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 New Safety Committee – OpenAI has formed a new Safety and Security Committee, led by CEO Sam Altman and board members, to oversee the safety protocols for its AI models, including the successor to GPT-4.
• Mistral AI Releases Codestral – Mistral AI has launched Codestral, a powerful 22-billion-parameter open-weight model specifically designed for code generation tasks that supports over 80 programming languages.
• Microsoft Introduces Phi-3-vision – Microsoft released Phi-3-vision, a new 4.2B parameter multimodal model in its small language model family that can understand and reason about both text and images.
• Perplexity Launches ‘Pages’ – AI search engine Perplexity introduced a new feature called Pages, which allows users to generate, customize, and share visually appealing, comprehensive articles on any topic.
• Sakana AI Uses Evolution to Create New Models – Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI has demonstrated a novel, nature-inspired evolutionary approach to automatically merge existing open-source models to create new, more powerful ones.
• Apple Finalizes Deal to Bring ChatGPT to iOS 18 – Apple has reportedly finalized an agreement with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT technology into its upcoming iOS 18, with an official announcement expected at WWDC.
• Legal AI Startup Harvey Raises $80M – Harvey, a startup developing AI co-pilots for legal professionals, has raised $80 million in a Series B round co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Elad Gil, valuing the company at $715 million.
• Scale AI Launches Donovan Evaluation Platform – Scale AI has launched Donovan, an enterprise platform designed to help organizations comprehensively test, evaluate, and compare the performance of AI models for their specific use cases.
• Google Releases Pali-3 Vision-Language Model – Google introduced Pali-3, a 3-billion-parameter vision-language model that achieves state-of-the-art performance in tasks like image captioning and visual Q&A, outperforming models ten times its size.
• CoreWeave Secures $7.5 Billion in Debt Financing – AI cloud provider CoreWeave, which offers access to Nvidia GPUs, has raised $7.5 billion in debt financing from investors led by Blackstone to scale its infrastructure.
• Music AI Generator Suno Raises $125M – Suno, the company behind the popular AI music and song generation tool, has raised $125 million in a Series B funding round.
• Amazon Deploys AI to Help Sellers Write Listings – Amazon has rolled out a new generative AI feature that helps third-party sellers write more effective titles, descriptions, and bullet points for their product listings.
• US and China Resume AI Safety Talks – High-level officials from the United States and China met in Geneva to discuss the risks and safety of advanced artificial intelligence, marking the first formal dialogue on the topic between the two nations.
• AI Funding Cools Down While Infrastructure Investment Rises – A recent report shows that while venture capital funding for generative AI startups has declined, investment is surging in the underlying AI infrastructure sector, including chips and data centers.
• Hugging Face and AMD Partner to Optimize AI Hardware – Hugging Face is collaborating with AMD to optimize its AI models and libraries for AMD’s various hardware platforms, including Instinct data center GPUs and Ryzen AI PCs.
• Medical AI Tool Detects Lung Cancer Earlier Than Human Radiologists – A new AI tool called “Sybil” has demonstrated the ability to predict lung cancer risk from a single CT scan more accurately and up to a year earlier than human experts.
• Nvidia develops AI chatbot for PCs – Nvidia is developing a specialized AI chatbot for its GeForce RTX GPUs that allows users to query information from local files on their PC.
• AI Discovers New Materials for Green Energy Tech – Researchers have used an AI model to predict the structure and stability of over two million new crystalline materials, potentially accelerating the development of technologies like solar cells and batteries.
• Unstructured Raises $40M for AI Data Processing – Unstructured, a company that provides tools to help enterprises prepare their complex internal data for use with large language models, has raised $40 million in a Series B round.
• Gretel raises $50M for synthetic data generation – Gretel, a startup that helps companies create safe, synthetic versions of their data for AI model training, has secured $50 million in a Series B funding round.
• AI Pin Maker Humane Is Reportedly Seeking a Buyer – Following poor reviews of its AI Pin device, startup Humane is reportedly looking to sell the company for a price between $750 million and $1 billion.
• Octopus v2: A New On-Device AI Model for Function Calling – Researchers have released Octopus v2, a 2-billion-parameter open-source model designed to run on-device and excel at function calling and connecting with external tools.
• YouTube is testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers – YouTube is experimenting with injecting ads directly into video streams on the server side, a move that would make them much more difficult for ad-blocking software to stop.
• Study Finds ChatGPT Can Persuade Users on Political Issues – A new study indicates that ChatGPT can be highly effective at persuading people to change their opinions on sensitive political topics, raising concerns about its potential influence.

