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:

• Google released Gemma – a new family of lightweight, open-source models derived from the same research as its powerful Gemini models, designed to run on laptops and workstations.
• NVIDIA announced a staggering $22.1 billion in quarterly revenue – a 265% increase year-over-year, as demand for its AI chips continues to surge.
• Reddit reportedly signed a $60 million per year deal with Google – allowing Google to use its vast trove of user-generated content for training AI models.
• Microsoft launched new AI Copilot assistants for its Dynamics 365 platform – aimed at automating tasks for finance and sales professionals.
• Pika has added a new sound effects feature – that lets users of its AI video platform generate audio by typing in prompts like “ocean waves” or “a cinematic score.”
• Groq is demonstrating remarkable inference speeds for large language models – with its custom-built Language Processing Units (LPUs), significantly outperforming traditional GPU setups.
• Humanoid robotics company Figure AI showcased its Figure 01 robot – learning to make a cup of coffee using a Keurig machine after watching humans do it for 10 hours.
• Apple is reportedly developing an AI-powered version of its Xcode development tool – to compete with GitHub Copilot by autocompleting code for app developers.
• Chinese company Kuaishou has unveiled KLING – a new text-to-video model capable of generating clips up to two minutes long in high-resolution 1080p quality.
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been sharing a new wave of impressive videos generated by Sora – fulfilling user requests on social media.
• Intel held its “Intel Foundry” event – outlining a new strategy to manufacture chips for other companies, including a major deal with Microsoft.
• Startup Magic raised $117M – to build an “AI software engineer” capable of understanding complex codebases and assisting with development tasks.
• Hugging Face and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership – allowing developers to easily train and deploy Hugging Face models on Google’s AI-optimized infrastructure.
• Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque teased the upcoming release of Stable Diffusion 3 – promising major improvements in quality and typography.
• Autonomous driving startup Wayve demonstrated LINGO-1 – an AI model that provides real-time commentary and reasoning for its driving actions.
• Amazon has launched Rufus – a new generative AI shopping assistant trained on its product catalog to answer customer questions and provide recommendations.
• Perplexity launched new “online LLMs,” pplx-7b-online and pplx-70b-online – which are fine-tuned to leverage search results for more current and accurate answers.
• Adobe Research previewed Project Music GenAI Control – a new tool for generating and editing music with text prompts and granular controls over tempo, structure, and intensity.
• Midjourney is testing a personalization feature – that allows the model to learn a user’s aesthetic preferences based on their image ranking history.
• The SEC is reportedly investigating OpenAI – over whether its investors were misled by the internal turmoil surrounding CEO Sam Altman’s brief ouster.
• Meta released V-JEPA – a non-generative AI model for video that learns to understand and predict actions without needing extensive text-based annotations.
• The Browser Company launched Arc Search – an iOS app that uses AI to read multiple webpages related to a search query and generate a single, summarized webpage with the answer.
• Google researchers introduced ScreenAI – a new vision-language model designed to understand and interact with screenshots and user interfaces.
• France’s data protection agency, CNIL, fined Amazon €32 million – for deploying an “excessively intrusive” system to monitor its warehouse employees’ activity and performance.
• ElevenLabs has launched an AI Dubbing tool – that can translate audio or video into 29 languages while preserving the original speaker’s voice characteristics.
• Microsoft is reportedly in talks for a partnership with French AI startup Mistral AI – a deal which may also include an investment.
• A new study suggests that AI can accurately infer a person’s political orientation – by analyzing a photo of their neutral, expressionless face.
• Google Maps is beginning to roll out a generative AI feature in the U.S. – that provides conversational and curated place recommendations based on complex queries.
• Telehealth company Forward raised $100 million for its “AI CarePods” – self-service health stations that use AI and sensors to provide health checkups and diagnoses.
• Nvidia and the startup Together AI have collaborated to create an open-source tool – that makes it easier to pre-train large language models.
• The New York Times has developed a new recommendation tool named “Oak” – to help its journalists source from a more diverse range of experts.
• Atlassian is integrating AI into its Confluence product – to help summarize long documents and find answers within a company’s knowledge base.
• China’s top cybersecurity agency has issued new regulations – requiring companies to label content that has been generated by AI.
• A guide explores how to build AI-powered applications using the Vercel AI SDK – which simplifies integration with various large language models.

