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:

• Meta released Llama 3.1 – a new family of models including a powerful 405B parameter version that is competitive with top proprietary models like GPT-4o.
• Perplexity launched Pages – a new feature that allows users to convert search queries into shareable, well-structured articles and reports with citations.
• Google is significantly scaling back its AI Overviews feature – in search results after widespread criticism for providing bizarre and inaccurate answers.
• Apple provided new details on its “Apple Intelligence” system – emphasizing its on-device processing capabilities and a “Private Cloud Compute” feature for more complex tasks.
• Humane has warned users to immediately stop using the charging case for its Ai Pin – due to a fire safety risk discovered with a third-party battery cell.
• Elon Musk’s xAI officially announced it has raised $6 billion – in a Series B funding round from investors including Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
• ElevenLabs launched a new text-to-sound-effects generator – allowing users to create a wide range of audio clips from simple text prompts.
• Mistral AI released Codestral – a 22-billion-parameter open-weight generative AI model specifically designed for code generation tasks, supporting over 80 programming languages.
• Character.AI introduced a new voice chat feature – allowing users to have real-time spoken conversations with its AI companions.
• Legal AI startup Harvey raised $80 million – in a new funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Elad Gil, bringing its valuation to $715 million.
• OpenAI signed a multi-year deal with News Corp – to bring content from publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Times, and New York Post to its platforms.
• NVIDIA announced record quarterly revenue of $26.0 billion – up 262% from a year ago, driven by massive demand for its data center and AI chips.
• UK-based self-driving car startup Wayve raised $1.05 billion – in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank, with contributions from NVIDIA and Microsoft.
• Actress Scarlett Johansson stated she was “shocked and angered” – after OpenAI demonstrated a new ChatGPT voice that sounded “eerily similar” to hers, despite her having previously declined their offer to use her voice.
• Microsoft announced the launch of a new AI hub in London – led by AI scientist and entrepreneur Jordan Hoffmann, who recently joined from Inflection AI.
• Google DeepMind introduced V2A (video-to-audio) technology – which synchronizes AI-generated audio with video pixels to create realistic soundtracks, dialogue, and sound effects for visual content.
• Microsoft is facing scrutiny over its new “Recall” feature for Copilot+ PCs – which periodically takes screenshots of users’ activities to create a searchable timeline, raising significant privacy concerns.
• Pika has added a sound effects feature – The AI video generation platform can now automatically generate audio to match the content of a video.
• Stability AI released Stable Audio 2.0 – a new model for generating high-quality, full-length music tracks with coherent structures from text prompts, and also allows users to upload and transform their own audio samples.
• The United States and China held their first bilateral talks on the risks of advanced AI – in Geneva, aiming to establish a shared understanding of safety and risk management.
• Snowflake announced its acquisition of TruEra – an AI observability platform, to help customers evaluate and monitor LLMs and AI applications in production.
• Amazon is launching an AI-powered code completion tool called CodeWhisperer in India – positioning it as a competitor to GitHub Copilot.
• A new research paper introduces the “step-back” prompting technique – which enables LLMs to improve their reasoning abilities by first abstracting to higher-level concepts before tackling specific problems.
• A recent article explores how AI tools are fundamentally reinventing the scientific method – by generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and analyzing data at an unprecedented scale.
• A new tool called Paper-chat allows users to have a conversation with research papers – making it easier to understand and extract information from complex documents.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma AI (Dream Machine) – An AI model for generating high-quality, realistic videos from text descriptions and images.
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s fastest and most intelligent AI model to date, excelling at complex reasoning, coding, and content creation.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources.
• Viggle – An AI tool that animates a static character image using a motion video, effectively transferring the movement onto the character.
• Krea – A real-time AI tool that generates and enhances images and videos as you type, draw, or move your mouse.
• Kling – A high-fidelity text-to-video generation model from Kuaishou, noted for its ability to create long, high-resolution videos.
• Suno – An AI platform that generates original songs, including vocals and instrumentation, from a simple text prompt.
