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:

• Apple launches ‘Apple Intelligence’ and integrates ChatGPT into Siri – Apple unveiled its new AI system focusing on privacy and deep integration into its operating systems, and announced a partnership to bring ChatGPT’s capabilities to Siri and other tools.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Following Apple’s WWDC announcements, Elon Musk stated he would ban Apple devices from his companies, citing major security concerns with integrating OpenAI at the operating system level.
• Luma Labs releases Dream Machine, a powerful text-to-video AI model – AI research company Luma Labs has launched Dream Machine, a new publicly available tool that can generate high-quality, realistic video clips from simple text prompts.
• Mistral AI raises $640 million at a $6 billion valuation – The Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI confirmed a new funding round led by General Catalyst, solidifying its position as a major European competitor to OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn prompts into shareable articles – The AI-native search engine Perplexity introduced a new feature called Pages, which allows users to generate, customize, and publish visually appealing articles from a single prompt.
• SEC investigates Microsoft’s $650M deal with Inflection AI – U.S. financial regulators are probing Microsoft’s deal to hire most of Inflection AI’s staff and license its software, examining whether it was designed to avoid an official antitrust merger review.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 38% in London IPO – The maker of the popular, low-cost single-board computers, Raspberry Pi, had a successful public debut on the London Stock Exchange with its shares rising sharply.
• Figure AI hires former Google CFO and gets funding from Intel – Humanoid robotics company Figure AI has appointed former Google and Morgan Stanley CFO Patrick Pichette to its team and secured new investment from Intel’s venture arm to explore using its robots in data centers.
• AI-capable PCs to represent 60% of the market by 2028 – A new report from Canalys forecasts that PCs with dedicated AI acceleration will grow rapidly from 19% of the market in 2024 to 60% by 2028.
• Stability AI’s new CEO details plan for profitability – Prem Akkaraju, the new CEO of Stability AI, outlined his strategy to make the company profitable by targeting enterprise, government, and creative clients while maintaining a commitment to open-source models.
• Meta is disabling social features on the original Quest VR headset – Meta announced it is ending support for social features like creating or joining parties on the Quest 1 headset, effectively isolating users of the five-year-old device.
• AI cloud provider CoreWeave offers to buy Bitcoin miner Core Scientific – In a bid to expand its data center capacity for AI, CoreWeave has made a $1.6 billion all-cash offer to acquire the publicly traded Bitcoin mining firm Core Scientific.
• Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics team up for an open-source humanoid robot – The partnership aims to build an affordable, open, and community-driven AI-powered humanoid robot named Reachy2, integrating Hugging Face’s platform for sharing models and datasets.
• New technique helps AI understand music without standard notation – Google DeepMind and UC San Diego researchers developed MUSIKA, a method that allows LLMs to process raw audio, enabling them to understand and generate music more intuitively.
• AI-powered blood test detects lung cancer with 94% accuracy – A new blood test enhanced by an AI model has shown the ability to detect early-stage lung cancer with high accuracy, potentially revolutionizing cancer screening.
• Quora’s Poe now lets you chat with multiple AI bots at once – AI chatbot platform Poe launched multi-bot chats, a new feature allowing users to direct questions to several different AI models like GPT-4o and Claude 3 Opus in the same conversation thread.
• Researchers use user feedback to fine-tune language models – A new research paper details a method called “Contextual-Bandit-driven Data-To-text Generation” (CRAFT) which improves LLM performance by learning from implicit user interactions like clicks and copy-pastes.
• Zapier launches new tools to build and share custom AI bots – The automation platform introduced new features allowing users to create custom AI agents that can be shared with teams and connect to over 7,000 different applications.
• Baseten open-sources Truss for easier AI model deployment – Baseten has open-sourced Truss, a Python package that simplifies the process of packaging, serving, and deploying AI/ML models for production environments.

Trending AI Tools:

• Devin – The world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer that can solve complex engineering tasks.
• Figure 01 – A humanoid robot that leverages OpenAI models to have full conversations and perform tasks.
• Krea AI – A suite of AI-powered design tools that can generate images and videos in real-time.
• Suno – An AI tool that creates realistic songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• Godmode – A web-based autonomous AI agent that can complete tasks for you across the internet.
• Lindy – A platform for creating and deploying AI agents to handle your personal and professional tasks.
• Mojo – A new programming language from Modular AI, designed specifically for AI developers.
• Sora – OpenAI’s new text-to-video model capable of generating high-fidelity, minute-long videos.
• Tether – An AI-powered tool that conducts user interviews that feel convincingly real.
• Zapier Central – An AI workspace that lets you build, teach, and work alongside AI bots to automate your tasks.
• Chat with RTX – A tech demo from NVIDIA that lets you run a local AI chatbot personalized with your own files on your PC.
• Recurrent – An on-device AI assistant for macOS that can see your screen and listen to your audio to help with tasks.
• Jellypod – A service that turns your unread articles and newsletters into a personalized daily podcast.
• Magic Hour – A tool that allows you to create beautiful data visualizations and dashboards using natural language.
• Unstudio – An AI-powered tool that generates stunning, professional-quality product photography.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that accurately answers questions and creates notes from any document, presentation, or video.
• Scribble – An app that turns your messy thoughts, voice notes, and scribbles into structured, organized notes with AI.
• Claude 3 – A new family of state-of-the-art AI models from Anthropic, including the highly capable Opus model.
• Grok – A conversational AI from xAI, designed to have a bit of wit and access real-time information from the X platform.
• Formulas HQ – A tool that generates formulas, code, and regex for spreadsheets like Excel and Google Sheets.
• Agent-Pro – An autonomous agent framework that can understand complex user goals and use multiple expert agents to achieve them.
• Agenta – An open-source platform that helps developers build, evaluate, and deploy robust LLM applications.
• Emu Video – A text-to-video model from Meta that can generate and edit videos based on text instructions.
• Lumiere – Google’s text-to-video diffusion model designed for creating realistic and stylistically consistent videos.
• Chat with multiple GPTs – A custom GPT that allows you to chat with and compare responses from multiple different GPT models side-by-side.
• DeepSeek-VL – A new open-source vision-language model adept at understanding and reasoning about images and text.
• Ebook-GPT – A simple open-source agent designed for generating complete ebooks from a single prompt.
• Rebellions AI (ATOM) – A next-generation AI chip specifically designed for running large language models more efficiently.

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