Trending AI Tools:

• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s new, fastest, and most cost-effective AI model, which outperforms competitor models and previous flagship versions on key evaluations.
• Luma Dream Machine – A new text-to-video model capable of generating high-quality, realistic 5-second video clips from text prompts.
• Perplexity Pages – A new feature that allows users to create and share comprehensive articles on any topic, generated from AI-powered search results.
• Krea AI – A tool that generates high-quality images and videos from text prompts in real-time.
• Viggle AI – A free tool that allows you to upload a photo of a person and a video of someone dancing to animate the photo in the same style.
• Runway Gen-3 Alpha – Runway’s newest and most sophisticated video generation model, offering significant improvements in quality, consistency, and motion.
• Suno – An AI tool that generates original songs, complete with vocals and instruments, based on text prompts.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos in various styles from text and image prompts.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generator that creates realistic, human-like speech for various applications.
• Kling – A new text-to-video model from the creators of TikTok’s rival, capable of generating 1080p video up to two minutes long.
• Notion AI – A suite of AI-powered features within Notion that can help with writing, summarizing, and organizing information.
• Morpheus-1 – An AI system designed to detect when dreamers are in REM sleep and then generate and narrate stories to induce and control lucid dreams.
• VLOGGER – A new Google AI method that can generate a high-quality, controllable video of a person talking and moving from just a single still image.
• Screenshot to Code – An open-source tool that converts a screenshot of a web page into clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code.
• Dora – An AI-powered website builder that allows users to create professional, animated websites using natural language prompts.
• Galileo AI – An AI tool that creates editable UI designs for apps and websites from simple text descriptions.
• GPT-SoVITS – An open-source, instant voice cloning tool that requires only a 1-minute audio sample to replicate a voice.
• TripoSR – A new AI model from Stability AI that can create high-quality 3D models from a single image in under a second.
• Magic Loops – An AI-powered browser automation tool that learns from your actions to automate repetitive tasks.
• Luminary – An open-source AI agent that can autonomously conduct research by breaking down complex questions and searching the web.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that helps manage your calendar, draft emails, and handle other administrative tasks.
• Gleen – An enterprise-grade AI chatbot and search tool for customer support applications.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows users to create and host their own fine-tuned AI models.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for its artistic and high-quality outputs, which recently introduced new style and character consistency features.
• Sidekick – An AI-powered meeting scheduler that can be copied on an email to find a time to meet, book a conference room, and send invites.
• Brevian – A no-code platform for building custom AI agents and automating complex workflows.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its ability to accurately render text within images.
• Leonardo AI – A comprehensive platform for generating AI images, videos, and other creative assets.
• Guidde – An AI tool that helps teams create video documentation and how-to guides 11 times faster.
• Grok – A conversational AI from xAI designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and a rebellious streak.
• Vapi – A developer tool for quickly building, testing, and deploying voice AI applications.
• Vellum – A development platform that helps companies build and deploy production-ready large language model applications.
• Recap – An AI-powered tool that automatically joins, records, and transcribes your meetings.
• Defog.ai – An AI tool that connects to your database and allows you to ask data-related questions in plain English.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that can answer questions and generate notes from any document, video, or audio file.
• Gamma – An AI-powered alternative to traditional slide decks that helps you create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages.
• Eightify – A tool that uses AI to provide quick summaries of YouTube videos.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that integrates to-do lists, mind maps, and team collaboration in one unified workspace.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models used across its suite of applications.
• Windsor – An AI platform that enables businesses to send personalized videos to millions of customers.
• Browse.ai – A no-code tool for extracting and monitoring data from any website.
• Venty – An AI data analyst that connects to your business data to generate insights and dashboards automatically.
• Vidnoz – A free AI video creation platform offering tools for video generation, voice cloning, and custom avatars.
• Poly.ai – A platform for creating enterprise-level, hyper-realistic voice assistants for customer service.
• Superlinked – A tool for developers to build real-time personalization into applications using retrieval-augmented generation.
• Jukebox – An open-source neural net from OpenAI that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio.
• Vast.ai – A GPU marketplace that allows users to rent affordable access to powerful computing for AI model training.
• Amazon Bedrock – A fully managed service from AWS that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models via a single API.

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