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:

• Pika Labs raises $80 million to build an AI video generator for everyone – Pika, the AI video generation startup, announced an $80 million Series B funding round to scale its platform and pursue advanced AI research.
• Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner speaks out on Sam Altman’s ouster – Former OpenAI board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley published an essay detailing their reasons for firing Sam Altman, citing a long-standing pattern of manipulative and deceptive behavior.
• Apple’s ‘Apple Intelligence’ AI features for iOS 18 will be opt-in – Leaks reveal Apple’s upcoming AI features, branded “Apple Intelligence,” will be an opt-in beta at launch and will require an iPhone 15 Pro or a device with an M1 chip or later.
• Nvidia is now more valuable than Apple – Nvidia’s market capitalization surpassed $3 trillion, making it the world’s second most valuable company ahead of Apple.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn search queries into articles – AI search engine Perplexity introduced “Pages,” a new feature that converts search queries or documents into customizable and shareable web pages, reports, or guides.
• Snowflake announces new AI features and open sources Polaris Catalog – At its annual summit, Snowflake announced several new AI capabilities, including Cortex AI advancements, and the open-sourcing of its Polaris Catalog for Apache Iceberg.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace enters technical preview – GitHub announced the technical preview of Copilot Workspace, an AI-native environment that helps developers brainstorm, plan, and implement code from an initial idea.
• LinkedIn lays off hundreds in recruiting department amid AI shift – LinkedIn is laying off 668 employees from its recruiting division as the company shifts its strategy to focus more on AI-powered hiring tools.
• Stability AI Releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a 2B parameter text-to-image model that offers high-quality outputs and photorealism while being small enough to run on consumer PCs.
• Runway teases its new Gen-3 Alpha video model – Runway released teaser videos for its next-generation video model, Gen-3 Alpha, which promises major improvements in generation quality, motion, and consistency.
• ElevenLabs launches text-to-sound effects model – AI voice company ElevenLabs has released a new text-to-sound effects model that can generate a wide range of audio, from ambient noise to specific sound events, from text prompts.
• OpenAI appoints former NSA director Paul M. Nakasone to its board – OpenAI added retired U.S. Army general and former NSA chief Paul M. Nakasone to its Board of Directors and its Safety and Security Committee.
• Google tests new AI feature to provide real-time scam call alerts – Google is testing an on-device Gemini Nano feature that listens for conversation patterns typical of phone scams and provides real-time alerts to the user.
• Study shows large AI models can be trained on 100% synthetic data – New research demonstrates that large language models can be successfully trained on entirely synthetic data generated by other models, a finding that could solve data scarcity and privacy issues.
• Dell and Cerebras partner on AI solutions to compete with Nvidia – Dell Technologies announced a partnership with AI chip startup Cerebras Systems to build AI “factories” that combine Dell hardware with Cerebras’s powerful AI accelerators.
• The New York Times will replace some photo editors with AI – The New York Times is automating simple photo editing tasks like cropping and filing using AI, which will lead to a reduction in its staff of human photo editors.
• Character.AI introduces voice cloning for its AI chatbots – Users of the Character.ai platform can now create a custom voice for their AI characters by providing just a 10-second audio sample.
• Viral video of ‘Devin’ the AI coder found to be misleading – An investigation into the viral demo of AI software engineer “Devin” revealed that the video was heavily edited and exaggerated the AI’s actual capabilities, sparking a debate about AI hype.
• MIT researchers develop AI to accelerate drug discovery – Researchers at MIT created an AI model, ConPLex, that analyzes scientific text to predict drug-protein interactions, which could significantly speed up the process of discovering new medicines.
• UK opens AI Safety Institute in San Francisco – The UK’s AI Safety Institute has opened its first overseas office in San Francisco to better collaborate with US-based AI companies and research institutions on AI safety.
• AI cloud provider CoreWeave offers to buy Bitcoin miner Core Scientific for $1.6B – CoreWeave, a cloud provider specializing in AI workloads, has made a $1.6 billion all-cash offer to acquire the Bitcoin mining company Core Scientific.
• Hugging Face releases Idefics2, a powerful 8B vision-language model – Hugging Face has launched Idefics2, an open-source 8B parameter multimodal model with strong image and text understanding, OCR capabilities, and the ability to answer questions about visual content.
• AssemblyAI launches Universal-1, a next-gen speech-to-text model – AssemblyAI released Universal-1, a state-of-the-art multilingual model for speech recognition that can transcribe and translate audio across more than 50 languages.
• AI system DeepCoder creates its own programming language from scratch – Researchers have developed an AI called DeepCoder that can invent its own functional programming language tailored to solving specific problems more efficiently.
• Suno updates its platform with free private song creation – The AI music generator Suno now allows free users to keep their created songs private and has added a dedicated “instrumental” button for creating music without lyrics.
• Google releases new Responsible AI toolkit for developers – Google launched a new toolkit to help developers build AI applications more responsibly, featuring tools for safer prompt design and for assessing AI model fairness.
• Poe introduces multi-bot chats to converse with several AIs at once – Quora’s AI platform Poe launched a multi-bot chat feature, enabling users to mention and interact with multiple AI models like GPT-4o and Claude 3 Opus within a single conversation.
• Microsoft and G42 to invest $1B in a geothermal-powered data center in Kenya – Microsoft and UAE-based AI firm G42 announced a $1 billion investment to build a sustainable data center in Kenya, which will run on geothermal energy.
• Midjourney Magazine’s latest issue is now available – The newest edition of Midjourney’s monthly magazine, which showcases impressive AI-generated artwork and interviews with artists from the community, has been released.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – An AI model that generates high-quality, realistic videos from text descriptions and images, available to the public for free.
• Kling AI – A new text-to-video AI model from Chinese company Kuaishou, capable of generating up to two minutes of 1080p video with complex motion.
• Perplexity Pages – An AI search engine feature that allows users to convert their search queries into comprehensive, visually appealing articles or reports.
• Google Vids – A forthcoming AI-powered video creation application for work that is part of the Google Workspace suite.
• Runway – An AI video generation and editing platform offering a suite of creative tools for artists and filmmakers.
• Pika – An AI-powered platform that transforms ideas into videos through text, image, or existing video clip inputs.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from simple text prompts.
• Notion – A connected workspace that integrates AI to assist with writing, summarizing, translating, and organizing information.
• ChatGPT – A foundational conversational AI model by OpenAI used for a wide range of text generation and understanding tasks.
• Slack – A business communication platform that has integrated AI features for summarizing conversations, answering questions, and providing recaps.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing high-quality and artistic visuals from text prompts.
• Claude – A family of large language models from Anthropic known for advanced reasoning and large context windows for complex tasks.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates high-quality songs with vocals from simple text prompts.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that enables the creation of engaging videos using realistic AI avatars and voice cloning.
• Mind-Video – A novel AI method that reconstructs high-quality videos directly from fMRI brain recordings.
• Morpheus-1 – A system designed to induce and stabilize lucid dreams using generative ultrasonic holograms and AI models.
• Story Diffusion – An open-source method for generating a series of images with consistent characters and styles for visual storytelling.
• Kinema – An AI-powered tool that generates 3D animations from a single video input, aiming to democratize character animation.
• Sedona – An open-source framework that enables developers to build, test, and deploy AI agents that can reason and use tools.
• Codestral – A new 22B open-weight generative model from Mistral AI specifically designed for code generation tasks across 80 programming languages.
• Krea AI – An AI tool that generates high-quality images, patterns, and logo concepts in real-time as you type or sketch.
• Final Frame – An AI-powered video upscaling and enhancement tool designed to improve the quality of video footage.
• Luminal – A platform that allows users to clean, transform, and enrich data by building complex AI workflows within a familiar spreadsheet interface.
• NVIDIA ACE – A suite of technologies designed to help developers create realistic and interactive AI-powered digital humans for games and applications.
• Diagram – A company recently acquired by Figma that develops AI-powered design tools to automate and enhance the design workflow.
• Defog – An AI tool that connects to your data warehouse and converts natural language questions into SQL queries for analysis.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes voice conversations to automate meeting notes.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for creating polished and engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text instructions.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that combines task management, notes, and mind mapping into a unified workspace.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates tasks like managing your calendar, drafting emails, and triaging your inbox.
• Veed – An online video editing platform that uses AI to simplify tasks like subtitling, transcription, and removing background noise.
• Sudowrite – An AI writing partner specifically designed to help fiction authors with brainstorming, writing, and editing their stories.
• Writesonic – An AI writing assistant that helps create SEO-friendly marketing copy, blog posts, and other forms of content.
• Recap – A browser extension that provides AI-generated summaries for virtually any webpage, document, or video.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its strong ability to accurately render coherent text within the images it creates.
• Looka – An AI-powered platform that helps users design custom logos and build a complete brand identity.
• Leonardo AI – A generative AI platform for creating high-quality visual assets like character portraits and game environments for creative projects.
• Prompthub.us – A browser extension that allows users to save, organize, and quickly access their favorite AI prompts with a single click.
• Hugging Face – A platform and community that provides tools and resources for building, training, and deploying machine learning models.

