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:

• Perplexity Pages turns search results into reports – Perplexity launched a new feature called Pages that instantly converts search queries into well-structured, comprehensive articles, reports, or guides.
• Apple’s ‘Apple Intelligence’ is a privacy-focused AI for your devices – Apple unveiled its new personal intelligence system, which leverages on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute to bring powerful generative AI to its ecosystem while prioritizing user privacy.
• Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI – Elon Musk has withdrawn his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, which had claimed the company abandoned its original nonprofit mission.
• Runway introduces Gen-3 Alpha, its next generation video model – Runway has unveiled Gen-3 Alpha, its new flagship text-to-video model, promising significant improvements in generation speed, fidelity, and control over structure and style.
• Mistral AI raises $640 million, now valued at $6 billion – French AI startup Mistral AI has secured $640 million in a new funding round, bringing its total valuation to an impressive $6 billion.
• Microsoft delays broad release of controversial Recall feature – Following widespread security and privacy concerns, Microsoft has delayed the public launch of its AI-powered Recall feature, making it an opt-in preview for Windows Insiders instead.
• OpenAI adds former NSA director to board – OpenAI has appointed retired U.S. Army General and former NSA Director Paul M. Nakasone to its Board of Directors and its Safety and Security Committee.
• Luma Labs releases ‘Dream Machine’ text-to-video model to the public – Luma Labs has launched Dream Machine, a new, publicly available text-to-video model that can generate high-quality, 5-second video clips from text prompts.
• Google DeepMind’s V2A can create soundtracks for silent videos – Google DeepMind has developed a new video-to-audio (V2A) technology that can generate sound effects, music, and even dialogue synchronized with the action in a silent video clip.
• Cerebras partners with Dell to build AI supercomputers – AI chip company Cerebras Systems is partnering with Dell Technologies to build and sell AI supercomputers powered by Cerebras’s massive chips.
• Snowflake announces Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search – Snowflake has launched Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search, two new AI-powered tools that allow enterprise users to chat with their data and get answers without writing SQL.
• Genspark is a new AI search engine that fabricates answers – A new AI search engine called Genspark deliberately “hallucinates” or creates novel answers when it can’t find information, marketing this as a feature for generating new ideas.
• Notion continues its AI push – Notion is leveraging AI to automatically summarize long documents and surface key insights, integrating these capabilities deeply into its collaborative workspace.
• This Japanese startup is fusing AI models with evolution – Japanese startup Sakana AI is using an “evolutionary” approach to automatically discover and merge the best elements from various open-source models to create more powerful new ones.
• YouTube is testing a new way to thwart ad blockers – YouTube is experimenting with server-side ad injection, a method that makes it significantly more difficult for ad-blocking software to work.
• Google’s AI-powered search results are coming to the U.K. – Google is now rolling out its AI Overviews and other generative AI features in Search to users in the United Kingdom.
• AI-powered blood test accurately detects early-stage lung cancer – Delfi Diagnostics has developed an AI-enhanced blood test that has shown over 80% accuracy in detecting early-stage lung cancer.
• ElevenLabs partners with streaming platform for AI-dubbed movies – Voice AI company ElevenLabs is partnering with the FAST platform Mometu to provide AI-generated multilingual dubbing for its film library.
• Fine-tuning for GPT-4o is now available in the API – OpenAI has enabled fine-tuning for its latest flagship model, GPT-4o, through its API, allowing developers to customize the model for specific tasks.
• Wayve raises $1.05B for end-to-end AI in self-driving cars – UK-based startup Wayve has raised $1.05 billion in a Series C funding round to advance its embodied AI technology for autonomous vehicles.
• AI cloud startup CoreWeave seeks to raise $2B more in debt – AI-focused cloud provider CoreWeave is reportedly in talks to raise an additional $2 billion in debt financing to expand its infrastructure.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 38% in London IPO – Shares of Raspberry Pi, the company behind the popular low-cost computers, jumped as much as 38% in their London Stock Exchange debut.
• Study finds AI can guess your race from medical images – A new study confirms that AI models can accurately determine a patient’s self-reported race from medical images like X-rays alone, raising significant concerns about algorithmic bias.
• EU privacy regulators create task force to scrutinize OpenAI – The European Data Protection Board has formed a task force to coordinate investigations into OpenAI’s compliance with the EU’s strict data protection regulations.
• Amazon to invest billions in data center in Taiwan – Amazon Web Services announced plans to invest billions of dollars to build a new cloud infrastructure data center in Taiwan by early 2025.
• Scientists are using AI to make beer taste even better – Researchers in Belgium are using AI models to predict a beer’s aroma and taste based on its chemical composition, potentially leading to the creation of new flavors.
• Aurora: A Foundation Model for Weather and Climate – Microsoft Research has developed Aurora, a large-scale foundation model trained on over a million hours of weather simulations to provide faster and more accurate global weather forecasts.
• The AI Boom’s ‘Oppenheimer Moment’ for Software Developers – A Wall Street Journal analysis explores how generative AI is transforming the software development industry and the potential career implications for programmers.
• Stability AI’s New CEOs Say They’ll Be ‘More Real’ Than the Last One – Stability AI’s new co-CEOs plan to focus on sustainable growth and practical enterprise applications following the departure of founder Emad Mostaque.
• SEC investigates software firm Avanzanite over AI claims – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating software firm Avanzanite over potentially misleading statements made about its use of artificial intelligence.

