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 led by CEO Sam Altman – OpenAI has created a new Safety and Security Committee, led by board members including CEO Sam Altman, to oversee the safety protocols of its AI models.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn search queries into shareable articles – AI search engine Perplexity introduced a new feature called Pages that automatically generates customizable and shareable articles or reports from user prompts.
• Generative AI startup Adept lays off staff and changes focus to building smaller, more specialized models – AI startup Adept has laid off a portion of its staff as it pivots from building a single large “action transformer” model to focusing on more specialized, multimodal AI agents for enterprise customers.
• EU Council gives final approval to the AI Act – The European Union has given its final approval to the AI Act, establishing the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence.
• AI-powered enterprise search startup Glean raises $200M – Glean, a startup that uses AI to search and analyze internal company data, has raised $200 million in a Series D funding round, valuing the company at $2.2 billion.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, its most advanced text-to-image model yet – Stability AI has launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a 2 billion parameter text-to-image model that offers photorealism, prompt understanding, and resource efficiency.
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to compete with OpenAI – xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, has secured $6 billion in a Series B funding round to develop advanced infrastructure and bring its first products to market.
• Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI’s new voice sounds ‘eerily similar’ to hers after she declined to voice it – Actress Scarlett Johansson stated that a new ChatGPT voice was “eerily similar” to her own, despite her having previously declined an offer from OpenAI to license her voice for the system.
• Microsoft’s new ‘Recall’ feature for Windows records everything you do on your PC – Microsoft announced a new AI-powered Windows feature called Recall that takes continuous screenshots of your activity to create a searchable photographic memory of everything you do on your computer.
• Google’s Project Guideline helps blind and low-vision runners race independently – Google, in partnership with Guiding Eyes for the Blind, has developed Project Guideline, an AI-powered system that allows blind and low-vision individuals to run independently using a phone and bone-conducting headphones for audio cues.
• Suno adds a new feature to let you extend your AI-generated songs – AI music generation platform Suno has introduced a new feature allowing users to extend their songs beyond the previous two-minute limit, creating longer and more complex musical pieces.
• Amazon launches Rufus, a new generative AI-powered shopping assistant – Amazon has rolled out Rufus, a new generative AI shopping assistant trained on its product catalog and web data, designed to answer customer questions and provide personalized recommendations.
• Hugging Face partners with Pollen to offer decentralized access to NVIDIA GPUs – Hugging Face is partnering with Pollen Mobile to provide developers with decentralized, lower-cost access to NVIDIA GPUs for AI model training and inference.
• ElevenLabs unveils an AI-powered screen reader – AI voice company ElevenLabs has launched a new text-to-speech screen reader that can identify and read aloud text from websites and PDFs in various voices and languages.
• Google reveals new AI features for Chromebooks Plus, including a ‘Help Me Write’ tool – Google is introducing several new AI-powered features to its Chromebooks Plus line, such as a “Help Me Write” tool, generative AI wallpapers, and the Magic Editor from Google Photos.
• Baseten open-sources Truss, a tool for packaging AI models for production – Cloud backend provider Baseten has open-sourced Truss, a Python package that allows developers to package and deploy AI models onto any infrastructure.
• Gretel AI releases two open-source text-to-SQL models to simplify database queries – Gretel AI has launched a pair of open-source models designed to translate natural language into SQL queries and vice-versa, making databases more accessible.
• Snowflake announces new AI features, including a universal search tool – Data cloud company Snowflake is integrating new enterprise AI features, including a universal search tool to help employees find internal data.
• Meta releases Chameleon, an early-fusion, token-based multimodal model – Meta has introduced Chameleon, a family of multimodal models capable of understanding and generating both images and text in any sequence, similar to Google’s Gemini.
• A new paper shows how to discover what LLMs learn during training – Researchers from Anthropic and Google DeepMind have developed a method to map and understand the “features” or concepts that a language model learns during its training process.
• Amazon Bedrock adds Cohere’s Command R and R+ models – Amazon’s generative AI platform, Bedrock, has expanded its offerings by adding Cohere’s latest large language models, Command R and Command R+.
• AI tutors found to be nearly as effective as human tutors in a new study – A recent study suggests that AI tutors can be almost as effective as one-on-one human tutoring in improving student test scores and learning outcomes.
• Mistral Large is now available on Microsoft Azure – Microsoft has made Mistral AI’s flagship model, Mistral Large, available to customers through its Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning model catalog.
• Apple is reportedly signing deals with publishers to train its generative AI models – Apple is actively negotiating multiyear deals worth at least $50 million with major publishers like Condé Nast and NBC News to license their content for training its AI systems.
• A new tool turns text prompts into animated 3D videos – Researchers have developed a new method called “Text-driven 4D Style Transfer” that can generate dynamic, animated 3D videos from a simple text description.
• A look at the growing use of AI for job application materials – A Wall Street Journal analysis finds that a significant percentage of job seekers are now using AI tools to write their resumes and cover letters.
• Google I/O 2024 developer keynote highlights AI updates – The developer-focused keynote at Google I/O 2024 detailed updates across its AI ecosystem, including Gemini, Project IDX, and Android Studio.
• MIT study suggests LLMs could automate 23% of salaried worker tasks, potentially saving companies billions – A study from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory found that AI could automate nearly a quarter of tasks performed by salaried workers, leading to substantial economic savings.

