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 unveils ‘Apple Intelligence’ with major OpenAI partnership – Apple announced its new personalized AI system that will be integrated across its apps, featuring on-device processing for privacy and a partnership to bring ChatGPT to Siri and other tools.
• Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI – Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI, which had alleged the company abandoned its original non-profit mission, just a day before a key court hearing was scheduled.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Following Apple’s WWDC announcements, Elon Musk stated he would ban Apple devices from his companies, citing security risks from the OS-level integration of OpenAI’s technology.
• Luma AI launches ‘Dream Machine’ text-to-video model – Luma AI has released a new, publicly available text-to-video generation model that is being praised for its high-quality output and understanding of physical interactions.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn search queries into articles – The new feature allows users to convert their search threads into comprehensive, shareable articles, reports, or guides, complete with citations.
• Mistral AI raises $640 million in new funding round – The Paris-based OpenAI rival secured a massive new funding round led by General Catalyst, valuing the company at nearly $6 billion.
• Figure AI partners with BMW to deploy humanoid robots in manufacturing – Humanoid robot maker Figure announced its robots are now operational at a BMW manufacturing plant in South Carolina, performing automotive production tasks.
• CoreWeave offers to acquire Core Scientific for $1.6 billion – AI cloud provider CoreWeave has made an unsolicited, all-cash offer to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific, following a separate $3.5 billion deal for AI hosting services.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 30% after London IPO – The maker of popular low-cost single-board computers went public on the London Stock Exchange, with its shares immediately jumping in value.
• xAI previews Grok-1.5 Vision model – Elon Musk’s xAI released a preview of its first-generation multimodal model, Grok-1.5V, which can process a wide variety of visual information including documents, diagrams, and photos.
• Microsoft shelves controversial ‘Recall’ feature for more testing – Following widespread privacy and security concerns, Microsoft has delayed the broad release of its screen-capturing Recall AI feature, opting to test it with a smaller group first.
• AI helps discover a new class of antibiotics – Researchers used an AI model to discover a new synthetic antibiotic capable of killing drug-resistant superbugs by analyzing millions of potential peptide compounds.
• Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0 – The new model allows users to generate high-quality, full-length music tracks up to three minutes long from a single text prompt and adds an audio-to-audio generation feature.
• Google makes its Veo video model available to select creators – Google’s high-quality text-to-video generator, Veo, is now accessible in a private preview for a limited number of creators through the VideoFX platform.
• Wayve unveils Lingo-1, a model that provides commentary for its driving actions – The autonomous driving company introduced a new vision-language-action model that can explain its driving decisions and reasoning in natural language.
• AI coding startup Poolside raises $126M – Poolside, a startup developing an AI-powered code generation tool to compete with GitHub Copilot, has secured significant funding from investors including Bain Capital and Lightspeed.
• Section launches AI Marketing Command Center – The new platform provides AI agents and strategy playbooks to help marketing teams automate tasks like SEO analysis, content creation, and campaign development.
• Google DeepMind introduces new robotics models and a shared data platform – Google announced several updates to its robotics program, including new models (RT-2-X, RT-Style, and Mobile-Aloha) and the Open X-Embodiment dataset to advance general-purpose robot learning.
• Suno is reportedly seeking to raise funds at a $1B valuation – The popular AI music generation startup is in discussions for a new funding round that would push its valuation to the billion-dollar unicorn status.
• Defiance launches ETF focused on AI chip companies – Defiance ETFs has launched a new fund, QQQY, which aims to generate income by investing in the top 15 AI, semiconductor, and tech companies in the Nasdaq-100.
• SambaNova Systems integrates Llama 3 for enterprise use – The company is now offering Meta’s Llama 3 models on its Samba-1 platform, allowing enterprises to build and deploy generative AI applications with full data privacy and model ownership.
• A new AI tool helps journalists analyze public records – Google’s Pinpoint tool now uses AI to automatically identify and categorize entities like people, places, and organizations within vast collections of public documents.
• Intel and partners unveil the UALink interconnect standard to challenge Nvidia – A consortium including Intel, Google, Microsoft, and AMD has announced a new open standard for connecting AI accelerator chips, creating a competitive alternative to Nvidia’s proprietary NVLink.
• TrueMedia.org launches as a free tool to detect deepfakes in political ads – The non-profit initiative provides a free service to help political campaigns, newsrooms, and voters identify AI-manipulated media during the election season.
• A study finds LLMs can self-correct logical errors through multi-agent debate – New research shows that having multiple AI agents debate a problem can significantly improve their reasoning and problem-solving abilities, mirroring human collaborative processes.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new, publicly available text-to-video generation model known for its high-quality and dynamic outputs.
