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:

• Cognition AI Introduces Devin – A new AI agent named Devin was unveiled, functioning as the first autonomous AI software engineer capable of handling complete development projects.
• Figure Demos Humanoid Robot Powered by OpenAI – Figure released a striking video of its Figure 01 humanoid robot holding a full conversation and performing tasks after being integrated with an OpenAI model.
• Perplexity Launches ‘Pages’ to Turn Prompts into Articles – AI search engine Perplexity introduced a new feature called Pages, which converts user prompts into well-structured and visually appealing articles, reports, or web pages.
• Midjourney Releases ‘Character Reference’ for Consistent Characters – Midjourney launched a new “Character Reference” feature that allows users to maintain the appearance of a character across multiple image generations using a reference image.
• Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $6 Billion in Funding – xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, officially announced it has closed a $6 billion Series B funding round to build advanced infrastructure and bring its first products to market.
• Runway Announces Gen-3 Alpha Video Model – Runway unveiled Gen-3 Alpha, its next-generation video model, promising a major leap in generation quality, structural consistency, and motion accuracy.
• Inflection AI Launches Inflection-2.5 – Inflection AI released its new Inflection-2.5 model, which it claims is competitive with GPT-4’s performance but required only 40% of the computing power for training.
• Google Reveals VLOGGER for Creating Avatars From a Single Photo – Google researchers introduced VLOGGER, an AI model that can create a controllable, animated 3D avatar from a single still photograph of a person.
• Elon Musk to Open-Source Grok AI Model – Elon Musk announced via a tweet that his company xAI would be open-sourcing its Grok large language model.
• Google DeepMind Introduces SIMA for Gaming – Google DeepMind revealed SIMA, a Scalable, Instructable, Multiworld Agent that can follow natural-language instructions to perform tasks across a variety of 3D video games.
• OpenAI Responds to Elon Musk’s Lawsuit – OpenAI published a blog post in response to a lawsuit from Elon Musk, sharing internal emails to demonstrate his prior support for the company’s for-profit direction.
• Apple Acquires On-Device AI Startup DarwinAI – Apple acquired Canadian startup DarwinAI, a company specializing in making AI systems smaller and faster for use directly on devices rather than in the cloud.
• Scarlett Johansson Confronts OpenAI Over ‘Sky’ Voice – Scarlett Johansson issued a statement that OpenAI’s “Sky” voice was “eerily similar” to her own after she had declined an offer to voice the assistant, prompting OpenAI to pause its use.
• Microsoft Upgrades Copilot with GPT-4o and New Features – Microsoft announced it is integrating OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model into Copilot and adding new features for analyzing files and suggesting prompts.
• Google Demos Project Astra, a Real-Time AI Assistant – At its I/O conference, Google showed a demo of Project Astra, a versatile AI agent that can understand its environment in real-time through a phone’s camera and converse with the user about it.
• Pika Labs Adds AI-Powered Sound Effects to Videos – Video generation platform Pika introduced a new feature that allows users to automatically generate and add sound effects to their video clips.
• Stanford Researchers Unveil HumanPlus Humanoid Robot – A team at Stanford University presented HumanPlus, an open-source humanoid robot that can learn complex tasks like folding laundry and typing by observing human demonstrations.
• Databricks Acquires AI Data firm Lilac – Databricks announced its acquisition of Lilac, a company that develops tools to help AI engineers explore and analyze unstructured data for building large language models.
• Mistral AI Releases Codestral for Code Generation – Mistral AI launched Codestral, a new 22B-parameter open-weight model explicitly designed for code generation that supports over 80 programming languages.
• Nvidia Announces Next-Gen ‘Rubin’ AI Platform for 2026 – Just months after announcing its Blackwell platform, Nvidia revealed its successor, Rubin, which will feature new GPUs and CPUs as part of a new one-year release cycle.
• AMD Unveils New AI Chips to Challenge Nvidia – At the Computex conference, AMD detailed its new Instinct MI350 and MI400 AI accelerators as it ramps up its efforts to compete with Nvidia in the data center.
• PwC Becomes OpenAI’s First Resale Partner and Largest Customer – Consulting giant PwC signed a deal to become the first company to resell ChatGPT Enterprise and will roll out the technology to its 100,000 employees.
• Meta Plans July Release for Llama 3.1 – A Meta executive announced that the company plans to release Llama 3.1, the next version of its powerful open-source model, in July.
• Google Scales Back AI Overviews After Errors – Following a week of viral screenshots showing bizarre and incorrect answers, Google announced it has made technical improvements and added restrictions to its AI Overviews feature in Search.
• Adept Releases Fuyu-Heavy, a New Open-Source Multimodal Model – AI agent company Adept open-sourced Fuyu-Heavy, a powerful new multimodal model created to better understand graphs, diagrams, and complex user interfaces.
• Anthropic Discovers ‘Many-Shot Jailbreaking’ Vulnerability – Researchers at Anthropic found a new method to bypass LLM safety filters by overloading the model’s context window with a long sequence of fake dialogues.
• ElevenLabs Launches AI Sound Effects Generator – Expanding beyond voice, ElevenLabs has released a new tool that generates sound effects and short instrumental tracks from a text description.
• Legal AI Startup Harvey Raises $80M Series B – Harvey, a company building AI-powered tools for the legal industry, raised an $80 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Elad Gil.
