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:

• Meta Llama 3 – Meta released Llama 3, its next-generation open-source model in 8B and 70B parameter sizes, which it claims sets a new standard for performance.
• Microsoft VASA-1 – Microsoft Research revealed VASA-1, a new AI framework that can create lifelike, expressive talking head videos from a single portrait photo and an audio clip.
• Google rolls out AI Overviews in Search – Google is expanding its Search Generative Experience by adding AI-powered overviews to the main search results page for users in the US.
• Perplexity launches Pages – Perplexity introduced a new feature called “Pages” that converts user prompts and research into comprehensive, well-structured, and shareable articles or reports.
• Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x22B – Mistral released Mixtral 8x22B, a new 141B parameter open-source Mixture-of-Experts model, continuing its trend of releasing powerful models via torrent links.
• Snowflake launches Arctic – Snowflake released Arctic, a new enterprise-focused large language model with a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, available under an Apache 2.0 license.
• Google introduces ‘Ask Photos’ – Google is launching “Ask Photos,” a new experimental feature that uses the Gemini model to allow for conversational search within your Google Photos library.
• Google reveals VLOGGER – Google researchers introduced VLOGGER, an AI method for generating controllable and interactive videos of people from a single still photograph.
• OpenAI opens first Asian office in Tokyo – OpenAI announced the opening of a new office in Tokyo, Japan, its first in Asia, and is releasing a GPT-4 model optimized for the Japanese language.
• Character.AI in talks for $5B+ valuation – AI chatbot startup Character.AI is reportedly in discussions with investors, including Google, for a new funding round that could value the company at over $5 billion.
• Adobe previews generative AI video tools for Premiere Pro – Adobe has previewed upcoming generative AI features for its video editing software Premiere Pro, including object addition/removal and generative extension of clips.
• Humane AI Pin reviews are overwhelmingly negative – The first reviews for the much-hyped Humane AI Pin have been published, with critics calling the device “totally broken” and “not even close” to being a finished product.
• Reka launches Reka Core – AI startup Reka has launched Reka Core, its new flagship multimodal model that it claims is competitive with leading models like GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus.
• Apple develops ReALM for better on-device assistants – Apple researchers have developed a new AI system called ReALM that can understand on-screen context, potentially leading to more capable and natural on-device assistants.
• The Atlantic publishes an entirely AI-generated issue – The Atlantic magazine released a special experimental issue where all the text and images were created using currently available AI tools.
• Inflection-2.5 is now available via API – Inflection has made its Inflection-2.5 model, which it claims is competitive with GPT-4, available through an API for developers and businesses.
• Amazon Music launches Maestro AI playlist generator – Amazon Music has introduced Maestro, an AI-powered playlist generator that allows users to create playlists using conversational prompts, currently in beta for select U.S. customers.
• Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0 – Stability AI launched Stable Audio 2.0, a new model that can generate full, three-minute musical tracks with coherent structures from text prompts.
• Pika Labs adds sound effects generation – AI video generator Pika Labs has introduced a new feature that allows users to generate or select sound effects to accompany their video clips.
• Brave browser’s AI assistant Leo is now open source – The Brave browser has open-sourced the server-side code for its AI assistant, Leo, allowing others to host and run the service independently.
• Wayfair launches Decorify – Online furniture retailer Wayfair has launched a new generative AI tool called Decorify that allows customers to upload a photo of their room and see it redesigned in various styles.
• Klarna’s AI assistant handles 2/3 of customer service chats – Klarna reports its OpenAI-powered AI assistant is now managing two-thirds of all customer service chats, equivalent to the work of 700 full-time agents.
• MindEye2 can reconstruct images from brain scans with high fidelity – Researchers have developed MindEye2, a new technique that can reconstruct images a person is seeing with surprising accuracy by analyzing fMRI brain scans.
• Nvidia CEO says AI’s next wave is embodied in physical robots – Jensen Huang stated that the next major wave of AI will be “embodied AI,” where AI models operate humanoid robots that could be mass-produced like cars.
• Udacity partners with Microsoft for an AI Nanodegree – Udacity and Microsoft have teamed up to launch a new “AI Engineer using Microsoft Azure” Nanodegree program to train professionals in generative AI skills.
