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 announced “Apple Intelligence” – a new personal AI system integrated across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that uses on-device models, Private Cloud Compute for privacy, and an optional integration with ChatGPT.
• Luma Labs released Dream Machine – a new text-to-video model available to the public that generates high-quality, realistic video clips from text prompts.
• Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies – citing major security concerns over Apple’s new OS-level integration with OpenAI’s technology.
• French AI startup Mistral AI raised $640 million – in a new funding round led by General Catalyst, bringing its valuation to nearly $6 billion.
• AI search startup Perplexity is raising over $250 million – in a new funding round that would value the company at $3 billion.
• Japanese startup Sakana AI is using evolutionary algorithms – to automatically merge and optimize different open-source AI models, creating powerful new models without traditional training.
• Stability AI has released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – a 2.6B parameter text-to-image model that is more compact than its predecessor while offering improved photorealism and typography.
• Figure AI is deploying its humanoid robots to a BMW manufacturing plant – to begin exploring real-world use cases in automotive production.
• AI-focused cloud provider CoreWeave secured a $7.5 billion debt facility – led by Blackstone and Carlyle to expand its GPU infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Character.ai has introduced a voice cloning feature – allowing users to create a digital copy of their voice for their AI companions from a 10-second audio sample.
• Researchers discovered AI models trained on chess develop a “world model” – that linearly represents the positions of pieces on the board.
• California’s Senate has passed SB 1047 – a landmark AI safety bill that would require companies developing powerful AI models to perform safety assessments and implement safeguards.
• Amazon Web Services announced a $230 million commitment – to support early-stage generative AI startups with cloud credits, mentorship, and education.
• Raspberry Pi increased its IPO price range – due to strong investor demand, now valuing the low-cost computer maker at up to £541.6 million.
• AI hardware startup Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer – for between $750 million and $1 billion following the poorly received launch of its AI Pin.
• Google researchers have introduced VLOGGER – a new AI model for generating realistic, controllable videos of people from a single source image and an audio track.
• A report from the McKinsey Global Institute estimates generative AI could add up to $4.4 trillion – in value to the global economy annually.
• Inflection AI appointed former Mozilla CPO Sean White as its new CEO – to lead its pivot towards an API-first business model.
• Data cloud company Snowflake announced it is acquiring AI observability platform TruEra – to bolster its model monitoring and evaluation capabilities.
• Google detailed its new on-device AI framework for Android – which is being built into the core of the operating system to power generative features directly on mobile devices.
• The Republican National Committee used AI-generated imagery – to create an ad depicting a dystopian future as its official response to President Biden’s State of the Union address.
• Cleanlab released a new open-source library – for reliably evaluating the performance of Large Language Models on structured datasets.

Trending AI Tools:

• Runway – A creative suite that uses AI to generate and edit video and images, now with a feature to animate specific parts of a still photo.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generation platform that can create realistic voiceovers and clone voices from just a minute of audio.
• Apple’s Ferret-UI – A new open-source multimodal LLM designed to understand and interact with mobile application screens.
• Google’s VLOGGER – A research project that can create a realistic, animated video of a person speaking and gesturing from a single still photo.
• Krea – An AI-powered design tool that offers features like real-time image generation, upscaling, and other creative enhancements.
• Microsoft Co-pilot for Security – A generative AI-powered assistant for security professionals that helps analyze threats and respond to incidents faster.
• Cognition AI’s Devin – Billed as the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer that can handle entire development projects.
• Mind-Video – A research project demonstrating the ability to reconstruct high-quality video clips from a person’s brain activity.
• Character.AI – A platform that lets you create and interact with chatbots that take on the personalities of famous, fictional, or original characters.
• HeyGen – A video platform that allows you to create engaging business videos with generative AI avatars and voice cloning.
• Opus Clip – A tool that automatically repurposes long videos into viral short clips for social media with a single click.
• Kaiber – An AI video generator that creates videos from your own images or text descriptions with various artistic styles.
• Figjam AI – An AI assistant within a collaborative online whiteboard that generates new ideas, summarizes notes, and creates visual timelines.
• Humane AI Pin – A screenless, wearable AI assistant that clips to your clothing and is controlled by voice, gestures, and touch.
• Uizard – A design tool that helps you mock up apps, websites, and user interfaces by simply writing in plain English.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct answers with cited sources and includes a ‘Discover’ feed for popular topics.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for creating polished and engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
• ChatPDF – A utility that allows you to upload PDF documents and ask questions to quickly get summaries and find information within them.
• Leonardo AI – A platform for generating high-quality images and art assets for creative projects using various fine-tuned models.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its reliable text rendering capabilities, now featuring inpainting and outpainting.
• Kickresume – An AI-powered resume and cover letter builder that helps you create professional job application documents quickly.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can generate a complete website with copy, images, and a contact form in seconds.
• D-ID – A platform that creates digital people and photorealistic avatars from a single image that can be animated to speak and interact.
• Poe by Quora – An app that provides a single interface to interact with a wide variety of different AI chatbots and language models.
• Aomni – A research tool that creates detailed reports on companies, people, and topics by synthesizing information from multiple sources.
• Ema – A “universal AI employee” for enterprises that automates a wide range of tasks and integrates with various corporate applications.
• Continue – An open-source VS Code and JetBrains extension that acts as an autopilot for software development.
• Diagram – An AI design companion with tools for automating and enhancing the design process, recently acquired by Figma.
• Superagent – A set of cloud APIs that allows developers to build and deploy production-ready AI assistants and agents.
• Amazon Bedrock – A managed service from AWS that provides access to a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies.
• Web LLM – An open-source project that enables large language models and chatbots to run entirely inside a web browser.
• Palantir Foundry – A suite of AI tools designed to help military operators use AI for mission planning and operational execution.
• OpenAI’s Jukebox – A neural network from OpenAI that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles.
• Magic Eden’s NFT creator tool – A tool on the Magic Eden platform that allows users to create NFTs simply by using text prompts.
• Flojoy – An open-source measurement and control platform for test automation designed for engineers and hardware testing.

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