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:

• OpenAI forms a new safety and security committee led by CEO Sam Altman – The committee is responsible for making recommendations to the board on critical safety and security decisions for all OpenAI projects and will evaluate and further develop OpenAI’s safety processes over the next 90 days.
• Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI’s ‘Sky’ voice sounds ‘eerily similar’ to hers after she declined to voice it – Actress Scarlett Johansson has issued a statement claiming OpenAI’s new voice assistant sounds like her, despite her having previously turned down an offer from Sam Altman to provide the voice.
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in a new funding round to take on OpenAI – The funding round, which includes investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, will be used to bring xAI’s first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate R&D.
• Mistral AI is reportedly close to raising $600 million at a $6 billion valuation – French AI startup Mistral AI is nearing a deal to raise funds from investors including General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners, which would triple its valuation from December.
• Scale AI raises $1 billion to help companies build AI applications – The new funding, led by Accel and valuing the data labeling company at $13.8 billion, will be used to accelerate the development of its data-centric platform for AI model development.
• Nvidia announces soaring revenue and a 10-for-1 stock split – The chipmaker reported a 262% year-over-year revenue increase to $26 billion, driven by massive demand for its AI chips, and announced a stock split effective June 7.
• Microsoft introduces ‘Copilot+ PCs’ and a controversial ‘Recall’ feature that screenshots everything you do – New AI-powered PCs from Microsoft and its partners will feature a “Recall” function that records a user’s screen activity to create a searchable history, raising significant privacy concerns.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn search queries into shareable articles and reports – The new feature allows users to generate comprehensive, well-structured articles on any topic from a single prompt, complete with citations and media.
• Google brings a new wave of AI features to Chromebooks – Chromebook Plus devices are getting new AI capabilities, including a “Help me write” tool, generative AI wallpapers, and access to Google Photos’ Magic Eraser.
• Report suggests a deal between Apple and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to iOS 18 is nearing completion – Apple has reportedly finalized an agreement with OpenAI to incorporate ChatGPT features into its upcoming iOS 18 operating system.
• U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear a case questioning Section 230 protections for AI – The court’s refusal to take up the case leaves intact the broad legal immunity that shields online platforms from liability for content generated by third parties, including AI.
• Klarna launches a sign-in service using biometric data to replace passwords – The new feature, available to Klarna’s 150 million users, aims to streamline online checkout by allowing logins with Face ID or Touch ID at participating merchants.
• LinkedIn is testing a new AI feature that provides real-time coaching for job seekers – The tool will offer instant feedback and advice on answers to common interview questions to help users prepare for interviews.
• CoreWeave, a key AI cloud provider, raises $7.5B in debt financing – The NVIDIA-backed cloud startup secured the financing from firms led by Blackstone to scale its infrastructure for AI and HPC workloads.
• Microsoft unveils Phi-3-vision, a small multimodal AI model – The new 4.2B parameter model can analyze images and text, making it capable of reasoning over charts and extracting text from pictures, and is small enough to run on mobile devices.
• Pika Labs introduces a new feature to edit and change specific parts of a generated video – The AI video generator now allows users to modify elements like clothing or add objects within a video using inpainting with natural language prompts.
• ElevenLabs launches Text to Sound Effects for creating audio clips from prompts – The new tool allows creators to generate sound effects, short instrumental tracks, and soundscapes by describing what they want to hear.
• The creator of the Rabbit R1 says 100,000 devices have been sold so far – Despite mixed reviews, Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu announced the company has sold 100,000 units of its AI-powered handheld device.
• Researchers release I-JEPA, a step towards more human-like AI vision – Meta’s new image-based AI model learns by comparing abstract representations of images, similar to human learning, rather than analyzing every pixel.
• Baseten introduces a serverless platform for fine-tuning open source models like Llama 3 – The new service simplifies the process of customizing large language models by handling infrastructure, orchestration, and model storage automatically.
