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 Llama 3 – Meta launched Llama 3, its next-generation open-source large language model, with 8B and 70B parameter versions that set new performance standards and are integrated across its products.
• Microsoft VASA-1 – Microsoft Research unveiled VASA-1, a new AI model that can create hyper-realistic, lifelike talking faces from just a single portrait image and an audio clip.
• Humane AI Pin Reviews – The much-hyped Humane AI Pin, a screenless wearable AI assistant, launched to overwhelmingly negative reviews from major tech critics, who cited it as slow, unreliable, and unfinished.
• Google updates Vertex AI with new models – Google announced major updates to its Vertex AI platform, including the new Imagen 3 image generation model and open models like CodeGemma for coding and PaliGemma for vision-language tasks.
• Mistral releases Mixtral 8x22B – Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x22B, a new high-performance sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) model with a massive 176B parameters, available as an open-weight model via torrent.
• Reka launches Reka Core – AI startup Reka launched Reka Core, its new flagship multimodal model that demonstrates competitive performance against leading models like GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus on various benchmarks.
• Stability AI launches Stable Audio 2.0 – Stability AI released Stable Audio 2.0, a new model that can generate full, coherent songs up to three minutes long with structured compositions from a single text prompt.
• Adobe to integrate generative AI video tools into Premiere Pro – Adobe announced it will integrate generative AI video tools from models like OpenAI’s Sora, Pika, and Runway directly into its Premiere Pro editing software later this year.
• The Browser Company releases Arc Search – The creators of the Arc browser launched Arc Search, a new iOS app that uses AI to read multiple webpages and generate a single, summarized “Browse for Me” page in response to a query.
• Perplexity launches Pages – Perplexity AI launched “Pages,” a new feature that allows users to create and customize comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports on any topic from simple prompts.
• UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute releases Falcon 2 – The UAE released Falcon 2, a new series of open-source models including an 11B vision model, marking the country’s first multimodal AI effort.
• Scrutiny over Devin AI’s capabilities – A viral YouTube video critically examined the claims made about the AI software engineer “Devin,” suggesting its capabilities were overstated in promotional demos.
• Snowflake releases Arctic LLM – Snowflake launched Arctic, a new dense-MoE hybrid transformer model designed to be one of the most open, enterprise-grade LLMs available.
• Amazon Q becomes generally available – Amazon officially launched Amazon Q, its AI-powered assistant for businesses, designed to integrate with various enterprise systems to answer questions and automate tasks.
• GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is now generally available in the API – OpenAI announced that its latest GPT-4 Turbo model with vision capabilities is now publicly available, allowing developers to integrate multimodal features into their applications.
• Figure demonstrates its robot making coffee – Figure released a new video showcasing its humanoid robot learning to make coffee using end-to-end AI, just 10 hours after watching humans perform the task.
• Poe now lets users create AI-powered music videos – The AI chatbot platform Poe introduced a new feature allowing users to generate music videos by describing a song and video concept in a text prompt.
• Google Photos to get ‘Ask Photos’ feature – Google is rolling out “Ask Photos,” a new experimental feature that uses Gemini to let you search your photo library and get answers using natural language questions.
• OpenAI opens first Asian office in Tokyo, Japan – OpenAI announced the opening of a new office in Tokyo and released a GPT-4 model specifically optimized for the Japanese language as part of its global expansion.
• Klarna’s AI assistant handles two-thirds of customer service chats – Klarna revealed its OpenAI-powered assistant now manages 2.3 million conversations, equivalent to the work of 700 full-time agents, with high customer satisfaction.
• Character.AI introduces voice and group chat – The popular chatbot platform Character.AI launched Character Voice, allowing users to have real-time voice conversations with its AI personas, along with a new Group Chat feature.
• Midjourney introduces –style raw parameter – Midjourney added a –style raw parameter that gives users more control over their image generations by reducing the default aesthetic and allowing for more literal prompt interpretation.
• Notion introduces AI-powered autofill for databases – Notion launched an AI autofill feature that can automatically populate database entries and tables based on context and simple text prompts, streamlining data entry tasks.
• Spotify tests AI-powered playlist creation from prompts – Spotify is beta-testing a new feature that allows Premium subscribers in the UK and Australia to create playlists by typing descriptive prompts.
• Legal AI startup Harvey nears $2 billion valuation – Harvey, an AI startup that builds tools for law firms, is raising new funding that would value the company at approximately $2 billion.
• Open-source model ‘im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot’ tops chatbot arena – An anonymous, fine-tuned open-source model briefly outperformed leading proprietary models like GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard.
• Apple’s ReALM research points to a smarter Siri – New research from Apple details an AI system called ReALM that can understand on-screen context, potentially enabling a much more capable and conversational Siri.
• Anduril acquires Blue Force Technologies to build AI fighter jets – Defense tech company Anduril purchased Blue Force Technologies to accelerate its development of autonomous fighter jets for the U.S. Air Force.