• Together AI Releases Single-Step Image Model – Together AI launched Striking-V1, a new image generation model that can create high-quality images in a single step, making it much faster than traditional diffusion models.
• Hume AI Launches API for Empathic Voice AI – Hume AI released its Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) as an API, allowing any developer to build applications with a voice agent that can understand and respond to human emotional tone.
• Sakana AI Uses ‘Evolutionary’ Technique to Merge Models – The Japanese AI startup Sakana AI demonstrated a novel approach inspired by biological evolution to automatically merge multiple open-source models into a single, more capable model.
• Healthcare AI Startup Hippocratic AI Raises $53M – Hippocratic AI raised $53 million in a Series A round to continue developing its safety-focused, task-specific healthcare AI agents.
• DeepMind Study Suggests LLMs Lack True Reasoning Skills – A new paper from Google DeepMind researchers indicates that LLMs’ apparent reasoning abilities may be a form of sophisticated pattern matching rather than genuine abstract thought.
• Microsoft Model Trained on 4 Million Hours of YouTube Videos – A Microsoft research paper revealed the creation of a new AI model, “Learning from Videos,” which was trained on a vast dataset of public YouTube videos.
• Study Finds Leading AI Models Fail UK Bar Exams Due to Bias – Research in the UK concluded that prominent AI models from companies like OpenAI exhibit significant racial and gender bias, to the point they would fail the ethics section of a bar exam.
• Fake Joe Rogan Deepfakes Used in X Ad Scams – Verified accounts on X have been running ads featuring AI-generated deepfakes of podcaster Joe Rogan to promote scams for erectile dysfunction and other products.
• TikTok Tests AI-Generated Avatars for Creators – TikTok is experimenting with a feature that lets creators produce AI-generated avatars of themselves to read their scripts in videos.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma AI’s Dream Machine – A new AI model for creating high-quality, realistic videos from text prompts and images.
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s fastest and most intelligent AI model yet, excelling at complex tasks and available for free on Claude.ai.
• Artifacts (by Anthropic) – A new Claude feature that allows users to edit and iterate on AI-generated content like code and documents in a dedicated workspace.
• Krea AI – An AI design tool that offers real-time image generation and enhancement features.
• Pika – An AI video generator that can create and edit videos from text and images.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI video editing and generation platform for creators.
• Perplexity Pages – A tool that transforms search queries into comprehensive, visually appealing articles that can be shared.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates original songs, complete with lyrics and vocals, from a simple text prompt.
• Viggle – A new AI model that can replicate a person’s motion from a source video onto a static character image.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool for generating high-quality, full-length tracks in various styles from text prompts.
• Kaedim – An AI tool that automatically converts 2D images, sketches, or concept art into production-ready 3D models.
• Google Vids – An AI-powered video creation app for work that helps users create compelling video content with a simple script.
• Dora – A no-code platform that allows you to build professional websites with 3D animations and advanced interactions using AI.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating professional videos with realistic avatars, voice cloning, and text-to-video features.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice company that provides realistic, human-like text-to-speech and voice cloning services.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for creating artistic and high-quality visuals from text prompts via Discord.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator particularly skilled at rendering coherent and creative text within images.
• Leonardo AI – A platform for generating high-quality images, textures, and art assets for creative projects from text prompts.
• Scenario – An AI tool for generating consistent and style-aligned game art and assets for developers.
• Promethean AI – An AI assistant that helps game developers and artists build virtual worlds and levels by finding and placing assets.
• Vidyo.ai – An AI tool that automatically repurposes long-form videos into engaging short clips formatted for social media platforms.
• Veed.io – An online video editing suite that includes AI-powered tools for subtitling, transcription, noise removal, and content creation.
• SudoWrite – An AI writing partner designed specifically for creative writers and authors to help brainstorm, write, and revise stories.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that integrates project management, mind mapping, and team collaboration in one unified workspace.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that helps you create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from a simple prompt.
• Tome – An AI storytelling and presentation tool that generates entire narratives and visual presentations from text inputs.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that handles calendar management, email drafting, and other administrative tasks automatically.
• Poe – An app that provides a single interface to interact with a variety of AI chatbots and models from different companies.
• Fincher – A no-code platform for building and deploying AI-powered backend workflows and APIs.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can generate a complete business website with copy, images, and a contact form in under a minute.
• Framer – A design and prototyping tool that uses AI to help build and launch professional websites without code.
• Wix – A popular website builder that uses AI to help users create professional websites by answering a few simple questions.
• Hocoos – An AI-powered website builder designed to create professional online stores and business websites quickly.
• Hostinger – A web hosting service that includes an AI website builder for creating websites with AI-generated text and images.
• AudioCraft – An open-source PyTorch library from Meta AI for generating high-quality audio and music from text.
• Sermon Shots – An AI tool specifically designed to create short, shareable clips with animated captions from church sermons for social media.

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• My First Million Podcast – My First Million is a podcast where hosts brainstorm new business ideas and analyze business trends.
• Descript – Descript is an AI-powered audio and video editor that allows editing by simply editing a text transcript.
• LM Studio – LM Studio allows you to discover, download, and run local LLMs on your computer.
• The AI Engineer Summit – A summit for AI engineers featuring speakers from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and more.
• The AI Conference by The Information – An exclusive AI conference hosted by The Information in San Francisco.
• Masterworks – Masterworks is an investment platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar art.
• Growth School – Growth School offers a 3-hour workshop on using AI tools to automate tasks and improve productivity.