• HeyGen launches a new feature for creating personalized video messages at scale – The “Personalized Video” feature allows users to generate thousands of unique videos from a single template by populating them with data from a CSV file.
• Poll shows only one-third of Americans are comfortable with AI in political advertising – An AP-NORC poll reveals widespread public discomfort with the use of AI to create political ad content, including fake images and voices.
• Former Google DeepMind scientists launch “contextual AI” startup Reka – Reka has released its multilingual, multimodal models—Flash, Core, and Yasa—which can understand text, images, videos, and audio across 22 languages.
• Adobe is working on a new generative video model for Premiere Pro – The company is developing its own AI video generation technology to compete with OpenAI’s Sora and plans to integrate features like generative fill and object addition into its video editing software.
• Fine-tuning a large language model can embed hidden backdoors – Researchers at Anthropic discovered that it’s possible to train models to behave normally until a specific trigger phrase causes them to output harmful or biased content.
• The US, UK, and other nations agree that AI companies should develop and deploy AI securely – An international agreement among 18 countries outlines consensus on making AI “secure by design,” emphasizing the need to build safety into AI systems from the start.
• Paper demonstrates how LLMs can be used to control a humanoid robot in real-time – Japanese company Artisans demonstrated a system where a large language model translates human commands into precise, real-time movements for a humanoid robot.
• Grasp is a new AI-powered search engine for developers – This tool allows developers to search across GitHub, Stack Overflow, and documentation to find code snippets and solutions to technical problems.
• UK watchdog warns that AI foundation models could entrench the power of big tech firms – The Competition and Markets Authority expressed concerns that a few dominant tech companies could control the entire AI value chain, from computing power to model deployment.
• AI detection is not a reliable method for identifying AI-generated student work – A new study from Stanford University concludes that current AI detection tools are too unreliable and biased against non-native English speakers to be used for assessing academic integrity.
• Mindtrip is an AI-powered travel planner that creates custom itineraries – The platform uses AI to help users plan trips by generating personalized travel plans based on their preferences.
• Paper explores “Quiet-STaR,” a method for improving LLM reasoning without human feedback – This research introduces a technique that allows models to generate their own “thinking” steps to solve problems, enhancing their reasoning abilities through self-improvement.
• Julius AI is a tool that allows you to chat with your data to create visualizations and perform analysis – This AI data analyst connects to various data sources like spreadsheets and databases to help users explore and understand their data through natural language conversations.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma AI (Dream Machine) – An AI that creates high-quality, cinematic 5-second videos from text prompts and images.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator recognized for its impressive ability to accurately render text within images.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos in various styles from text or image prompts.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s versatile conversational AI used for a wide range of tasks including writing, coding, and answering questions.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates original songs, complete with vocals and lyrics, based on text prompts.
• Runway – A suite of powerful AI creative tools for video generation and editing, featuring the new high-quality Gen-3 Alpha model.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator, accessed via Discord, known for producing highly detailed and artistic visuals.
• ElevenLabs – A leading AI platform for generating realistic text-to-speech audio and creating custom voice clones.
• HeyGen – An AI video creation platform that produces studio-quality videos with realistic avatars and voice cloning.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that delivers direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources.
• Krea – An AI-powered design tool that offers real-time image generation, upscaling, and other creative enhancements.
• Viggle AI – A free AI tool that animates any character in a photo based on the motion from a source video.
• Claude – Anthropic’s family of AI models focused on providing helpful, harmless, and honest conversations and text processing.
• Gamma – An AI tool that generates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text instructions.
• Google Gemini – Google’s powerful, multimodal AI model that underlies many of its AI products and features.
• Leonardo AI – A comprehensive creative platform for generating high-quality game assets, art, and images with AI.
• Opus Clip – An AI video tool that automatically turns long videos into viral short clips for social media platforms.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool that allows users to generate high-quality, full-length songs with lyrics from text prompts.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes your voice conversations.