Sponsors:

• Masterworks – This startup lets you invest in multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Assemblaai – Assembla AI is a meeting assistant that uses AI to transcribe, summarize, and generate insights from your meetings.
• Sentry – Sentry is an error and performance monitoring tool that helps developers see what matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously.
• Napier – Napier is a next-generation SaaS financial crime and regulation technology (RegTech) compliance platform.
• Dust – Dust lets you design and deploy powerful AI assistants for your team by connecting to your company’s data and tools.
• Finds – Finds is an AI-powered shopping tool that helps you discover and purchase fashion items from images and text.
• Writer – Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform helping enterprises deploy AI safely and securely.
• Persado – Persado is a Generative AI platform that helps brands create high-performing marketing content.
• Jasper – Jasper is the AI copilot for marketing teams that want to break through the noise and create amazing content.
• BrandOps – BrandOps is the intelligence platform for brand management, helping you monitor and optimize your brand performance.
• Code3 – Code3 is a performance marketing partner that drives business results at the intersection of media, creative, and commerce.
• Welcome (an Optimizely company) – Welcome is a content marketing platform that helps marketing teams manage campaigns from ideation to execution.
• AiAdvertising – AiAdvertising harnesses the power of AI to make advertising more intelligent, automated, and effective.
• SupportLogic – SupportLogic is a support experience management platform that uses AI to improve the post-sales customer experience.
• Truescope – Truescope is a media intelligence platform helping organizations monitor, analyze, and report on media coverage.