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:

• Anthropic releases Claude 3 model family – Anthropic has launched its new Claude 3 model family (Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku), with the top-tier Opus model outperforming GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra on key industry benchmarks.
• Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman – Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging they breached the company’s founding agreement by prioritizing profits with Microsoft over developing AGI for the benefit of humanity.
• Apple is reportedly in talks to integrate Google’s Gemini into the iPhone – Apple is reportedly negotiating with Google to license its Gemini AI models to power new generative AI features in an upcoming version of iOS.
• Apple cancels its electric car project to focus on generative AI – Apple has officially canceled its decade-long electric car initiative, known as Project Titan, and is reassigning many of the employees to its generative artificial intelligence division.
• Figure 01 robot demonstrates impressive capabilities with OpenAI integration – Robotics company Figure released a stunning video of its humanoid robot, Figure 01, having full conversations and performing complex tasks by leveraging OpenAI’s models for visual and language understanding.
• Cognition AI introduces Devin, the first AI software engineer – Startup Cognition has unveiled ‘Devin’, an autonomous AI agent that can handle entire software development projects from planning and coding to debugging and deployment, outperforming previous models on engineering benchmarks.
• NVIDIA announces new Blackwell AI chips and humanoid robot platform at GTC – At its GTC conference, NVIDIA unveiled its next-generation Blackwell B200 GPU, which is multiple times faster than its predecessor, and introduced Project GR00T, a foundational model platform for creating humanoid robots.
• xAI announces it will open-source its Grok chatbot – Following criticism of OpenAI’s closed-source approach, Elon Musk’s xAI has open-sourced the weights and architecture of its 314 billion parameter Grok-1 model.
• Mistral AI releases new flagship model and partners with Microsoft – French AI company Mistral has launched its new high-performance model, Mistral Large, and announced a major partnership that makes its models available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
• Microsoft introduces Copilot for Finance in public preview – Microsoft has launched a new version of its AI assistant, Copilot for Finance, designed to automate financial tasks, analyze data, and streamline workflows within tools like Excel and Outlook.
• Suno V3 can now generate two-minute songs with vocals – Music generation startup Suno has released its V3 model, which can create high-quality, full two-minute songs from a single text prompt, including realistic vocals, instruments, and complex song structures.
• Microsoft and OpenAI plan a $100 billion AI supercomputer project named “Stargate” – A report reveals that Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a massive data center project, potentially costing up to $100 billion, to build an AI supercomputer called “Stargate” set to launch in 2028.
• Google’s Genie can create playable 2D games from a single prompt – Google DeepMind has introduced Genie, a new AI model that can generate interactive, playable 2D platformer games from a single text description or image.
• Humane’s screenless AI Pin begins shipping to customers – The much-anticipated Ai Pin, a wearable, screenless device that projects a laser display onto your hand, has started shipping to those who placed pre-orders.
• OpenAI announces it is training its next-generation model – In a blog post about a partnership with Arizona State University, OpenAI casually mentioned it is “just beginning to train its next frontier model,” hinting that work on a successor to GPT-4 has started.
• Alibaba’s EMO AI can make a single portrait photo sing or talk realistically – A new AI model from Alibaba called EMO (Emote Portrait Alive) can generate highly expressive and realistic videos of a person in a photo singing or speaking based on an audio clip.
• Google’s VLOGGER model animates a single photo into a realistic talking video – Google researchers have developed VLOGGER, an AI model that can take a single image of a person and an audio clip to generate a high-quality, controllable video of them speaking and gesturing.
• Pika Labs introduces a tool to generate sound effects for videos – AI video generator Pika Labs has launched a new feature that allows users to generate sound effects for their videos by typing simple prompts, such as “cinematic music” or “waves crashing.”
• Midjourney releases ‘Character Reference’ feature for consistent characters – The popular image generation tool Midjourney has introduced a “Character Reference” feature that lets users maintain a consistent character’s appearance across multiple generated images.
• GitHub announces Copilot Workspace, an AI-native development environment – GitHub has unveiled Copilot Workspace, a new tool that uses AI agents to help developers go from an idea in a repository issue to a fully coded plan and implementation.
• Amazon invests an additional $2.75 billion into Anthropic – Amazon has completed its planned investment in AI startup Anthropic with an additional $2.75 billion, bringing its total investment to $4 billion.
• Google DeepMind introduces SIMA, a single AI agent that can play many different video games – Google DeepMind has revealed SIMA (Scalable, Instructable, Multiworld Agent), a generalist AI agent that can understand language and perceive 3D environments to follow instructions and perform tasks in a variety of video games.
• Klarna’s AI assistant is doing the work of 700 full-time agents – Financial tech company Klarna reported that its new OpenAI-powered customer service assistant has handled two-thirds of all service chats in its first month, with performance on par with human agents.
• Inflection AI releases Inflection-2.5, claiming GPT-4 level performance with less compute – Inflection AI has launched Inflection-2.5, a new model that it claims is competitive with GPT-4 but only required 40% of the computing power for training.
• Character.AI is reportedly in acquisition talks with Google – The popular chatbot platform Character.AI, which lets users interact with AI versions of famous figures, is reportedly in confidential talks with Google about a potential acquisition or large investment.
• French startup ‘H’ raises $220M in a seed round – A new Paris-based AI company named ‘H’ (formerly Holistic AI), founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has secured a massive $220 million seed funding round from investors including Bernard Arnault and Eric Schmidt.
• AI search engine Perplexity AI’s valuation reaches $1 billion – Perplexity AI, an AI-powered “answer engine” competing with Google, has raised over $60 million in a new funding round that values the company at more than $1 billion.
• CoreWeave’s valuation soars to $19 billion after a new funding round – AI cloud computing provider CoreWeave has raised $1.1 billion in new funding, raising its valuation to $19 billion as demand for its specialized AI hardware access continues to grow.
• Adobe previews a generative AI tool for advanced video editing – Adobe has showcased upcoming generative AI features for its Premiere Pro video software that will allow editors to add or remove objects and extend clips using simple text prompts.
• Microsoft researchers claim to have spotted “sparks of AGI” in GPT-4 – A research paper from Microsoft titled “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence” argues that an early, unrestricted version of GPT-4 showed intelligent behaviors that could be viewed as early signs of artificial general intelligence.
• Databricks acquires Einblick to bolster its natural language data tools – Data and AI company Databricks has acquired Einblick, a startup from MIT and Brown University, to integrate its natural language technology that allows users to query and analyze data through conversation.
• The U.S. and U.K. form a partnership to collaborate on AI safety testing – The United States and the United Kingdom have signed an agreement to work together on developing tests and standards for evaluating the safety and security of advanced AI models.
• Google’s ScreenAI model can understand and interact with user interfaces – Google has released details on ScreenAI, a new vision-language model designed to understand screenshots and screen recordings of application user interfaces to enable new forms of AI-powered app interactions.
• Google restricts Gemini chatbot from answering election-related questions – As a precaution for the 2024 election cycle, Google has announced it will limit the types of election-related queries its Gemini chatbot is able to answer in certain regions.
• ElevenLabs launches a new screen reader product with AI voices – The AI voice company ElevenLabs has released an early access version of a screen reader application, providing high-quality, natural-sounding AI voices to improve accessibility for visually impaired users.
• Leonardo AI launches Phoenix for real-time image generation – The creative AI platform Leonardo AI has launched Phoenix, a new foundational model that enables real-time image generation as users type their prompts.
• AI agent startup Adept is reportedly in talks to raise new funding – Adept, a startup building an AI model that can act as a human computer operator to automate software workflows, is in discussions to raise new capital.

