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 announces ‘Apple Intelligence’ and a partnership with OpenAI for ChatGPT integration – Apple unveiled its new suite of AI features for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, which will integrate ChatGPT to handle more complex user queries.
• Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI – Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit that accused OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman of abandoning the company’s original non-profit mission to develop AI for humanity’s benefit.
• Mistral AI raises $640 million at a $6 billion valuation – French AI startup Mistral AI secured a new funding round led by General Catalyst, significantly increasing its valuation as it competes with other major AI labs.
• Raspberry Pi shares soar 30% in London IPO – The maker of popular single-board computers, Raspberry Pi, saw its stock price surge in its market debut on the London Stock Exchange.
• Google scales back AI Overviews in search results – Following weeks of criticism for generating bizarre and inaccurate answers, Google has significantly reduced the frequency and visibility of its “AI Overviews” feature.
• Oracle partners with Google and OpenAI to expand cloud AI offerings – Oracle announced it will offer Google’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect on its own cloud infrastructure and will also integrate OpenAI’s models for its enterprise customers.
• AI cloud provider CoreWeave offers to buy Core Scientific for $1.6B – After a previous bid was rejected, CoreWeave has made a formal offer to acquire the crypto-mining company Core Scientific to expand its data center capacity for AI workloads.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn search results into articles – The AI-powered search engine introduced a new feature that converts search queries and threads into customizable, shareable webpages or presentations.
• Microsoft’s $1.5B investment in UAE’s G42 gets US government approval – The deal, which involved G42 divesting from Chinese technology, gives Microsoft a minority stake and a board seat in the Abu Dhabi-based AI firm.
• Character.AI lays off staff to focus on consumer product – The AI chatbot startup has laid off a number of its business-focused staff as it pivots away from enterprise solutions to concentrate on its popular consumer app.
• Apple Vision Pro to launch in 8 new countries – The Vision Pro headset will become available in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the UK starting later this month.
• Stability AI appoints Prem Akkaraju as new CEO – The former CEO of visual effects company Weta Digital, Prem Akkaraju, has been named the new chief executive of Stability AI.
• Japan to propose new copyright law for AI-generated content – Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs plans to introduce legislation allowing copyright holders to claim fees from companies using their work to train AI models.
• Snowflake open sources Arctic-R, a new Mixture-of-Experts model – Snowflake has released a new open enterprise-grade AI model that uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture to provide high-quality output with low inference cost.
• Humanoid robot startup Figure is raising another $600M – Just three months after securing $675 million, robotics company Figure is reportedly in talks to raise an additional $600 million in funding.
• Microsoft delays controversial ‘Recall’ feature for Windows – Following significant backlash from security experts, Microsoft has postponed the launch of its screenshot-capturing Recall feature, making it an opt-in experience for Windows Insiders first.
• Meta to face lawsuit over Section 230 and child exploitation – A U.S. appeals court ruled that New Mexico can sue Meta over claims its algorithms on Facebook and Instagram facilitated child sexual abuse, potentially challenging the broad immunity of Section 230.
• Google DeepMind creates ‘Shepherd’ to spot flawed AI model responses – Researchers have developed Shepherd, a specialized language model designed to act as a critic that can identify specific errors and hallucinations in the responses of other AI models.
• xAI plans to build a ‘gigafactory of compute’ in Memphis – Elon Musk’s xAI has chosen Memphis, Tennessee, as the location for a massive supercomputer data center, which is expected to be the most powerful in the world.
• Wayve showcases LINGO-2, a new vision-language-action model for self-driving cars – The UK-based autonomous driving company demonstrated its new AI model that can explain its driving decisions in real-time using natural language.
• General Catalyst acquires AI startup Lofty and plans to buy more – Venture capital firm General Catalyst has acquired its third small AI company, signaling a new strategy of buying and integrating startups to build larger, more ambitious companies.
• YouTube tests server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers – YouTube is experimenting with a new method of embedding ads directly into video streams on the server, making them much harder for ad-blocking software to detect and skip.
• LM Studio introduces new video search and local multimodal model support – The popular application for running local large language models has been updated to support Llama 3 Vision, enabling capabilities like searching through video content.
• Researchers create AI models that run on light instead of electricity – A new study published in Nature Photonics details an optical AI system that processes information using light waves, potentially offering massive energy savings over traditional electronic chips.
• SEC Investigates Former OpenAI Board Members – The SEC is examining whether OpenAI investors were misled during the period of CEO Sam Altman’s ouster and subsequent reinstatement last year.

