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:

• OpenAI announces GPT-4o – OpenAI launched GPT-4o, a new flagship model that is significantly faster, cheaper, natively multimodal across text, audio, and vision, and is rolling out for free with a new desktop app.
• Google announces major AI updates at I/O event – At its I/O conference, Google announced a wave of AI updates, infusing its Gemini model across its product ecosystem including Search, Workspace, Android, and more.
• Google unveils Veo video generation model – Google unveiled Veo, its most advanced text-to-video model designed to compete with OpenAI’s Sora, capable of generating high-quality, minute-long 1080p videos.
• Google demonstrates Project Astra – Google demonstrated Project Astra, its vision for a universal AI agent that can see, hear, and speak to understand context and take action in real-time.
• Google Search gets “AI Overviews” – Google is rolling out “AI Overviews” to all U.S. users, which provides AI-generated answers and summaries at the top of the search results page.
• Google announces Gemini 1.5 Flash – Google introduced Gemini 1.5 Flash, a new smaller and more efficient model optimized for speed and cost-effectiveness in high-volume, frequent tasks.
• Apple and OpenAI are reportedly finalizing a deal – Apple is reportedly closing a deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT features into the iPhone’s upcoming iOS 18.
• ElevenLabs launches text-to-sound-effects model – ElevenLabs has released a new generative model that can create sound effects, short instrumental tracks, and complex soundscapes from text prompts.
• Google introduces Trillium, its 6th-gen TPU – Google announced Trillium, its sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which offers a 4.7x improvement in compute performance per chip over the previous generation.
• Google lets users create custom ‘Gems’ – Google introduced Gems, a feature that allows users to create and customize their own versions of the Gemini chatbot for specific purposes and tasks.
• Microsoft to invest $2.2B in Malaysia’s AI infrastructure – Microsoft announced a $2.2 billion investment to build new cloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia, marking its largest investment in the country.
• OpenAI reportedly fires two researchers for leaking information – OpenAI fired two researchers, including a key figure in the campaign to oust CEO Sam Altman, for allegedly leaking confidential information.
• OpenAI and Reddit announce partnership – OpenAI and Reddit formed a partnership giving OpenAI real-time access to Reddit’s content for training models while also bringing new AI features to the Reddit platform.
• Elon Musk’s xAI nears $6B funding deal – Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is reportedly close to securing a $6 billion funding round that would value the company at $18 billion.
• Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as Chief Product Officer – Anthropic has hired Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as its new Chief Product Officer to oversee the company’s product strategy and development.
• Adobe announces new AI features for Photoshop – Adobe introduced a new “Generate Image” text-to-image feature and updated its “Generative Fill” tool within Photoshop, integrating Firefly AI more deeply into the application.
• Google’s AI discovers thousands of new materials for green energy – A Google DeepMind AI tool called A-Lab has discovered 2.2 million new crystal structures, including thousands of stable materials that could advance batteries and superconductors.
• Pika Labs adds sound effects to its video generator – Pika Labs has integrated ElevenLabs’ new sound effects model, allowing users to generate and add audio to their AI-created videos directly on the platform.
• AI startup Lindy raises $44M – Lindy, an AI startup creating autonomous agents to handle complex business processes like recruiting and sales, raised $44 million in a seed funding round.
• Google announces LearnLM models for education – Google introduced LearnLM, a new family of models based on Gemini that are fine-tuned for educational purposes to make learning more personal and engaging.
• OpenAI showcases AI agent playing Minecraft – OpenAI demonstrated an agent that uses video data and natural language commands to learn how to play the video game Minecraft, showcasing progress in agent capabilities.
• Midjourney tests new social collaboration features – Midjourney is testing new social features on its website that allow users to create group spaces to generate and organize images collaboratively.
• Krea AI’s tool now enhances images into video in real-time – Krea AI’s Enhance feature can now upscale and transform still images into smooth, high-resolution videos in real-time.
• Amazon removes ‘Just Walk Out’ from large US stores – Amazon is removing its ‘Just Walk Out’ cashierless checkout system from its large-format Fresh grocery stores, shifting to smart shopping carts instead.
• AI platform Poe introduces multi-bot chats – Quora’s AI platform Poe now allows users to include multiple different chatbots, like GPT-4o and Claude 3 Opus, within a single conversational thread.
• Researchers develop AI tool to automate 3D bioprinting – A new AI-powered tool called Print-A-Thon automates the difficult process of calibrating 3D bioprinters, potentially accelerating the creation of artificial tissues.
• Travel tech company Duffel acquires AI startup Voyager – Travel technology company Duffel has acquired AI-powered trip planning startup Voyager to integrate its conversational AI technology.
• Modal launches new API for fine-tuning LLMs – Developer platform Modal Labs has launched a new API that makes it significantly cheaper and easier for developers to fine-tune open-source large language models.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new text-to-video AI model that generates high-quality, realistic video clips from text and image prompts.
• ChatGPT – An AI chatbot from OpenAI that can answer questions, write text, code, and more.
