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:

• Mistral AI launches its flagship ‘Large’ model and partners with Microsoft. – Mistral AI launched Mistral Large, a new flagship model rivaling GPT-4, and announced a partnership with Microsoft to make its models available on Azure.
• Apple cancels its electric car project to focus on generative AI. – Apple is canceling its decade-long electric car project, shifting many employees from the team to work on generative AI initiatives.
• Humanoid robotics startup Figure raises $675M. – Humanoid robotics company Figure raised $675M from investors including Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA to scale its AI robot development.
• Klarna’s AI assistant is doing the work of 700 people. – Klarna’s new OpenAI-powered assistant is handling two-thirds of its customer service chats, a workload equivalent to 700 full-time agents.
• Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman. – Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging they abandoned the company’s original nonprofit mission in pursuit of profit.
• Google releases its new open-source Gemma models. – Google released Gemma, a new family of lightweight, open-source models built from the same technology used for its larger Gemini models.
• Ideogram launches its v1.0 text-to-image model. – Ideogram launched version 1.0 of its text-to-image model, featuring significant improvements in typography rendering, photorealism, and prompt interpretation.
• Google DeepMind introduces Genie, a game-generating AI. – Google DeepMind introduced Genie, a new foundation model that can generate interactive, playable 2D video games from a single text or image prompt.
• Stability AI announces Stable Diffusion 3. – Stability AI announced Stable Diffusion 3, a new text-to-image model that shows significant improvements in handling text and complex prompts, currently in early preview.
• Character.AI integrates Google Search into its chatbots. – Character.AI is integrating Google Search to give its AI chatbots access to real-time information from the web during conversations.
• Reddit’s IPO filing reveals a $60M data deal with Google. – Reddit’s public IPO filing revealed a $60 million annual deal allowing Google to use its vast content library for training AI models.
• Hugging Face launches an open-source AI assistant builder. – Hugging Face released a free, open-source AI assistant builder that allows developers to create chatbots using any large language model.
• FCC officially bans AI-generated voices in robocalls. – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has officially outlawed the use of AI-generated voices in unsolicited robocalls, effective immediately.
• U.S. to investigate Chinese “smart cars” as a national security risk. – The Biden administration has launched an investigation into the national security risks posed by imported Chinese “smart cars” that collect sensitive user data.
• LinkedIn adds AI tools for job seekers. – LinkedIn launched new generative AI features to help job seekers write cover letters, improve their resumes, and get advice from an AI career coach.
• Together AI raises $106M for open-source AI cloud. – Together AI, a platform for building and running open-source AI models, raised $106 million in a new funding round led by Salesforce Ventures.
• DeepMind proposes a new method for AI safety. – Google DeepMind researchers proposed “Safe Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback” (Safe-RLHF) to make large language models safer and more aligned with human values.
• Databricks acquires Lilac to improve unstructured data analysis. – Databricks acquired Lilac, an open-source project and company focused on helping users explore and analyze unstructured text data with AI.
• Telefónica partners with Microsoft to boost AI capabilities. – Spanish telecom giant Telefónica is partnering with Microsoft to integrate Azure AI Studio into its “Kernel” digital ecosystem.

Trending AI Tools:

• Pika – An AI platform that generates and edits high-quality video from text or image prompts.
• Gemini – Google’s flagship multimodal AI model designed to understand and operate across text, images, audio, video, and code.
• Runway Motion Brush – A feature that allows users to add controlled motion to specific parts of a still image by “painting” the desired movement.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator particularly skilled at accurately rendering text and typography within the images it creates.
• Stable Video Diffusion – An open-source AI model from Stability AI for generating short video clips from text or still images.
• Magnific – An AI-powered tool designed to upscale images, enhance details, and add realism to photos and illustrations.
• AlphaFold 2 (latest update) – DeepMind’s revolutionary AI for predicting the 3D structure of proteins and other molecular interactions with incredible accuracy.
• AI Pencil – A tool that uses AI to help create and streamline the process of making hand-drawn style animations.
• Leonardo AI Phoenix – A new foundation model for the Leonardo AI image generation suite, excelling in photorealism and prompt adherence.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s rebranded AI assistant, integrated across its products to provide conversational help and content generation.
• YouTube Video Summaries – An experimental Google AI feature that automatically generates summaries for YouTube videos to help users quickly understand the content.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can generate a complete business website with copy, images, and a contact form in under a minute.
• Llama Guard – An open-source AI model from Meta designed to classify content safety for large language model inputs and outputs.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that helps teams manage tasks, write notes, and chat in a single, unified workspace.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that provides a unified search experience across all of a company’s internal apps and documents.
• Amazon Q – A generative AI-powered assistant from AWS designed for businesses to answer questions and generate content based on internal company data.
• PhotoRoom – An AI photo editor app that specializes in easily removing, editing, and replacing backgrounds from images.
• Guidde – An AI tool that helps create video documentation and how-to guides by capturing workflows and auto-generating voiceover and steps.
• Wix Studio – A web creation platform for agencies that incorporates responsive AI to help adapt designs across different screen sizes.
• Mixo – An AI-powered builder that quickly generates a simple website to help entrepreneurs launch and validate new business ideas.

Sponsors:

• beehiiv – A newsletter platform built for growth and used by the world’s top newsletters.
• DoNotPay – The world’s first robot lawyer that helps you fight corporations, beat bureaucracy, and sue anyone.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that builds solutions for companies and startups.
• Masterworks – An exclusive platform that allows you to invest in multimillion-dollar masterpieces from artists like Basquiat and Banksy.
• MindStudio – A platform by YouAI that lets you build and launch custom AI apps without any code.
• Notion – Notion AI helps you work faster, write better, and think bigger directly in your workspace.
• Omneky – An omnichannel creative generation platform that launches ad iterations to capture attention and drive results.
• Amazon Q – A generative AI-powered assistant specifically for work that can be tailored to your business.