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 has formed a new Safety and Security Committee – led by CEO Sam Altman and other board members to oversee the safety of its AI models.
• Luma AI has launched Dream Machine – a new and publicly available text-to-video model that generates high-quality, realistic video clips.
• AI video generation startup Pika Labs has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round – to build an all-in-one video creation platform.
• Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round – to bring its first products to market and build advanced infrastructure.
• Google’s new AI Overviews in search are providing bizarre and incorrect answers – such as suggesting users put glue on pizza or eat rocks.
• Perplexity AI launched a new feature called Pages – that instantly generates customized, well-structured, and in-depth articles on any topic.
• Data labeling and evaluation company Scale AI raised $1 billion in a funding round – nearly doubling its valuation to $13.8 billion.
• Microsoft has launched its first “Copilot+ PCs” – a new category of AI-powered Windows computers with dedicated chips for faster on-device AI processing.
• Microsoft’s new AI chief addressed security concerns about the controversial “Recall” feature – promising user control and improved safety measures.
• In response to generating inaccurate answers, Google is now manually disabling its AI Overviews – for specific problematic search queries.
• AI research company Reka has launched Reka Core – its most capable multimodal model that rivals leading models like GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus.
• Harvey, a startup developing generative AI for the legal sector, has raised $80 million in a Series B round – led by Kleiner Perkins.
• AI agent startup Adept has open-sourced Persimmon-8B – a new 8-billion parameter model, after securing an additional $50M in funding.
• Hugging Face has introduced an open-source robotics project – including models and datasets, to foster collaborative development of AI-powered robots.
• Snowflake has acquired AI observability platform TruEra – to help customers evaluate and monitor the performance of their large language model applications.
• Gretel AI released a new open-source text-to-SQL model – that sets a new standard for accuracy in converting natural language to database queries.

Trending AI Tools:

