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 unveils “Apple Intelligence” for iPhone, Mac, and more – Apple revealed its new personal AI system, “Apple Intelligence,” which is deeply integrated into iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, focusing on privacy with on-device processing and new features like Writing Tools and an Image Playground.
• Apple partners with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its platforms – Apple is partnering with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into experiences like Siri and its system-wide Writing Tools, allowing access to the advanced model for more complex queries with user permission.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – In response to Apple’s OpenAI partnership, Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies, calling the OS-level integration an “unacceptable security violation.”
• Mistral AI raises €600M at a nearly $6B valuation – The Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI confirmed a new €600 million ($640 million) funding round, nearly tripling its valuation to $5.8 billion.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn search into shareable articles – AI search engine Perplexity introduced a new feature called Pages, which allows users to convert search queries and research into customizable, well-structured, and shareable web pages.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge over 30% in London IPO – The maker of the popular low-cost computer Raspberry Pi had a successful market debut on the London Stock Exchange, with its shares soaring more than 30%.
• Meta to release Llama 3.1 in July – A Meta executive announced that the next iteration of its open-source model, Llama 3.1, is planned for release in July.
• SEC investigates firms for ‘AI washing’ – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is probing investment advisers for potentially misleading clients by exaggerating their use of artificial intelligence.
• An AI candidate named ‘AI Steve’ is running for UK Parliament – An AI-powered avatar named ‘AI Steve’ is on the ballot for the UK’s general election, aiming to use AI to formulate policies based on direct feedback from constituents.
• Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer for up to $1B – Humane, the company behind the widely criticized AI Pin, is reportedly exploring a sale just one month after its product launch.
• Inflection-2.5 is now available via API – Inflection has made its high-performing Inflection-2.5 model, which is competitive with GPT-4, available to developers and enterprises through an API.
• Cerebras open-sources eight new AI models – AI hardware company Cerebras has released eight new open-source models, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters, which it claims offer state-of-the-art performance.
• Stanford researchers propose a new self-improving LLM training method – Stanford AI researchers have developed a new training method where a language model uses an internal copy of itself to generate reasoning for self-improvement, reducing the need for external human data.
• Google tests a new grid format for links in AI Overviews – Google is experimenting with a new grid layout for displaying links within its AI Overviews in search results, aiming to showcase a wider variety of sources.
• Report details the state of Generative AI in the US Government – A new report highlights the current progress and future strategies for adopting generative AI technologies across various agencies within the US government, featuring insights from the NSA.

Trending AI Tools:

• VASA-1 – A research project from Microsoft that creates hyper-realistic talking face videos from a single photo and an audio clip.
• Viggle AI – A new AI video model that can realistically animate any character from a photo based on a motion video clip.
• Figma AI – An AI assistant integrated into Figma and FigJam to help generate, summarize, and organize ideas on a digital whiteboard.
• OLMo – A series of truly open-source large language models and framework from the Allen Institute for AI.
• Suno – An AI music creation tool that allows users to generate full songs, complete with vocals, from simple text prompts.
• Google Vids – A new AI-powered video creation application within Google Workspace for making business and work-related videos.
• Limitless – A wearable device and app that captures what you’ve seen, said, and heard to act as a personalized AI memory assistant.
• Ideogram 1.0 – An AI image generation tool renowned for its superior ability to accurately render text within images.
• Godmode – A web platform that provides access to various AI agents, like AutoGPT, to autonomously accomplish tasks for you.
• Lindy – An AI agent designed to handle administrative tasks like calendar management, email drafting, and meeting note summarization.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically turns long videos into short, viral-ready clips for social media.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for creating highly detailed and artistic images from text prompts.
• ElevenLabs – An advanced AI voice generator that creates realistic, humanlike speech for various applications.
• Sunlight – An AI tool for founders that helps turn a simple idea into a comprehensive business plan.
• Claude 3 – A family of powerful AI models from Anthropic known for their strong performance, large context windows, and chat capabilities.
• Promised – An AI-powered accountability app that helps you keep your promises by checking in with you.
• Splash Pro – An AI tool that allows users to generate unique music and custom vocals from text prompts.
• Gling – An AI-powered video editor for creators that automatically removes silences, mistakes, and bad takes from footage.
• Descript – An all-in-one editor for video and podcasts that uses AI for transcription-based editing, overdubbing, and screen recording.
• Recast – An AI tool that transforms long-form video and audio content into short-form clips for social media.
• Amazon Q Developer – An AI coding assistant from AWS that can write, debug, and test code for developers.
• Codegen – An AI pair programmer that can autocomplete code, answer questions, and generate entire files to speed up development.
• Together API – A cloud platform that provides developers with fast access to run and fine-tune leading open-source AI models.
• Unsloth – An open-source library that dramatically speeds up the fine-tuning of large language models while reducing memory usage.
• Mojo – A new programming language for AI developers that aims to combine the ease of use of Python with the high performance of C.
• NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails – An open-source toolkit for adding programmable safety and security boundaries to large language model applications.
• Rift – An open-source, locally-run AI coding agent that connects to your personal language model server to provide development assistance.
• Google Cloud Security AI Workbench – An enterprise platform from Google that uses a security-specific AI model (Sec-PaLM 2) to help analyze and combat threats.
• Replicate – A platform that allows developers to easily run and fine-tune open-source AI models via a cloud API.
• Brev – A tool that simplifies the process of setting up and using cloud GPUs for training and deploying AI models.
• Metaflow – A human-friendly Python library, originally from Netflix, for building and managing real-world data science and machine learning projects.
• Weaviate – An open-source vector database designed to store, index, and search data objects based on their semantic meaning.
• Lemon Squeezy – A payment and subscription platform for selling digital products that has recently integrated AI-powered features.

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