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 announces ‘Apple Intelligence’ with major iOS, Siri, and OpenAI updates – At its WWDC event, Apple unveiled a new suite of on-device and cloud-based AI features for its operating systems, including a revamped Siri and a system-wide integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion and plans ‘Gigafactory of Compute’ – xAI secured a $6 billion Series B funding round to bring its first products to market and will build a supercomputer using 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to power future versions of its Grok chatbot.
• Microsoft is training a new 500-billion-parameter AI model called MAI-1 – Microsoft is developing a massive new in-house large language model, reportedly codenamed MAI-1, to compete with top models from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn search queries into comprehensive articles – The new feature allows users to generate, customize, and publish visually structured articles, reports, and guides from simple prompts, complete with citations.
• Stability AI’s CEO resigns amid reports of a potential sale – Following the departure of its CEO and key researchers, the struggling generative AI startup is reportedly exploring a sale, with Cohere and other AI companies mentioned as potential buyers.
• Meta is reportedly preparing to release Llama 3.1 in July – The next iteration of Meta’s open-source model is expected to be released next month, potentially featuring more advanced capabilities that could bring it closer to closed-source competitors.
• Leaked memo suggests Mistral is training a new model to rival GPT-4 – The French AI startup is reportedly developing a new flagship model, codenamed “Marius,” which it hopes will compete with top-tier models.
• Snowflake acquires TruEra to boost AI observability capabilities – Snowflake has acquired the AI observability platform TruEra to help customers evaluate and monitor LLM applications and machine learning models in production.
• The EU AI Act’s final text is published, setting a global precedent for AI regulation – The final version of the landmark legislation has been published in the EU’s Official Journal, establishing comprehensive rules for AI systems based on their potential risk.
• Google scales back its AI Overviews in Search after generating bizarre answers – Google has implemented updates to its AI-powered search results feature, restricting its use for satirical queries and adding stronger triggers for when it should not appear.
• CoreWeave offers to buy Core Scientific for $1 billion – AI cloud provider CoreWeave has made an unsolicited, all-cash offer to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific for $1.02 billion to expand its AI data center infrastructure.
• Adept secures over $50 million in new funding for its enterprise AI agent – The AI startup, which is building a multimodal model that can perform complex software tasks, has raised new capital from existing investors to expand its enterprise offerings.
• Midjourney introduces a new /describe command for consistent character creation – This update helps users maintain character consistency across multiple images by generating detailed text prompts from an uploaded character image.
• Lumiere is a new text-to-video diffusion model from Google for realistic video generation – Google’s new model uses a Space-Time U-Net architecture to generate the entire temporal duration of a video at once, resulting in more realistic and coherent motion.
• Diagrammaton is an AI tool that lets you create complex diagrams with natural language – This new tool generates editable diagrams, flowcharts, and mind maps from simple text prompts using the Mermaid syntax.
• FFmpeg.ai is a new AI-powered tool for simplified video and audio editing – It allows users to perform complex FFmpeg command-line operations, such as converting formats or adding watermarks, using plain English prompts.
• Lobe Chat is an open-source, high-performance chatbot platform – This free alternative to platforms like ChatGPT and Claude supports function calling, plugin integration, and multimodality, deployable with a single click.
• Metacognitive RAG improves AI reasoning by having the model reflect on its own retrieved information – This new approach enhances the performance of Retrieval-Augmented Generation by adding a metacognitive self-correction step, allowing the AI to refine its answers.
• AI-powered smart glasses can now provide real-time captions for conversations – Brilliant Labs’ Frame glasses use AI to transcribe and translate spoken words, displaying the text on the lenses to assist people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
• Rabbit R1’s head of design leaves the company after just five months – The departure of the prominent designer from Teenage Engineering adds to the ongoing turmoil surrounding the much-hyped but poorly-reviewed AI gadget.
• A Stanford study finds ChatGPT-4 significantly outperforms humans in business ideation – Research published in Nature reveals that GPT-4 not only generates more and higher-quality business ideas but also does so at a fraction of the cost of human students.
• A viral video showcases an AI-generated scene in the style of Blade Runner – Filmmaker Paul Trillo demonstrated the power of text-to-video AI by creating a stunning short film that perfectly captures the aesthetic of the iconic sci-fi movie.
• A new paper introduces a technique to make AI models ‘un-learnable’ – Researchers have developed a method to subtly alter training data, making it unusable for training AI models without affecting its usefulness for humans.
• Nvidia launches a new AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC – ‘Chat with RTX’ is a free tech demo that allows users to query their own local files, like documents and videos, using a customized large language model on GeForce RTX 30 and 40 Series GPUs.
• Nabla raises $24 million for its AI-powered medical transcription copilot – The company’s AI assistant helps doctors automate the generation of clinical notes and other administrative tasks during patient consultations.
• AI is being used to create automated, hyper-realistic content farms on YouTube – An investigation reveals a network of YouTube channels using AI-generated avatars and voiceovers to create videos on topics like military history, spreading misinformation at scale.
• A new tool called ‘Paper-to-Video’ transforms research papers into engaging videos – This open-source project automates the process of creating video summaries of academic papers, complete with voiceovers, images, and background music.
• Twelve Labs introduces a new video-to-text model for nuanced video understanding – The Pegasus-1 model provides highly detailed descriptions of actions, objects, and on-screen text in videos, enabling more advanced video search and analysis.
• Wayfair launched a new AI-powered tool called ‘Decorify’ for virtual room design – The feature allows users to upload a photo of their room and see it instantly redesigned in various styles, with shoppable furniture and decor.
• A new report maps the global landscape of national AI strategies – The OECD’s AI Policy Observatory provides an updated overview of how different countries are approaching AI regulation, investment, and development.

