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:

• Google Gemini 1.5 Pro – Google announced Gemini 1.5 Pro, a new model featuring a massive 1 million token context window and a more efficient architecture for advanced long-context understanding.
• OpenAI Sora – OpenAI revealed Sora, a new text-to-video model capable of generating high-fidelity, minute-long videos from a single text prompt.
• Groq LPU Inference Engine – Groq demonstrated its new Language Processing Unit (LPU) Inference Engine, enabling large language models to run at an unprecedented speed of nearly 500 tokens per second.
• Apple Keyframer – Apple researchers introduced Keyframer, an AI tool that animates static 2D images based on natural language prompts.
• Google Gemma – Google released Gemma, a family of lightweight, open-source models (2B and 7B) built from the same research as Gemini, designed for responsible AI development.
• Social Media Executives Testify on AI – Executives from Meta, TikTok, and X testified before a US House committee on their efforts to label AI-generated content and combat election-related misinformation.
• Pika Labs Adds Sound Effects – Generative video platform Pika introduced a new feature that allows users to add sound effects to their videos with text prompts.
• Meta V-JEPA – Meta introduced V-JEPA, an efficient, non-generative AI model that learns to understand and analyze video by predicting missing or masked parts of it.
• Hugging Face and Google Cloud Partnership – Hugging Face and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership to make it easier for developers to train, fine-tune, and serve open models on Google’s infrastructure.
• Magic AI Raises $117M – AI startup Magic raised $117 million to continue its work on building an AI software engineer capable of understanding and contributing to large codebases.
• Nvidia Chat with RTX – Nvidia released Chat with RTX, a free tech demo that allows users to run a personalized AI chatbot locally on their PC using their own files and data.
• Amazon Rufus – Amazon launched Rufus, a new generative AI-powered conversational shopping assistant integrated into its mobile app.
• Google Maps Immersive View for Routes – Google Maps began rolling out its AI-powered Immersive View for routes, allowing users to preview their entire journey in a photorealistic 3D model.
• Stable Diffusion 3 Teased – Stability AI’s CEO Emad Mostaque teased that Stable Diffusion 3, the next generation of the company’s flagship image model, is “coming soon.”
• GitHub Copilot Enterprise is Generally Available – GitHub made its Copilot Enterprise plan generally available, offering customized AI coding assistance for businesses at $39 per user per month.
• Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant – Adobe is launching a new AI Assistant in its Reader and Acrobat products that can summarize PDFs and answer questions about their content.
• Cognition AI raises $21M – Cognition, an applied AI lab building AI teammates founded by competitive programmers, has raised a $21M Series A led by Founders Fund.
• U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium – The U.S. Commerce Department announced the creation of a consortium of over 200 organizations, including major tech companies, to help stand up the U.S. AI Safety Institute.
• Anduril and Palantir Partner for Defense AI – Defense tech firms Anduril and Palantir announced a partnership to deliver AI-powered software and hardware solutions to the UK’s Ministry of Defence.
• Microsoft Project Cinderella – A new research demo from Microsoft, codenamed ‘Cinderella’, showed the ability to create high-quality 3D avatars from a single 2D image of a person.
• Stack Overflow and Google Cloud Partnership – Google Cloud and Stack Overflow announced a partnership to bring Stack Overflow’s knowledge base into Google Cloud’s AI offerings.
• Databricks Acquires Einblick – Databricks announced its acquisition of Einblick, a platform that allows users to build data workflows using natural language.
• Instacart Partners with Google Cloud – Instacart is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to integrate Gemini models for improving the platform’s search and recommendation features.
• Borderless AI raises $27M – Borderless AI, a startup using an AI agent to automate hiring and managing international employees, launched with $27 million in seed funding.
• a16z Announces Open Source AI Grant – Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) launched a new grant program to provide funding for developers working on open-source AI projects.
• The Atlantic Tests AI Summaries – The Atlantic is experimenting with an AI-powered feature that provides subscribers with short, bulleted summaries of its articles.
• Luma Labs Launches ‘Provoking’ Contest – Luma Labs has launched ‘Provoking’, a weekly creative competition for its text-to-3D model with cash prizes for the best generations based on a theme.