• Hugging Face – A central hub for the AI community, offering open-source models, datasets, and tools for building with machine learning.
• GitHub Copilot – An AI pair programmer that provides code suggestions and completions directly within your code editor.
• Magnific – An AI-powered tool for upscaling, enhancing, and reimagining images to add intricate detail.
• Descript – An all-in-one audio and video editor that makes editing as simple as editing a text document.
• Invideo AI – An AI-powered video creator that generates complete videos from a simple text prompt, including script, visuals, and voiceover.
• Lexica – An AI image generator that also serves as a search engine for millions of AI-generated images and their prompts.
• Tome – An AI-powered presentation and storytelling tool that helps create compelling narratives and visuals from prompts.
• LeiaPix – A tool that converts 2D images into 3D “lightfield” images and animations, adding depth and motion.
• Notion – An all-in-one workspace that integrates AI features to help with writing, summarizing, and organizing your notes and documents.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates tasks like calendar management, email drafting, and meeting summarization.
• Julius AI – An AI data analyst that can analyze and visualize data from spreadsheets, files, and other sources through natural language chat.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that instantly creates notes and answers questions from any document, presentation, or video.
• Recast – An AI app that summarizes long articles, newsletters, and documents into short, podcast-style audio conversations.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can generate a complete business website with copy, images, and a contact form in seconds.
• Looka – An AI-powered platform that helps you design a custom logo and build a brand identity.
• Kaiber – An AI video generator that creates animated videos from your own images or text descriptions.
• Gencraft – An AI art generator that allows you to create and edit unique images and short videos from text.
• Gling – An AI tool for video creators that automatically cuts silences and bad takes from raw footage.
• Submagic – An AI tool that generates eye-catching captions with emojis and keywords for short-form videos.
• AutoPod – An automated video podcast editor for Adobe Premiere Pro that handles tasks like multi-camera editing and social media reframing.
• Taplio – An all-in-one, AI-powered tool for creating, scheduling, and analyzing content to grow your presence on LinkedIn.
• Magic Hour – An AI-powered tool for content creators that helps brainstorm ideas, storyboard, and schedule content.
• Jasper – An AI content platform that helps teams write and generate high-quality marketing copy, blog posts, and more.
• Surfer SEO – A content intelligence tool that uses AI to help you research, write, and optimize articles to rank higher on Google.
• FigJam AI – An AI-powered online whiteboard in Figma that assists with brainstorming, summarizing, and generating templates.
• Riverside.fm – A platform for recording studio-quality remote podcasts and video interviews.
• Synthesia – A leading AI video generation platform for creating professional training and corporate videos with realistic AI avatars.
• Veed – An online video editing suite that uses AI for tasks like automatic subtitling, background noise removal, and content creation.
• Murf.ai – A versatile AI voice generator that can create studio-quality voiceovers from text for a variety of projects.
• AdCreative.ai – An AI that generates conversion-focused ad creatives, social media posts, and accompanying text.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows you to create and host your own fine-tuned AI agents and models.
• Argil – A platform for creating AI-powered workflows and automations by training AI models on your own visual and text data.
• Replicate – A cloud platform for running and fine-tuning open-source machine learning models via an API.
• Mistral – An AI company that develops and offers powerful open-source and commercial large language models.
• Harvey – An AI platform designed specifically for law firms to assist with legal tasks like research, analysis, and drafting.
• Vanna AI – An open-source Python library that uses AI to generate accurate SQL queries from natural language questions.
• Co-pilot for Xcode – An unofficial extension that integrates the functionality of GitHub Copilot directly into Apple’s Xcode IDE for developers.
• You – An AI-powered search engine that provides a customizable and private search experience with integrated apps.
• Poe – An application from Quora that allows users to interact with a wide variety of different AI chatbots in one place.
• Zapier – An automation platform that uses AI to help connect your apps and create automated workflows without code.
• Superhuman – A premium email client that uses AI to help you speed through your inbox with features like summarization and automated sorting.
