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 develops new on-device AI model ReALM – Apple has developed a new family of smaller, highly efficient AI models called ReALM that can understand on-screen content and context for better conversational AI.
• Mistral releases Mixtral 8x22B – Mistral has released Mixtral 8x22B, a powerful new open-source Mixture-of-Experts model with 176B parameters, via a torrent link.
• OpenAI reveals Voice Engine – OpenAI has revealed Voice Engine, a new AI model that can recreate a person’s voice from just a 15-second audio sample, but is delaying its public release due to safety concerns.
• Reka launches Reka Core multimodal model – AI startup Reka has launched Reka Core, its new flagship multimodal language model that it claims is competitive with top-tier models like GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus.
• Google releases CodeGemma for coding tasks – Google has released CodeGemma, a new family of open-source models specialized for coding tasks, available in 2B and 7B parameter sizes.
• Figure partners with BMW to deploy humanoid robots – Humanoid robot maker Figure has announced a partnership with BMW to deploy its Figure 01 robots in a US automotive manufacturing plant.
• Amazon completes $4 billion investment in Anthropic – Amazon has completed its planned $4 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic, solidifying its partnership and access to the company’s powerful foundation models.
• Cognition Labs seeks funding at up to $2 billion valuation – Cognition Labs, the company behind the AI software engineer Devin, is reportedly in talks to raise funding at a valuation of up to $2 billion.
• Databricks acquires AI startup Lilac – Databricks has acquired Lilac, an AI startup that helps data teams analyze, understand, and clean unstructured data for use in LLM applications.
• SAG-AFTRA approves AI voice deal for video games – The SAG-AFTRA union has approved a deal with Replica Studios allowing voice actors to license digital replicas of their voices for use in video games.
• Microsoft and Quantinuum achieve quantum computing breakthrough – Microsoft and Quantinuum have achieved a major breakthrough in quantum computing by creating more reliable logical qubits from less stable physical ones, significantly reducing error rates.
• Midjourney rolls out new website interface – Midjourney has started rolling out a new website with a user-friendly interface that allows users to generate images without needing to use Discord commands.
• GitHub launches Copilot for the command-line interface – GitHub has officially launched its Copilot extension for the command-line interface (CLI), allowing developers to get AI-powered assistance directly in their terminal.
• Humane AI Pin launches to highly critical reviews – The Humane AI Pin has officially launched, but early reviews are highly critical, citing overheating, slow response times, and general unreliability.
• NVIDIA introduces E-MO to generate talking-head videos – NVIDIA Research introduced E-MO, an AI model that can generate expressive talking-head videos with realistic motion from just a single portrait image and an audio track.
• MyShell releases OpenVoice V2 – MyShell has released OpenVoice V2, a new version of their open-source instant voice cloning model that offers improved audio quality and support for multiple languages.
• Engineer creates AI-powered “Fart Detective” – A software engineer created an AI-powered “Fart Detective” that uses a gas sensor and an LLM to announce who is responsible for flatulence in a room.
• Wayve introduces GAIA-1 for autonomous driving – UK-based self-driving startup Wayve has introduced GAIA-1, a generative world model designed to enhance the training and safety of autonomous driving systems.
• MemGPT enables perpetual chatbots with long-term memory – MemGPT is a new open-source tool that allows developers to build perpetual chatbots with long-term memory, overcoming the context window limitations of standard LLMs.
• Google DeepMind introduces SafeLife 2 for safer AI – Google DeepMind has introduced SafeLife 2, a new training environment designed to teach AI agents to follow safety rules and avoid negative side effects.
• Microsoft prepares to release Phi-3 small language model – Microsoft is reportedly preparing to release Phi-3, a new small language model that is expected to outperform other models of its size.
• Agility Robotics appoints new CEO – Agility Robotics has appointed Peggy Johnson, former Microsoft and Magic Leap executive, as its new CEO to lead the commercial rollout of its Digit humanoid robot.
• OpenAI releases “Model Spec” documentation – OpenAI has released a new set of “Model Spec” documentation outlining its philosophy and rules for how its models should behave.
• LLM-Shepherd tool for evaluating LLMs is released – LLM-Shepherd is a new open-source tool for creating in-depth evaluations of large language models.