• Llama 3 – Meta’s powerful next-generation open-source large language model, released in 8B and 70B parameter sizes for broad accessibility and performance.
• Reka Core – A new frontier-class multimodal model from startup Reka AI that competes with top models like GPT-4V and Gemini Ultra.
• Microsoft VASA-1 – A new research framework from Microsoft that creates hyper-realistic talking faces from a single static image and an audio clip.
• ChatGPT / GPT-4 – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI and underlying model, recently updated with a new, more capable GPT-4 Turbo version.
• Claude 3 – Anthropic’s latest family of AI models, including the top-performing Opus variant, known for its high performance and large context windows.
• Udio – A new AI music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length songs with vocals from simple text prompts.
• Suno – An AI music and song creation tool capable of generating realistic audio, including vocals, from text descriptions.
• Google Gemini – Google’s family of powerful multimodal AI models, including the highly capable Gemini 1.5 Pro with its massive one million token context window.
• Viggle – An AI tool that generates videos of a character from a still image dancing based on a separate motion prompt video.
• Runway – An AI-powered suite of creative tools for generating and editing video content from text or images.
• Pika – An AI video generator and editor that allows users to create animated videos from text prompts and still images.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions.
• Hugging Face – A central platform and community hub for accessing, sharing, and collaborating on open-source AI models, datasets, and tools.
• Mistral – The AI company behind a suite of powerful open-source and commercial models like Mixtral 8x22B and Mistral Large.
• Adobe Premiere Pro (AI features) – The professional video editing software is getting new generative AI features, powered by the Adobe Firefly video model, to add or remove objects in scenes.
• Continue – An open-source VS Code and JetBrains extension that acts as an AI autopilot for software development.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planning tool that helps users create personalized trip itineraries.
• FigJam AI – A set of AI features within Figma’s online whiteboard tool designed to accelerate brainstorming, summarization, and idea organization.
• Stable Diffusion 3 – The latest version of Stability AI’s highly anticipated open-source image generation model.
• Midjourney – A highly popular and powerful AI image generator known for producing artistic and high-quality visuals via Discord.
• Grok – The conversational AI from xAI that is integrated into X (formerly Twitter) and can access real-time information from the platform.
• Ollama – A user-friendly tool that makes it incredibly simple to download and run powerful open-source language models like Llama 3 locally on your own computer.
• Pinokio – A desktop browser that allows you to install, run, and control various AI applications and engines with a single click, simplifying local AI setup.
• Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses – Smart glasses with an integrated multimodal AI assistant that can see your surroundings and answer questions about them.
• Magnific – An AI tool specifically designed to upscale, enhance, and add intricate detail to images, acting as a “re-imaginer.”
• Krea – A suite of creative AI tools featuring a real-time image generator that transforms user sketches and inputs into detailed images instantly.
• CleanUp.pictures – A simple but powerful web tool that uses AI to remove any unwanted object, person, or text from a picture.
• Opus Clip – An AI video repurposing tool that automatically turns long videos into dozens of shareable short-form clips for social media.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI meeting assistant that automatically joins your calls to record, transcribe, summarize, and analyze the conversation.
• Llama.cpp – A key open-source project enabling efficient inference of large language models on consumer-grade hardware.
• Godmode – A web-based platform that provides an autonomous AI agent capable of completing multi-step tasks across various web services.
• Scribe – A productivity tool that automatically documents your processes by capturing your screen and generating step-by-step guides with text and screenshots.
• Sunfall – A platform that enables developers to securely host, fine-tune, and operate open-source models like Llama 3 on their own infrastructure.
• Replicate – A cloud platform that makes it easy for developers to run and fine-tune open-source AI models via an API without managing infrastructure.
• Fireworks AI – A platform providing developers with access to extremely fast inference for a wide variety of open-source AI models.
• Together AI – A cloud platform designed for developers to build and scale applications using open-source generative AI models.
• Groq – A company that has developed a new type of chip, the Language Processing Unit (LPU), to run LLMs at exceptionally high speeds.
• Llama Guard 2 – An open-source safety model from Meta designed to classify and filter potentially harmful inputs and outputs for LLMs.
• CodeShield – A real-time detection tool from Meta that helps identify insecure code being generated by large language models.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity tool for teams that helps manage tasks, notes, and projects in a collaborative outline format.
• Gamma – An AI presentation maker that creates polished slides, documents, or webpages from a simple text prompt.
• Superhuman – A premium email client that leverages AI to offer features like one-click summarization, faster sorting, and writing assistance.
• Luminary – An open-source, local-first note-taking app that uses local AI models for features like summarization and search.
• Open WebUI – A self-hosted, ChatGPT-like web interface that allows you to interact with various open-source LLMs running locally.
• Durable – An AI-powered website builder that claims to generate a complete business website with copy and images in under a minute.
• Looka – An AI platform that helps businesses design a complete brand identity, from logo generation to marketing materials.
• Code Llama 70B – A state-of-the-art open-source LLM from Meta specifically fine-tuned for code generation, completion, and debugging tasks.
• Prompt Perfect – A tool that optimizes your prompts to help you get higher quality and more detailed responses from large language models.
• Anyscale – A cloud platform offering optimized and scalable endpoints for running large AI models, including the new Llama 3.
• BentoML – An open-source framework that helps developers build, ship, and scale their AI applications in production environments.
• Databricks – A data and AI platform that has integrated and optimized Llama 3 for use by its enterprise customers.
• Snowflake – A cloud data platform that has incorporated Llama 3 into its Snowflake Cortex service for enterprise AI applications.
• Amazon Bedrock – An AWS service providing managed access to a wide range of foundation models from leading AI companies through a single API.
• Vercel – A popular cloud platform for web development that offers templates and integrations for quickly deploying AI-powered applications.
• Cohere – An AI platform focused on providing large language models and retrieval-augmented generation for enterprise customers.
• Meta Quest – Meta’s line of VR headsets, which are being updated with Llama 3 to power on-device multimodal AI features.
• AI Story Generator – A free online tool that uses AI to help you write unique stories across different genres based on your ideas.
• AI Pet Name Generator – A simple AI tool for generating creative name suggestions for your pet.
• CyberSecEval 2 – A comprehensive benchmark from Meta designed to evaluate the safety and potential for misuse of large language models.
• Shortform – A service that provides extremely detailed summaries and analyses of non-fiction books, using AI to enhance its guides.
• Minisforum – A company that builds compact PCs, including new models featuring dedicated AI processors for enhanced performance on AI tasks.

Sponsors:

• Masterworks – A platform that allows you to invest in fractional shares of blue-chip art from artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Writer – An enterprise-grade generative AI platform that helps businesses build AI-powered applications and workflows.
• HubSpot – An AI-powered Campaign Assistant that helps marketers generate content for landing pages, emails, and ads in seconds.
• TensorWave – Offers on-demand bare metal AMD MI300X servers for AI training and inference at a competitive price.
• Cohere – An AI company that has launched Command R+, a new scalable large language model optimized for real-world enterprise use cases.
• guidde – A tool that helps teams create video documentation and how-to guides instantly with AI.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that helps companies build and launch successful AI products.
• LMNT – An electrolyte drink mix that provides essential electrolytes without sugar to improve performance and hydration.
• Jasper – An AI content platform that helps teams create original marketing content and repurpose existing content much faster.
• Ahrefs – An all-in-one SEO toolset that helps you rank higher in search engines and get more web traffic.
• The Gladwell Drop-In – A new podcast from Malcolm Gladwell where he answers audience questions on a wide range of topics.