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:

• OpenAI Launches GPT-4o – OpenAI released its new flagship model, GPT-4o, which is significantly faster, cheaper, and natively multimodal across text, audio, and vision with near-human response times.
• Google I/O AI Announcements – At its I/O conference, Google unveiled its multimodal AI agent Project Astra, the faster Gemini 1.5 Flash, a 2 million token context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro, and a new text-to-video model called Veo.
• Microsoft Unveils Copilot+ PCs – At its Build conference, Microsoft introduced “Copilot+ PCs,” a new category of Windows computers with on-device AI capabilities, powered by new small language models and featuring a “Recall” function that remembers everything you do.
• Apple Nears Deal with OpenAI for iOS 18 – Apple is reportedly finalizing an agreement with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT features into its upcoming iOS 18 operating system.
• Scarlett Johansson Responds to “Her”-like OpenAI Voice – Actress Scarlett Johansson issued a statement revealing she had declined an offer from Sam Altman to voice ChatGPT, and was “shocked” and “angered” by the new “Sky” voice that sounded “eerily similar” to her own.
• OpenAI Launches Desktop App and New UI – Alongside its new model, OpenAI released a ChatGPT desktop application for macOS and introduced a cleaner, more conversational user interface on the web.
• Leaked Documents Reveal Google’s Search Secrets – Thousands of internal Google Search API documents were leaked, revealing previously unconfirmed or denied ranking factors such as user clicks, Chrome browser data, and author authority.
• OpenAI’s Safety Team Leaders Resign – OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and safety team lead Jan Leike both resigned, with Leike publicly stating that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.”
• Perplexity Launches “Pages” to Create Articles – AI search engine Perplexity introduced Pages, a new tool that allows users to generate, customize, and publish comprehensive, well-structured articles on any topic from search results.
• Meta Reveals “Chameleon” Early-Stage Multimodal Model – Meta introduced Chameleon, a family of models that can natively understand and generate images and text in any interleaved sequence, showing promise in token-based mixed-modal generation.
• Meta Begins Training Llama 3.1 – Meta has reportedly started training its next-generation Llama 3.1 model, which is expected to be around 400B parameters and aims for more nuanced reasoning and coding capabilities.
• AI-Powered Robot Discovers New Chemical Reaction – Researchers created an autonomous AI and robotic system called Coscientist that independently searched research papers, planned experiments, and discovered a more efficient method for a known chemical reaction.
• YouTube Announces AI Music Creation Tools – YouTube introduced new “Music AI” features, including Dream Track, which allow creators on Shorts to generate music tracks with vocals from participating artists or create instrumentals by humming a melody.
• Stack Overflow Partners with OpenAI – Stack Overflow announced a partnership to provide its knowledge base to OpenAI, allowing ChatGPT to deliver more accurate, attributed answers for programming and technology questions.
• Humane Tells AI Pin Owners to Stop Using Charging Case – Humane warned customers to immediately stop using the charging case for its AI Pin due to a fire safety risk discovered with the battery cell.
• Stability AI Appoints New CEO – Stability AI has named Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of visual effects powerhouse Weta Digital, as its new Chief Executive Officer.
• Character.AI Introduces Real-Time Voice Conversations – The AI chatbot platform Character.ai launched Character Voice, a new feature enabling users to have spoken conversations with its cast of AI personalities.
• Klarna’s AI Assistant Handles 2/3 of Customer Service Chats – Klarna announced its OpenAI-powered AI assistant now manages two-thirds of all customer service chats, performing the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents.
• Mistral AI Models Now Available on Snowflake – Snowflake announced that several of Mistral AI’s models, including Mistral Large and the new code-generation model Codestral, are now available as a service within Snowflake Cortex.
• Section Acquires Massively Trained Models – Edge compute platform Section has acquired Massively Trained Models (MTM) to help enterprises more easily deploy, scale, and manage AI applications.

Trending AI Tools:

• Sora – An AI model from OpenAI that can create realistic and imaginative video scenes from text instructions.
• ChatGPT – A conversational AI model from OpenAI used for generating text, answering questions, and assisting with a wide range of tasks.
• Claude 3 – A family of large language models from Anthropic known for their advanced reasoning and performance across a wide range of tasks.
• Devin – Billed as the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer, designed to write, debug, and deploy code.
• Genie – A foundation world model from Google DeepMind that can generate playable, interactive 2D worlds from a single image or text prompt.
• GitHub Copilot – An AI pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions to assist developers as they code.
• Lumiere – Google’s text-to-video diffusion model designed for synthesizing videos with realistic, diverse, and coherent motion.
• Midjourney – An AI image generator renowned for creating highly artistic and detailed visuals from text prompts.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, cited answers to user questions.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from text, images, or other video clips.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered creative tools for video generation, advanced editing, and visual effects.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates original songs, complete with vocals and lyrics, from a simple text prompt.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool for generating high-quality, full-length tracks with vocals in a wide variety of genres.
• Viggle AI – A video generation model that animates static characters using motion captured from a separate reference video.
• Figure 01 – A humanoid robot powered by OpenAI models that can perform physical tasks and hold full, reasoned conversations.
• Llama 3 – Meta’s latest generation of its open-source large language model, designed to be freely available for developers and researchers.
• Emu Video – Meta’s AI model that generates video clips from a combination of text and image prompts.
• Google Gemini – Google’s powerful and multimodal AI model, capable of understanding and reasoning across text, images, audio, and video.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generator platform for creating natural-sounding, humanlike speech and voice clones in multiple languages.
• Leonardo AI – An AI-powered platform for creating stunning game assets, concept art, and other visual content from text prompts.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that specializes in reliably rendering coherent and legible text within its generated images.
• Character.AI – An AI chatbot platform where users can create and interact with unique AI personalities, including fictional or historical characters.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows users to create professional-looking videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Krea – An AI-powered design tool that offers real-time image and pattern generation to enhance creative workflows.
• Diagram – A suite of AI-powered design tools, including an autonomous user interface design tool called Genius.
• Hugging Face – A community and data science platform that provides tools for building, training, and deploying machine learning models.
• Replicate – A cloud platform that allows developers to run and fine-tune thousands of open-source machine learning models via an API.

Sponsors:

• Adept – A research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling people and computers to work together creatively.
• Brilliant – An interactive learning platform with courses to help you gain a deeper understanding of complex topics like AI.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design agency that helps companies build and integrate AI features.
• MindStudio – A no-code platform for building and launching custom AI applications for work.
• Wix – A web creation platform for agencies and enterprises designed to deliver exceptional client sites.
• Notion – A connected workspace with an integrated AI partner for brainstorming, summarizing, and increasing productivity.
• Clay – A platform that uses AI to help you find contact information, research leads, and write hyper-personalized emails.
• Vultr – A cloud GPU platform that offers a simple and cost-effective way to deploy AI and machine learning applications.
• AXA XL – A company providing cutting-edge cyber insurance solutions and comprehensive coverage to businesses facing threats from new technology.