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

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The Latest AI News:

• OpenAI launches GPT-4o, its new flagship model – OpenAI’s new free model, GPT-4o, is significantly faster and natively accepts any combination of text, audio, and image as input to generate any combination of text, audio, and image outputs.
• Google announces Project Astra, a real-time, multimodal AI assistant – Google’s vision for the future of AI assistants, Project Astra, can understand and reason about the world in real-time through a device’s camera and microphone.
• Google integrates AI Overviews into its main search results – Google is rolling out AI-generated answers at the top of its search results page to all U.S. users, with plans for a global expansion.
• Google unveils Gemini 1.5 Flash and a 2M token context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro – Google released Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lighter and faster model for high-frequency tasks, and expanded Gemini 1.5 Pro’s context window to 2 million tokens.
• Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder and Chief Scientist, is leaving the company – The influential AI researcher, who was a key figure in the 2023 effort to oust CEO Sam Altman, has departed OpenAI to work on an unspecified project.
• Google introduces Veo, its most capable text-to-video generation model – Veo is Google’s new generative video model designed to compete with OpenAI’s Sora, capable of creating high-quality, 1080p videos over a minute long.
• Apple is reportedly closing in on a deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18 – The partnership would bring generative AI features to the iPhone as part of Apple’s upcoming mobile operating system.
• Elon Musk’s xAI is closing a $6 billion funding round valuing the company at $18 billion – The funding, with investors like Sequoia Capital, is intended to help xAI compete with other major AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Scale AI raises $1 billion, doubling its valuation to $13.8 billion – The new funding will help the data labeling and evaluation company accelerate its mission to build the data foundation for AI.
• OpenAI is launching a desktop version of ChatGPT and a refreshed user interface – The new macOS app allows users to interact with the AI via voice or text from anywhere on their computer and will be available first to Plus users.
• Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others must now label AI-generated content in the EU – Major online platforms have agreed to a voluntary pact under the EU’s Digital Services Act to clearly identify AI-generated content to combat disinformation.
• Jan Leike, a leader of OpenAI’s superalignment team, has resigned – Following Ilya Sutskever’s departure, another key AI safety researcher announced his resignation from OpenAI.
• The UK’s AI Safety Institute is opening an office in San Francisco – The expansion marks the first time a state-backed AI safety body has established a presence in another country, aiming to collaborate with U.S. AI companies.
• A new report finds 90% of news publishers are concerned about the impact of generative AI – The study from the Reuters Institute highlights publishers’ anxieties over losing web traffic to AI-powered search and the challenges of negotiating content licensing deals.
• Perplexity introduces ‘Perplexity Pages’ to generate and publish articles from prompts – The new feature allows users to create visually appealing, well-sourced articles on any topic, which can then be shared publicly.
• CoreWeave acquires data center operator Compass Datacenters in a $1.3 billion deal – The AI cloud provider’s acquisition is part of a broader trend of AI companies investing in the physical infrastructure needed for large-scale computing.
• Mistral AI releases Codestral, a new open-weight generative AI model for coding – Codestral is a 22B parameter model explicitly designed for code generation tasks, supporting over 80 programming languages.
• A new paper introduces ‘Critic-Guided Decoding’ for improved mathematical reasoning in LLMs – This technique from Microsoft Research significantly enhances the accuracy of language models on complex math problems by using a critic model to guide the generation process.
• A study by Google DeepMind and Stanford finds AI models are not yet a threat to most jobs – Researchers determined that while AI can perform many tasks, it cannot fully automate the majority of jobs at a quality level that would displace human workers.
• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is building a military drone company called White Stork – The secretive startup aims to develop AI-powered drones for use in warfare, reportedly testing its technology in Ukraine.
• Intel and other tech firms have launched the UXL Foundation to challenge Nvidia’s CUDA dominance – The foundation aims to develop open-source software and specifications that allow code to run on any company’s hardware, reducing reliance on Nvidia’s ecosystem.
• Google Maps is adding new immersive and AI-powered features for users – The updates include immersive 3D views for travel, augmented reality content, and personalized AI-driven recommendations.
• Robotics company Figure demonstrated its humanoid robot making coffee after watching videos – The robot learned to operate a Keurig coffee machine end-to-end simply by observing a human do it, showcasing rapid learning capabilities.
• Microsoft’s new ‘Phi-3-small’ language model is now available on Hugging Face – This latest addition to the Phi-3 family is a 7B parameter model with a 128K context window, designed for efficient on-device AI.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma AI’s Dream Machine – A publicly available AI model that generates high-quality and realistic videos from text and image prompts.
• Perplexity Pages – An AI tool that converts search queries and prompts into comprehensive, well-structured articles, reports, and guides with citations.
• ChatGPT – A highly capable conversational AI developed by OpenAI for a wide range of tasks from answering questions to writing code.
• Claude – An AI assistant from Anthropic, with its latest model (Sonnet 3.5) excelling at complex reasoning, content creation, and coding tasks.
• Pika – An AI video platform for generating and editing videos from text, images, or existing video clips.
• Kling – A text-to-video model from the creators of TikTok, capable of generating high-resolution, long-duration videos.
• Sora – OpenAI’s text-to-video model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing artistic and high-quality visuals from text prompts.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates full songs, including lyrics and vocals, from simple text prompts.
• ElevenLabs – An advanced text-to-speech and voice cloning platform that generates lifelike and expressive audio.
• Google Gemini – A multimodal AI model from Google designed to understand and operate across text, images, audio, video, and code.
• Codestral – A 22-billion parameter AI model from Mistral AI, specifically designed for code generation and interaction across over 80 programming languages.
• Viggle AI – A video generation AI that animates static characters with realistic motion based on text prompts or video clips.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that enables creating studio-quality videos with AI avatars and seamless voice translation.
• Final Frame – An AI-powered tool for storyboarding and pre-visualization that generates consistent characters and scenes for film and video projects.
• Diffuse – A platform for creating consistent AI characters and assets for use in games, films, and virtual worlds.
• Opus Clip – A generative AI video tool that automatically analyzes long videos and turns the most compelling parts into viral short clips.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that enables users to create and fine-tune their own custom AI models for specific tasks.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that instantly creates accurate notes, summaries, and answers questions from any document, video, or audio file.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator specializing in creating images with coherent and legible text.
• Krea AI – An AI tool that offers real-time image and video generation and enhancement capabilities.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered creative tools for video editing, generation, and special effects.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool that allows users to generate high-quality songs in various styles from text prompts.
• Gencraft – A versatile AI content creation suite for generating art, videos, and editing photos.
• Cleanvoice AI – An AI tool that automatically removes filler words, stutters, and mouth sounds from podcasts and audio recordings.
• Gling – An AI tool for YouTubers that automatically analyzes raw video footage to cut silences, bad takes, and disfluencies.
• Scribe – An AI tool that automatically creates step-by-step guides and process documentation by capturing your workflow.
• Poe – An AI platform by Quora that allows users to interact with a variety of different chatbots and language models in one place.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that allows you to create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from a simple prompt.
• Notion – An all-in-one workspace that integrates AI to help with writing, summarizing, and organizing notes, tasks, and wikis.
• Superhuman – An email client that uses AI to help you get through your inbox faster with features like summarization and automated responses.
• Otter.ai – An AI-powered service that provides real-time transcription for meetings, interviews, and lectures.
• Leonardo AI – A platform for generating high-quality game assets, concept art, and other images using AI.
• Vidyo.ai – An AI-powered tool that automatically repurposes long-form videos into short, shareable clips for social media.
• Clipse – An AI tool that automatically identifies the best moments in long videos and turns them into vertical clips for social media.
• Kaiber – An AI video generation tool that transforms images and text into dynamic visuals and music videos.
• Veed.io – An online video editing platform with AI-powered features for subtitling, transcription, and content creation.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models integrated into their suite of applications for image and text effect creation.
• Synthesia – An AI video creation platform that allows you to produce professional videos with AI avatars in minutes.
• Murf.ai – A versatile AI text-to-speech tool that provides a wide range of human-like voices for videos and presentations.
• Jasper – An AI content platform that helps teams create high-quality marketing copy, articles, and social media posts.
• Writesonic – An AI writing assistant that helps create SEO-friendly marketing copy, blog posts, and other content.
• Copy.ai – An AI-powered copywriter that generates marketing copy and other written content for businesses.
• Cohesive – An AI-powered content editor that helps create, refine, and edit various types of content in one place.
• Tome – An AI-powered storytelling and presentation tool that helps create compelling narratives with visuals generated from text.
• Guidde – A tool that helps create video documentation and how-to guides with AI narration and step-by-step instructions.
• Looka – An AI-powered platform for designing logos and building a brand identity.
• Predis.ai – An AI-powered social media marketing tool for creating video and image content, generating hashtags, and scheduling posts.
• Augie – A text-to-video creation tool that helps businesses and creators make marketing videos quickly.

