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 Unveils ‘Apple Intelligence’ – its new personal intelligence system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that combines generative models with personal context and includes an integration with ChatGPT.
- Elon Musk Drops Lawsuit Against OpenAI – Elon Musk dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI, which had accused the company of abandoning its original non-profit, open-source mission for profit.
- Luma Labs Launches Dream Machine – a new, publicly available text-to-video generation model known for its high-quality output and ability to realistically render characters and motion.
- Elon Musk Threatens Apple Device Ban – Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies following Apple’s announcement of its OpenAI partnership, citing security risks.
- Perplexity Launches “Pages” – a new feature that can generate comprehensive articles, reports, and guides on any topic from a single prompt, complete with citations and media.
- Runway Announces Gen-3 Alpha – its next-generation video model, promising major improvements in generation speed, control, and consistency for creating highly detailed video content.
- French AI Startup ‘H’ Raises $220M – ‘H’ (formerly Holistic AI) emerged from stealth with a $220 million seed round to build foundational “agentic” models capable of reasoning and collaboration.
- Character.AI Introduces Custom Voices – Character.AI introduced a new voice feature, allowing users to create custom voices for their AI characters with just a 10-second audio sample.
- Raspberry Pi Launches AI Kit – Raspberry Pi launched a new AI Kit, developed with Hailo, to enable local and power-efficient artificial intelligence processing on the Raspberry Pi 5.
- CoreWeave Offers to Buy Core Scientific – AI cloud provider CoreWeave made a $1.6 billion all-cash offer to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a bid to expand its AI infrastructure capacity.
- Inflection AI Names New CEO – Inflection AI, now focused on building an API for conversational AI, appointed Sean White, former chief R&D officer at Mozilla, as its new CEO.
- Suno Releases V3.5 – Suno released V3.5 of its AI music generation model, which is available for free to all users and features improved song structure and quality.
- Y Combinator Publishes AI Developer RFS – Y Combinator published a new Request for Startups (RFS) focused on building AI-powered tools and infrastructure specifically for software developers.
- Google Scales Back AI Overviews – Google is scaling back its AI Overviews in Search after the feature was criticized for providing bizarre and inaccurate answers.
- AI Reconstructs Song From Brainwaves – A new study shows that AI can reconstruct a recognizable version of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” directly from listeners’ brainwaves.
- Cleanlab Launches Trustworthy Language Model – Cleanlab launched Trustworthy Language Model (TLM), a new open-source model designed to be as capable as GPT-4 but with significantly fewer “hallucinations” or factual errors.
- Pika Adds AI Sound Effects – Pika, an AI video generation platform, has now added a feature that allows users to generate sound effects for their videos using simple text prompts.
- GitHub Copilot Workspace in Technical Preview – GitHub Copilot Workspace, a new AI-native development environment that helps developers go from an idea to code, is now available in technical preview.
- Study Shows AI Taking Freelancer Jobs – A study by University of Maryland researchers found that the rise of generative AI tools has led to a significant decline in jobs and earnings for freelancers on the platform Upwork.
- Adobe Announces GenAI Service for Ads – Adobe announced a new generative AI service that allows enterprise customers to quickly create and distribute personalized digital advertising campaigns at scale.
- US Regulators to Investigate AI Giants – U.S. antitrust regulators have reportedly agreed to open investigations into the dominance of Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence industry.
- Snowflake Announces New Features at Summit – Snowflake announced a range of new features at its annual summit, including Polaris Catalog for Apache Iceberg and an expanded partnership with Nvidia for AI model development.
- Wayfair Launches ‘Decorify’ AI Tool – Wayfair launched a new generative AI tool called ‘Decorify’ that allows customers to virtually redesign their own rooms in various photorealistic styles.
- AMD Unveils New AI Chips to Compete with Nvidia – AMD unveiled its new Instinct MI325X accelerators and detailed a roadmap for new AI chips annually to better compete with market leader Nvidia.
- Meta Expands “Made with AI” Labels – Meta will now apply “Made with AI” labels to a wider range of video, audio, and image content, expanding beyond its previous policy that targeted only a narrow slice of manipulated media.
- NASA Appoints First Chief AI Officer – NASA has appointed its first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer, David Salvagnini, to oversee the agency’s strategy and use of AI technology.
- LinkedIn Tests AI Job Coach – LinkedIn is testing a new AI-powered job coach for its Premium subscribers that provides advice and guidance during the job application process.