Trending AI Tools:

• Rabbit R1 – A pocket-sized AI hardware companion designed to interact with apps and perform tasks on your behalf.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice platform for generating realistic, human-like speech and creating voice clones from audio samples.
• Pika – An AI video generation platform that creates and edits videos from text prompts and images.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Suno – An AI music and song generator that creates original music, including vocals and lyrics, from simple text prompts.
• Midjourney – An AI program and research lab that creates highly artistic and detailed images from textual descriptions.
• Character.AI – A platform where you can create and interact with unique AI-powered chatbots, each with its own personality.
• Zapier – An automation platform that connects your apps and services, now with AI features to build more intelligent workflows.
• Luma AI – A tool that creates photorealistic 3D models and scenes from text prompts or video footage using AI.
• Amazon Q – An AI-powered assistant from AWS designed to help employees get answers to business-related questions and streamline tasks.
• Magic – An AI software engineer that can understand a codebase and assist human developers with coding tasks.
• Galileo – An AI tool that instantly generates editable UI designs for apps and websites from a simple text description.
• Microsoft Copilot Pro – A premium subscription that enhances Microsoft’s AI assistant with priority access, faster performance, and integration into Office apps.
• ChatGPT Team – A self-serve plan from OpenAI that provides a dedicated workspace and admin tools for teams using ChatGPT.
• Code Llama 70B – A state-of-the-art large language model from Meta, specifically trained for generating and discussing code.
• GPT-4 Turbo – OpenAI’s latest generation model with a larger context window and vision capabilities, allowing it to analyze images.
• Google Imagen 2 – Google’s advanced text-to-image model, capable of producing high-quality, photorealistic images with better text rendering.
• Lindy – A platform for building autonomous AI agents, called “Lindys,” that can automate complex workflows and tasks.
• Superpowered – An AI podcast player that provides transcripts, summaries, chapters, and key takeaways for episodes.
• Syllaby – An AI tool that helps you generate a viral video content strategy by identifying trending topics and creating video scripts.
• Cognosys – A web-based AI agent that can accomplish complex tasks by interacting with websites and applications like a human.
• Prompt Knobs – A visual tool for prompt engineering that allows you to experiment with prompt parameters using sliders and inputs.
• Replicate – A platform that makes it easy for developers to run and fine-tune open-source machine learning models via an API.
• Morphic – A no-code website builder that uses AI to help you design, build, and launch websites quickly.
• Vercel v0 – An AI-powered tool by Vercel that generates React user interfaces based on simple text prompts.
• Cribble – A tool that transforms your knowledge base, documents, or website content into an intelligent AI chatbot for customer support.
• Browse AI – A no-code tool that lets you extract and monitor data from any website by training an AI robot.
• Dopt – An in-product AI assistant that helps users discover and adopt your product’s features through personalized guidance.
• Tatem – An AI-powered inbox designed to help teams manage shared inboxes like support@ and info@ more efficiently.
• Chatling – A platform to build a custom, ChatGPT-like AI chatbot for your website, trained on your own data.
• Chirr App – A tool designed for X (formerly Twitter) that helps you write, schedule, and analyze threads and posts.
• DALL-E 3 – OpenAI’s text-to-image model that can generate highly detailed and nuanced images from natural language prompts.

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