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:

• Meta releases Llama 3.1 – Meta has released Llama 3.1, a new family of models including an 8B, 70B, and a powerful 405B version available through API access and various cloud platforms.
• Apple explains its Private Cloud Compute – Apple published a detailed technical blog post explaining the privacy and security architecture behind its Private Cloud Compute system, which handles more complex AI tasks for Apple Intelligence.
• Perplexity launches Pages – Perplexity AI has launched Pages, a new feature that allows users to convert their search threads into comprehensive, visually appealing, and shareable articles or reports.
• Pika 1.0 video generator is now public – AI video generator Pika has officially launched its 1.0 version to the public, featuring a new web interface and tools for video editing, extending, and adding sound effects.
• Amazon uses AI to spot damaged goods before shipping – Amazon is using a new AI system called Project PI to scan items for damage in its warehouses before they ship, aiming to reduce customer returns and waste.
• Former OpenAI safety researcher starts new nonprofit – Daniel Kokotajlo, who previously worked on AI safety at OpenAI, is launching a new nonprofit research organization focused on creating a “backup A.I. brain” to ensure future AI systems remain controllable.
• Suno releases V3.5 and mobile apps – AI music generator Suno has released version 3.5 with improved audio quality and prompt adherence, and has also launched its official app on both iOS and Android.
• Alibaba open-sources EMO for animating portraits – Alibaba has open-sourced EMO (Emote Portrait Alive), a new AI framework that can generate expressive talking and singing portraits from a single reference image and an audio clip.
• Wayfair launches AI room design tool Decorify – Online furniture retailer Wayfair has launched an AI-powered tool called Decorify that allows customers to upload a photo of their room and see it instantly redesigned in various styles.
• Google DeepMind launches new AI weather models – Google DeepMind has launched two new weather models, MetNet-3 and GraphCast, that can predict weather patterns with higher accuracy and up to 12 hours faster than traditional methods.
• Legal AI startup Harvey raises $60M – Harvey, a startup building generative AI tools for the legal industry, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Elad Gil.
• MIT researchers develop tech to make images un-editable by AI – MIT researchers have developed a new technique that makes subtle, imperceptible changes to an image’s pixels, acting as a “vaccine” to prevent generative AI models from editing or manipulating it.
• Microsoft releases powerful Florence-2 vision model – Microsoft has released Florence-2, a new vision model with a novel architecture that achieves state-of-the-art results on a wide range of computer vision and vision-language tasks like captioning and object detection.
• Cognition AI plans new fundraising amid high costs – Cognition AI, the creator of the AI software engineer agent Devin, is reportedly planning a new funding round as its operational costs for computing power reach millions of dollars per month.
• The Atlantic publishes its first story created with AI – The Atlantic has published “Babble,” its first piece of fiction created by an author using generative AI tools as part of the creative process to write the story.
• YouTube tests AI-powered “Jump ahead” feature – YouTube is testing a new AI-powered “Jump ahead” feature on its website that analyzes videos and allows viewers to skip directly to what the AI determines are the most interesting parts.
• TikTok develops “Symphony” AI avatars for branded content – TikTok is developing a suite of AI tools called Symphony, which includes realistic digital avatars that can be used by creators and brands in their content.
• Poe now allows multiple AI bots in one conversation – Quora’s AI platform Poe has launched a new feature that allows users to have multi-bot conversations by tagging and interacting with different AI models within a single chat thread.
• Ideogram adds “Magic Prompt” and negative prompts – AI image generator Ideogram has been updated with a “Magic Prompt” feature that automatically enhances user prompts for better results, as well as the ability to use negative prompts.
• Intel begins shipping Gaudi 3 AI chips – Intel has begun shipping its new Gaudi 3 AI accelerator chip to major server vendors like Dell and HPE, positioning it as a competitor to Nvidia’s dominant GPUs.
• Inflection-2.5 model now available on Hugging Face – Inflection has released its Inflection-2.5 model, the same one that powers its Pi chatbot, on the Hugging Face platform for developers to download and build with.
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now available on Amazon Bedrock – Anthropic’s latest and most cost-effective model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, is now generally available for developers to use through Amazon’s cloud AI platform, Bedrock.
• Google DeepMind introduces “SaT” for steering AI models – Google DeepMind has introduced Steering-Associated Tuning (SaT), a new method that allows for more granular control over a model’s behavior and attributes without the need for full retraining.
• Stanford releases report on AI’s economic impact – A new report from Stanford’s Human-Centered AI institute finds that while AI is boosting productivity for some workers, there is not yet evidence of widespread economic gains across the board.
• Cohesity and Veritas restructure $7 billion merger – Data security firms Cohesity and Veritas are restructuring their planned $7 billion merger, with Cohesity now set to acquire only Veritas’ data protection business.
• Google partners with Telangana, India for AI adoption – Google has signed an agreement with the government of the Indian state of Telangana to promote AI adoption in key sectors like agriculture, healthcare, and education.

