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:

• Humane AI Pin Receives Negative Reviews – The highly anticipated Humane AI Pin has received overwhelmingly negative reviews from major tech critics, who cited it as frustrating and non-functional.
• Apple Releases OpenELM for On-Device AI – Apple has released OpenELM, a family of small, efficient, open-source language models designed to run directly on devices like iPhones.
• OpenAI Prepares Google Search Competitor – OpenAI is reportedly preparing to launch a search engine to compete with Google, with the domain search.chatgpt.com now active.
• Google Teases Veo and Imagen 3 AI Models – Google teased its new generative models, Veo for high-quality video creation and Imagen 3 for photorealistic image generation, positioning them as direct competitors to OpenAI’s Sora and DALL-E 3.
• Adobe Integrates Generative AI into Premiere Pro – Adobe is integrating generative AI into Premiere Pro for advanced video editing, including features for object manipulation and scene extension, and is also adding an AI assistant to Acrobat.
• Mistral AI in Talks for $600M Funding – French AI startup Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise approximately $600 million in a new funding round that would value the company at $5 billion.
• Microsoft Introduces VASA-1 for Realistic Talking Avatars – Microsoft introduced VASA-1, an AI framework that generates highly realistic, talking video avatars from a single image and an audio speech file, but will not release it publicly due to safety concerns.
• Meta Introduces Chameleon Mixed-Modal Models – Meta has introduced Chameleon, a new family of mixed-modal models that can understand and generate both images and text sequences interchangeably.
• Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque Steps Down – Stability AI’s CEO Emad Mostaque has stepped down from his role and the company’s board to pursue decentralized AI.
• Elon Musk Predicts AI Smarter Than Humans by 2025 – Elon Musk predicted during an X Spaces conversation that AI will likely be smarter than the most intelligent human by 2025.
• Google Considers Charging for Premium AI Search – Reports suggest Google is exploring the idea of charging for premium, AI-powered search features, which would be a first for its core product.
• Cognition AI Raising $175 Million – Cognition AI, the company behind the AI software engineer Devin, is reportedly raising $175 million in funding led by Founders Fund.
• Report Charts Path of Advancing AI Agents – A new report suggests that AI agents are rapidly advancing towards being able to automate a significant portion of human labor across various sectors.
• Reka Launches Reka Core, a New Frontier Model – AI research company Reka has launched Reka Core, a new frontier-class multimodal model that reportedly competes with leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
• Google DeepMind Develops ‘Go-getter’ Agents – Google DeepMind researchers are developing ‘Go-getter’ agents that can follow complex, multi-step instructions to perform tasks on real websites.
• Meta Releases Open-Source AVS2S Model – Meta has released Audio-Visual Speech-to-Speech (AVS2S), an open-source model that can generate synchronized audio and video of a person speaking from audio-only input.
• Amazon Officially Launches Amazon Q – Amazon has officially launched Amazon Q, a powerful AI assistant designed to enhance productivity and streamline workflows for businesses.
• Study Finds GPT-4 Outperforms Physicians in Clinical Reasoning – A recent study found that large language models like GPT-4 outperformed human physicians in the process of clinical reasoning for medical diagnoses.
• Poe Allows Multiple Bots in a Single Conversation – Poe now allows users to include multiple AI bots in a single conversation, enabling them to be queried and compared simultaneously.
• ‘Mixture-of-Depths’ Technique Speeds Up LLM Inference – A new research paper introduces ‘Mixture-of-Depths,’ a technique that dynamically allocates computation during LLM inference to significantly speed up the process.
• Spotify Tests AI-Powered Playlist Creation – Spotify is testing an AI-powered feature that allows users to create playlists by typing in text prompts.
• Stack Overflow Partners with OpenAI – Stack Overflow has partnered with OpenAI to integrate its knowledge base into ChatGPT, providing developers with more accurate and cited answers.
• AI Used to Predict the Taste of Beer – Researchers are using AI to analyze chemical compounds and predict the taste of different beer varieties, potentially leading to the creation of new flavors.
• Pika Labs Adds AI Sound Effects Generation – Pika Labs has added a new sound effects generation feature to its AI video creation platform.
• Wayfair Launches “Decorify” AI Tool – Wayfair has launched a new tool called “Decorify” that uses generative AI to help customers visualize furniture and decor in their own space.
• Research Explores Making AI More Adaptable for Experts – New research explores methods for making AI systems more adaptable and useful for domain experts by allowing them to more easily correct and guide the models.
• Mindtrip is a New AI-Powered Travel Planner – Mindtrip is a new AI-powered travel planning tool designed to simplify the process of organizing trips from start to finish.

Trending AI Tools:

• Genie – A new model from Google DeepMind that can generate interactive, playable 2D video games from a single image or text prompt.
• Devin – The world’s first AI software engineer that can autonomously handle entire development projects from start to finish.
• Ideogram – A text-to-image model that excels at rendering coherent and legible text within generated images.
• Viggle – A video generation model that can animate a character in a still image using a separate video for motion guidance.
• Read AI – An AI tool that joins your online meetings and automatically generates summaries, transcripts, and highlights.
• Rewind – A wearable pendant that captures what you say and hear in the real world to create a searchable memory.
• Synthesia – An AI video platform that allows you to create professional videos with expressive, realistic AI avatars.
• Reka Core – A new flagship multimodal language model competitive with leading models like GPT-4 and Claude 3.
• Leonardo AI – An image generation platform that launched Phoenix, its new and improved base model for creating high-quality visuals.
• Suno – An AI music and song generation tool that creates realistic audio, including vocals, from text prompts.
• Prompt Set – A tool for A/B testing prompts across multiple large language models to compare their performance.
• Sidekick – An AI design assistant that generates user interface (UI) designs from text prompts and images.
• Aomni – An AI research agent that automates the process of creating detailed market reports and analyses.
• Agenta – An open-source platform for developers to evaluate, deploy, and monitor their large language model applications.
• Recast – An AI tool that repurposes your existing long-form content into various formats like blog posts, social media threads, and newsletters.
• Grok – The conversational AI chatbot from xAI, which is being open-sourced.
• Figma (Jambot) – An AI assistant integrated into Figma’s whiteboard tool, FigJam, to help with brainstorming and visualization.
• Superhuman – An AI-powered email client designed to help you process your inbox twice as fast.
• Tome – An AI-native platform for creating compelling presentations and documents from a simple prompt.
• Shortform – An AI-powered service that provides super-detailed summaries and analyses of non-fiction books.
• Ema – A “universal AI employee” designed to automate complex workflows and tasks across various enterprise applications.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct answers to questions with cited sources.
• Pika – An AI video generator that now includes a feature to create and add sound effects to your videos.
• ElevenLabs – A voice AI company that recently launched an AI Dubbing tool to translate and voice-over videos in different languages.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that can manage your calendar, draft emails, and handle other administrative tasks.
• AI Story Generate – A platform for creating audiobooks from scratch using AI-generated voices and stories.
• Groq – A company that builds ultra-fast chips (LPUs) designed to run large language models at exceptional speeds.
• OpenAI Jukebox – An open-source AI model from OpenAI that generates music with singing in a variety of genres and styles.
• Formulas HQ – A collection of over 1,000 tested AI formulas and prompts for various tasks and models.
• Vast.ai – A cloud marketplace that allows users to rent affordable GPU computing power from a global network.
• Trieve – An open-source search infrastructure for developers to build advanced RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) applications.

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