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 unveils ‘Apple Intelligence’ – a new personal AI system integrated deeply into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that also features a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to Siri.
• Elon Musk withdraws lawsuit against OpenAI – which had accused the company of abandoning its original non-profit mission.
• Perplexity raises $250 million – in a new funding round, valuing the AI search engine company at $3 billion.
• Sakana AI releases new model creation method – The method creates powerful generative AI models by “evolving” and merging existing open-source models.
• Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha – its next-generation video model, promising significant improvements in generation quality, structure, and motion.
• Luma Labs launches Dream Machine – a widely accessible text-to-video generation model praised for its high-quality and realistic outputs.
• OpenAI appoints new CFO and CPO – former Square and Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar is its first Chief Financial Officer and Kevin Weil, former President of Planet Labs, is its Chief Product Officer.
• CoreWeave offers to acquire Core Scientific for $1.6 billion – The AI cloud provider’s offer highlights the increasing demand for data center power.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge in stock market debut – Shares surged as much as 47% in their debut on the London Stock Exchange.
• Snowflake announces Polaris Catalog and Cortex AI tools – At its annual Data Cloud Summit, the company announced Polaris Catalog, an open catalog for Apache Iceberg, and new AI tools under its Cortex AI service.
• Mistral to open new AI hub in London – The French AI leader’s new hub will be led by former DeepMind scientist Deverki Handoo.
• Inflection makes its Inflection-2.5 model available via API – allowing developers to integrate the AI startup’s model into their applications.
• Hollywood VFX artists react to AI video tools – Artists are expressing both awe and concern over the rapid advancements in AI video generation tools like Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha.
• Google DeepMind introduces V2A technology – The video-to-audio technology synchronizes AI-generated audio with video pixels to create realistic soundtracks for generated footage.
• Wayve introduces LINGO-2 – a new closed-loop driving model for autonomous vehicles that uses language to explain its reasoning and enhance its decision-making.
• AI-powered system helps paralyzed man walk again – The system creates a digital bridge between his brain and spinal cord, allowing him to walk.
• AI helps discover new class of antibiotics – Algorithms helped researchers discover a new class of antibiotics capable of killing a drug-resistant superbug.
• Microsoft to invest $7.16 billion in Spain – The investment will be used to develop new data centers in the Aragon region.
• Nvidia launches G-Assist AI chatbot for gamers – The chatbot is designed to provide gamers with contextual help and performance optimization tips for their PCs.
• Spotify tests AI-powered ad generator – The feature allows advertisers to generate full audio ad scripts, voiceovers, and background music from a simple text prompt.
• Zhipu AI secures state-backed funding – The Chinese AI leader has secured funding from the country’s largest state-owned enterprise asset manager.
• Character.AI launches Group Chat feature – The new feature allows multiple users and AIs to interact in a single chat room.
• BCG study finds AI may hinder skill development – The study found that while AI tools increase productivity for software developers, they may also lead to a decline in skill development over time.
• New York passes bill on AI in political ads – The bill requires the disclosure of AI-generated content in political advertising.
• Amazon replaces plastic air pillows with recycled paper filler – The company is making the change across North America, using paper filler made from 100% recycled content.
• Oracle and Google Cloud announce partnership – The partnership allows customers to run Oracle databases directly on Google’s cloud infrastructure.
• Anduril to build new autonomous aircraft facility – The new manufacturing facility in Atlanta will produce its next-generation Fury autonomous aircraft.
• Eraser is a new open-source diagramming tool – The tool lets you create and edit diagrams using natural language commands.
• SEC Chair warns against “AI washing” – Gary Gensler warned companies against the practice of making misleading claims about their use of artificial intelligence to attract investors.
• Most companies are in early stages of AI adoption – A new report from Section suggests that despite the hype, the majority of companies are still in the pilot or experimental phase of AI adoption.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new, publicly available text-to-video model capable of generating high-quality, realistic video clips from text and image prompts.
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s latest and most intelligent model, setting new industry standards for graduate-level reasoning, undergraduate-level knowledge, and coding proficiency at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus.
• Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI’s most advanced text-to-image model, offering high-quality images that excel at photorealism, typography, and prompt adherence in a more compact size.
• Perplexity Pages – A new feature from Perplexity that allows users to convert their research into visually appealing, comprehensive, and shareable articles.