Trending AI Tools:

• Llama 3 – Meta’s new family of powerful, open-source large language models designed to be the best in their class.
• Meta AI – A new AI assistant powered by Llama 3, integrated across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
• Adobe Premiere Pro – The professional video editing software that is integrating new generative AI tools for adding or removing objects and extending clips.
• Viggle – An AI video generator that can animate a character from a still image using a motion reference video.
• Reka Core – A new, highly-capable multimodal language model that can understand video, audio, images, and text.
• Stable Audio 2.0 – A tool from Stability AI that generates high-quality, full-length music tracks with coherent structure from text prompts.
• Suno – An AI music and song generator that can create original songs, complete with lyrics and vocals, from a simple text prompt.
• OpusClip – An AI-powered tool that automatically turns long videos into shorter, viral-ready clips for social media.
• Pika – An AI video generator that can create and edit videos in various styles from text prompts and images.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI video editing and generation suite for creators, offering tools like text-to-video and video-to-video.
• Sora – OpenAI’s highly anticipated text-to-video model capable of generating realistic and imaginative high-definition video scenes.
• Project Music GenAI Control – An experimental Adobe tool for generating and editing audio from text prompts or a reference melody.
• Screenshot to code – An open-source tool that converts any screenshot into functional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code.
• AI Story Generator – A tool to create unique, illustrated children’s stories in minutes using AI.
• Prompt Puppies – A fun image generator that creates pictures of adorable puppies based on your prompts.
• Synthesia – An AI video platform that lets you create professional videos with realistic AI avatars and voiceovers from text.
• Mindgrasp – An AI-powered learning assistant that can instantly create notes, summaries, and answer questions from any document or video.
• Leonardo AI – A creative suite for generating images and other assets that now includes a tool for creating AI-generated music.
• Vidyo.ai – An AI tool that automatically edits and repurposes long-form videos into short, shareable clips for social media.
• Pictory – A video creator that uses AI to make videos from scripts, articles, or other long-form content.
• Msty – A free AI tool that helps you write personalized messages for any occasion, from birthdays to professional networking.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for quickly creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from a simple prompt.
• Tome – A storytelling tool that uses AI to help you build and design compelling presentations, one-pagers, and microsites.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions by searching the web.
• Guidde – A tool that helps you create “how-to” guides and video documentation with AI-generated voiceovers and annotations.
• Defog – A developer tool that converts natural language questions about your data into SQL queries.
• Poe – A platform from Quora that lets you chat with a variety of AI models and bots in one place.
• SQLPad – A web-based SQL editor for data analysis and collaboration that runs in your own private cloud.
• Fireworks – A platform offering developers fast access to run various open-source AI models.
• Replicate – A platform that allows developers to run and fine-tune open-source machine learning models via an API.
• Hugging Face – A platform for the AI community to build, train, and deploy machine learning models, and a place to try them out.
• Udacity – An online learning platform offering courses and “nanodegrees” in technology fields, including AI.

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