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:

• Luma Labs launched Dream Machine – a new and publicly available text-to-video generation model that is being praised for its quality and accessibility, challenging competitors like OpenAI’s Sora.
• Apple unveiled ‘Apple Intelligence’ – its new suite of AI features integrated across iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, emphasizing on-device processing, privacy, and a partnership with OpenAI.
• Mistral AI raised $640 million – the Paris-based AI startup reached a valuation of nearly $6 billion in a new funding round.
• Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI – the high-profile case against the company and Sam Altman alleged it abandoned its founding non-profit mission in pursuit of profit.
• Figure AI’s humanoid robot learned to make coffee – by watching human video demonstrations, the robot learned the task autonomously in just 10 hours.
• Perplexity AI launched ‘Pages’ – a new feature that allows users to convert prompts or research into comprehensive, well-structured articles, reports, or guides.
• Google DeepMind introduced V2A (video-to-audio) – a new technology that generates synchronized sound effects, music, and dialogue for video clips based on visual input and text prompts.
• Microsoft’s ‘Recall’ AI feature will now be opt-in – following significant privacy and security backlash, the company has added more security protections for its Copilot+ PCs feature.
• ElevenLabs launched a text-to-sound-effects model – the new tool from the AI voice company allows creators to generate a wide range of audio clips from simple text descriptions.
• Character.AI introduced a new Group Chat feature – which allows multiple humans and AI characters to interact together in a single chat room.
• Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – its most advanced open text-to-image model to date, featuring a 2 billion parameter model known for high quality and photorealism.
• Adept AI has open-sourced Fuyu-Heavy – a 40-billion parameter multimodal model designed to be a powerful and fast alternative to closed models like GPT-4V for various vision-language tasks.
• Galileo, a new AI-powered search engine, has launched – a team of former Google and DeepMind researchers designed it to provide unbiased, ad-free, and private results.
• The U.S. SEC is investigating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman – as part of a probe into internal communications related to his 2023 ousting and subsequent reinstatement.
• Midjourney introduced a major update to its website – adding new social features, improved organization, and a highly anticipated ‘Style Reference’ feature for character consistency.
• Raspberry Pi’s stock surged over 30% – following its successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange.
• Meta is testing a ‘memory’ feature for its AI assistant – which would allow it to recall information from previous chats for more personalized future conversations.
• Google is testing real-time scam detection on Android – the feature uses on-device AI to listen for patterns during calls to detect and alert users to potential financial scams.
• Amazon rolled out AI-generated review summaries – the widely available feature summarizes product reviews into a short paragraph, highlighting key customer sentiments and product attributes.
• The founder of HeyGen was targeted by a sophisticated scam – an AI-generated clone of him attempted to solicit funds from the AI video platform’s venture capitalists.
• YouTube is testing server-side ad injection – a new method that embeds ads directly into video streams, making them much more difficult for ad-blockers to circumvent.
• A new report revealed a network of over 700 AI-generated news websites – according to news-rating group NewsGuard, these low-quality local sites are designed to generate revenue through programmatic ads.
• Simpler data can improve LLM reasoning – a new research paper suggests that training large language models on textbook-style data can unexpectedly improve performance on complex, advanced reasoning tasks.
• CodiumAI has raised $41 million – the startup, which is focused on helping developers test their code, raised the funds in a Series B funding round.
• Section launched a new platform for enterprise AI – the platform helps enterprises securely build and deploy custom AI and GPU-powered applications in any environment.
• Decagon has raised $35 million to build AI agents – the company will build agents that act as autonomous software engineers and customer support representatives for enterprises.
• Cleanlab raised $25 million – the platform for automatically cleaning messy data and labels in large datasets raised the funds in a Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and TQ Ventures.
• Prometric has acquired Finetune – the global test development and delivery provider acquired the AI-assisted assessment and learning technology company.
• Guidde – a tool that helps businesses create video documentation and how-to guides instantly using AI.
• Mockingbird – an AI tool that generates user personas and journey maps in seconds to help teams build better products.
• Microsoft appointed a former Emirati official to oversee its G42 partnership – Tareq Al Hawi will oversee the company’s strategic partnership with Abu Dhabi’s G42 AI firm.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – An AI model that generates high-quality, realistic five-second videos from text prompts and images, available for free.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI used for a wide range of text-based tasks, including brainstorming, coding, and content creation.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that converts prompts or research into comprehensive, well-structured articles, reports, or guides that are easy to share.
• Krea AI – An AI tool that offers real-time video generation, allowing users to create videos from text or images instantly.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace – An AI-native developer environment that assists programmers in planning, building, testing, and running code from a natural language prompt.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for creating highly artistic and detailed images from text prompts.
• Claude – Anthropic’s conversational AI assistant designed for tasks like summarization, writing, and analysis.
• Sora – OpenAI’s unreleased text-to-video model, known for its cinematic and highly realistic video generation capabilities.
• Runway – An AI-powered platform for creators that offers a suite of tools for video generation and editing.
• Pika – An AI video generation platform that creates and edits videos from text and images.
• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s latest multimodal model that offers GPT-4 level intelligence with faster performance and is available to free users.
• Viggle – A video generation AI that animates a static character image using a motion reference video.
• Google Veo – Google’s advanced text-to-video model designed to generate high-quality, minute-long videos in various cinematic styles.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length songs with vocals from text prompts.
• Suno – An AI platform that generates original songs, including lyrics and vocals, based on user prompts.
• Splash Pro – An AI music generation platform that allows users to create music and add custom AI-powered vocalists.
• HeyGen – A video platform that uses AI to create studio-quality videos with realistic avatars and voice cloning.
• Wonder Studio – An AI tool that automatically animates, lights, and composes CG characters into live-action scenes without motion capture.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that specializes in accurately rendering text within the images it creates.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice platform for creating realistic, human-like speech synthesis and voice cloning.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that enables users to create, train, and host their own fine-tuned AI models.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically repurposes a single long video into multiple viral short clips for social media.
• Submagic – An AI tool for creators that automatically adds trendy captions, B-roll, zooms, and sound effects to short-form videos.
• Gling – An AI tool for video editors that automatically identifies and cuts silences and bad takes from raw footage.
• SudoWrite – An AI writing partner specifically designed to help fiction authors with brainstorming, expanding, and refining their stories.
• Leonardo Ai – A comprehensive suite of AI tools for generating and editing high-quality visual assets for creative projects.
• Veed – An online video editing platform that incorporates AI features to simplify the creation process for users.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of generative AI models integrated into its creative suite for image generation and editing tasks.
• Kaiber – An AI video generator that creates visuals from a user’s own images or text descriptions.
• Artbreeder – An AI art tool that allows users to generate and modify images by mixing or “breeding” existing ones together.

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• Notion – Your connected workspace for wikis, docs, and projects that now includes the power of AI.
• HeyGen – A platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voices just by typing a script.
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• The AI Engineer Summit – The world’s largest gathering of AI engineers from leading companies like Google, Meta, and Netflix.
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• Guidde – A tool for creating stunning video documentation in seconds with the help of AI.