• SWE-agent autonomously fixes bugs in GitHub repositories – SWE-agent is a new open-source agent that can autonomously fix bugs and issues in GitHub repositories, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-bench benchmark.
• CoDe framework improves image generation context – CoDe is a new AI framework that improves context understanding in diffusion models, enabling more precise and complex image generation from text prompts.
• “Chain-of-Table” technique enables complex table-based reasoning – Researchers have developed a new technique called “Chain-of-Table” that enables language models to handle complex table-based reasoning tasks by progressively generating and manipulating table operations.
• Stability AI’s new CEOs focus on enterprise – Stability AI’s new CEOs have outlined a vision focused on enterprise customers and building a sustainable business following the departure of its founder.
• Viggle is a new AI video generation tool – Viggle is a new AI video generation tool that allows users to upload a character image and a motion video to create a new video with consistent character and movement.
• Pika Labs introduces sound effects feature – AI video generator Pika Labs has introduced a new sound effects feature that can automatically generate and sync audio to match the content of a video.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma AI’s Dream Machine – A new text-to-video model that generates high-quality, realistic video clips from text and image prompts.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered tools for professional video editing, generation, and special effects.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates full songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that can translate your speech into different languages while syncing your lip movements to the new audio.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice platform for creating long-form, human-like speech synthesis and cloning voices.
• OpenAI’s Sora – A text-to-video model from OpenAI that can generate realistic and imaginative video scenes from text instructions.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing high-quality, artistic, and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct answers to questions with cited sources.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that searches across all your company’s apps to find information and answer questions.
• Viggle AI – A new AI model that can generate videos of characters dancing or moving from a single image and a motion prompt.
• Pika – An AI tool for generating and editing videos from text prompts and images.
• Krea – An AI-powered design tool that offers features like real-time image generation, upscaling, and enhancement.
• Photo-Maker – An AI tool that can generate customized, realistic human photos from a few input images in seconds.
• Kling – A text-to-video model developed by Kuaishou that generates high-fidelity, long-duration videos.
• Notion AI – A suite of AI features integrated within the Notion workspace to help write, summarize, and brainstorm content.
• Recap – An AI tool that automatically summarizes meetings and generates action items.
• Final Frame – An AI tool that ensures stylistic consistency across different video scenes.
• Splash – An AI tool that allows users to create and perform music using a generative AI model.
• StoryMachine – An AI platform that automates the creation of marketing content and assets based on your brand.
• Devin – An autonomous AI software engineer that can handle entire development projects from a single prompt.
• ChatGPT – A popular conversational AI developed by OpenAI for a wide range of text-based tasks.
• Claude – A conversational AI assistant developed by Anthropic, known for its large context window and focus on safety.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models, integrated into Photoshop and other Creative Cloud apps.
• Character.AI – A platform for creating and interacting with AI-powered chatbots with distinct personalities.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at creating images with coherent and readable text.
• Leonardo AI – A creative platform for generating high-quality images, textures, and assets for various projects.
• Synthesia – A platform for creating professional videos with AI avatars and voiceovers from text, without needing cameras or microphones.
• Microsoft Copilot – An AI assistant from Microsoft integrated across its products to help with coding, writing, and various productivity tasks.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from a simple text prompt.
• Pictory – An AI tool that automatically creates short, branded videos from your long-form content like articles or webinars.
• Slack AI – AI features integrated into the Slack platform to summarize channels, threads, and find answers.
• Zoom AI Companion – An AI assistant integrated into Zoom that provides meeting summaries, highlights, and next steps.
• Coframe – An AI tool that automatically A/B tests your website’s copy to increase conversion rates.
• Murf.ai – A versatile AI voice generator that provides studio-quality voiceovers for videos, podcasts, and presentations.
• Beautiful.ai – A presentation software that uses AI to automate design and formatting, ensuring slides look professional.
• Clipdrop by Stability AI – A suite of AI-powered image editing tools, including one that turns simple drawings into detailed images.
• Designs.ai – A platform that uses AI to help you create logos, videos, mockups, and more in minutes.
• Replicate – A platform for running and fine-tuning open-source AI models with a cloud API.
• Fireworks AI – A platform providing developers with fast and affordable access to a variety of open-source and custom AI models.
• OpenVINO Toolkit – An open-source toolkit from Intel for optimizing and deploying AI inference on various hardware.

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