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 Intelligence – Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence, its new personal AI system integrated across iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, focusing on privacy with on-device and private cloud processing.
• OpenAI and Apple partnership – Apple is integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Siri and system-wide Writing Tools, allowing users to access GPT-4o’s capabilities for free without an account.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices – Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies, citing “unacceptable security violations” over the announced OS-level integration of OpenAI’s technology.
• Mistral AI raises $640M – French AI startup Mistral AI raised $640 million in a new funding round, boosting its valuation to nearly $6 billion.
• Perplexity launches Pages – Perplexity AI launched Pages, a new feature that turns search queries into comprehensive, shareable, and visually appealing articles or reports.
• Figure deploys humanoid robots in BMW facility – AI robotics company Figure announced the deployment of its humanoid robots in a BMW manufacturing facility to perform automotive production tasks.
• Inflection AI appoints new CEO – Inflection AI has appointed Sean White as its new CEO to lead the company’s pivot towards an enterprise-focused API and custom model business.
• Raspberry Pi shares soar in IPO – Shares of low-cost computer maker Raspberry Pi surged over 30% in their London Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company at approximately $690 million.
• Microsoft delays Recall feature – Microsoft has decided to delay the broad release of its controversial AI-powered Recall feature, opting instead to test it with a smaller group in the Windows Insider Program first.
• Runway announces Gen-3 Alpha – RunwayML announced Gen-3 Alpha, its next-generation text-to-video model, promising significant improvements in fidelity, consistency, and motion for creating realistic human characters.
• Google DeepMind unveils V2A technology for video sound – Google DeepMind introduced V2A (video-to-audio) technology, an AI model that generates synchronized soundtracks, sound effects, and dialogue for silent videos based on visual cues.
• CoreWeave offers to buy Core Scientific for $1.6B – Cloud computing provider CoreWeave made an unsolicited $1.6 billion offer to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific to expand its AI data center capacity.
• Luma Labs teases Dream Machine video model – Luma Labs is set to release Dream Machine, a new text-to-video generation model that is showing impressive initial results in quality and coherence.
• SEC fines two firms for ‘AI washing’ – The SEC has fined two investment advisory firms, Delphia and Global Predictions, for making false and misleading claims about their use of AI capabilities.
• Sakana AI uses evolution to merge models – Japanese AI startup Sakana AI is using evolutionary-inspired techniques to merge different open-source AI models, creating new, more powerful models with combined capabilities.
• Waymo recalls self-driving software after crash – Waymo has issued a voluntary software recall for its self-driving vehicles after one of its robotaxis collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix.
• Snowflake releases Arctic, a new open-source model – Snowflake released Arctic, a new open-source large language model designed to be highly efficient for enterprise tasks like SQL generation, coding, and instruction following.
• Glean raises $200M for enterprise AI search – Enterprise AI search startup Glean raised $200 million in a new funding round, valuing the company at $2.2 billion.
• Saudi Aramco develops its own industrial LLM – Saudi Aramco announced it has developed its own industrial-grade large language model, METABRAIN, trained on 90 years of the company’s proprietary data.
• Adobe rolls out ‘Generate Image’ in Photoshop – Adobe is rolling out a new AI feature in Photoshop called ‘Generate Image’ that allows users to create entire images from text prompts directly within the application.
• Nous Research releases Hermes 2 Pro on Llama 3 – Nous Research released Hermes 2 Pro on Llama 3 70B, an updated model that has topped the LMSys Chatbot Arena for function calling and structured data output.
• Character.AI reportedly in funding talks with Google – Character.AI is reportedly in discussions with Google and other investors for a new funding round that could precede a potential future IPO.
• China’s top court develops ‘Little Turtle’ AI for judges – China’s top court has reportedly developed an AI model called ‘Little Turtle’ (Xiao Bao) to assist judges with legal research and case analysis.
• Cuebric raises $4M for AI film production tools – AI generative video platform Cuebric raised $4 million to advance its tool that helps create immersive, high-resolution backgrounds for film and television productions.
• AI was widely used in India’s election – Political parties in India’s recent national election extensively used AI tools for creating deepfake videos, audio clips, and other campaign materials for targeted messaging.
• GPT-4 passes Master Sommelier and other difficult exams – A study showed that GPT-4 was able to pass notoriously difficult professional exams, including the Master Sommelier tasting exam and the Bar exam.
• Lagent is an open-source framework for building LLM agents – Lagent is an open-source framework from the creators of InternLM that allows developers to efficiently build and experiment with LLM-based agents.
• A guide to fine-tuning Llama 3 for structured data extraction – Replicate has published a guide on how to fine-tune Llama 3 for extracting structured data, like JSON, from unstructured text.
• ‘I, AI’ TV Series explores the AI revolution – A new documentary series titled ‘I, AI’ explores the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence through interviews with leading figures in the field like Yann LeCun and Fei-Fei Li.
• Paper Vitals provides quick research paper summaries – Paper Vitals is a new tool that uses AI to provide concise summaries, key takeaways, and potential impacts of academic research papers.
• Diagramme is an AI tool for generating diagrams from text – Diagramme is a new application that allows users to create flowcharts, mind maps, and other diagrams by describing them in natural language.