• Guidde – A tool that helps you create video documentation and how-to guides by automatically capturing your workflow.
• Snackable AI – An AI tool that transforms long-form audio and video content into shareable, bite-sized chapters and clips.
• Wix – A popular website development platform that incorporates AI tools for site creation, design, and content generation.
• Framer – An interactive design tool for building professional websites that includes AI features to accelerate the design process.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity and collaboration tool that unifies tasks, notes, and chat in a single structured workspace.
• ClickUp – A project management platform that uses AI to automate tasks, generate content, and streamline team workflows.
• Beautiful.ai – An AI-powered presentation maker that automatically designs your slides as you add content.
• SlidesAI – An AI tool that integrates with Google Slides to instantly create presentations from text.
• Pitch – A collaborative presentation software with AI features to help teams create and deliver professional presentations.
• Augie – An AI video creation platform that makes it easy to generate videos from text, your own clips, and stock media.
• Fliki – A text-to-video and text-to-speech creator that helps you make videos with realistic AI voices.
• Miro AI – AI features built into the Miro collaborative online whiteboard to assist with brainstorming, diagramming, and summarizing.
• Whimsical – A visual collaboration platform with AI for creating flowcharts, wireframes, and mind maps.
• Galileo AI – An AI tool that can generate editable UI designs for apps and websites from a simple text description.
• Copy.ai – An AI-powered copywriter that generates marketing copy, social media posts, and other business content.
• Writesonic – An AI writing assistant for creating SEO-friendly articles, ads, emails, and website copy.
• Rytr – An AI writing assistant that helps you create high-quality content for various use cases in just a few seconds.
• Frase – An AI-powered tool that helps you research, write, and optimize SEO content more efficiently.
• Postwise – An AI Twitter tool designed to help you write engaging tweets, schedule content, and grow your following.
• Tweethunter – A comprehensive Twitter growth tool that uses AI to help you find inspiration and create viral content.
• Chirr App – A tool designed to make it easy to write and publish engaging Twitter threads.
• Typefully – A distraction-free editor for writing and scheduling Twitter threads with integrated analytics and growth features.
• Lovo – An AI voice generator and text-to-speech platform with a wide range of expressive and realistic voices.
• Play.ht – An AI text-to-voice generator with a library of realistic AI voices for creating audio articles, podcasts, and videos.
• WellSaid Labs – An AI text-to-speech platform that produces high-quality, life-like synthetic voices for enterprise and professional use.
• MarketingBlocks AI – An all-in-one AI marketing assistant that creates landing pages, videos, ads, and other promotional assets.
• People.ai – An AI-powered revenue intelligence platform that helps sales teams analyze customer activity and improve performance.
• Midday – An AI-powered platform for go-to-market teams that analyzes customer interactions to provide insights and improve sales effectiveness.
• Klaviyo – A marketing automation platform that uses AI and customer data to create personalized email and SMS marketing campaigns.
• Feathery – An advanced form builder that uses AI to help create user-friendly, high-conversion forms and user flows.
• Code Llama – A large language model from Meta specifically designed for generating and discussing programming code.
• Diagram – A collection of AI-powered design tools, like Magician for Figma, intended to automate and enhance the creative workflow.
• Attention Insight – An AI platform that provides pre-launch analytics and heatmaps to predict where users will look on a design.
• Khroma – An AI color tool that learns your aesthetic preferences to generate limitless color palettes for your design projects.
• Cognito Forms – A powerful online form builder that incorporates AI capabilities to create complex and intelligent forms for data collection.

Sponsors:

• Cohere – A platform that helps you build production-ready AI applications with its new family of models.
• monday.com – A sales CRM platform that helps you manage your customer relationships and sales pipelines.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that helps companies build and ship their AI initiatives.
• Persado – A generative AI platform that uses a deep understanding of human motivation to create language that drives action.
• Arize AI – A market leader in ML observability that offers an open-source library to evaluate LLMs and LLM-powered applications.