Trending AI Tools:

• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that can now compile research into shareable, structured articles called Pages.
• Pika – An AI video generator that can now automatically add sound effects to match the video content.
• Luma Dream Machine – A new and highly-anticipated AI model for creating high-quality, realistic videos from text prompts.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant, now powered by GPT-4o, which is becoming a dedicated downloadable desktop application.
• Codestral – A new open-weight generative AI model from Mistral specifically designed for code generation tasks.
• ElevenLabs – A popular AI voice generation platform that has just launched a new tool for creating sound effects from text descriptions.
• AudioSeal – An open-source tool from Meta for watermarking AI-generated audio to help identify its origin.
• Google Veo – Google’s most capable text-to-video generation model, aimed at creating high-quality, realistic videos.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI-powered video editing and generation platform for creators.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voices.
• Krea – A real-time AI design tool that lets you create and edit images and videos with interactive controls.
• Godmode – A web-based AI agent platform that allows users to chain together multiple AI models to accomplish complex tasks.
• GPT-engineer – An open-source tool that generates entire codebases based on a single natural language prompt.
• AI Comic Factory – A free online tool that generates comic book panels and layouts from text descriptions.
• Storybird – An AI-powered tool for creating illustrated children’s stories from simple prompts.
• Dubbing AI – An AI tool for quickly translating and dubbing video content into different languages.
• Arc Search – An AI-powered mobile browser that summarizes multiple web pages to provide a single, clean answer to your questions.
• Genspark – An AI-powered search engine that generates custom, summarized pages from multiple sources in response to a query.
• Meta AI – A conversational AI assistant from Meta integrated across its platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
• Jasper – An AI content platform that helps teams create marketing copy, blog posts, and other text-based content.
• Gamma – An AI-powered platform for generating presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
• Tome – An AI-powered storytelling and presentation tool that helps create visually compelling narratives.
• Lindy – An AI assistant designed to automate tasks like calendar management, email drafting, and contact management.
• Brevian – A no-code platform for building and deploying custom AI agents for business workflows.
• Trieve – An API and application for building sophisticated search experiences on top of your own data.
• LlamaParse – An open-source tool for efficiently parsing and representing complex PDFs for use with large language models.
• Rationale – An AI-powered decision-making tool that helps you weigh pros and cons for any given situation.
• Nureply – An AI-powered tool for automating cold email outreach and booking meetings.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A platform that provides a simple user interface for fine-tuning AI models without needing to code.
• Together AI – A cloud platform for building and running open-source generative AI models.
• Replicate – A cloud platform for running and fine-tuning open-source machine learning models with a simple API.
• Fireworks AI – A platform offering fast inference for a wide variety of open-source AI models.
• Prem AI – An open-source platform that simplifies the deployment and management of AI models.
• Galileo – A platform for evaluating, monitoring, and observing large language models in production.
• Amazon Q – An AI-powered assistant from AWS designed for developers and IT professionals.

Sponsors:

• AssemblyAI – An AI company that builds advanced Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models.
• beehiiv – A newsletter platform built for growth, helping creators launch, grow, and monetize their publications.
• HubSpot – Offers AI-powered tools to create content and automate marketing campaigns.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that builds custom AI solutions for startups and enterprises.
• Lemon.io – A platform to hire vetted software engineers from a global talent pool.
• Momen – A no-code web app builder for creating AI-powered applications.
• Brilliant – An interactive learning platform with courses on AI, math, and science designed to build quantitative skills.