• Perplexity Pages – An AI research tool that transforms topics or search queries into comprehensive, well-structured articles.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from text and images, recently updated with a new video model and sound effects.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates original songs with vocals and instruments from simple text prompts.
• Runway Gen-3 Alpha – Runway’s new flagship text-to-video model, offering significant improvements in generation quality, control, and realism.
• Sunburst – A new instruction-following open-source model from Mistral AI, fine-tuned from Mixtral 8x22B.
• Kindred – An AI tool that generates professional-quality headshots from your existing photos in various styles.
• Character Lingo – A translation tool that allows you to dub content into different languages while preserving your own voice.
• Viggle – A tool that animates a character from a single photo according to a specified motion or dance video clip.
• Glean – An enterprise platform for building conversational AI assistants that connect to and search across all of a company’s internal apps and knowledge.
• Kin – A personal AI companion designed to remember your conversations and help you work through your thoughts and ideas.
• Rivet – An open-source visual programming environment for building, debugging, and visualizing complex AI agent and LLM chains.
• Krea AI – A suite of creative AI tools featuring a real-time image generator and a powerful image upscaler.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that helps you discover destinations and create personalized trip itineraries.
• Daydrm.ai – An AI idea generation tool trained on award-winning advertising campaigns to help creatives brainstorm marketing concepts.
• Arcads – A platform that uses AI to quickly create high-converting video advertisements for businesses.
• Mano – An AI pair programmer designed to help developers build and deploy full-stack web applications from a text prompt.
• Vapi – A developer platform for building, testing, and deploying realistic, low-latency AI voice agents.
• Sora – OpenAI’s highly anticipated text-to-video model capable of generating high-fidelity, minute-long videos from prompts.
• Kling – A text-to-video model from Kuaishou, noted for its ability to generate high-quality, physically realistic 1080p videos up to two minutes long.
• OpenDevin – An open-source project aiming to replicate Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer, to handle complex software engineering tasks.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows users to create videos with realistic AI avatars and cloned voices for scalable content production.
• Synthesia – A leading enterprise platform for creating professional videos with AI avatars, ideal for corporate training and communication.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically repurposes long videos into short, viral-ready clips for social media platforms.
• Captions – An all-in-one mobile creative studio that uses AI for video editing, including automatic subtitling, eye contact correction, and script writing.
• Notion AI – A suite of AI features integrated into Notion to assist with writing, summarizing, translating, and brainstorming directly within your documents.
• Fine-tuning API for Llama 3 – An API from Meta that allows developers to easily fine-tune Llama 3 models for specific custom tasks.
• Claude on Android – The official mobile app for Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant, now available for Android devices.
• Durable – An AI-powered website builder that generates a complete business website with images, copy, and a contact form in seconds.
• Magicoder-S – A family of powerful 7B parameter open-source models focused on code generation, outperforming larger models on key benchmarks.
• AI Shell – A command-line interface tool that translates natural language instructions from developers into executable shell commands.
• Submagic – An AI tool that quickly generates stylish, emoji-filled captions for short-form videos to increase engagement.
• Veed.io – An online video editing platform with AI features like automatic subtitle generation, text-to-speech, and background noise removal.
• Uizard – An AI-powered tool that helps non-designers create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for apps and websites from text prompts.
• Speechify – A popular text-to-speech application that can read documents, articles, and emails aloud in a variety of natural-sounding voices.
• Chroma – An open-source database designed specifically for storing and querying AI embeddings for vector search applications.

Sponsors:

• NetSuite – A cloud-based platform that provides visibility and control to help businesses make better decisions and grow.
• AssemblyAI – An API platform offering AI models for transcribing, understanding, and analyzing speech.
• Tome – An AI-native format designed for creating and sharing immersive presentations and documents.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that connects and understands all your company’s knowledge to provide answers and help you get things done.
• Masterworks – An award-winning platform for investing in blue-chip art from artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Weaviate – An open-source, AI-native vector database that helps developers create intuitive and reliable AI applications.
• Activeloop – The provider of Deep Lake, an open-source data lake for deep learning that unifies storage, versioning, and streaming for unstructured data.
• PromptPerfect – A tool designed to elevate your prompting skills and optimize interactions with large language models.
• Vercel – An all-in-one platform from the creators of Next.js for developing, previewing, and shipping applications.
• Cohere – A platform providing access to advanced Large Language Models and RAG capabilities through a simple-to-use API.
• beehiiv – An all-in-one platform for creating, monetizing, and growing newsletters, built by the early Morning Brew team.