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 unveils “Apple Intelligence” – Its new suite of on-device AI features for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, which includes a partnership to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices – Over security concerns related to Apple’s new operating system-level integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
• Mistral AI raises $640 million – The Paris-based startup’s new funding round brings its valuation to nearly $6 billion.
• Meta releases Llama 3.1 – The new version includes a 405B parameter model that is now available for use through platforms like Replicate and Hugging Face.
• OpenAI appoints former NSA director to its Board – General Paul M. Nakasone will join the company’s Safety and Security Committee.
• Perplexity AI launches Pages – A new feature that allows users to convert search queries into comprehensive, customizable, and shareable articles with citations.
• Stability AI appoints new CEO – Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of visual effects company Weta Digital, will lead the company’s next phase of growth.
• SEC cracks down on “AI washing” – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two investment advisers with making false and misleading statements about their use of AI.
• DuckDuckGo launches AI Chat – A new feature that provides users with anonymous access to popular chatbots like GPT-3.5 Turbo, Claude 3 Haiku, and Llama 3 70B.
• AMD announces new AI chips – The company unveiled its new Instinct MI325X accelerator and outlined an aggressive yearly roadmap to better compete with Nvidia.
• Snowflake announces new generative AI tools – A suite of tools, including Cortex AI and Polaris Catalog, will help enterprises build AI applications using their own data.
• Google Research unveils Med-Gemini – A new family of highly capable multimodal models specifically fine-tuned for advanced reasoning in the medical field.
• Mistral releases Codestral – Its first generative AI model focused on code generation, which supports over 80 programming languages.
• Suno releases v3.5 – The new version of its AI music generation model features higher audio quality and an extended two-minute track length.
• Symbolica AI raises $33 million – The company aims to build a new AI paradigm that combines large language models with symbolic reasoning.
• Microsoft makes Inflection-2.5 available on Azure – The large language model from Inflection AI is now available to customers on Microsoft’s cloud platform.
• Causaly raises $60 million – The company is expanding its AI platform that helps researchers and pharmaceutical companies speed up drug discovery.
• Ema launches universal AI employee – The startup, which aims to automate complex enterprise tasks, launched out of stealth with $25 million in funding.
• Study reveals “Trojan horse” AI models – A new study shows how a small, fine-tuned model can manipulate larger models into generating harmful content.
• Snowflake partners with Reka – The partnership will integrate Reka’s multimodal models into the Snowflake Data Cloud, enabling customers to analyze images and videos.
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises over $300 million – An SEC filing reveals the new funding from undisclosed investors for his “truth-seeking” AI company.
• Layer AI raises $3.7 million – The platform helps game developers create assets with generative AI.

Trending AI Tools:

• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s new flagship model that accepts and generates combinations of text, audio, and image to create a more seamless human-computer interface.
• Project Astra – Google’s vision for a universal AI agent that can understand the world via video and audio in real-time to be truly helpful in daily life.
• Veo – Google’s most advanced text-to-video model, designed to generate high-quality, 1080p videos over a minute long.
• Imagen 3 – Google’s latest text-to-image model that generates photorealistic images with incredible detail and an improved ability to render text.
• Music AI Sandbox – A suite of AI-powered music creation tools from Google for generating, remixing, and transforming sounds using simple prompts.
• Gems – Google’s version of custom chatbots, allowing users to create tailored versions of Gemini for specific tasks.
• Poe by Quora – An app that provides access to a wide variety of different AI models and custom bots from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic in one place.
• Udio – A text-to-music generation tool capable of creating full, high-quality songs with vocals across a wide range of genres from a single prompt.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from text prompts or still images.
• VLOGGER – A Google research model that can create a controllable, lifelike video avatar of a person from a single photograph.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates workplace tasks like managing your calendar, drafting emails, and summarizing meetings.
• Dream Machine by Luma Labs – A text-to-video model that generates high-quality, realistic 5-second video clips from text prompts.
• Splash – An AI music creation platform featuring text-to-music generation and a tool for creating custom AI singers.
• FinalFrame – A tool for generating consistent AI video by controlling the output frame-by-frame.
• Polyfill – A Google research project that uses AI to realistically fill in missing areas in videos, imagining what should be there.
• Sora – OpenAI’s text-to-video model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that transforms search queries or documents into comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports with citations.
• Viggle – An AI tool that animates a static character image using motion from a reference video.
• Krea AI – A suite of creative AI tools featuring real-time image generation and an advanced photo upscaling and enhancement function.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing high-quality, artistic, and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates original songs, complete with lyrics and vocals, from simple text prompts.
• Leonardo AI – A creative platform for generating high-quality images, textures, and other visual assets for games, art, and design.
• ElevenLabs – A voice AI company providing realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning technologies.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at reliably rendering text and typography within the images it creates.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically repurposes a single long video into multiple short, viral-ready clips for social media.
• Vapi – A developer platform for building, testing, and deploying realistic, conversational voice AI agents.
• Twelve Labs – A platform offering APIs that allow developers to build applications with sophisticated, multimodal video understanding.
• Replicate – A platform that allows developers to easily run and fine-tune open-source AI models through a cloud API.
• Phind – An AI search engine and pair programmer designed to answer technical questions for developers with code examples and summaries.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that quickly creates engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text prompts.
• Relevance AI – A platform for building and deploying custom AI agents and multi-agent teams to automate complex workflows.
• Dust – A platform that lets teams build and deploy powerful, customized AI assistants for their specific workflows.
• Veed – An online video editor that uses AI to simplify tasks like removing backgrounds, adding subtitles, and cleaning up audio.
• SuperWhisper – A fast and secure AI dictation app for Mac that processes speech locally on your device.
• Jellypod – An AI tool that converts online articles and newsletters into personal, bite-sized podcasts for listening on the go.
• Chai – An entertainment platform where you can build and chat with thousands of different AI characters.
• Surfer – An AI-powered SEO tool that helps you write and optimize content to rank higher in search engine results.
• Typeform – An online form and survey builder that incorporates AI to help create questions and analyze results.

Sponsors:

• AI for Good Grand Challenge – A contest by Common Sense Machines offering cash prizes and cloud credits for building beneficial AI applications.
• AGI House – A community and coworking space in SF for builders, researchers, and investors in AI.
• Ollama – A tool that allows you to run powerful open-source models like Llama 3 and Mistral locally on your machine.
• Vellum – A platform for building production-ready AI applications, helping teams move from prototype to production faster.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that works with founders and executives on AI solutions.
• AtomicTech – A free weekly newsletter that covers the latest in tech, engineering, and finance.
• Vultr – A cloud provider offering powerful NVIDIA GPUs for AI and ML workloads.
• Weights & Biases – An MLOps platform for building better models faster, used by top ML practitioners.
• Run:ai – A platform for AI infrastructure orchestration and management that helps accelerate AI projects.