• NVIDIA Nemotron-4 340B – A powerful 340-billion-parameter open-source large language model from NVIDIA designed for generating high-quality synthetic data for training other LLMs.
• Artifacts – A feature within Claude 3.5 Sonnet that allows users to edit, iterate on, and build upon AI-generated content like code, documents, or websites in a dedicated workspace.
• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s flagship natively multimodal model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.
• Vizro – An open-source toolkit from McKinsey that enables developers to create AI-powered dashboard applications and data visualizations.
• Runway – An advanced AI video generation platform that provides a suite of tools for creating and editing video content from text, images, or other videos.
• Pika – An idea-to-video platform that uses AI to generate and edit videos from text prompts and still images.
• Glean – An enterprise AI search and knowledge discovery platform that connects and understands all of a company’s internal data.
• Context.ai – An analytics platform designed for LLM applications that helps developers understand user behavior and improve their products.
• Suno – An AI-powered music generation tool that creates realistic songs, complete with vocals and lyrics, from simple text prompts.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that allows users to create full-length tracks in various styles with custom lyrics and vocals.
• Google’s VLOGGER – A research model from Google that can create a lifelike, controllable video of a person from a single still photograph.
• GPT-4o mini – A new, smaller, cheaper, and faster version of OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4o model, designed for more efficient and scalable applications.
• Viggle AI – A video generation AI that can animate any static image with a reference video, realistically transferring the motion.
• MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 – A high-performance, open-source multimodal large language model capable of processing high-resolution images and performing well on various benchmarks.
• Omost – An open-source tool that allows for composing and generating images by treating various elements like “water” that can be mixed together.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generation service that creates highly artistic and detailed images from natural language descriptions.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows for the creation of studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Layer AI – An AI tool that integrates with game development workflows to generate high-quality art assets that match an existing art style.
• Daft Art – A tool that enables users to create AI-generated music videos for their songs.
• PowerInfer – A high-speed inference engine for large language models that runs on a personal computer equipped with a single consumer-grade GPU.
• ComfyUI – A powerful and modular node-based graphical user interface for Stable Diffusion that allows for advanced, customizable workflows.
• Replicate – A platform that allows developers to run and fine-tune open-source AI models with a cloud-based API without managing infrastructure.
• Cohere Command R+ – A scalable, highly advanced large language model from Cohere designed for real-world enterprise applications.
• Defog – A tool that provides fast and accurate text-to-SQL capabilities, allowing users to query databases using natural language.
• Decagon – An AI-powered enterprise platform that automates customer support by generating accurate, human-like responses.
• Finalle.ai – An AI co-pilot designed to streamline and enhance financial research for investment professionals.
• Amazon Bedrock – An AWS service that provides access to a wide range of leading foundation models through a single API for building generative AI applications.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text prompts.
• Tome – An AI-powered storytelling and presentation tool that helps generate entire narratives, presentations, and visuals from a simple prompt.
• Krea – A suite of AI tools that enables real-time generation and enhancement of images and patterns.
• Leonardo – A platform for generating high-quality images, textures, and other assets for creative projects.
• Magnific – An AI-powered tool designed for upscaling, enhancing, and reimagining images with incredible detail.
• Ideogram 1.0 – A text-to-image model renowned for its ability to accurately render coherent text and typography within generated images.
• Klarna – A global payments and shopping service that uses a powerful AI assistant to handle the majority of its customer service chats.
• Notion – A popular productivity and note-taking application that is developing its own custom AI models to power its features.
• Snowflake – A cloud data platform that provides services for data storage and analytics, and is now being used to build custom enterprise AI models.

Sponsors:

• Vapi – Lets you build, test, and deploy voice agents that sound and feel human in minutes.
• Gladly – A revolutionary customer service platform that treats customers like people, not tickets.
• Masterworks – Offers fractional shares of blue-chip artworks from legends like Banksy and Basquiat, letting you invest in this exclusive asset class.
• Command R+ – A highly-scalable LLM from Cohere that balances high performance with strong accuracy, helping enterprises move from proof of concept to production.
• AE Studio – A team of developers, data scientists, and designers who can help you build and implement the right AI solution for your business.
• LangChain – A framework for developing production-ready applications powered by large language models, which just announced its v0.2 stable release.
• Rows – A spreadsheet platform where you can import, transform, and share data with ease.