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:

• Luma Labs introduces Dream Machine – Luma Labs has released Dream Machine, a new text-to-video generation model that is publicly available and praised for its quality and coherence.
• Pika raises $80M for its AI video generator – AI video generation startup Pika Labs secured an $80 million Series B funding round to expand its platform, which now includes a new sound effects feature.
• ElevenLabs launches a new AI model for generating sound effects – Known for its voice generation AI, ElevenLabs has released a new text-to-sound effects model capable of creating a wide range of audio from simple text prompts.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn research into articles – Perplexity has introduced a new feature called Pages that allows users to curate and transform their research threads into shareable, visually appealing articles or reports.
• Elon Musk withdraws lawsuit against OpenAI – Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, which had claimed the company abandoned its non-profit mission in pursuit of profits.
• Mistral AI raises $640M at a €6B valuation – French AI startup Mistral AI has officially confirmed a new €600 million ($640 million) funding round, nearly tripling its valuation in less than a year.
• OpenAI appoints new CFO and Chief Product Officer – OpenAI has hired Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor, as its first Chief Financial Officer and Kevin Weil, former President of Planet, as its Chief Product Officer.
• Apple Intelligence focuses on privacy with on-device and private cloud processing – Apple’s newly announced AI system, Apple Intelligence, will prioritize user privacy by performing most tasks on-device and using a secure ‘Private Cloud Compute’ for more complex requests.
• Figure signs commercial agreement with BMW to deploy humanoid robots in factories – Humanoid robotics company Figure has signed a deal with BMW Manufacturing to deploy its robots for automotive production tasks at a plant in South Carolina.
• CoreWeave offers to acquire Core Scientific for over $1 billion – AI cloud provider CoreWeave has made an unsolicited offer to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific for $1 billion, aiming to convert its sites into AI data centers.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 30% in London IPO – The maker of the popular low-cost single-board computers, Raspberry Pi, saw its stock price soar in its debut on the London Stock Exchange.
• Snowflake is in talks to acquire Reka AI for over $1 billion – Data cloud company Snowflake is reportedly in discussions to acquire AI research startup Reka AI, which builds large language models for enterprises.
• Microsoft partners with Broadcom on custom 5nm AI chips – Microsoft is collaborating with Broadcom to develop custom AI processors to reduce its dependency on Nvidia and secure its chip supply chain.
• Google releases new on-device AI features for Pixel phones – Google’s latest Pixel Feature Drop brings Gemini Nano to more devices and adds new capabilities like summarization in the Recorder app.
• Sakana AI uses evolutionary methods to merge AI models – A new research paper from Sakana AI details an evolutionary approach to automatically merge and create new open-source AI models, outperforming existing manual methods.
• Oracle stock soars after announcing cloud deals with Google and OpenAI – Oracle’s stock price jumped after it revealed major partnerships to make its database available on Google Cloud and to support OpenAI with Microsoft Azure’s AI platform.
• Amazon dedicates $230M to support generative AI startups – Amazon is committing $230 million in AWS credits and mentorship to early-stage generative AI startups to foster innovation on its cloud platform.
• Klarna’s AI assistant now handles two-thirds of customer service chats – The fintech company’s AI-powered assistant is managing the equivalent workload of 700 full-time agents, with higher accuracy and a 25% drop in repeat inquiries.
• Leonardo Ai launches Phoenix, a new foundational model for image generation – Leonardo Ai has released Phoenix, a new highly performant image generation model that excels at following complex text prompts.
• SEC chairman warns that AI could trigger a future financial crisis – SEC Chair Gary Gensler expressed concern that the financial industry’s reliance on a few dominant AI models could create systemic risk and monocultures that lead to market instability.
• Meta is developing ‘better-than-human’ AI agents – Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Meta’s long-term AI goal is to build advanced agents that can perceive, reason, and plan at or beyond human-level capabilities.
• Adept secures $50M in new funding – AI startup Adept, which is building a “teammate” AI that can execute multi-step tasks on a computer, has raised an additional $50M in funding.
• Character.AI is reportedly in talks with Google for new funding – The AI chatbot platform is seeking new funding and is in discussions with Google for a potential investment that could value the company at over $5 billion.
• New AI tool can predict flight delays with up to 75% accuracy – A new AI feature in Google Flights uses machine learning to predict flight delays before they are officially announced by airlines.
• Nvidia partners with medical tech company to bring AI to surgery – Nvidia is working with surgical technology company Activ Surgical to integrate AI and machine learning into tools that provide real-time insights to surgeons during operations.
• Waymo recalls self-driving software after one of its vehicles hit a pole – Waymo has issued a software recall for its self-driving system after an unoccupied vehicle crashed into a telephone pole in an alleyway in Phoenix, Arizona.

