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:

• Nvidia becomes the world’s most valuable company – Nvidia’s stock surged, making it the world’s most valuable company by surpassing Microsoft in market capitalization.
• Apple delays AI features in the European Union – Apple is delaying the launch of Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and SharePlay Screen Sharing in the EU this year, citing regulatory uncertainties with the Digital Markets Act.
• Perplexity AI launches ‘Pages’ to turn searches into articles – Perplexity AI launched “Pages,” a new feature that turns search queries into customizable, visually rich articles, reports, or guides.
• Stanford study reveals staggering costs of training top AI models – A new Stanford study reveals the immense and often undisclosed costs of training top AI models, with GPT-4 estimated at $78 million and Gemini Ultra at $191 million.
• Amazon plans to launch a paid, AI-powered version of Alexa – Amazon is planning a significant overhaul of its Alexa voice assistant, incorporating generative AI for more conversational capabilities and introducing a monthly subscription fee.
• Harvey AI raises $80M for its legal AI platform – Harvey, an AI startup providing legal-focused generative AI solutions, raised an $80 million Series B funding round co-led by Elad Gil and Kleiner Perkins.
• UK AI Safety Institute opens first international office in San Francisco – The UK’s AI Safety Institute has opened its first overseas office in San Francisco to collaborate with US AI companies and research institutions on safety testing.
• Meta releases new models and tools for responsible AI development – Meta has released new AI models and tools, including the Jeffersonian AI Project and Social-LLM, to help developers evaluate and build more responsible AI systems.
• Microsoft and Broadcom partner on custom AI chips – Microsoft is partnering with Broadcom to develop custom AI chips, aiming to secure high-performance computing hardware and reduce its reliance on Nvidia.
• Cognition makes its AI software engineer, Devin, available in public preview – Cognition AI has released Devin, its AI software engineer agent, into a public preview for users to test its code generation and debugging capabilities.
• Luma Labs’ new Dream Machine video model is now publicly available – Luma Labs has released Dream Machine, a new text-to-video AI model that generates high-quality, realistic video clips and is now accessible to the public.
• Pika Labs introduces a new generative sound effects feature – Pika Labs introduced a new feature that allows users to generate sound effects for their videos simply by typing a description.
• Midjourney releases alpha version of its V6.1 model – Midjourney has released an alpha version of V6.1, featuring an improved text-to-image model with better coherence, prompt understanding, and text rendering.
• Glean launches Glean Assistant for enterprise conversational AI search – Glean launched Glean Assistant, a new conversational AI search tool for enterprises that can answer questions, analyze data, and create content using company-specific knowledge.
• Wayfair launches ‘Decorify’, an AI tool for virtual room redesign – Wayfair has launched a new generative AI tool called ‘Decorify’ that allows users to redesign their rooms by virtually swapping furniture and styles in an uploaded photo.
• Researchers develop AI that reconstructs what a person sees from brain scans – Researchers have developed an AI system that can reconstruct visual images by analyzing a person’s fMRI brain scans.
• Scale AI acquires former Apple asset Fleetsmith for enterprise device management – Scale AI has acquired Fleetsmith, a device management company previously owned by Apple, to strengthen its enterprise offerings.
• Amazon Bedrock adds new features and Cohere’s Command R models – Amazon Bedrock has been updated with new features, including Guardrails for model behavior, and now offers access to Cohere’s latest Command R+ and R models.
• Meta’s PIGEON model can geolocate photos with high accuracy – Meta has developed a new AI model called PIGEON that can determine the location where a photograph was taken by analyzing its visual cues.