• ElevenLabs launches AI-dubbed movie streaming platform – AI voice company ElevenLabs introduced a new streaming platform showcasing movies and content that have been automatically dubbed into different languages using its technology.
• Pika Labs adds sound effects to its AI video generator – AI video generation platform Pika Labs announced a new feature that allows users to add sound effects to their videos with a simple prompt.
• YouTube begins enforcing AI content disclosure labels – YouTube started rolling out labels that require creators to disclose when their videos contain realistic content that has been altered or synthetically generated by AI.
• Wayfair’s ‘Decorify’ lets you redesign rooms with AI – The online furniture retailer Wayfair launched a new generative AI tool called Decorify that allows users to upload a photo of their room and see it virtually redesigned in different styles.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new AI model that generates high-quality, realistic videos from text prompts and images.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that transforms search queries into comprehensive, visually appealing articles with citations.
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s fastest and most intelligent AI model to date, excelling at complex tasks and code generation.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator renowned for its ability to accurately render text within images.
• Krea AI – A creative suite that offers real-time AI image and video generation and enhancement tools.
• Kling – A high-fidelity text-to-video model from China capable of generating 1080p footage up to two minutes long.
• Runway – An advanced suite of AI-powered tools for professional video editing, generation, and creative projects.
• Pika – An idea-to-video platform that allows you to generate and edit videos in diverse styles from text and images.
• Midjourney – A prominent AI image generator, famous for producing artistic and highly stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Suno – An AI music creation tool that generates songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from simple text prompts.
• Defog AI – An AI tool that helps you query and visualize your data by asking questions in plain English.
• Viggle AI – A free AI tool that can animate any static photo, making the subject dance or move realistically based on a reference video.
• NVIDIA ACE – A suite of technologies that brings digital characters to life using generative AI for more realistic in-game interactions.
• Udio – An AI music generation platform that allows users to create high-quality songs in various genres from text descriptions.
• Splash Pro – An AI music production tool that generates unique, royalty-free songs with custom vocals from a simple text prompt.
• Vercel v0 – A generative user interface system that creates React and HTML code for web components based on text descriptions.
• Argil – An AI automation platform that lets you build autonomous agents to perform complex, multi-step workflows across different applications.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that enables the creation of studio-quality videos with realistic avatars and voice translations.
• ThinkDiffusion – A cloud-based platform that provides easy access to powerful open-source AI models like Stable Diffusion without complex setup.
• Guidde – An AI-powered tool that helps teams create comprehensive video documentation and how-to guides in seconds.
• Opus Clip – A generative AI video tool that automatically repurposes long videos into polished, viral short clips for social media.
• Magic Studio – A suite of AI-powered tools designed to help you easily create stunning product photos for e-commerce.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that combines task lists, mind maps, and team collaboration into a unified workspace.
• Cleanvoice AI – An AI tool that automatically edits podcast audio by removing filler words, mouth sounds, and dead air.
• Recast – An AI-powered app that summarizes long articles from the web into concise, easy-to-listen-to audio conversations.
• Gamma – An AI-powered alternative to traditional slide decks that helps you create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that instantly creates notes, summaries, and answers questions from any document, video, or audio file.
• Descript – An all-in-one audio and video editor that makes editing as simple as editing a word document.
• Vizard – An AI tool that helps content creators edit and repurpose long-form videos into engaging clips for social media.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that provides access to a wide range of AI chatbots and models in a single application.
• ElevenLabs – A leading AI voice technology company that provides realistic, human-like text-to-speech and voice cloning services.
• Kaiber – An AI video generator that transforms your images and text prompts into dynamic and visually stunning videos.
• Tome – An AI-powered tool for creating compelling presentations and narratives with a focus on visual storytelling.
• Synthesia – A popular AI video creation platform for businesses to produce professional-looking videos with AI avatars.
• Gencraft – An all-in-one AI content creation tool for generating custom images, videos, and art from text prompts.
• Code Llama 70B by Perplexity – A powerful, open-source large language model specialized for generating and discussing code.
• AI Story Generator – A free tool that uses AI to help you create unique and engaging stories, plots, and characters.

Sponsors:

• AssemblyAI – AssemblyAI provides APIs for building AI applications with voice data, including speech-to-text and audio intelligence.
• Clay – Clay is a platform that automates sales and recruiting outreach using data from hundreds of sources.
• Incogni – Incogni is a data privacy tool that automatically removes your personal information from hundreds of data broker websites.
• Masterworks – Masterworks is an investment platform that allows you to buy shares in multimillion-dollar fine art.
• AE Studio – AE Studio is a development, data science, and design agency that helps companies build and launch AI products.
• Squad – Squad is a platform that allows you to build a custom AI agent for your business in minutes without coding.
• CommandBar – CommandBar is an embeddable AI user assistant that helps application users find features, get answers, and take actions.
• Mind Altars – Mind Altars is a free AI companion that offers personalized mental health coaching to help you navigate life’s challenges.