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:

• Mistral’s New Flagship Model – French AI startup Mistral released its new flagship model, Mistral Large, which competes with GPT-4, and announced a major partnership with Microsoft for distribution on Azure.
• Klarna’s AI Assistant – Klarna’s new AI assistant, powered by OpenAI, is now handling two-thirds of their customer service chats, performing the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents.
• Google Pauses Gemini Image Generation – Google paused its Gemini AI’s ability to generate images of people following widespread criticism for producing historically inaccurate and biased depictions.
• Pika Adds AI Sound Effects – AI video generation platform Pika has launched a new feature that allows users to create and add sound effects to their videos using text prompts.
• Waymo and Uber Expand Partnership – Waymo and Uber are expanding their partnership to offer fully autonomous, all-electric vehicle rides to the general public across all of Phoenix, Arizona.
• Figure 01 Humanoid Robot Walks – Robotics company Figure released a video showcasing a major milestone for its Figure 01 humanoid robot, which can now walk dynamically and untethered.
• Google Introduces VLOGGER – Google Research introduced VLOGGER, a new AI model that can generate a controllable, talking and moving 3D avatar from a single still photograph of a person.
• Google Launches Gemma – Google launched Gemma, a new family of lightweight, open-source models built from the same research as Gemini that are capable of running on a laptop.
• ElevenLabs Releases AI Sound Effects Model – AI voice company ElevenLabs has released a new generative AI model that can create a wide variety of sound effects and short instrumental tracks from text prompts.
• Snowflake Acquires TruEra – Data cloud company Snowflake has announced its acquisition of TruEra, an AI observability platform, to help customers monitor and evaluate the performance of their large language models.
• Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Tutorial – Andrej Karpathy released a new, free one-hour video tutorial providing a technical introduction to Large Language Models, starting from the basics of tokenization.
• AMD Releases ROCm 6.1 – AMD released ROCm 6.1, a significant update to its software stack designed to better compete with NVIDIA’s CUDA for AI and machine learning workloads on its Instinct MI300X GPUs.
• LangChain Introduces LangGraph – LangChain introduced LangGraph, a new library for building stateful, multi-agent applications with LLMs that allows for more complex, cyclical computational graphs.
• SEC Charges Firms for “AI Washing” – The SEC has charged two investment advisory firms for making false and misleading statements about their use of artificial intelligence, a practice known as “AI washing.”
• Astral Releases ‘uv’ Python Installer – Astral, the company behind the Python linter Ruff, has released ‘uv’, an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver written in Rust, intended as a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-tools.
• Apple Vision Pro Returns – A new report indicates that Apple’s Vision Pro headset is seeing a significant number of returns, with users citing issues like comfort, eye strain, and a lack of compelling applications.
• Anthropic Launches Prompt Library for Claude – Anthropic has launched a free library of pre-made prompts for Claude, designed to help users and developers get better and more consistent results for a variety of tasks.
• Adobe Expands Generative Fill Access – Adobe is making its Firefly-powered Generative Fill feature more accessible to enterprise customers through new integrations with its Creative Cloud and Express applications.
• Responsible Military AI Declaration – The U.S. State Department announced that 51 states have now endorsed the Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy.
• Hugging Face and Intel Collaborate – Hugging Face has collaborated with Intel to integrate the Intel Neural Compressor, a tool for optimizing and accelerating AI models, directly into its platform.
• Fine-Tuning Google’s Gemma Model – A developer on Reddit shared their successful experiment in fine-tuning Google’s 7B Gemma model on 50,000 medical questions and answers, demonstrating its potential for specialized domains.
• Sequoia Capital on Generative AI Video – Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital published an article analyzing the rapid advancements and future potential of the generative AI video industry.
• Microsoft’s CEO of AI on the Future – Microsoft’s CEO of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, discussed his perspective on the future of AI, including the goal of creating interactive and emotionally intelligent AI systems.
• Apple Releases visionOS 1.1 Beta – Apple released the first beta of visionOS 1.1, which improves Personas and adds mobile device management features for enterprises.
• OpenAI Announces API Updates – OpenAI announced new, more efficient text embedding models and updates to its API, including a price reduction for the GPT-3.5 Turbo model.
• Profile of CTO.ai – TechCrunch profiled Floyd Marinescu, the founder of CTO.ai, a platform that helps development teams improve their software delivery process using a chatbot-based command system.
• Guide to Running Gemma on M1 Mac – Replicate published a guide on how to get Google’s new open-source Gemma 7B model running locally on an M1 Mac.
• Meta Releases Code Llama 70B – Meta released Code Llama 70B, its largest and most capable open-source model specifically designed for generating and assisting with code.
• Build an AI Sales Agent – A YouTube video provides a tutorial on how to build a conversational AI sales agent capable of making phone calls using various AI tools.
• History of Large Language Models – IEEE Spectrum published an article detailing the history and architectural evolution that led to the development of today’s powerful large language models.
• Create a Custom GPT – A video tutorial explains how to create, test, and publish a custom GPT using OpenAI’s tools.

