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 unveiled “Apple Intelligence” – its new personal AI system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, featuring on-device processing, context-aware capabilities, and an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT for more complex queries.
• Elon Musk dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI – and separately threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies due to security concerns over the new ChatGPT integration in iOS 18.
• CoreWeave made a $1.6 billion offer to acquire Core Scientific – highlighting the massive demand for power and infrastructure to support AI data centers.
• Perplexity raised $60 million – in a new funding round led by Daniel Gross, nearly tripling its valuation to $3 billion.
• Mistral is finalizing a new $600 million funding round – that will value the company at $6 billion, tripling its valuation in just six months.
• Stability AI has released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – its most advanced text-to-image model yet, which is smaller, more efficient, and better at handling photorealism and typography.
• Luma Labs launched Dream Machine – a new publicly available text-to-video model capable of generating high-quality, realistic 5-second video clips from text prompts.
• Figure’s AI-powered robots have begun autonomous work – at a BMW manufacturing plant in South Carolina, marking a major commercial milestone.
• Raspberry Pi shares surged over 35% – during its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange.
• The U.S. SEC is investigating OpenAI – to determine whether former board members misled investors during the chaotic ouster and reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman last year.
• Elon Musk’s xAI released a preview of Grok-1.5 Vision – its first multimodal model capable of understanding and analyzing a wide range of visual information.
• Google DeepMind introduced a new research model – that can generate high-quality, two-minute musical pieces in real time from text prompts, complete with vocals and instrumentation.
• Y Combinator published its latest “Requests for Startups” – with a heavy emphasis on AI-powered enterprise software, robotics, and applying AI to create new developer tools.
• Inflection made its Inflection-2.5 model available via API – allowing developers to access the model that powers the Pi chatbot on Microsoft Azure and its own platform.
• A new report predicts AI-capable PCs will be 65% of all shipments by 2028 – indicating a rapid market shift towards devices with dedicated AI hardware.
• Microsoft laid off hundreds of employees in its Azure division – with cuts impacting teams working on mixed reality and the operator-focused Azure for Operators.
• Humane is seeking a buyer for between $750 million and $1 billion – following the poor reception of its wearable AI Pin.
• Mindgrasp – An AI tool that can instantly create notes, summaries, and answer questions from any document, presentation, or video recording you provide.
• Geoffrey Hinton expressed concerns AI could take control from humans – within the next 5 to 20 years if its development is not carefully managed.
• Wayfair launched an AI tool called Decorify – that allows customers to upload photos of their rooms and see them virtually redecorated in various styles.
• A guide to using LangChain with local models – a comprehensive tutorial explaining how to build AI applications that run entirely on your own hardware.
• Section launched a new “AI for Marketers Sprint” course – designed to teach marketing professionals how to effectively use AI tools for their work.
• Guidde – A tool that uses AI to help teams create video documentation and how-to guides 11 times faster than traditional methods.
• Taskade – An AI-powered platform designed to help teams manage projects, generate ideas, and automate workflows with a unified workspace.
• Promptigo – A platform that helps users find, save, and manage high-quality prompts for various AI models to improve their generative AI outputs.

Trending AI Tools:

• Pika 1.0 – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from text, images, or existing videos.
• Leonardo AI – An AI image generation suite that recently launched a new model for creating photorealistic images.
• HeyGen – A video platform that uses AI to create studio-quality videos with realistic avatars and voice cloning.
• Emu Video – Meta’s new text-to-video generation model that aims for high-quality video outputs.
• Emu Edit – Meta’s new model for precise, text-based image editing and manipulation.
• Suno – An AI tool that generates original music, including lyrics and vocals, from text prompts.
• v0 by Vercel – A generative user interface system that creates React code for web components from text descriptions.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI used for a wide range of text generation and problem-solving tasks.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI-powered video editing and generation platform for creators.
• Amazon Q – An AI-powered assistant from Amazon designed specifically for businesses and developers at work.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing highly artistic and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Code Llama 70B – A large, open-source language model from Meta specialized in generating and understanding code.
• Chirper – An AI-only social network where AI personas interact with each other.
• FigJam AI – AI features for brainstorming and summarizing within Figma’s popular whiteboarding tool.
• Godmode – A web platform that allows you to use multiple AI models and autonomous agents in one place to complete tasks.
• AI Storyteller – A tool that lets you create unique, illustrated storybooks with AI.
• Krea – An AI tool that offers real-time image generation and enhancement capabilities.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text prompts.
• DALL-E 3 – OpenAI’s advanced image generation model, known for its prompt adherence and integration with ChatGPT.
• Tome – An AI-powered storytelling format for creating compelling presentations and narratives.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct answers and citations from sources across the web.
• ElevenLabs – A leading AI voice synthesis and cloning platform for creating realistic voiceovers.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant integrated across Windows, Bing, and Microsoft 365 apps.
• Stable Diffusion – A foundational open-source text-to-image model that powers numerous AI art applications.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator particularly known for its ability to reliably create images with text.
• Captions – An AI-powered video editing app designed to streamline the creation of social media content.
• Mistral 7B – A high-performing, open-source 7-billion parameter language model known for its efficiency.
• PhotoGuard – A research tool designed to immunize images against unauthorized AI manipulation or editing.
• PromptPerfect – A tool designed to optimize your text prompts for better results from large language and image models.
• Recast – An AI-powered assistant that helps podcasters repurpose their content for marketing.
• Viggle – A research project demonstrating an AI model that can control the motion of 3D characters from text.
• Brevian – A no-code platform for building and deploying custom AI agents for various business tasks.
• InstaArt – A platform for creating custom AI-generated images and art in a variety of styles.
• Writesonic – An AI writing assistant for creating SEO-friendly marketing copy, blog posts, and other content.
• Copy.ai – An AI copywriter tool that helps businesses generate marketing copy and other text content.
• Jasper – An AI content platform that helps enterprise marketing teams create content tailored to their brand voice.
• Beautiful.ai – An AI presentation maker that automatically designs your slides as you add content.
• SlidesAI – A tool that integrates with Google Slides to create presentations from text automatically.
• Canva – A popular online design platform that has integrated a suite of AI features for image editing and content creation.
• Google Duet AI – Google’s integrated AI assistant for its Workspace apps and Google Cloud Platform.
• Zapier – A popular automation platform that connects different web apps and now incorporates AI into its workflows.
• Trieve – An open-source search infrastructure that developers can use to build search capabilities into their applications.
• Amazon Bedrock – A managed service from AWS that provides access to a variety of foundation models via an API.
• Trainium2 – Amazon’s second-generation custom AI chip designed for high-performance model training.
• Graviton4 – The fourth generation of Amazon’s custom-designed CPU for cloud workloads.

Sponsors:

• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that partners with companies to build and implement AI solutions.
• Beehiiv – An all-in-one newsletter platform designed to help creators grow their audience and business.
• Brilliant – A platform for building quantitative skills in math, science, and computer science with fun, interactive lessons.
• Browse AI – A no-code tool that allows you to extract and monitor data from any website.
• Clarifai – A full-stack AI platform that helps enterprises and public sector organizations build and deploy AI applications.
• Coda – The all-in-one doc that brings words, data, and teams together.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can generate a website with copy, images, and a contact form in under a minute.
• Jasper – An AI copilot for marketing teams that helps create on-brand content tailored to your audience.
• Secret – A platform that offers over $500,000 in deals and credits on SaaS tools for startups.
• Supermanage – An AI-powered tool that helps managers prepare for 1-on-1s by creating agendas from public and private Slack channels.
• TweetHunter – A tool designed to help you grow and monetize your X (formerly Twitter) account.