• Replicate launches a marketplace for fine-tuned models – AI development platform Replicate has launched a marketplace where users can pay experts to create custom, fine-tuned AI models for their specific needs.
• Together AI acquires Nexus – Cloud AI platform Together AI has acquired Nexus, a startup focused on efficient model routing and cascading to optimize for cost and latency.
• The ultimate Llama 3 prompting guide – A new guide offers a deep dive into the best practices for prompting Meta’s new Llama 3 model to get optimal results.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma AI’s Dream Machine – An AI model that creates high-quality, realistic videos from text descriptions and images.
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s fastest and most cost-effective AI model, excelling at complex tasks, code generation, and multi-step workflows.
• Krea AI – A real-time AI design tool for generating and enhancing images and videos, featuring new video-to-video capabilities.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that transforms prompts into comprehensive, well-structured articles, reports, and guides complete with citations.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating studio-quality videos with realistic AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Pika – An AI video generator that can now automatically add a wide range of sound effects to creations.
• Runway – An AI-powered video editing suite that allows users to independently control the motion of multiple subjects in a video with its Multi Motion Brush feature.
• Viggle – An AI tool that animates a static character image according to a reference motion video, creating consistent character movement.
• ElevenLabs – A platform that generates realistic AI voices and has recently launched a new model for creating sound effects from text prompts.
• Suno – An AI tool for creating original songs, including vocals and instrumentation, from simple text prompts.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its exceptional ability to reliably render coherent text within images.
• Dora – A no-code platform that uses AI to generate professional websites with 3D animations and advanced interactions from a single text prompt.
• Sudo Write – An AI writing partner designed to help fiction authors with brainstorming, expanding scenes, and generating prose in their style.
• Leonardo AI – A generative AI platform for creating high-quality 2D assets, textures, and concept art for creative projects.
• Shortform – A service that provides super-detailed, AI-powered summaries and analyses of non-fiction books.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that instantly creates notes, summaries, and answers questions from any document, video lecture, or audio file.
• Prompter – A smart teleprompter app that uses AI to follow your voice, making video recording feel more natural and unscripted.
• Glass – An AI-powered tool that helps clinicians draft medical notes faster by capturing and transcribing patient conversations.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that enables users to create and manage their own fine-tuned AI models.
• Splash – An AI music generation tool integrated into Roblox Studio that allows creators to produce unique soundtracks for their games.
• Vizcom – An AI-powered design tool that transforms industrial design sketches into realistic product renders in seconds.
• Uizard – An AI-powered design tool that can generate wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for apps and websites from text prompts.
• Looka – An AI-powered platform that helps you design a custom logo and build a complete brand identity.
• Defog.ai – An AI tool that connects to data warehouses and allows non-technical users to ask complex data questions in plain English.
• Klarna – A global payments and shopping service that has integrated a powerful AI assistant to handle the majority of its customer service communications.

Sponsors:

• Incogni – A service that scrubs your personal data from the internet by contacting data brokers on your behalf.
• Notion – An AI-powered connected workspace that helps you write faster, summarize notes, and boost creativity without switching tabs.
• Vultr – Offers high-performance cloud GPUs at a fraction of the cost of major providers for developing and deploying AI.
• Clay – A platform that helps you build automated outbound sales campaigns by enriching data from over 50 sources.
• Brave – An affordable Search API that allows developers to integrate high-quality, independent search results into their AI applications.
• Masterworks – A platform that lets you invest in fractional shares of blue-chip art from artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design agency that helps businesses build and launch AI solutions.
• CommandBar – A tool that helps companies quickly add AI-powered user-facing features, like an in-app assistant, to their products.
• Rows – A no-code spreadsheet platform for building powerful dashboards and business tools.