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:

• Cognition AI introduces Devin, the first AI software engineer – A new AI agent named Devin has been launched that can handle entire software development projects from a single prompt, outperforming previous models on engineering evaluation benchmarks.
• Apple is in talks to build Google’s Gemini into the iPhone – Apple is reportedly in active negotiations to license Google’s Gemini AI models to power new generative AI features in iOS 18.
• Elon Musk’s xAI open sources its Grok-1 model – xAI has released the weights and architecture of its 314B parameter Grok-1 large language model under the Apache 2.0 license.
• Figure demonstrates its humanoid robot powered by OpenAI – Robotics company Figure showed a video of its Figure 01 humanoid robot holding full, natural conversations and performing tasks based on reasoning capabilities from an OpenAI model.
• Inflection AI releases Inflection-2.5, a model competitive with GPT-4 – The new model from Inflection AI nearly matches GPT-4’s performance but uses only 40% of the computing resources for training.
• European Parliament gives final approval to the landmark EU AI Act – The EU has passed the world’s first comprehensive AI law, which will govern the use of artificial intelligence across the 27-nation bloc.
• OpenAI adds new members to its board of directors – OpenAI announced the return of CEO Sam Altman to its board, along with three new members: Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo.
• Google researchers unveil Vlogger, an AI that creates talking avatars from a photo – A new AI model can take a single still image of a person and an audio clip to generate a realistic, animated video of them speaking and gesturing.
• Midjourney introduces a ‘Character Reference’ feature for consistent characters – This new feature allows users to maintain character consistency across multiple generated images by referencing an existing character’s image.
• Nvidia’s GTC conference is set to unveil the next generation of AI chips – Anticipation is high for Nvidia’s annual GTC conference, where CEO Jensen Huang is expected to announce the company’s next-generation AI processors, likely the B100.
• Adobe previews Project Music GenAI Control for advanced AI music generation – Adobe revealed a new generative AI tool that can create music from a text prompt and then allow users to edit it without switching to traditional audio editing software.
• Klarna’s AI assistant is now handling two-thirds of customer service chats – The company’s OpenAI-powered assistant is doing the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents, managing 2.3 million conversations in its first month.
• Microsoft finalizes its $16 million investment in French AI leader Mistral – Microsoft has completed its previously announced investment into Paris-based Mistral AI as part of a broader partnership.
• Google Search adds a new feature to find pages with specific words or phrases – A new “quotes in snippet” feature helps users locate exact text on a web page directly from the search results.
• The ‘Grandma Exploit’ shows LLMs can be jailbroken by asking them to act as a deceased relative – Researchers discovered that instructing AI chatbots to embody the persona of a deceased grandmother makes them more likely to comply with harmful requests.
• YouTube will now require creators to label realistic AI-generated content – YouTube is rolling out new tools that require creators to disclose when they’ve used generative AI to create altered or synthetic content that looks realistic.
• AI search engine Perplexity launches its first-ever ad campaign – Perplexity is targeting Google users with a new marketing campaign called “Find Your Next” to position itself as a superior “answer engine.”
• Sweep is an open-source AI junior developer that turns bug reports into code changes – This GitHub app uses GPT-4 to read bug reports and automatically generate pull requests with code to fix them.
• AI coding startup Poolside has raised $126 million in a new seed round – Poolside, which is building an AI-powered coding assistant, announced a significant new funding round from investors including Bain Capital Ventures.
• Galileo AI launches Luna, a tool for creating UI designs from text prompts – Luna is a new text-to-UI tool that allows developers and designers to generate and edit user interface designs for apps and websites using natural language.
• Google researchers publish paper on a world model for million-length videos – The paper “World Model on Million-Length Video and Language with RingAttention” introduces a method for handling extremely long sequences in AI models, enabling them to process over 1 million tokens.
• ElevenLabs introduces a new tool to dub any video into 29 languages – The new AI Dubbing tool can automatically translate the audio of a video while preserving the original speaker’s voice.
• Google DeepMind paper ‘Leave No Context Behind’ explores full context use in LLMs – Researchers investigated how LLMs use context in “needle-in-a-haystack” tests, revealing that model performance varies based on where key information is placed within the context window.