• Databricks acquires Tabular for over $1B to advance open data formats – Databricks has acquired Tabular for over $1 billion to advance data compatibility and establish the open-source Delta Lake format as a leading industry standard.
• Tencent unveils V-Fusion, a new video-to-3D model – Tencent has unveiled V-Fusion, a new AI model that can generate high-quality 3D assets from a single video, improving the speed and efficiency of 3D content creation.
• Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics collaborate on an open-source humanoid robot – Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics are partnering to create Reachy 2, an open-source humanoid robot aimed at advancing real-world AI applications.
• Adobe launches new GenAI features for marketers in its Experience Cloud – Adobe has launched new generative AI features in its Experience Cloud, including tools for creating marketing copy, automating audience workflows, and generating data insights.
• Mistral AI releases Codestral as an extension for VS Code and JetBrains – Mistral AI’s new coding model, Codestral, is now available as an extension for VS Code and JetBrains, offering developers advanced code completion and generation capabilities.
• Alibaba’s new EMO AI creates realistic talking avatars from a single image – Alibaba has released EMO (Emote Portrait Alive), a new AI model that can generate highly realistic talking and singing video avatars from a single photo and an audio clip.
• Suno raises $125M for its AI music generation platform – Suno AI, the company behind the viral AI music generator, has raised $125 million in a new funding round to further develop its technology.
• OpenAI acquires Rockset to enhance real-time search capabilities – OpenAI has acquired Rockset, a real-time analytics database company, to enhance its infrastructure and improve search and data analysis for its enterprise products.
• Japanese AI startup Sakana AI develops “evolutionary” approach to creating models – Japanese AI startup Sakana AI has demonstrated a method for creating new AI models by “breeding” existing ones, inspired by evolutionary processes.
• OpenAI adds former NSA Director Paul M. Nakasone to its Board of Directors – OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired U.S. Army general and former NSA director, to its Board of Directors to focus on security and safety.
• Spotify is testing AI-generated ads voiced by podcasters – Spotify is reportedly testing AI-generated advertisements voiced by podcasters to promote products in a more integrated and personalized way.
• Google announces new AI-powered anti-theft features for Android – Google is introducing new AI-driven anti-theft features for Android phones that will automatically lock the screen if a theft-related motion is detected.
• Suno adds new features for extending and structuring AI-generated songs – Suno, the AI music generation tool, has released updates including an “extend” feature to lengthen songs and a new “in-painting” like feature called ‘Structure’.
• US Surgeon General calls for warning labels on social media platforms – The U.S. Surgeon General has called for warning labels on social media platforms, similar to those on tobacco products, to alert users to potential mental health risks.
• AI generates a new Radiohead-style song called ‘So Sad’ – A team of creators used multiple generative AI tools to produce a full Radiohead-inspired song, complete with vocals, instrumentation, and lyrics.
• The AI Film Festival showcases the creative potential of text-to-video models – The second annual AI Film Festival highlighted a range of short films created with AI tools, demonstrating the growing potential of generative AI in creative storytelling.
• Klarna launches an AI assistant for personalized shopping and gift lists – Klarna has introduced a new AI assistant that provides shoppers with curated gift lists, product suggestions, and inspiration to enhance the online shopping experience.
• TikTok is developing AI avatars for advertisers to use in marketing campaigns – TikTok is developing AI-generated virtual avatars for advertisers to use in their campaigns, offering a new way to create marketing content on the platform.