Trending AI Tools:

• Llama 3 – Meta’s newest and most capable open-source large language model, competitive with top proprietary models.
• Microsoft VASA-1 – A new AI model from Microsoft Research that creates lifelike talking faces from a single static image and an audio clip.
• Poe – An AI chatbot platform by Quora that now allows for multi-bot chats and supports the new Llama 3 models.
• Galileo Luna – An open-source suite of evaluation metrics for large language models, designed to go beyond basic benchmarks.
• Suno – An AI tool that generates realistic songs, including vocals, from a simple text prompt.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its superior ability to accurately render text within images.
• Reka Core – A new frontier-class multimodal language model capable of processing text, images, video, and audio inputs.
• Snowflake Cortex – An intelligent, fully managed service that provides access to AI models for analyzing enterprise data within Snowflake.
• Viggle AI – A free AI tool that animates static characters based on a motion prompt video.
• Udio – A new AI music generation tool that creates high-quality songs with vocals from text prompts.
• Opus Clip – An AI-powered video tool that repurposes long videos into viral short clips with a single click.
• Pinokio – A browser that lets you install, run, and programmatically control any AI application on your computer.
• Godmode – A web platform that provides access to autonomous AI agents like AutoGPT and BabyAGI to accomplish complex tasks.
• Scribe – An AI tool that automatically creates step-by-step guides and process documentation as you work.
• FigJam AI – An AI assistant within Figma’s online whiteboard to help generate, summarize, and sort ideas.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, sourced answers to your questions.
• Durable – An AI-powered platform that can build a business website with images and copy in seconds.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows users to create and host their own fine-tuned AI models.
• Leonardo AI – A creative suite for generating production-quality visual assets and images using AI.
• ElevenLabs – A leading platform for generating high-quality, realistic AI voices and audio.
• Lindy – An AI assistant designed to automate recruiting tasks like candidate sourcing and screening.
• Chatling – A no-code platform to build custom AI chatbots trained on your company’s own data and documents.
• Chatbase – A platform for building a custom ChatGPT-like chatbot for your website using your own data.
• AI Story Generate – An AI-powered tool for generating creative stories based on user prompts.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI model for a wide range of text-based tasks.
• Claude 3 – A family of powerful AI models from Anthropic known for their strong performance and focus on safety.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing high-quality, artistic visuals from text prompts.
• DALL-E 3 – OpenAI’s text-to-image model, capable of creating highly detailed and contextually relevant images.
• Stable Diffusion 3 – The latest version of the popular open-source image generation model from Stability AI.
• Code Llama 70B – A powerful open-source large language model from Meta specifically designed for code generation.
• Replicate – A platform that allows developers to run and fine-tune open-source machine learning models via a cloud API.

Sponsors:

• Brilliant – Brilliant offers thousands of interactive lessons in math, data science, and AI to help you learn and grow.
• AssemblyAI – AssemblyAI provides state-of-the-art AI models for speech-to-text, including the new Conformer-2 model trained on over a million hours of audio data.
• Writer – Writer helps you put guardrails on LLMs to keep them on-brand and in-compliance.
• Clarifai – Clarifai is a full-stack platform designed to help you build AI faster across the entire AI lifecycle.
• Outerbounds – Outerbounds is the company behind Metaflow, an open-source Python framework for building and managing data science projects.
• AE Studio – AE Studio helps companies develop and implement custom AI strategies.
• Sentry – Sentry is an application monitoring platform that helps developers resolve AI issues faster.
• Unify – Unify provides a universal API to access over 30 large language models, helping companies avoid vendor lock-in.
• Gladwell – Gladwell is a marketing agency that helps AI and B2B SaaS companies acquire customers through content marketing and SEO.
• RunPod – RunPod is a platform for renting cloud GPUs at low costs for AI and machine learning tasks.
• TweetHunter – TweetHunter is an all-in-one Twitter growth tool designed to help you grow and monetize your audience.
• Mastering LLMs – Mastering LLMs is a course that provides a deep dive into building with large language models.
• VAST.AI – VAST.AI is a global GPU marketplace that lets you rent GPUs at a fraction of the cost of large cloud providers.
• Guidde – Guidde is a GPT-powered tool that helps you create video documentation and explain complex tasks in seconds.
• Reforge – Reforge offers a program on how to scale AI Products taught by industry experts.