• The AI industry is on the verge of a ‘major vibe shift’ – A cultural analysis suggests the focus in AI is shifting from speculative, large-scale models to the practical and often challenging reality of implementing these tools.
• A group of top AI researchers warns about the risks of autonomous AI agents – Experts from institutions like Stanford and MIT published a paper urging for more research and caution regarding the development of advanced AI agents that can act independently.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma AI Dream Machine – An AI model that creates high-quality, realistic videos from text and image prompts.
• Krea AI – A suite of AI tools for real-time image and video generation and enhancement.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct answers to questions with cited sources.
• Claude – A family of large language models from Anthropic focused on helpful and harmless conversations.
• Suno – An AI tool that generates original songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from text prompts.
• ChatGPT – A conversational AI model developed by OpenAI capable of a wide range of text-based tasks.
• Runway – A suite of AI-powered creative tools for video editing, generation, and special effects.
• Viggle AI – A video generation AI that animates static characters with motion from a reference video.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool that generates high-quality, full-length tracks in various styles from text prompts.
• Midjourney – An AI image generator that creates complex and artistic images from natural language prompts.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at creating images with coherent and accurate text.
• Pika – An AI-powered platform for generating and editing videos from text and images.
• Leonardo AI – A comprehensive generative AI platform for creating and editing visual assets for creative projects.
• Synthesia – An AI video generation platform that creates professional videos with realistic AI avatars and voiceovers.
• GPT-SoVITS – An open-source, powerful few-shot voice cloning and text-to-speech tool.
• Notion AI – A suite of AI-powered features integrated into the Notion workspace to help summarize, write, and brainstorm.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for creating polished and engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text prompts.
• Tome – An AI-powered storytelling and presentation tool that helps you generate entire narratives from a single prompt.
• Descript – An all-in-one audio and video editor that makes editing as simple as working with a text document.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that creates personalized itineraries and provides real-time travel information.
• Cleanvoice AI – An AI tool that automatically removes filler words, mouth sounds, and dead air from podcasts and audio recordings.
• Superwhisper – A fast and accurate voice-to-text application for macOS that works locally on your device.
• Sudowrite – An AI writing partner designed to help fiction authors brainstorm, write, and edit their stories.
• Jasper – An AI content platform that helps marketing and sales teams create high-quality copy for various channels.
• ExplainThis – A tool that uses AI to explain code snippets in plain English, helping developers understand complex logic.
• Browse.ai – A no-code tool that allows you to extract and monitor data from any website by training a robot.
• AI Story Generate – A free tool that generates unique, family-friendly stories with text and images based on your prompts.
• Keymate – An AI agent with advanced web browsing capabilities to find and synthesize up-to-date information.
• OpenRead – An AI-powered platform designed to help researchers read, analyze, and understand academic papers more efficiently.
• Diffusion Craft – A user-friendly graphical interface for Stable Diffusion that simplifies the process of creating AI-generated images.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that searches across all your company’s apps to help you find exactly what you need.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A platform for creating and managing fine-tuned AI models to tailor them for specific tasks.
• Lamini – An enterprise LLM platform that allows companies to run and fine-tune open-source models on their own data.
• Poe by Quora – A platform that allows users to have conversations with a variety of AI chatbots.
• Klarna – A shopping service and payment provider that uses a powerful AI assistant to handle customer service inquiries.

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• Vultr – Vultr provides immediate, on-demand access to NVIDIA GPUs in the cloud without long-term commitments.
• Notion – Notion AI integrates into your workspace to help you write faster, brainstorm ideas, and summarize documents without switching between tools.
• CommandBar – CommandBar helps you build and launch AI-powered user-facing features like chatbots and copilots in your app with just a few lines of code.
• Firecrawl – Firecrawl is an API that crawls any website and converts it into clean, LLM-ready markdown, handling all complexities in the background.
• Klaviyo – Klaviyo is an intelligent marketing automation platform that helps you turn customer data into personalized experiences through email, SMS, and more.