Trending AI Tools:

• Pika – A tool that generates video and now allows you to add sound effects by describing them with a text prompt.
• ElevenLabs – A platform for voice generation that has recently launched a new model for creating sound effects from text.
• OpenAI – The research and deployment company behind ChatGPT, which is reportedly launching a new AI-powered search engine product.
• Google – The technology company whose core search product is facing new competition from AI-native search engines.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates tasks like calendar management, email drafting, and contact organization.
• Suno – An AI music creator that generates original songs, complete with lyrics and vocals, based on text prompts.
• Udio – A tool for creating high-quality, full-length music tracks in various genres using artificial intelligence.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources.
• Claude – A family of large language models from Anthropic designed to handle sophisticated conversational and text-processing tasks.
• Viggle AI – A free AI tool that can animate a static character image into a video based on a motion prompt video.
• Recast – An AI-powered app that summarizes web articles, YouTube videos, and podcasts into concise, easy-to-read text.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that creates notes, summaries, and answers questions from any document or video you upload.
• EraseID – An AI photo editing tool that removes people or objects from images and realistically reconstructs the background.
• GPT Researcher – An open-source AI agent that automates the process of conducting comprehensive online research on any given topic.
• Superhuman – A premium email client that uses AI to help you sort, write, and respond to emails at high speed.
• Polywork – A professional social network that uses AI to help you showcase your skills, projects, and experiences.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator that creates highly detailed and artistic visuals from text prompts within Discord.
• AI Storyteller by The Pudding – An interactive narrative experience that lets you see how different AI models have evolved over time.
• Lumina – A video search engine that allows creators to find the perfect stock footage by describing a scene in natural language.
• Krea – A creative suite of AI tools that enables real-time generation and enhancement of images and patterns.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that recently added a “Describe” feature to automatically generate detailed prompts from an uploaded image.
• HeyGen – A video platform that uses AI to create realistic avatars, clone voices, and translate videos for professional content.
• Opus Clip – An AI video tool that automatically repurposes long videos into engaging, viral short clips for social media.
• Runway – A comprehensive platform of AI-powered “magic tools” for advanced video and image editing, generation, and manipulation.
• Descript – An all-in-one editor that makes editing audio and video as simple as editing a text document.
• Dola – An AI calendar assistant that schedules meetings and manages your agenda through a simple chat interface.
• Attention Insight – A Figma plugin that uses AI to predict where users will focus their attention on a design before it’s tested.
• GodMode – An open-source web application that allows you to use various AI chat models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Llama in a single interface.
• Open WebUI – A self-hosted, ChatGPT-style web interface that works with local large language models like Ollama.
• Amazon Bedrock – A managed service from AWS that provides access to a variety of leading foundation models for building generative AI applications.
• Mistral Large – A high-performance large language model from Mistral AI, available through platforms like Amazon Bedrock.
• Command R+ – An enterprise-grade large language model from Cohere, designed for scalability and production workloads.
• Llama3-8B-Instruct-256k – An open-source Llama 3 model fine-tuned to handle an extremely long 256,000 token context window.
• Awesome-LLM-Reasoning – A curated GitHub repository that collects papers and resources focused on the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models.

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• RunPod – RunPod offers GPU cloud solutions for training, deploying, and scaling AI models at a fraction of the cost of major cloud providers.
• Together AI – Together AI is a cloud platform for building and running generative AI, offering fast inference for hundreds of open-source models.
• Guidde – Guidde is a platform for creating video documentation with AI, helping to explain complex software or processes 11 times faster.
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• AE Studio – AE Studio is a development, data science, and design studio that helps solve business problems with software and AI solutions.