- Report: AI PCs to Make Up 60% of Market by 2028 – A report from Canalys predicts that AI-capable PCs will constitute 19% of the total PC market in 2024, with that number expected to grow to 60% by 2028.
- Modular Releases Mojo Language for AI – Modular, a startup founded by ex-Apple and Google engineers, has released Mojo, a new programming language designed to make AI development faster and more accessible.
- AWS to Build Data Centers in Taiwan – Amazon Web Services plans to invest billions of dollars in building data centers in Taiwan to meet the growing global demand for AI services.
Trending AI Tools:
- Pika – A powerful text-to-video generation platform that allows users to create and edit videos with AI.
- Luma AI Dream Machine – A new, highly anticipated text-to-video generation model for creating high-quality, realistic video clips.
- Krea AI – A creative suite of AI tools that enables real-time generation and editing of images and videos.
- Viggle – An AI tool that lets you control the motion of characters in videos, making them dance or move according to a reference video.
- Le Chat – A conversational AI assistant from the European AI company Mistral, offering access to its various language models.
- Claude – A family of large language models developed by Anthropic, known for its focus on safety and sophisticated conversational abilities.
- Perplexity – An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions by searching the web.
- AudioCraft – Meta’s open-source library for high-quality, controllable audio and music generation from text.
- Runway – A comprehensive AI video editing and generation platform offering a wide range of creative tools for filmmakers and artists.
- Sora – OpenAI’s unreleased but highly advanced text-to-video model capable of creating realistic and imaginative scenes.
- Suno – An AI tool that generates complete songs, including vocals, lyrics, and instrumentation, from a simple text prompt.
- Udio – An AI music creation tool for generating high-quality songs with vocals from text prompts in various genres.
- Devin – An autonomous AI software engineer designed to handle entire development projects from start to finish.
- Midjourney – A popular and powerful AI image generator known for its artistic and high-quality outputs.
- Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at creating images with accurate and coherent text integrated into them.
- OpusClip – An AI video editing tool that repurposes long videos into short, viral clips for social media platforms.
- HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating professional videos with customizable talking avatars and voice cloning.
- ElevenLabs – A leading platform for generating realistic and expressive AI voices and text-to-speech audio.
- Magnific AI – An AI-powered image upscaler and enhancer that intelligently adds details to increase resolution.
- Character.ai – A platform for creating and interacting with AI characters that have distinct personalities and conversational styles.
- PhotoRoom – An AI-powered photo editor that allows you to remove backgrounds, erase objects, and create professional product pictures.
- Gamma – An AI tool for quickly creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
- Plus AI – An AI-powered add-on for Google Slides and PowerPoint to create and edit presentations using text prompts.
- Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that can create notes, summaries, and answer questions from any document, presentation, or video.
- Poe by Quora – A platform by Quora that provides access to a variety of different AI chatbots and models in one place.
- Brevian – A no-code platform for building and deploying custom AI agents that can automate complex tasks.
- EraseID – An AI tool that automatically anonymizes faces in photos and videos while maintaining realism.
- FigJam AI – A suite of AI tools within Figma’s online whiteboard to help with brainstorming, summarizing, and diagramming.
- Jam – A developer tool that makes bug reporting faster by automatically capturing console logs, network requests, and browser info.
- Stable Video Diffusion – An open-source AI model from Stability AI for generating short video clips from images or text.
- Deforum – An open-source tool and community for creating intricate animations using Stable Diffusion.
- Griptape – An open-source Python framework for building and running multi-step AI workflows that are reliable and observable.
- DreaMoving – A research framework for generating customized videos of humans with specific motions and appearances from a single image.
Sponsors:
- Kazimir.AI – An AI agency that delivers AI projects for ambitious brands.
- Airplane – A developer platform for building internal tools and complex workflows like AI agents.
- Brilliant – An online learning platform that helps you build an intuitive understanding of concepts that power AI, from neural networks to LLMs.
- Masterworks – An exclusive art investment platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar paintings.
- Wix Studio – A web creation platform for agencies and enterprises to build exceptional sites using features like responsive AI and a collaborative canvas.
- Growth School – Offers a program to help product managers master over 50 AI tools to build and launch products faster.
- Lemon.io – A marketplace that connects you with vetted, top-tier software engineers from a global talent pool.
- Omnipilot – A desktop AI assistant that can translate natural language into multi-step actions on any application or website.