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:

• Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman – Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, claiming they abandoned the company’s original nonprofit mission in favor of profits and a partnership with Microsoft.
• Apple cancels its electric car project to focus on generative AI – Apple has canceled its decade-long effort to build an electric car, shifting many employees from the project to its artificial intelligence division.
• Anthropic releases Claude 3 model family – Anthropic launched its new Claude 3 models, claiming its most powerful version, Opus, outperforms GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra on key industry benchmarks.
• Cognition AI introduces Devin, the first AI software engineer – Cognition AI unveiled Devin, an autonomous AI agent capable of handling entire software development projects from start to finish.
• Microsoft announces partnership with French AI startup Mistral – Microsoft has made a multi-year investment in Mistral AI, a major European competitor to OpenAI, and will make its models available through the Azure cloud platform.
• Google unveils VLOGGER, an AI that can create a video from a single photo – Google researchers introduced VLOGGER, a new AI model that can generate a realistic, animated video of a person talking and gesturing from just one still image and an audio clip.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn research into articles – AI search engine Perplexity has released a new feature called Pages, which converts user prompts or research threads into well-structured, shareable articles and reports.
• Pika Labs raises $80M and launches Pika 1.0 video platform – AI video generation startup Pika has raised $80 million in Series B funding and officially launched Pika 1.0, which includes a new web interface and video editing tools.
• Google CEO addresses “unacceptable” Gemini image generation issues in memo – Sundar Pichai sent a company-wide memo calling the biased historical image outputs from the Gemini model “completely unacceptable” and promising swift structural changes.
• Google DeepMind introduces Genie, an AI that generates playable video games – Google’s AI lab detailed Genie, a model that can create interactive, playable 2D platformer games from a single text or image prompt.
• Figure releases new video of its humanoid robot making coffee – Humanoid robotics company Figure showed a new video of its Figure 01 robot operating a Keurig coffee machine autonomously, demonstrating significant progress in fine motor skills.
• Klarna’s AI assistant is doing the work of 700 full-time agents – Financial tech company Klarna announced its new OpenAI-powered customer service assistant is handling two-thirds of all service chats and has boosted customer satisfaction.
• Inflection AI releases Inflection-2.5 model – Inflection AI launched Inflection-2.5, a new model for its Pi chatbot that claims near GPT-4 level performance while using only 40% of the computing resources for training.
• Microsoft launches Copilot for Finance in public preview – Microsoft introduced its newest role-based Copilot, which brings AI-powered workflows to financial professionals using Microsoft 365 apps like Excel and Outlook.
• Google releases ScreenAI, a vision-language model for user interfaces – Google has developed ScreenAI, a new model specifically designed to understand and interact with user interfaces and infographics on a screen.
• X expands Grok AI chatbot access to more Premium+ subscribers – Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is now being rolled out to Premium+ subscribers on the X platform in more countries and languages.
• OpenAI reinstates Sam Altman to its Board of Directors – OpenAI has appointed Sam Altman back to its board and added three new members, finalizing the governance restructuring after his temporary removal last year.
• French AI startup “H” raises $220M in a pre-seed round – A new Paris-based AI company, formerly known as Holistic AI, has secured a massive $220 million in funding to develop “agentic” AI models capable of complex, multi-step tasks.
• Ideogram launches 1.0 of its AI image generator with superior text rendering – Ideogram has released version 1.0 of its platform, featuring a new model that significantly improves the realism, quality, and accuracy of text rendered within images.
• ElevenLabs launches a new AI model for generating sound effects – The AI voice company has introduced a new tool that can create short sound effects, soundscapes, and instrumental music from a text description.
• Humane announces its AI Pin will begin shipping in March – The secretive hardware startup confirmed that its anticipated AI-powered wearable device, the AI Pin, will start shipping to customers in March.
• Snowflake announces intent to acquire AI observability platform TruEra – Data cloud company Snowflake is set to acquire TruEra to integrate its tools for monitoring and evaluating the performance and quality of large language model applications.
• Databricks acquires Lilac to improve unstructured data analysis for AI – Databricks has bought Lilac, an open-source data analysis tool, to help its customers better understand and prepare large, unstructured datasets for building AI applications.
• Apple Vision Pro’s digital Personas get a major realism update – The third beta of visionOS 1.1 includes a significant graphical improvement for Personas, the realistic avatars used for FaceTime calls, making them appear more lifelike.
• Meta releases AudioSeal, an open-source tool for watermarking AI audio – Meta has open-sourced AudioSeal, an AI-powered technique for adding an inaudible “watermark” to audio clips that allows for reliable detection of AI-generated speech.
• Amazon adds a generative AI feature to its seller app to create product listings – A new feature in Amazon’s mobile app for sellers uses generative AI to write compelling product titles, bullet points, and descriptions from just a photo of the item.
• Bipartisan ‘Medical AI Act’ introduced in U.S. Senate – A group of U.S. senators has proposed new legislation aimed at creating a regulatory framework to ensure AI tools are used safely and effectively in the healthcare industry.