Trending AI Tools:

• Llama 3 – Meta’s new family of powerful open-source large language models, powering their Meta AI assistant.
• VASA-1 – A new framework from Microsoft Research that creates lifelike, expressive talking faces from a single static image and a speech audio clip.
• Grok-1.5V – The latest multimodal model from xAI that can process and reason about visual information, including documents, diagrams, charts, and photos.
• Udio – A new AI music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length songs with vocals from simple text prompts.
• Viggle – A free AI tool that generates videos with consistent, controllable characters by animating them based on a source image and a motion video.
• TuneStudio – An experimental music creation tool from Google AI that helps users generate and remix musical ideas using text prompts.
• Exa – An AI-native search engine designed to understand complex, long-form queries and find specific information or data across the web.
• Meta AI – Meta’s AI assistant, powered by Llama 3, integrated across its family of apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI used for a wide range of tasks including writing, coding, and answering questions.
• Claude 3 – Anthropic’s latest family of powerful AI models, known for high performance, large context windows, and a focus on safety.
• Sora – OpenAI’s highly anticipated text-to-video model capable of generating incredibly realistic and imaginative minute-long videos.
• Devin – An autonomous AI software engineer designed to write, debug, and deploy code to complete complex development projects.
• Rabbit R1 – A pocket-sized AI hardware companion designed to interact with apps on your behalf using a natural language interface.
• Humane AI Pin – A screenless, wearable AI-powered device that clips to your clothing and aims to replace your smartphone for many tasks.
• Devika – An open-source AI software engineer that aims to replicate the capabilities of Cognition AI’s Devin.
• Open-Sora – An open-source project that provides a complete pipeline for reproducing high-quality text-to-video generation like OpenAI’s Sora.
• Suno – A popular AI tool for generating original songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• Perplexity – A conversational AI search engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions by synthesizing information from the web.
• Pika – An AI-powered platform that allows users to generate and edit videos in various styles from text prompts and images.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI-powered platform for creators offering a suite of tools for video generation, editing, and special effects.
• OpusClip – An AI tool that automatically turns long-form videos into shorter, viral-ready clips for social media platforms.
• Galileo – An AI tool that generates high-fidelity, editable UI/UX designs for apps and websites from simple text descriptions.
• GodMode – An AI agent platform that can access a web browser and execute multi-step tasks to achieve a specified goal.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that creates personalized, detailed itineraries based on your preferences and interests.
• Recraft – An AI image generation tool that specializes in creating and editing images with consistent characters across multiple scenes.
• Krea – An AI platform offering real-time image generation and enhancement, allowing users to create and upscale visuals instantly.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator renowned for its superior ability to accurately render coherent text within generated images.
• Leonardo AI – A creative AI platform for generating high-quality images, game assets, and other visual content from text prompts.
• Gamma – An AI-powered alternative to traditional slides that helps you create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages in minutes.
• Tome – An AI-powered storytelling and presentation tool that generates entire narratives, complete with text and images, from a single prompt.
• Synthesia – An AI video creation platform that generates professional-looking videos using realistic AI avatars and text-to-speech.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that enables users to easily create, train, and host their own fine-tuned AI models.
• Notion – An all-in-one workspace that integrates AI features to help you write, summarize, brainstorm, and organize your notes and documents.
• Mind an AI-friend – An AI-powered companion designed for private, judgment-free conversations and emotional support.
• Mistral – An AI company that develops a range of powerful and efficient open-source and commercial language models.
• Suno API – The official developer API for the Suno music generation model, allowing for integration into third-party applications.

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