Sponsors:

• AssemblyAI – Production-ready AI models to transcribe and understand speech.
• Masterworks – An art investing platform that lets you skip the waitlist and invest in blue-chip art.
• Dust – A platform to create powerful custom assistants that you can share with your team in minutes.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that can help you build new products with AI faster.
• Runway – An AI video generation platform used by top creators and production studios.
• Notion – An AI-powered workspace where you can write, plan, and get organized.
• monday.com – A platform to scale your work with AI for tasks like content generation and email composition.
• Brilliant – A platform that helps you learn AI and other STEM concepts in minutes a day through interactive lessons.
• NetSuite – The #1 AI-ready ERP for handling financials, inventory, HR, and more.
• VAST Data – A data platform company helping enterprises unlock the full potential of their data with AI.
• AI Careers by Superhuman – The world’s largest AI talent network for finding jobs or hiring AI talent.
• Imagine AI Live 24 – A conference in Las Vegas focused on AI, featuring speakers, exhibitors, and networking opportunities.
• Guidepoint – An expert network that connects clients with vetted subject matter experts for industry insights.
• Wix – An advanced platform for agencies and enterprises to deliver exceptional client sites with powerful design features and AI tools.
• Glean – The AI-powered work assistant that connects and understands all your company’s knowledge to provide generative AI you can trust.

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