can learn to use new external tools to answer questions more effectively.
• GRILL – A new framework designed to help language models understand and react to real-time image streams for use in embodied agents like robots.
• ClipDrop – A collection of AI-powered applications, plugins, and resources for creating and editing images.
• Magic Studio – A suite of AI tools designed to help you create and edit professional-looking product photos.
• ClickUp – A project management platform that integrates AI to help automate tasks, summarize notes, and streamline workflows.
• Vertex AI – Google Cloud’s platform for building, deploying, and scaling machine learning models, which now includes the Gemini Pro model.
• MobileVLM – A family of compact yet powerful vision language models optimized to run efficiently on mobile devices.
• Mora – A research framework that uses multiple specialized AI agents to collaborate on complex visual tasks.
• Grounded-SAM – A powerful open-source tool that combines two models to perform highly accurate object detection and segmentation based on text prompts.
• MoE-Mamba – A novel neural network architecture that merges the efficiency of Mixture of Experts (MoE) with the Mamba state space model.

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