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:

• Ilya Sutskever is starting a new AI company – OpenAI co-founder and former Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever has announced his new venture, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), which will focus exclusively on developing safe and powerful AI systems.
• Nvidia becomes the world’s most valuable company – Propelled by the AI boom, chipmaker NVIDIA has surpassed Microsoft to become the most valuable public company globally, with a market capitalization of over $3.335 trillion.
• Runway announces Gen-3 Alpha, its new flagship video model – Runway has introduced Gen-3 Alpha, its latest AI model for video generation, promising significant improvements in the realism, consistency, and motion of its output.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn prompts into articles – Perplexity AI has released a new feature called Pages, which allows users to generate comprehensive, well-structured, and visually appealing articles on any topic from a single prompt.
• Meta AI teases a major announcement for next month – Meta AI posted a cryptic video hinting at a significant release in July, widely speculated to be Llama 3.1, which is expected to have a 400B+ parameter model and multimodal capabilities.
• Google DeepMind introduces V2A for generating audio for video – Google DeepMind has unveiled its Video-to-Audio (V2A) technology, which synchronizes audio tracks, including sound effects and dialogue, with video content based on visual information and text prompts.
• Apple details Private Cloud Compute for Apple Intelligence – Apple published a comprehensive overview of its Private Cloud Compute infrastructure, explaining the technical and privacy safeguards it uses to securely handle user data for its new AI features.
• Anthropic research shows how long contexts can bypass AI safety – A new study from Anthropic reveals a vulnerability called “many-shot jailbreaking,” where packing a model’s context window with many examples of harmful Q&A can compromise its safety filters.
• Character.AI launches voice calls with AI characters – The AI companion platform Character.ai has introduced “Character Calls,” a new feature that lets users have real-time voice conversations with its millions of AI characters.
• Microsoft Previews an AI Assistant for Cybersecurity – Microsoft has launched a public preview of its Copilot for Security, an AI-powered assistant designed to help cybersecurity professionals quickly investigate and respond to threats.
• UK’s AI Safety Institute opens first international office in San Francisco – The UK’s AI Safety Institute has expanded its operations by opening an office in San Francisco to foster collaboration with the US government and leading AI companies.
• AI helps researchers discover a new class of antibiotics – Researchers used a deep learning model to discover a new class of compounds that can kill a drug-resistant superbug, a significant breakthrough in the fight against antibiotic resistance.
• Stanford survey reveals growing concern among AI experts about extinction risk – A survey from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI shows that AI experts’ concern about AI-related human extinction has risen, with the median respondent estimating a 10% chance.
• Microsoft Delays Controversial Recall AI Feature – Following widespread privacy and security backlash, Microsoft announced it will delay the broad release of its screen-capturing “Recall” feature and will first test it with its Windows Insider community.
• LinkedIn is testing an AI job coach – LinkedIn is developing a new AI-powered chatbot that provides users with personalized career advice, resume feedback, and interview preparation.
• Pika Labs raises $80M to advance its AI video generator – AI video generation startup Pika Labs has secured $80 million in Series B funding to scale its team and enhance the capabilities of its text-to-video platform.
• TikTok is developing AI-powered virtual influencers for ads – Reports indicate that TikTok is working on an AI tool to create virtual avatars, or digital influencers, that can be used by advertisers in their marketing campaigns.
• Amazon invests in French AI startup ‘H’ in $220M round – French AI startup ‘H’ (formerly Holistic AI) has raised $220 million in a seed round with backing from investors including Amazon to build powerful multimodal “action” models.
• Cohere releases open-source red teaming tool – Cohere has launched an open-source tool to help developers and researchers discover and mitigate vulnerabilities in large language models.
• Mistral Large and Mistral Small are now available on Amazon Bedrock – AWS has made Mistral AI’s latest models, Mistral Large and Mistral Small, generally available on its Amazon Bedrock platform for building generative AI applications.
• Etcembly raises $1.7M for AI-driven immunotherapy design – UK-based biotech startup Etcembly has secured $1.7 million to expand its generative AI platform for designing T-cell receptor immunotherapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
• Google Chrome’s AI writer gets a ‘formal tone’ option – Google is updating its “Help me write” AI feature in Chrome with the ability to rewrite selected text into a more formal tone.
• AI system achieves superhuman ability in six-player poker – A new AI agent named Pluribus has become the first to beat elite human professionals in six-player no-limit Texas hold’em, a major milestone in complex multi-agent AI.