• ChatGPT – A versatile conversational AI from OpenAI that can answer questions, write content, code, and perform a wide range of language tasks.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered content creation tools for video generation, editing, and visual effects.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for creating high-quality, artistic, and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Pika – An AI tool for generating and editing videos from text, images, or other videos.
• Udio – A platform for creating high-quality, full-length songs with AI from simple text descriptions.
• ElevenLabs – A text-to-speech and voice cloning platform for creating realistic AI-generated audio and voiceovers.
• GitHub Copilot – An AI pair programmer that suggests code and entire functions in real-time within your code editor.
• Google NotebookLM – An AI-powered research and writing assistant that uses your own documents as a source to answer questions and generate ideas.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant integrated across its products to provide chat, content creation, and productivity help.
• NVIDIA ACE – A suite of technologies for creating interactive, AI-powered digital humans and avatars for games and applications.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with realistic AI avatars and voices.
• Leonardo AI – A generative AI platform for creating production-quality images, art, and design assets for creative projects.
• Promethean AI – An AI assistant that helps game developers build virtual worlds by intelligently generating and finding assets.
• Deforum – An open-source tool and community for creating smooth, interpolating animations and videos using diffusion models.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that generates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text prompts.
• Tome – A generative storytelling and presentation tool that helps create compelling narratives with AI-generated text and images.
• Explainpaper – An AI tool that helps you read academic papers by letting you highlight confusing text and get a simple explanation.
• Mindgrasp – An AI-powered learning assistant that can instantly create notes, summaries, and answer questions from any document or video.
• Fireworks AI – A platform offering a fast and cost-effective inference engine for developers to run and fine-tune generative AI models.
• Lamini – An enterprise LLM platform for building and fine-tuning private, high-performance AI agents on your own data.
• Recast – An AI tool that summarizes podcasts into short, readable summaries with key takeaways.
• Superhuman – An email client that uses AI to help users process their inbox faster with features like summarization and automated responses.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates tasks like calendar management, email drafting, and meeting coordination.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that allows users to interact with a variety of different AI chatbots and models in one place.
• Swimm – An AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams create and maintain up-to-date documentation that is integrated with their code.
• Hugging Face – A platform and community providing open-source tools, models, and datasets for building and deploying machine learning applications.
• Vercel – A cloud platform for developers that provides the infrastructure to build, scale, and secure faster, more personalized web experiences with AI integrations.
• Gleen – An enterprise-grade generative AI chatbot and search tool for customer support and internal knowledge management.
• Cue – An AI-powered sales assistant that automates data entry and follow-ups for sales teams to improve productivity.
• Domo – A business intelligence platform that integrates AI and data to create interactive dashboards and analytics for enterprises.

Sponsors:

• Philips – A global leader in health technology, Philips is currently hiring for a variety of roles in the AI space.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that allows you to buy shares in multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Prolego – A company that offers a GenAI readiness assessment to help enterprises scale their generative AI capabilities.
• Browse.AI – A no-code platform that allows you to build AI automation agents to extract and monitor data from any website.
• Notion – A connected workspace with a built-in AI assistant to help you work faster, write better, and think bigger.
• RYSE – A smart home company that is raising capital to bring its smart shade and other tech products to every window.
• Clay – An AI-powered relationship manager that helps you be more thoughtful with the people that matter in your life.
• HubSpot Podcast Network – A network of business podcasts providing education and inspiration on how to grow a business.
• ThoughtSpot – An AI-powered analytics platform that lets anyone in your organization get answers from your company’s data.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that works with companies to build innovative software and AI solutions.
• FourthBrain – An education company offering a course on Machine Learning System Design to help you build and deploy production-ready ML systems.
• Writer – An enterprise-grade generative AI platform that helps embed AI securely into any business process.