Trending AI Tools:

• Apple Intelligence – Apple’s new personal intelligence system integrated across its devices to understand personal context and simplify tasks.
• Luma Dream Machine – A publicly available text-to-video model that generates high-quality, realistic video clips from simple text prompts.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI, now being integrated into Apple’s ecosystem to power Siri and other system-level tools.
• Perplexity – An AI search engine that provides direct answers to questions and can now turn research into shareable, visually rich articles with a feature called Pages.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace – A new development environment that allows developers to go from an idea to a full coding plan and implementation using natural language.
• Suno – An AI music creation tool that generates complete songs, including vocals and lyrics, from a simple text prompt.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing high-quality and artistic visuals from text descriptions.
• Ideogram – An AI image generation tool particularly noted for its ability to reliably render text within images.
• Claude – Anthropic’s conversational AI model, known for its large context window and strong performance in complex reasoning tasks.
• Google Gemini – Google’s powerful family of multimodal AI models that can understand and process text, images, audio, and video.
• Devin – An autonomous AI software engineer designed to handle and complete entire development projects from a single prompt.
• AlphaFold 3 – A groundbreaking AI model from Google DeepMind that predicts the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered tools for advanced video generation, editing, and creative effects.
• ElevenLabs – A leading AI voice synthesis and cloning platform used to create realistic and expressive audio from text.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos in various styles from text and image prompts.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length tracks in a wide variety of genres from text prompts.
• HeyGen – An AI video generation platform that specializes in creating realistic talking avatars for marketing and communication.
• Character.AI – A platform that allows users to create and interact with unique AI-powered chatbots with distinct personalities.
• Siri – Apple’s voice assistant, which is being significantly upgraded with advanced AI and ChatGPT integration for more natural and capable interactions.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant that is integrated across Windows, Office 365, and other products to enhance productivity.
• Notion AI – A set of AI features built into the Notion workspace to help users write, summarize, brainstorm, and organize information.
• GPT-engineer – An open-source tool that allows you to specify software in natural language, after which it builds the entire codebase.
• Continue – An open-source autopilot for software development that integrates with IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains to automate coding tasks.
• Magnific – An AI-powered image upscaler and enhancer that can add details and increase the resolution of your images.
• Gamma – An AI tool that creates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from rough notes or text prompts.
• Krea – An AI-powered design tool with real-time image generation and features like “Logo Illusions” for creative visual effects.
• Storyd – An AI presentation maker that helps users create compelling, data-driven presentations and business slide decks.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can generate a complete business website with copy, images, and a contact form in seconds.
• Genspark – A new AI-powered search engine that organizes results into a single, comprehensive “Sparkpage.”
• Hugging Face – A platform and community hub that provides access to thousands of open-source AI models, datasets, and tools.
• PhotoRoom – An AI photo editor designed for creating product photos and marketing images by removing and generating realistic backgrounds.
• Wondercraft – An AI audio studio for creating podcasts, ads, and audiobooks with text-to-speech, translation, and voice cloning features.
• Jellypod – A service that summarizes your unread articles and delivers them to you as a personalized daily podcast.
• SudoWrite – An AI-powered writing partner designed specifically for fiction authors to help brainstorm, rewrite, and expand their stories.
• Vanna AI – An open-source Python framework that helps generate accurate SQL queries for your database using AI.
• Second – An AI-powered tool that automates codebase migrations and dependency upgrades for software developers.
• Riffusion – An AI model that generates music from text prompts by visualizing sound as spectrograms and creating variations.
• Heights AI – An AI assistant integrated into the Heights Platform to help creators build and manage online courses.
• Secured – An AI agent designed to automate the process of finding and fixing security vulnerabilities in code.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A tool that enables developers to create high-quality fine-tuning datasets from user conversations with your product.
• Cognito – An AI-powered tool that helps businesses create compliant HR documents, such as employee handbooks and policies.
• Mistral Large – Mistral AI’s top-tier language model, known for its powerful reasoning capabilities and performance.
• Snowflake Arctic – A family of large language models developed by Snowflake, designed for enterprise-grade AI applications.

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