Trending AI Tools:

• Perplexity Pages – A feature from the AI search engine Perplexity that generates comprehensive, well-structured articles on any topic from a user’s prompt.
• Codestral – A new 22B parameter open-weight generative AI model from Mistral AI, specifically designed for code generation tasks.
• Krea AI – An AI-powered design platform that recently introduced a real-time video generation feature, creating videos as you type.
• Pika – An AI video generator that can create and edit videos from text or images and recently added automatic sound effects.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that creates original songs, including lyrics and vocals, based on text prompts.
• Google Vids – An AI-powered video creation app for work, part of Google Workspace, that helps you create storyboards and produce videos with a virtual scriptwriter and editor.
• Claude – A family of large language models developed by Anthropic, which recently introduced a ‘Team’ plan for business use.
• Viggle – A video generation model that can animate static characters with realistic motion based on a text prompt or video clip, including a controllable camera feature.
• Opus Clip – An AI video repurposing tool that turns long videos into viral-ready short clips for social media in one click.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models, which was recently updated to produce higher-quality images and offer more user control.
• Wondercraft – An AI audio studio for creating podcasts, ads, and audiobooks, which recently launched a new API for its voice cloning technology.
• Recast – An AI-powered podcasting tool with a ‘Magic Editor’ that allows you to edit your audio simply by editing the text transcript.
• Kaiber – An AI video generation tool that creates stunning visuals and music videos from your own images or text descriptions.
• Vidyo.ai – An AI-powered content repurposing tool that automatically selects, edits, and captions the best moments from your long-form videos to create short social clips.
• Glass AI – A research tool that synthesizes insights, ideas, and connections from across the internet to help you understand complex topics.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates meeting notes, generates summaries, and tracks action items.
• YouGotClip – An AI-powered tool that lets you clip and repurpose your long-form videos into engaging short clips with a single click.
• Poe – A platform that allows users to interact with a wide range of AI chatbots from different companies and create their own custom bots.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform and collaborative workspace that helps teams manage projects, take notes, and build a “second brain.”
• Lumina – A Mac utility that lets you create a library of your favorite prompts and use them instantly in any app.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that helps you discover destinations and create personalized trip itineraries.
• SEC AI – An AI-powered search engine that allows users to chat with and analyze financial documents and SEC filings.
• Sermonote – An AI-powered tool designed for pastors to transform their sermons into various forms of content, like articles and social media posts.

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• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that specializes in helping companies build and launch AI products.
• Dust – A platform that allows teams to build and deploy their own powerful, customized AI assistants without writing code.
• MindStudio – A no-code platform that enables you to create and monetize your own custom AI applications.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that helps you create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voices in minutes.
• Read.ai – An AI meeting tool that automatically generates summaries, transcripts, and action items from your meetings.
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