• Cognizant partners with Microsoft to deploy Copilot to its workforce – IT services giant Cognizant is expanding its partnership with Microsoft to bring Copilot to millions of its users and clients to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
• MIT researchers find LLMs are better at spotting fake news with step-by-step reasoning – A new study shows that large language models can more accurately identify misinformation if they are prompted to first explain their reasoning before giving a final verdict.
• An AI-powered robotic chemist discovers and creates new materials autonomously – Researchers have developed a robot called A-Lab, driven by a large language model, that can independently design, conduct, and analyze experiments to discover novel materials.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A publicly available text-to-video model that generates high-quality, five-second video clips from text prompts.
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s latest and fastest AI model, which excels at complex tasks and is available for free on Claude.ai.
• Perplexity Pages – An AI tool that transforms prompts and research into comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates realistic songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• Krea – A suite of AI-powered design tools that enables real-time generation and enhancement of images and videos.
• Runway – A creative suite for video editing and generation, which recently announced its upcoming Gen-3 Alpha model for significant improvements in video quality.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace – An AI-native development environment that helps developers go from an idea to a fully coded plan in natural language.
• Leonardo AI – An image generation platform that recently launched its fast and coherent Phoenix model for creating high-quality visuals.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool that allows users to generate full-length tracks in various genres, now with new features like audio uploads.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for its artistic style, which recently released its V6.1 model in an alpha phase.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating studio-quality videos with avatars, which introduced a new real-time ‘Streaming Avatar’ feature.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at rendering coherent text and recently added a ‘Magic Prompt’ feature to enhance user inputs.
• ElevenLabs – A leading platform for voice synthesis and text-to-speech that has launched a new tool for creating AI-narrated audiobooks.
• Adobe Express – A design application that incorporates AI features like ‘Text to Template’ and ‘Generate Similar’ to streamline content creation.
• Vizcom – An AI-powered design tool that helps industrial designers and artists quickly transform sketches into realistic product renderings.
• Viggle AI – An AI video tool that can apply a consistent character’s motion from one video to a static image, creating animated videos.
• Paperclips – A tool that transforms dense research papers into short, engaging animated videos to make complex topics more accessible.
• Vapi – A platform for developers to quickly build, test, and deploy human-like AI voice agents for applications like automated phone calls.
• Fine – An AI agent that automates software development by handling complex tasks and pull requests based on high-level instructions.
• Dora – An AI-powered website builder that allows users to generate and edit professional, 3D-animated websites using natural language prompts.
• Splash – An AI music tool that lets you create songs from text prompts and features a unique ‘Text-to-Singing’ capability.
• VASA-1 – A Microsoft Research framework that creates lifelike talking head videos from a single image and an audio speech file.
• Opus Clip – An AI-powered tool that automatically repurposes long videos into short, shareable clips for social media platforms.
• Defog – An AI tool that connects to your data warehouse and allows you to generate complex data queries using everyday language.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that instantly creates accurate notes and answers questions from any document, video, or audio recording you upload.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that enables you to build and fine-tune your own custom AI model for specific tasks.
• Thinkbuddy – A native macOS application that provides fast access to various AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini directly from your desktop.
• Reka Core – A highly capable multimodal language model that can understand text, images, video, and audio, competing with other frontier models.
• Explainpaper – A tool designed to help you read and understand academic research papers by simplifying confusing text and concepts.
• Chibi AI – An AI writing assistant that focuses on helping you brainstorm, expand on ideas, and find the right words without writing for you.
• Storybird – An AI-powered platform that lets you create illustrated stories, novels, and comics in minutes.
• Sermonize – An AI tool specifically designed for pastors to help research, outline, and prepare sermons more efficiently.
• Lexis – A professional AI legal assistant that helps lawyers draft, review, and analyze legal documents.
• MusicFX – A Google AI experiment that lets you create music from text prompts and includes a ‘DJ Mode’ for mixing tracks.
• Notion AI – A set of AI features integrated within Notion that can summarize documents, brainstorm ideas, and improve your writing.
• FigJam AI – AI features within Figma’s online whiteboard to help teams generate, sort, and summarize ideas during collaborative sessions.
• Vids – A new Google Workspace app that uses AI to help you create professional videos for work, from storyboarding to final production.
• Supernormal – An AI tool that automatically transcribes and writes detailed notes for your meetings on platforms like Google Meet, Zoom, and Teams.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that generates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from a text prompt in seconds.
• Veed.io – An online video editing platform that uses AI to simplify tasks like adding subtitles, removing background noise, and creating videos from text.
• Recast – An AI tool that transforms your audio or video podcasts into written content like show notes, summaries, and social media posts.
• Mava – An AI-powered customer support platform that provides instant, personalized answers to user questions across multiple channels.
• Sudowrite – An AI writing partner for fiction authors that offers tools for brainstorming, story expansion, and revising text.
• Prompter – A platform for creating, testing, and sharing prompts for various AI models, designed to improve your prompt engineering skills.
• Chatlingo – An AI-powered language tutor that helps you practice speaking a new language through interactive conversations.
• Replicate – A cloud platform that allows developers to easily run and fine-tune open-source machine learning models via an API.
• Code Llama 70B – Meta’s powerful open-source large language model specifically designed for generating and discussing code.

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