Trending AI Tools:

• ChatGPT (GPT-4o) – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI, which has now made many advanced features, including a new desktop app and voice mode, available for free.
• Project Astra – Google’s vision for a future universal AI assistant that can see, hear, and understand the world in real-time to be helpful in daily life.
• Veo – Google’s most capable text-to-video model to date, designed to generate high-quality, 1080p resolution videos that can go beyond a minute.
• Imagen 3 – Google’s new text-to-image model that offers incredible detail, photorealism, and significantly improved ability to render natural-looking text.
• Pika – An AI video generator that recently added a new feature to automatically generate and sync sound effects with video content.
• Adobe Express – A design application that has integrated new Firefly AI features like Generative Fill and Text to Template to streamline creative workflows.
• Llama 3 – Meta’s latest family of open-source large language models, widely used by developers for building and fine-tuning custom AI applications.
• Viggle AI – A free AI tool that animates any character photo based on a motion reference video, making it easy to create dancing or moving characters.
• Claude – A powerful conversational AI from Anthropic known for its large context window, strong reasoning capabilities, and focus on safety.
• Suno – An AI music and song generation tool that can create original music, complete with vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• Midjourney – A leading AI image generator famous for producing high-quality, artistic, and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Krea AI – A suite of AI tools that enables real-time image generation, enhancement, and upscaling for creative projects.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI-powered video creation and editing platform with a wide range of features from text-to-video to advanced motion tracking.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that creates realistic talking avatars and can translate and dub video content into different languages with voice cloning.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions by synthesizing information from across the web.
• ElevenLabs – A popular AI platform for generating highly realistic text-to-speech audio and creating clones of existing voices.
• Luma Labs Dream Machine – A highly anticipated text-to-video generation model that is reported to produce exceptionally high-quality and coherent video clips.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that enables users to easily fine-tune open-source models like Llama 3 for specific, customized tasks.
• Screenshot to Code – A free AI tool that converts a screenshot of a website or user interface into clean, functional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code.
• Audio-to-Lip – An AI tool that accurately syncs the lip movements of a person in a video to match a new or different audio track.
• Reka Core – A new, highly capable multimodal AI model that understands text, images, video, and audio, positioning it as a strong competitor to leading models like GPT-4.
• Symmetry – A free AI tool that allows you to generate unique, seamless, and tileable patterns from simple text prompts.
• Vapi – A developer platform for quickly building, testing, and deploying realistic, low-latency AI voice agents for applications.
• AI Story Generate – A tool for generating illustrated children’s stories with AI, allowing for the customization of characters, art style, and plot.
• Opus Clip – An AI-powered tool that automatically repurposes long videos into viral short clips formatted for social media platforms like TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
• Guidde – An AI tool that helps teams create video documentation and how-to guides significantly faster by capturing workflows and generating voiceover and text.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that combines tasks, notes, mind maps, and chat into a unified workspace for teams.
• Gamma – An AI-powered alternative to traditional slide decks that helps you create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
• Uizard – An AI-powered design tool that helps users create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for apps and websites from text prompts or screenshots.
• Notion AI – A suite of AI features integrated directly into the Notion workspace to help with writing, summarizing, brainstorming, and organizing information.
• Shortform – An AI-powered service that provides super-detailed summaries and analyses of non-fiction books, helping you understand key ideas quickly.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that can instantly create accurate notes and answer questions from any document, presentation, video, or audio recording.
• Hugging Face – A central platform and community hub for open-source AI, providing access to thousands of models, datasets, and tools.
• Gencraft – An AI art generator that allows users to create and edit unique images and videos from text prompts with various artistic styles.
• Recap – A service that uses AI to summarize the top news stories of the day and delivers the concise brief to your email inbox.
• Listen Notes – A comprehensive search engine for podcasts, allowing you to find and create clips from millions of podcast episodes.

Sponsors:

• Masterworks – An award-winning platform that allows users to invest in blue-chip art.
• MarketerHire – A platform that uses an AI-matching system to connect companies with pre-vetted marketing experts on demand.
• Vercel – A platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability to create and deploy web applications.
• CommandBar – A service that allows companies to add an AI-assisted command bar to their software, enabling users to find information and take actions quickly.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that partners with companies to build and launch AI products.
• Flatfile – An AI-assisted data import platform that automatically learns how to structure and clean messy table data.