Trending AI Tools:

• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s new flagship model that natively integrates text, audio, and vision for real-time, conversational interactions.
• Google Project Astra – Google’s vision for a universal, real-time AI assistant that can see, hear, and understand the context of the world around you.
• Veo – Google’s most advanced text-to-video model, capable of generating high-quality, minute-long video clips in 1080p resolution.
• Imagen 3 – Google’s latest text-to-image model that generates photorealistic, detailed images with a better understanding of natural language and accurate text rendering.
• Gemini 1.5 Flash – A new, lighter-weight Google AI model optimized for speed and efficiency in high-frequency, large-scale tasks.
• AI Overviews in Google Search – A new Google Search feature that provides AI-generated summaries and answers at the top of the results page for complex queries.
• ElevenLabs Sound Effects – A new AI tool that generates realistic sound effects from simple text descriptions.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length songs with lyrics and vocals from text prompts.
• Suno – A popular AI music creation platform that allows users to generate original songs, including vocals and instrumentation, from text.
• Phi-3-vision – Microsoft’s new small, open, multimodal AI model that can understand and reason about both text and images.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from text, images, or existing video clips.
• Gems – A feature from Anthropic that allows users to create custom, reusable versions of the Claude AI with specific instructions and personalities.
• Luma AI’s Dream Machine – A highly anticipated text-to-video model from Luma AI, expected to generate high-quality and realistic video clips.
• Opus Clip – A generative AI video tool that automatically repurposes long videos into polished, viral short clips with one click.
• Gling – An AI-powered video editor that automatically cuts silences, removes bad takes, and adds captions to streamline the editing process for creators.
• Hydra-2 – An open-source, multi-headed language model from Stanford that significantly speeds up AI inference by generating multiple continuation paths in parallel.
• Danswer – An open-source tool that enables you to ask natural language questions about your internal documents and connects to workplace apps like Slack and Jira.
• Vanna AI – An open-source Python framework that uses AI to generate complex SQL queries from natural language questions asked by business users.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform for creating and training custom AI agents on your own data.
• ChatGPT desktop app – A native macOS application that integrates ChatGPT into your desktop workflow, allowing it to see and reason about what’s on your screen.
• Reka Core – A highly capable, frontier-class multimodal model that can process and understand text, images, video, and audio.
• FigJam AI – AI features integrated into Figma’s online whiteboard to automate tasks like generating templates, summarizing notes, and creating visual diagrams.
• Grok-1.5V – xAI’s first multimodal model that can understand and reason about various visual inputs, including documents, charts, and photos.
• Luminary – An AI-powered platform designed to accelerate full-stack software development by handling boilerplate code and automating repetitive tasks.
• Galileo – An AI tool for product designers that generates and edits high-fidelity UI designs from natural language prompts.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating realistic avatar videos, translating speech, and cloning voices for professional use cases.
• Voicify AI – A platform for creating AI voice covers and original music using a vast library of AI-generated voices.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at creating images with coherent and accurate text rendered within them.
• Stable Diffusion 3 – Stability AI’s latest and most capable text-to-image model, featuring major improvements in image quality, typography, and prompt understanding.
• Cognition AI’s Devin – An autonomous AI agent designed to function as a software engineer, capable of handling entire development projects from a single prompt.
• Guidde – An AI tool that helps teams create instant video documentation and how-to guides by capturing workflows and generating voiceovers.
• Recast – An AI-powered app that transforms written articles into concise, engaging audio summaries in a podcast-like format.
• Trillium – Google’s 6th generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), a custom AI accelerator chip designed for high-performance and efficient training of large-scale AI models.
• Llama 3 – Meta’s latest generation of open-source large language models, offering state-of-the-art performance for a wide range of applications.
• Claude 3 Opus – Anthropic’s most powerful AI model, known for its deep reasoning and analysis capabilities across various domains.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct, cited answers to user questions by synthesizing information from the web.
• Krea AI – A suite of AI tools for creatives that offers real-time image and video generation and enhancement.
• Midjourney – A prominent AI image generator famous for producing highly artistic and stylized images from text prompts.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates workplace tasks such as managing your calendar, drafting emails, and summarizing meetings.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that allows you to create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text prompts.
• Poe – A platform from Quora that lets you discover, chat with, and create a wide variety of AI-powered bots and models.
• Magic – An AI-powered coding assistant that works alongside developers to help write, debug, and review code more efficiently.
• Sudowrite – An AI writing partner specifically designed for fiction authors to help brainstorm, expand, and revise their stories.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that creates notes, summaries, and answers questions from any document, video, or audio file.
• Character.AI – An AI platform where users can create and interact with intelligent chatbots based on fictional or real personalities.
• Pools – A platform that enables users to build and share custom AI models for generating images, audio, and more without writing any code.
• Coze – A no-code platform for quickly building and deploying AI chatbots with access to various plugins and large language models.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can generate a complete business website with copy, images, and a contact form in under a minute.
• Beautiful.ai – An AI-powered presentation maker that automatically applies design principles to slides to keep them professional and consistent.
• Replit – An online coding environment with AI-powered features like code completion and debugging to help developers build projects faster.
• Phind – An AI search engine tailored for developers that provides code examples and technical solutions with citations.
• Gencraft – An all-in-one AI content creation platform for generating unique art, videos, and photos from text prompts.
• You.com – A private, customizable AI search engine that summarizes the web and allows users to chat with different AI models.
• Godmode – A web platform that provides free access to various open-source AI models for chat and experimentation.
• Lemon Squeezy – An e-commerce platform that has integrated AI tools to help sellers generate product descriptions, social media copy, and blog posts.

Sponsors:

• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that helps companies build and scale AI solutions.
• Masterworks – An award-winning platform for investing in blue-chip art by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Guidde – A tool that helps you create video documentation with AI in seconds.
• Vanta – A trust management platform that helps automate compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and more.
• Weights & Biases – A developer-first MLOps platform for building generative AI applications.
• Notion – Notion AI helps you work faster, write better, and think bigger, directly within your workspace.
• AI Pro Suite – An AI business in-a-box solution that generates fully-monetized content sites.