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:

• Figure AI demonstrates an OpenAI-powered robot that can have full conversations and perform tasks – Figure AI released a stunning video of its Figure 01 humanoid robot holding a full conversation and performing useful tasks by leveraging an OpenAI model that provides high-level visual and language intelligence.
• EU lawmakers approve the landmark AI Act – The European Parliament has given its final approval to the AI Act, creating the world’s first comprehensive set of rules governing artificial intelligence.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn prompts into articles and reports – AI search engine Perplexity has released a new feature called Pages that allows users to generate comprehensive, well-structured articles, reports, or guides from a single prompt.
• Mistral’s AI models are now available on Microsoft Azure – Microsoft has made models from French AI startup Mistral, including its new flagship Mistral Large, available to customers through its Azure AI platform.
• Elon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok this week – Following his lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk announced that his company xAI will open-source its large language model, Grok.
• Google DeepMind introduces SIMA, a generalist AI agent for 3D virtual worlds – Google DeepMind has unveiled SIMA (Scalable, Instructable, Multiworld Agent), an AI agent that can understand natural language and perform tasks across a variety of video game environments.
• Anthropic discovers ‘many-shot jailbreaking’ vulnerability in long-context models – Researchers at Anthropic found a new attack method where feeding a long-context model many fake examples of question-answer pairs can bypass its safety features.
• Apple acquires Canadian AI startup DarwinAI – Apple has acquired DarwinAI, a startup specializing in making AI systems smaller and faster, likely to enhance on-device AI capabilities for its products.
• Cognition Labs, creator of Devin, is in talks for funding at a $2B valuation – Just weeks after launching its viral AI software engineer ‘Devin’, Cognition Labs is reportedly in discussions with investors for a funding round that could value the company at up to $2 billion.
• ElevenLabs launches AI Sound Effects generator – The AI voice company ElevenLabs has expanded its audio tools with a new feature that can generate sound effects from simple text prompts.
• Leonardo Ai releases Phoenix, its new foundation image model – Creative AI platform Leonardo.ai launched a new powerful foundation model called Phoenix, which excels at photorealism and following complex user prompts.
• Google reveals Vlogger AI, which creates talking avatars from a single photo – Google researchers have developed a new AI model called Vlogger that can generate a realistic, controllable video of a person talking and gesturing from just a single still image and an audio clip.
• Claude 3 Opus outperforms GPT-4 in financial analysis, study finds – A new analysis by Marlow reveals that Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus model surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4 in zero-shot tests for common financial analysis tasks.
• OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says AI compute costs are set to decrease – OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer, Mira Murati, stated that the cost of running powerful AI systems is expected to drop significantly, making the technology more accessible.
• NVIDIA and Microsoft partner to advance healthcare with generative AI – The two companies are expanding their collaboration to help healthcare professionals and researchers by integrating NVIDIA’s technology with Microsoft’s Azure cloud to accelerate medical research and data analysis.
• Midjourney is testing a ‘Character Reference’ feature for consistent characters – Midjourney has introduced a new --cref parameter that allows users to reference an existing image to maintain character consistency across different generated images.
• OpenAI joins C2PA committee to help standardize content credentials – OpenAI has joined the steering committee of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) to contribute to the development of standards for verifying the source of digital media.
• Intel to use Synopsys AI tools for advanced chip manufacturing – Intel Foundry will leverage Synopsys’s AI-driven electronic design automation (EDA) tools to develop its advanced 18A process technology for chip manufacturing.
• GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available – GitHub has officially launched its Copilot Enterprise plan, which allows companies to create a customized AI coding assistant that draws context from their internal codebase.
• Google releases a new Responsible AI toolkit, including a safety-tuning tool – Google has launched a suite of tools to help developers build AI more responsibly, highlighted by a new technique for fine-tuning models to better align with human preferences for safety.
• Character.AI rolls out voice for all characters – The AI chatbot platform Character.ai now allows users to have voice conversations with all of its millions of user-created AI personas.
• Stack Overflow and Google Cloud announce partnership – The strategic partnership will integrate Stack Overflow’s vast knowledge base into Google Cloud’s AI offerings and bring new AI-powered features to the Stack Overflow platform.