Trending AI Tools:

• Midjourney – A generative AI program that creates images from natural language descriptions.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generator that creates realistic, human-like speech and sound effects from text.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace – An AI-native developer environment for brainstorming, planning, building, testing, and running code.
• Claude 3 – A family of large language models from Anthropic designed for a variety of cognitive tasks.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from text and images.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator specializing in creating images with reliable and well-rendered text.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct answers to questions with cited sources.
• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s flagship multimodal model that can process and respond to audio, vision, and text in real time.
• Suno – An AI music creation tool that generates realistic songs, including vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• Opus Pro – An AI video repurposing tool that turns long videos into shorter, viral clips for social media.
• Runway – A comprehensive creative suite with AI magic tools for video generation, editing, and more.
• Devin – An autonomous AI agent designed to work as a software engineer, capable of handling entire development projects.
• Sora – OpenAI’s text-to-video model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
• Luma Dream Machine – A widely available AI model that creates high-quality, realistic videos from text and images.
• Kling – A text-to-video model from Kuaishou capable of generating high-resolution, long-duration videos.
• Figure 01 – A humanoid robot that uses OpenAI models to understand and interact with its environment and humans.
• EMO – An AI framework by Alibaba that generates expressive portrait videos with realistic facial expressions and head movements from a single image and audio.
• Google’s Vlogger – An AI model that can generate a talking and moving video of a person from just a single still photograph and an audio clip.
• Udio – An AI tool for creating high-quality, full-length music tracks with vocals from text prompts.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s conversational AI assistant that can answer questions, write content, and perform a wide range of language-based tasks.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Magnific – An AI-powered tool designed to upscale, enhance, and reimagine images to a high level of detail.
• Stable Diffusion 3 – The latest version of Stability AI’s open text-to-image model with major improvements in quality and typography.
• Musicfy – An AI tool that allows you to generate vocals, instrumentals, and full music tracks.
• Leonardo AI – A platform for generating high-quality images, art, and designs using various AI models.
• Uizard – An AI-powered UI design tool that can turn hand-drawn sketches or screenshots into editable mockups.
• Descript – An all-in-one editor that makes editing audio and video as simple as editing a text document.
• Durable – An AI-powered website builder that can create a business website with images and copy in under a minute.
• Framer AI – A feature within the Framer design tool that lets you generate and publish a website using text prompts.
• Gemini – Google’s conversational AI chat interface, powered by its Gemini family of models, for creative and coding tasks.
• OpenVoice V2 – An open-source instant voice cloning model that replicates any voice with high fidelity from a short audio clip.
• Lumina – A text-to-video model capable of generating high-definition videos that can be extended up to one minute in length.
• Magic Studio – An AI-powered tool that helps create photos with matching styles for consistent visual branding.
• Guidde – A tool that helps create video documentation and how-to guides with AI-assisted screen capture and narration.
• Arcads – An AI tool designed to quickly create high-quality video advertisements from simple text inputs.
• ThinkDiffusion – A cloud platform that provides easy access to run powerful open-source AI models like Stable Diffusion on GPUs.
• face-to-sticker – An AI tool that transforms a photo of a face into a stylized digital sticker.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that creates personalized itineraries based on your preferences.
• Sidekick – A tool for creating a custom AI assistant that has knowledge of your team’s documents and apps.
• Gems – A platform that allows you to create a personalized AI assistant that learns from your data and emulates your thinking.
• Recap – A browser extension that provides AI-generated summaries of any webpage or YouTube video.
• Chat with documents by DocsBot – A tool that allows you to create a custom chatbot trained on your own documents and content.
• MyShell – A decentralized platform for discovering, creating, and sharing AI-native applications and chatbots.
• Piggy – A tool that generates an interactive piggy bank to help you visualize and achieve your savings goals.
• Adobe Premiere Pro – A professional video editing software that integrates AI-powered features like text-based editing and automatic color correction.
• Replicate – A cloud platform that allows developers to run open-source machine learning models with an API.
• Gemini 1.5 Pro – Google’s highly capable, multimodal large language model featuring a massive context window.

Sponsors:

• Notion – Notion AI helps you work faster and write better by handling tasks like summarizing documents, brainstorming ideas, and drafting text directly within your workspace.
• Vultr – Vultr offers a high-performance cloud GPU platform for training and deploying AI models at a fraction of the cost of traditional cloud providers.
• Vanta – Vanta automates up to 90% of the work for security and privacy compliance frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
• Masterworks – Masterworks is a platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar art by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Guidde – Guidde is an AI-powered platform for creating video documentation and step-by-step guides for complex tasks in seconds.
• Brilliant – Brilliant offers interactive courses in math, data science, and computer science to help you build critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Read AI – Read AI is a meeting tool that automatically provides summaries, transcripts, and key takeaways for platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.
• CodiumAI – CodiumAI is a tool that helps developers write meaningful tests and analyze code to ship software with confidence.
• MindsDB – MindsDB is a platform that brings machine learning into your database, allowing you to create, manage, and query AI models using standard SQL commands.
• CommandBar – CommandBar provides AI-powered user assistance tools like help articles, tutorials, and a copilot to improve user experience within your app.