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 AI system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that focuses on privacy with on-device processing and an integration with ChatGPT for more complex queries.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices – citing major security concerns over Apple’s new OS-level integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT at his companies.
• Luma Labs launched Dream Machine – a new and publicly available text-to-video model capable of generating high-quality, 5-second video clips from text prompts.
• OpenAI appoints new CFO and CPO – Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor, joins as Chief Financial Officer and Kevin Weil, former president of Planet Labs, joins as Chief Product Officer.
• Mistral AI raises €600 million – boosting the French AI startup’s valuation to nearly $6 billion in a new funding round.
• Google DeepMind introduces V2A – a new AI model that generates synchronized audio, including sound effects and dialogue, for silent video clips.
• Microsoft delays “Recall” feature – shifting the controversial tool to its Windows Insider program for testing first due to significant security and privacy concerns.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – a 2 billion parameter text-to-image model that is smaller and more efficient, designed to run on consumer-grade GPUs.
• Perplexity raises $62.7 million – lifting the AI-native search engine’s valuation over the $1 billion mark in a new funding round.
• CoreWeave offers to acquire Core Scientific – the AI cloud infrastructure company made an unsolicited $1.6 billion all-cash offer for the Bitcoin mining firm.
• NVIDIA’s market cap surpasses $3 trillion – making it the second most valuable company in the world, ahead of Apple.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge post-IPO – the maker of popular single-board computers saw its shares climb over 30% after raising £166 million in its London Stock Exchange debut.
• AMD announces new Instinct MI3250X AI accelerator – planned for release in Q4 2024 as part of its updated roadmap to compete with Nvidia.
• Inflection-2.5 LLM is now available on Microsoft Azure – allowing developers to build on the large language model via the Azure platform.
• Saudi Arabia’s PIF plans $40 billion AI fund – the Public Investment Fund is reportedly in talks with Andreessen Horowitz to create a massive fund for artificial intelligence investments.
• The New York Times is testing generative AI – conducting internal experiments with AI tools to help journalists brainstorm and generate alternative headlines for articles.
• US Navy forms ‘Task Force Lima’ – created to study and implement the use of generative AI and large language models within the Navy.
• Waymo prepares to launch in Atlanta – the autonomous robotaxi service is continuing its expansion into new major US cities.
• AI industry adds nearly 100,000 jobs – a new study shows the jobs were generated over the past year, reflecting rapid growth in the sector.
• Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI releases GLM-4-9B – a new 9-billion-parameter open-source model aimed at competing with models like Meta’s Llama 3 8B.
• Snowflake announces Polaris Catalog – an open-source tool for Apache Iceberg that allows companies to use any engine to access their data.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new text-to-video model that generates high-quality, 5-second video clips from text prompts and images.
• Perplexity Pages – An AI tool that turns research prompts into comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports with citations.
• Runway Gen-3 Alpha – Runway’s newest video generation model, offering significant improvements in quality, consistency, and motion.
• KLing – A text-to-video AI model from Kuaishou that can generate 1080p clips up to two minutes long.
• Viggle – An AI video tool that allows you to realistically transfer motion from a source video to a static character image.
• Recraft – An AI-powered graphic design tool for creating and editing vector art, icons, and 3D illustrations in a consistent brand style.
• Morpheus-1 – A neurotech wearable that uses AI-generated focused ultrasound to help users achieve and control lucid dreams.
• Scribble Diffusion – A simple tool that transforms your rough sketches into refined, detailed images using AI.
• Co-Writer – An AI writing assistant specifically designed to help screenwriters with brainstorming, character development, and script formatting.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that enables you to fine-tune open-source large language models with your own data.
• Dola – An AI calendar assistant that schedules meetings and manages your calendar through a simple chat interface.
• Brevian – A no-code platform for building custom, data-aware AI agents and automated workflows for your business.
• Defog – An AI-powered data assistant that helps teams query and visualize their data by converting questions into SQL.
• Swirl – An open-source AI search agent that simultaneously searches all of your company’s data sources like Google Drive, Slack, and Jira.
• Vapi – A developer tool for building, testing, and deploying realistic AI voice agents that can handle phone calls.
• Sieve – A cloud platform for developers to build and scale complex AI applications that combine multiple models, like video and audio generation.
• SEC Insights – An AI tool that helps investors analyze and extract key information from dense SEC filings.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that creates personalized itineraries based on your interests and preferences.
• Venty – An AI tool that helps entrepreneurs turn a simple idea into a comprehensive business plan.
• Vibe – A tool that lets you A/B test your creative assets with an AI-powered panel of simulated users instead of real people.
• Sidekick – An AI assistant that lives in your browser’s new tab page, offering quick access to chatbots and productivity tools.
• Poly.ai – A platform for creating enterprise-grade, human-like voice assistants for customer service call centers.
• Story.com – A video creation platform that uses AI to help businesses generate video content for marketing and communication.
• Ema – A universal AI “employee” that automates complex enterprise workflows by integrating with all your corporate apps.
• Nvidia ACE – A suite of technologies from Nvidia for creating lifelike and interactive digital humans for games and customer service.
• Vizcom – An AI-powered design tool that transforms sketches and text prompts into professional product concepts in seconds.
• Durable – An AI-powered platform that lets you build a professional business website in just 30 seconds.
• Rallly – A free and simple collaborative scheduling tool for organizing meetings and events.

Sponsors:

• LMNTRIX – A fully managed threat detection and response service for Microsoft 365, providing a 24/7 team of security experts.
• Brave – The Brave Search API provides an independent search index that you can use to power your LLM, chatbot, or other AI applications.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that lets you invest in shares of blue-chip art from artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Beehiiv – The newsletter platform built for growth, helping you create, monetize, and distribute your content.
• CommandBar – A platform that lets you add an in-app AI chat to help users take actions and speed up their workflow.
• Coda – An all-in-one doc that brings words, data, and teams together with AI assistance to help you work faster.
• HubSpot – A suite of AI-powered tools that help marketers, salespeople, and service reps get more done and create better customer experiences.
• Linear – An issue-tracking tool with built-in AI features to automate tasks and summarize issues, helping you ship products faster.