Trending AI Tools:

• Perplexity Pages – An AI tool that transforms research queries, threads, or prompts into visually rich and shareable articles.
• Krea AI – A real-time AI platform for generating and enhancing images and videos with creative control.
• Viggle – An AI video tool that can animate static characters with motion prompts or create videos with consistent characters.
• HeyGen – An AI video generation platform that creates studio-quality videos using realistic AI avatars and voice cloning.
• Codestral – Mistral’s open-weight generative AI model specifically designed for code generation and completion tasks.
• Google Veo – Google’s most advanced text-to-video model for creating high-quality, long-form video content from prompts.
• Google Imagen 3 – Google’s highest quality text-to-image model, known for its photorealism and ability to render text accurately.
• Google Project Astra – A universal AI agent project from Google designed to be a real-time, multimodal assistant that can see and understand the world.
• Google NotebookLM – A personalized AI research and writing assistant that uses your own documents as its knowledge base.
• MindOS – A platform for creating and deploying autonomous AI agents that can interact with users and digital tools.
• Poe – An app that provides access to a variety of AI chatbots and now includes a feature to query multiple models at once.
• Fabric – An AI-powered tool that helps you build web components and user interfaces from simple text prompts.
• Magic Patterns – A tool that generates frontend UI code by converting natural language prompts and screenshots.
• Microsoft Phi-3-vision – A small, powerful, and cost-effective multimodal AI model that can understand and reason about images and text.
• Co-Star – An AI-powered tool that acts as a virtual scene partner, providing feedback for actors to practice their lines.
• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s flagship “omni” model that natively processes and generates combinations of text, audio, and images.
• ElevenLabs – An advanced AI voice generator for creating realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, and audio content.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI-powered suite for video generation, advanced editing, and creative visual effects.
• Opus Clip – An AI video repurposing tool that transforms long-form videos into engaging, viral short clips for social media.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates repetitive tasks such as calendar management, email drafting, and meeting scheduling.
• Polyfill – An AI tool that automatically converts Figma designs into production-ready React components.
• Dola – An AI calendar assistant that functions directly within iMessage to manage your schedule through natural conversation.
• Sunburst – An AI tool for generating unique, high-quality SVG design assets for websites and applications.
• Descript – An all-in-one editor that makes audio and video editing as simple and intuitive as editing a text document.
• Notion AI – A suite of AI features integrated into Notion to assist with writing, summarizing, and brainstorming within your workspace.
• Synthesia – A leading AI video generation platform that creates professional videos with realistic AI avatars in minutes.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that helps you create engaging and visually appealing presentations and documents from text prompts.
• Pika – An AI-powered platform that transforms your creative ideas into high-quality videos through text or image prompts.
• Baseten – A platform that simplifies deploying, serving, and fine-tuning machine learning models, including open-source ones.
• Parea AI – A developer platform for debugging, testing, evaluating, and monitoring your large language model applications.
• Typeframes – An AI tool that quickly generates professional-looking product videos for marketing and social media.
• Kaiber – An AI-powered video generation tool that transforms your ideas, images, and audio into stunning visual stories.
• Simplified – An all-in-one platform with AI-powered tools for graphic design, video editing, content writing, and social media management.
• Pictory – An AI video generator that enables you to quickly create and edit professional-quality videos using text scripts or articles.
• InVideo – An online AI video editor with templates and tools to help you create professional videos quickly and easily.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s foundational conversational AI model capable of generating human-like text for a vast range of tasks.

Sponsors:

• Masterworks – A platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• HeyGen – A platform that enables you to create AI videos with authentic-looking avatars from text in minutes.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that helps build and integrate custom AI solutions for your business.
• AssemblyAI – Provides production-ready AI models for speech-to-text, summarization, and more, which can be tried for free in their playground.
• Imagine with Meta – A free AI image generator that creates high-quality, unique images from simple text prompts.
• Brilliant – Helps you build quantitative skills in math, science, and computer science with fun, interactive lessons.
• Vercel – A platform for building and deploying fast, personalized web experiences with their AI SDK 3.0.
• Monday.com – A work OS that allows you to build, run, and scale your dream workflows on one platform.
• Bland AI – A platform for building, testing, and scaling enterprise-grade voice agents that can handle up to 1 million calls a day.
• Iterate.ai – Offers a low-code platform that enables rapid AI application development and deployment for enterprises.