• SEC Charges Founder of AI Startup Joonko with Fraud – The SEC has charged Ilit Raz, the founder and former CEO of AI recruiting startup Joonko, with defrauding investors by making false claims about the company’s technology, customers, and revenue.
• AI-powered camera helps baseball umpires make perfect calls – An independent baseball league is successfully using a technology called “TrackMan” which uses AI-powered cameras to help umpires make highly accurate ball and strike calls.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – An AI model that generates high-quality, realistic video clips from text descriptions and images.
• Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – A new powerful, open-source text-to-image model from Stability AI, notable for its quality and resource efficiency.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions using information from the web.
• Krea AI – A platform offering real-time AI tools for generating and enhancing images and videos.
• ElevenLabs – A voice AI research and deployment company providing tools for text-to-speech and voice cloning.
• Midjourney – An AI image generator that creates complex and artistic images from natural language prompts.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator specializing in reliably rendering text within images.
• Suno – An AI tool that generates original songs, including lyrics, instruments, and vocals, based on user prompts.
• Mind-Video – A research model that can reconstruct high-quality video clips directly from fMRI brain activity signals.
• StoryDiffusion – An open-source AI tool that generates a series of consistent character images for storytelling from a single prompt.
• Chie – A new open-source large language model from Japan specifically optimized for role-playing and conversational AI.
• Paper-to-Poem – A creative AI tool that transforms the abstract of a research paper into a stylized poem.
• Viggle – A controllable video generation AI that allows users to animate characters based on motion clips.
• Scribble Diffusion – A creative tool that turns your simple sketches into detailed, AI-generated images.
• Womp – A user-friendly 3D creation platform that uses AI to make 3D modeling accessible to everyone.
• Sunburst – Google’s new long-context model that demonstrates superior reasoning capabilities over extremely long sequences of text.
• Phind – An AI search engine and pair programmer designed specifically for developers.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool for creating full tracks with vocals and instruments from text prompts.
• HeyGen – A generative AI video platform that allows users to create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voice cloning.
• Pika – An AI video platform that generates and edits videos from text and images.
• Runway – A comprehensive creative suite with AI-powered tools for video generation, editing, and special effects.
• Griptape – An open-source Python framework for building complex, multi-agent AI workflows.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that enables users to easily fine-tune open-source AI models for specific tasks.
• Sec-PaLM 2 – A specialized version of Google’s PaLM 2 model fine-tuned for cybersecurity tasks like threat analysis and code vulnerability detection.
• Recap – An AI-powered tool that automatically generates summaries of your online meetings.
• Lindy – An AI assistant designed to automate your workflow by handling tasks like email drafting, calendar management, and contract writing.
• Godmode – A web platform that provides access to various leading AI models, including GPT-4o and Llama 3, in a single interface.
• Explainpaper – An AI tool that helps you understand complex research papers by allowing you to highlight and explain confusing text.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that lets you ask questions and get instant answers from a variety of AI bots.
• Guidde – An AI-powered platform for businesses to create instant, engaging video documentation and how-to guides.
• Gamma – A presentation tool that uses AI to generate beautiful and interactive slides, documents, or webpages from a simple prompt.
• Magic Studio – A suite of online tools that use AI to help you automatically edit and create images.
• Durable – An AI-powered website builder that can create a fully designed website with copy and images in under a minute.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that searches across all your company’s apps to help you find exactly what you need.

Sponsors:

• Masterworks – Masterworks allows you to invest in fractional shares of blue-chip art from renowned artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Lemon.io – Lemon.io is a marketplace for hiring pre-vetted software developers, offering a discount for new clients.
• Forward – Forward is a new podcast featuring interviews with AI founders and VCs who are shaping the future.
• Brilliant.org – Brilliant.org offers an interactive AI course to help users understand core concepts and stay current with the technology.
• Marrily – Marrily is an AI-powered wedding planner designed to save users time and reduce stress during the planning process.
• CommandBar – CommandBar provides an easy way to launch a secure, production-ready AI chatbot on your website.
• O’REILLY – O’REILLY offers a 10-day free trial to its learning platform where you can develop your AI and ML skills.