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 introduces ‘Apple Intelligence’ and partners with OpenAI – Apple unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” a personal intelligence system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and announced a partnership to integrate ChatGPT into its operating systems.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Elon Musk stated he would ban Apple devices at his companies if Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, citing it as an “unacceptable security violation.”
• Mistral AI raises $640M at a $6B valuation – French AI startup Mistral AI has raised $640 million in a new funding round led by General Catalyst, valuing the company at $6 billion.
• Inflection makes its 2.5 model available on Pi – Inflection AI has made its high-performance Inflection-2.5 model available to all users on its personal AI chatbot, Pi.
• Runway announces Gen-3 Alpha video model – Runway unveiled Gen-3 Alpha, its next-generation video model, promising significant improvements in generation speed, control, and quality.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn searches into articles – Perplexity introduced a new feature called Pages that instantly converts search queries into comprehensive, well-structured articles with citations.
• Character.AI introduces unique voices for its characters – Character.AI launched Character ID, a new feature that provides a unique AI-generated voice for each of its millions of characters.
• Raspberry Pi prices London IPO at top of range – Raspberry Pi has priced its London initial public offering at the top of its target range, valuing the company at nearly $700 million amid strong investor demand.
• Microsoft scales back ‘Recall’ feature after privacy backlash – Following significant privacy concerns, Microsoft announced its controversial AI-powered ‘Recall’ feature will now be an opt-in preview rather than enabled by default on new Copilot+ PCs.
• Luma Labs launches ‘Dream Machine’ text-to-video model – Luma Labs released Dream Machine, a new publicly available AI model that can generate high-quality, 5-second video clips from text prompts and images.
• You can now edit DALL-E images in ChatGPT – ChatGPT now allows users to edit images generated by DALL-E directly within the chat interface by highlighting areas and providing text prompts for changes.
• Stability AI releases open-source model for audio generation – Stability AI launched Stable Audio Open, an open-source model for creating short audio samples, sound effects, and production elements up to 47 seconds long from text descriptions.
• Amazon is spending hundreds of millions on new LLMs for Alexa – Amazon is reportedly developing a new, more conversational version of its Alexa voice assistant powered by its own large language models.
• AI coding startup Poolside raises over $400M in seed funding – Poolside, a startup building AI tools for software development, has reportedly raised a massive seed round of over $400 million from investors including Bain Capital Ventures and others.
• NVIDIA lobbied to shape AI regulation in its favor – Documents reveal that NVIDIA has been actively lobbying US and EU officials to craft AI regulations that promote its own technology and business interests.
• Google DeepMind introduces a new method for transferring robot skills – Google DeepMind developed RT-Patch, a technique that allows robotic policies to be efficiently transferred from one type of robot to another with minimal fine-tuning.
• SEC investigates whether AI startup investors violated rules – The SEC is reportedly probing whether investors in AI startups violated disclosure rules by personally investing in the same companies that their venture funds were also backing.
• AI21 Labs launches task-specific models – AI21 Labs has introduced a series of smaller, specialized models designed for specific tasks like summarization and contextual answering, aiming for better performance and cost-efficiency than general models.
• Y Combinator is seeking AI-native social product startups – Prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator announced a specific “Request for Startups” focused on finding and funding new social products that are built from the ground up with AI at their core.
• UK’s AI Safety Institute opens first international office in San Francisco – The UK’s AI Safety Institute has launched its first overseas office in San Francisco to collaborate more closely with leading AI companies and research institutions in the US.
• AI could help design better public policies, study finds – A new study from Stanford University suggests that AI can assist humans in designing more effective, efficient, and equitable public policies by simulating outcomes and exploring a wider range of options.
• AI-powered blood test shows promise for early cancer detection – An AI-enhanced blood test successfully detected 8 out of 10 bowel cancers, including early-stage cases, in a preliminary trial, showing potential as a new screening tool.
• OpenAI poaches top executives from Meta and Dropbox – OpenAI has hired former Dropbox executive Sarah Friar as its new CFO and former Meta executive Kevin Weil as its new Chief Product Officer.
• Law firm A&O Shearman gives jobs to AI-powered legal assistants – Law firm Allen & Overy Shearman is providing access to Harvey’s AI legal assistant for approximately 3,500 of its lawyers.
• CrowdStrike to acquire cybersecurity company Flow Security – Cybersecurity leader CrowdStrike has agreed to acquire Flow Security, a specialist in cloud data runtime security.
• Protai raises $10M for its AI-powered drug discovery platform – Protai, a biotech company using AI to map protein functions for drug discovery, has raised an additional $10 million in funding.
• Figure releases new video of its humanoid robot completing tasks – Figure shared a new video showcasing its humanoid robot performing autonomous tasks in a mock warehouse environment at a normal speed.
