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’ and OpenAI Partnership – Apple unveiled its new AI system, “Apple Intelligence,” which will be integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, featuring on-device processing for privacy and a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its ecosystem.
• Elon Musk Drops Lawsuit Against OpenAI – Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, which had alleged that the company abandoned its original non-profit, open-source mission.
• Luma Labs Releases ‘Dream Machine’ Text-to-Video Model – Luma Labs has launched Dream Machine, a publicly available and highly capable text-to-video model that can generate high-quality, 5-second video clips from text prompts.
• Snowflake Acquires AI Startup Wand – Data cloud company Snowflake has acquired Wand, a startup that provides a platform for developers to more easily build and deploy AI applications.
• Perplexity Launches ‘Pages’ to Turn Searches into Articles – Perplexity AI introduced a new feature called Pages, which allows users to convert search queries or topics into visually organized, comprehensive articles and reports.
• Mistral AI Releases New Models and API Updates – Mistral AI has updated its API platform with new embedding models, expanded function calling capabilities, and reduced prices for its models.
• Core Scientific Signs $3.5B Deal with CoreWeave – Bitcoin miner Core Scientific has signed a 12-year, $3.5 billion deal to provide 200 megawatts of infrastructure for AI cloud provider CoreWeave.
• Inflection AI Opens API Access for its Inflection-2.5 Model – Inflection AI has made its powerful Inflection-2.5 large language model available to developers and businesses through a new API.
• Stability AI Releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, its most advanced text-to-image model yet, which is more compact and efficient while delivering high-quality, photorealistic images.
• AI Helps Paralyzed Man to Walk and Feel Again – A man paralyzed in an accident can now walk, stand, and feel again thanks to an AI-powered system that creates a digital bridge between his brain, spine, and legs.
• Tokyo-based Sakana AI Raising Funds at $1.1B Valuation – Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup founded by former Google researchers, is raising approximately $100 million in a new funding round that values the company at $1.1 billion.
• Google DeepMind Develops New Method to Train Robots Faster – Google DeepMind researchers have introduced AutoRT, a new system that enables robots to collect training data and learn new tasks more efficiently in real-world environments.
• AI Model Detects Depression from Voice with High Accuracy – Researchers have developed an AI model that can identify signs of depression and anxiety in a person’s speech with over 75% accuracy.
• Study Suggests AI Could Soon Pass the Bar Exam – A new study from Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania indicates that AI’s performance on law school exams is improving so rapidly it may soon be capable of passing the bar.
• Character.AI in Talks for New Funding Round – AI chatbot company Character.AI is reportedly in discussions with investors, including Google, for a new funding round that could value the company at over $5 billion.
• Browser Automation Tool ‘pptr.dev’ Lets You Code with Prompts – A new tool called pptr.dev acts as a “copilot” for the Puppeteer library, allowing developers to generate browser automation scripts using natural language prompts.
• DuckDuckGo Launches Private AI Chat Feature – Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has introduced AI Chat, a feature offering anonymous access to popular chatbots like GPT-3.5 Turbo, Claude 3 Haiku, and Llama 3.
• Intel Halts $25B Chip Factory Construction in Israel – Intel is pausing the construction of its planned $25 billion chip manufacturing facility in Israel without providing a clear reason for the halt.
• Fine-tuning for Claude 3 Haiku is Now Available on AWS Bedrock – Amazon Web Services announced that users of its Bedrock platform can now fine-tune Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model to improve its performance on specific tasks.
• Microsoft’s New ‘Copilot+ PCs’ Begin Shipping – The first wave of “Copilot+ PCs” from Microsoft and its partners, featuring dedicated AI hardware for enhanced performance, are now shipping to customers.
• Hugging Face Releases ‘audio-diffusers’ for Text-to-Audio – Hugging Face has launched audio-diffusers, a new open-source library that simplifies the process of creating text-to-audio and music generation pipelines.
• Tutorial on Building RAG with Llama 3 and Ollama – A new guide provides a step-by-step tutorial for developers on how to build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application using Meta’s Llama 3 model locally.
• Research Paper Explores Cognitive Distortions in LLMs – A new academic paper investigates whether large language models exhibit human-like cognitive biases and distortions in their reasoning processes.
• Google DeepMind Paper on Robust AI Image Watermarking – Researchers from Google DeepMind have published a paper detailing a new, robust method for watermarking AI-generated images that can survive common image manipulations.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new, publicly available text-to-video model that generates high-quality, 5-second video clips from text prompts.
• Suno – An AI music and song generation tool that can create songs with vocals from a simple text prompt.
• Pika – An AI tool that generates and edits videos from text and images.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planning tool that creates personalized itineraries and travel plans.
• Kling – A text-to-video model from Chinese company Kuaishou, capable of generating up to 2-minute long videos at 1080p.
• Runway – A leading AI video generation and editing platform for creators.
• Glass AI – An AI that reads and synthesizes medical research to help doctors answer complex clinical questions.
• Dust – A platform that allows developers to design and deploy powerful large language model applications and assistants.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that creates realistic talking avatars for business use cases.
• Krea AI – A tool that offers a suite of AI-powered creative features, including real-time video generation and image upscaling.
• Sora – OpenAI’s highly realistic text-to-video model known for its cinematic quality, which is not yet publicly available.
• GPT-SoVITS – An open-source, instant voice cloning model that can replicate a voice with just a few seconds of audio.
• Genspark – A new AI-powered search engine that organizes and summarizes information from multiple sources into a single page.
• Clarity – A personal search engine that helps you find anything across all your apps and digital accounts.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator particularly known for its strong ability to accurately render text within images.
• Captions – An AI-powered app that automatically adds animated subtitles, edits, and enhances videos for social media.
• Swimm – An AI-powered tool that helps engineering teams understand and document their codebase.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator accessed through Discord that is known for its artistic and stylized outputs.
• Leonardo AI – A generative AI platform offering a suite of tools for creating art, images, and 3D textures.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models, integrated into its suite of apps, designed to be commercially safe.
• Udooly – An AI-powered tool that allows parents and children to create personalized illustrated storybooks.
• Shortform – An AI-powered service that creates super-detailed summaries and analyses of non-fiction books.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows you to create and train a custom AI chatbot using your own data.
• Dovetail – A customer insights hub that uses AI to help teams analyze customer data from research and feedback.

Sponsors:

• AE Studio – A development and data science studio that designs and builds AI solutions for startups and Fortune 500s.
• beehiiv – An all-in-one publishing platform designed to help creators launch, grow, and monetize their newsletters.
• Runway – Offers Gen-3 Alpha, a new flagship video generation model for creating cinematic shots and expressive characters.
• AssemblyAI – Offers Universal-1, a state-of-the-art speech-to-text model that supports 14 languages.
• Brilliant – Helps you understand the math and science behind AI through interactive, bite-sized lessons.
• CommandBar – Helps you understand and respond to user requests in plain English within your application.