Trending AI Tools:

• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s latest flagship model that sets new industry standards for intelligence and speed, featuring a new “Artifacts” interface for real-time collaboration.
• Viggle – A video generation AI that animates a character from a still image using a separate video for motion control.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that creates personalized itineraries and travel plans based on your preferences.
• Galileo – An evaluation and observability platform for large language models that helps developers mitigate hallucinations and improve response quality.
• Luma Dream Machine – An AI model that generates high-quality and coherent videos from text descriptions and still images.
• Krea – An AI-powered design suite offering tools for real-time image generation, upscaling, and video creation.
• Suno – An AI music creation tool that generates original songs, including vocals and instruments, from simple text prompts.
• Leonardo AI – A creative platform for generating high-quality images and art using a variety of AI models, including the new photorealistic Phoenix model.
• AI Storyboard – A tool to create cinematic storyboards from your script in seconds.
• Spotify Voice Translation – A new pilot feature from Spotify that translates and recreates podcasters’ voices into different languages using AI.
• Superwhisper – A fast, local, and secure voice-to-text dictation app for Mac.
• Story.com – A new AI-powered presentation tool designed to create compelling visual narratives.
• Kino – An AI tool that helps documentary filmmakers and journalists organize and analyze interview transcripts.
• ElevenLabs – An AI tool for generating realistic voiceovers and audio, which recently launched a new screen reader.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from text, images, or other videos.
• Vapi – A platform for developers to build, test, and deploy real-time voice AI applications.
• Hai – An uncensored AI chatbot designed for unrestricted conversations.
• Code Llama 70B on Groq – The Code Llama 70B model is now available on the Groq LPU inference engine for extremely fast code generation.
• SEC Insights – An AI-powered search tool for quickly finding information within SEC filings.
• Defog – A tool that connects to your database to help answer data questions by generating SQL queries.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity and collaboration platform for teams.
• Parcha – An AI platform that automates repetitive back-office operations for businesses.
• ThinkDiffusion – A platform that provides an easy-to-use interface for running Stable Diffusion models in the cloud.

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• Clarifai – An all-in-one AI platform for building and deploying generative AI solutions like Retrieval Augmented Generation.
• OpusClip – An AI-powered tool that turns long videos into viral short clips with just one click.