• CoreWeave announces new London data center – AI cloud provider CoreWeave has opened a new data center in London and plans to invest £1 billion in its UK expansion.
• New York Times appoints a new head of AI – The New York Times has appointed Zach Seward, a co-founder of business news outlet Quartz, to lead its AI initiatives.
• Cerebras partners with Aleph Alpha to advance German AI – AI chipmaker Cerebras and German AI company Aleph Alpha have partnered to deliver sovereign AI solutions in Germany using a cluster of Cerebras CS-2 systems.
• Xenios raises $2M for AI-driven antibody design – Xenios, a startup using AI to engineer antibodies, has raised a $2 million seed round to advance its therapeutic design platform.
• China’s 01.AI releases a new open-source vision model – Chinese AI company 01.AI has released Yi-VL-34B, an open-source vision-language model designed for tasks like analyzing charts and recognizing text in images.
• Lamini AI unveils an LLM running on AMD chips – Lamini AI announced the first major LLM to run on AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators, claiming it outperforms a similarly sized NVIDIA H100 GPU cluster.
• Unite Us acquires LeadingReach to improve healthcare coordination – Social care coordination software company Unite Us has acquired LeadingReach, a healthcare platform focused on optimizing referrals and communication.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Labs Dream Machine – A new AI model that generates high-quality, realistic videos from text prompts and images.
• Perplexity Pages – An AI tool that converts prompts and research into well-structured, visually appealing articles and reports.
• Viggle – A free AI tool that animates static characters based on a text prompt or motion sequence from another video.
• Suno – An AI platform that generates original songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• Udio – A generative AI tool for creating high-quality music tracks based on text descriptions.
• Promethean AI – An AI assistant that helps game developers build virtual worlds by generating and finding assets using natural language.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows users to easily fine-tune and deploy open-source LLMs for specific tasks.
• Recast – An AI-powered app that summarizes long articles and podcasts into concise, easy-to-digest formats.
• Defog – An AI tool that connects to your database and allows you to ask complex data queries in plain English.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that provides enterprise search and knowledge discovery across all of a company’s applications.
• Exa – An AI-powered search engine designed to find high-quality content by searching for meaning rather than just keywords.
• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s flagship multimodal model capable of processing and generating text, audio, and image content in real-time.
• Claude – A family of large language models developed by Anthropic, known for its focus on safety and large context windows.
• Gemini 1.5 Pro – Google’s powerful, multimodal AI model featuring a large context window for processing extensive amounts of information.
• Llama 3 – Meta’s latest generation of open-source large language models designed for a wide range of applications.
• Stable Diffusion 3 – The latest version of Stability AI’s open-source image generation model, featuring improved text rendering and image quality.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for quickly creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
• Durable – An AI-powered platform that can build a professional website with images and copy in under a minute.
• Krea – A suite of AI-powered creative tools that includes features like real-time image generation and enhancement.
• Pika – A platform for generating and editing videos from text, images, or other videos using AI.
• HeyGen – A generative AI video platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voices.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered tools for advanced video generation, editing, and visual effects.
• You.com – A conversational AI search engine that provides personalized and summarized answers to user queries.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that provides access to a wide variety of AI chatbots and language models in one place.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice synthesis and text-to-speech platform known for creating realistic and expressive audio.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing highly artistic and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Leonardo AI – A platform for creating high-quality visual assets, textures, and concept art for creative projects using AI.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models designed to be commercially safe and integrated into its suite of apps.
• Unreal Engine – A popular and powerful real-time 3D creation tool used for developing games, simulations, and visual effects.
• Unity – A widely used cross-platform game engine for creating 2D, 3D, VR, and AR interactive experiences.
• Godot – A free and open-source cross-platform game engine for creating both 2D and 3D games.
• Aomni – An AI agent platform designed to automate complex sales and research workflows.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates tasks like calendar management, email drafting, and meeting summarization.
• Cleanvoice AI – An AI tool that automatically removes filler words, mouth sounds, and dead air from podcasts and audio recordings.
• Guidde – An AI-powered platform that helps teams create instant video documentation and how-to guides.
• Sanebox – An email management tool that uses AI to analyze your inbox and filter out unimportant messages.
• Jasper – An AI content platform that helps enterprise marketing teams create copy, blog posts, and other materials.
• Kaiber – An AI video generator that transforms your text or images into dynamic, animated videos.
• D-ID – A platform that uses generative AI to create videos featuring talking avatars from a single photo.
• FlowGPT – A community platform for discovering, sharing, and using the most effective prompts for various AI models.
• Browse AI – A no-code tool for extracting and monitoring data from any website by training a custom AI robot.
• ClickUp – A project management and productivity platform that integrates AI to assist with tasks, summaries, and content creation.

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