• Viggle – A free AI tool that animates a static character image with realistic motion based on a source video.
• Kling AI – A text-to-video model from Kuaishou capable of generating high-resolution, long-duration videos.
• Midjourney – An AI image generator that creates highly artistic and detailed images from text prompts.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct answers to questions with source citations.
• Suno – An AI model that generates songs, complete with lyrics and vocals, from a simple text prompt.
• ElevenLabs – A leading AI platform for generating realistic text-to-speech audio and cloning voices.
• Claude – A family of large language models from Anthropic focused on helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness.
• Hugging Face – A platform and community providing tools and resources for building, training, and deploying machine learning models.
• Krea AI – An AI suite of creative tools for real-time image and video generation and enhancement.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models designed to be commercially safe for image creation and editing.
• Pika – An AI video platform for generating and editing videos from text, images, or existing video clips.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating professional videos with realistic avatars and voice cloning.
• Leonardo AI – A creative AI platform for generating high-quality visual assets like game art and illustrations.
• Recraft – An AI design tool for generating and editing vector art, icons, illustrations, and 3D images.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length songs with vocals from text prompts.
• AI Comic Factory – A free tool on Hugging Face that lets you generate comic book pages from text descriptions.
• Cleanvoice AI – An AI tool that automatically edits podcast episodes by removing filler words, mouth sounds, and dead air.
• FigJam AI – An AI-powered tool within Figma for brainstorming, summarizing, and generating ideas on a digital whiteboard.
• Runway Gen-2 – A multimodal AI system that can generate novel videos from text prompts, images, or other video clips.
• Gling – An AI tool for video creators that automatically finds and cuts out silences and bad takes from footage.
• Phind – An AI search engine specifically designed for developers that provides code examples and technical answers.
• Browse.ai – A no-code tool for extracting and monitoring data from any website by training a robot.
• Magic – An AI-powered software engineer designed to help developers with complex coding tasks.
• Descript – An all-in-one audio and video editor that allows editing via a text transcript.
• Superhuman – A premium email client with AI features to help users sort, write, and reply to emails faster.
• Opus Clip – An AI video tool that repurposes long videos into viral short clips for social media with a single click.
• Notion AI – A suite of AI features integrated into the Notion workspace to help with writing, summarizing, and brainstorming.
• Character.ai – A platform for creating and chatting with a wide variety of AI-powered characters.
• Magnific AI – An AI image upscaler and enhancer that can add details and increase the resolution of images.
• Kaiber – A creative AI lab that offers video generation tools to turn ideas and audio into visual stories.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform for teams to manage tasks, write notes, and collaborate in real-time.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
• Civitai – A platform for sharing and discovering AI art models, embeddings, and other resources, primarily for Stable Diffusion.
• Veed.io – An online video editing suite with AI tools for subtitling, transcription, and content creation.
• Lexica – A search engine for AI-generated images and prompts, which also includes its own image generator.
• Tome – An AI-powered platform for creating and sharing immersive presentations and narratives.
• Syllaby – An AI tool that helps video creators script, create, and distribute content consistently.
• Writesonic – An AI writing assistant for creating SEO-friendly content for blogs, ads, emails, and websites.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that provides fast, helpful AI chat with access to a variety of different models.
• Beautiful.ai – A presentation maker that uses AI to automatically design professional-looking slides.
• Deepgram – An AI speech-to-text API for developers that provides fast and accurate transcription services.
• Fine-Tuner – A no-code tool from Hugging Face for easily fine-tuning state-of-the-art models for specific tasks.

Sponsors:

• Rows – Rows is launching an AI Analyst for spreadsheets that allows you to ask any data question in plain English and get answers in seconds.
• AE Studio – AE Studio is a development, data science, and design studio that helps solve business problems with software and AI solutions.
• AI Top Tools – AI Top Tools is a platform that helps you discover the best AI tools and services.
• Masterworks – Masterworks is an investment platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Growth School – Growth School offers a 3-hour workshop on AI for Product Managers designed to help you build and scale AI products.
• Lemon.io – Lemon.io is a marketplace for hiring vetted developers from a global talent pool.
• HyperDX – HyperDX is an open-source, full-stack observability platform that helps you understand your system by correlating logs, metrics, traces, and session replays in one place.
• Beehiiv – Beehiiv is the newsletter platform used by top newsletters, built for growth.
• PromptPerfect – PromptPerfect is a tool that helps you optimize your AI prompts to get better results from large language models.
• Vultr – Vultr offers a global cloud platform with GPU resources for training and deploying AI models.
• Kapa.ai – Kapa.ai provides a generative AI platform for developer support, helping to answer technical questions from your documentation and community conversations.