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” – Apple unveiled its new personal AI system integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, focusing on privacy and a partnership with OpenAI for more complex queries.
• Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI – Elon Musk unexpectedly withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, which had accused the company of abandoning its non-profit mission.
• Mistral AI raises $640 million – Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI confirmed a new $640 million (€600M) funding round, valuing the company at nearly $6 billion.
• OpenAI hires new CFO and CPO – OpenAI appointed Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor, as its new Chief Financial Officer and Kevin Weil, former head of product at Instagram, as its new Chief Product Officer.
• Suno launches v3.5 and iOS app – AI music generator Suno launched version 3.5 with improved audio quality and longer song capabilities, while also releasing its first dedicated app for iOS.
• Perplexity launches Pages – Perplexity has launched Pages, a new feature that can generate comprehensive, well-structured articles, guides, and reports from a single prompt.
• Snowflake releases open-source Polaris Catalog – Snowflake has open-sourced Polaris Catalog, an implementation for Apache Iceberg’s REST API, enabling more choice and interoperability for data lakehouses.
• Godot Engine receives $200k grant from the Godot Foundation – The development team for the open-source Godot game engine received a $200,000 grant from its own foundation to accelerate development.
• Meta’s Llama 3.1 is coming in July – Meta’s President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, announced that the company’s next-generation AI model, Llama 3.1, will be released in July.
• Google’s Veo video tool rolls out to creators – Google has started rolling out its most capable AI video generation model, Veo, to select creators, with plans to integrate it into YouTube Shorts.
• Zapier acquires Motion – Automation platform Zapier has acquired Motion, an AI-powered calendar and time management app, to enhance its AI-driven productivity tools.
• Character.AI introduces character voices – Character.AI has launched a new feature that allows users to give their created AI characters unique voices from a pre-selected library.
• NVIDIA reveals Project GR00T for humanoid robots – NVIDIA is developing Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model designed to help humanoid robots learn complex skills by observing human actions.
• Inflection-2.5 is now available via API – Inflection’s high-performing Inflection-2.5 model, which powers the Pi assistant, is now available for developers and enterprises through an API.
• ChatGPT’s Memory feature rolls out to more users – OpenAI is expanding the rollout of its Memory feature to all ChatGPT Plus subscribers, allowing the chatbot to remember details across conversations for more personalized interactions.
• Raspberry Pi raises $211M in IPO – The low-cost computer maker Raspberry Pi saw its shares surge after raising £166 million (about $211 million) in its London Stock Exchange initial public offering.
• Google introduces new AI-powered ad tools – Google is launching new AI-driven features for advertisers that can automatically generate creative assets like images and videos for various ad campaigns.
• HeyGen launches personalized video messaging at scale – AI video platform HeyGen introduced a new feature enabling users to create and send thousands of personalized video messages using dynamic variables.
• AlphaCodium releases open-source test generation tool – AlphaCodium has open-sourced Cover-Agent, a tool that uses an LLM-based agent to automatically generate comprehensive test suites for code.
• AnimateLCM-I2V generates video from a single image – Researchers have developed AnimateLCM-I2V, a new method for efficiently generating high-quality, consistent videos from a single image and a text prompt.
• AI Town is an open-source virtual world for AI characters – AI Town is an open-source, deployable starter kit that allows you to build and customize a virtual town where AI characters live, chat, and socialize.
• Why Perplexity claims it is not a search engine – Perplexity’s CEO argues that their product is an “answer engine” rather than a traditional search engine, focusing on providing direct, conversational answers instead of just a list of links.
• How to run an AI product team – Intercom’s Group Product Manager shares insights and strategies on the unique challenges and opportunities involved in managing an AI product team.
• A guide for using AI to write – This guide provides a framework for leveraging AI as a writing partner, covering everything from brainstorming and outlining to drafting and editing.
• The ultimate guide to building your own AI sales agent – A comprehensive guide outlines the steps and considerations for building a custom AI-powered sales agent to automate and enhance sales processes.
• How to run Llama 3 on an Apple Silicon Mac – This tutorial explains how to set up and run Meta’s Llama 3 model locally on Apple Silicon Macs using the Ollama platform.
• How to build a customer service AI agent with LlamaIndex – A guide from LlamaIndex demonstrates how to create a sophisticated customer service AI agent capable of connecting to and using external tools.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma AI’s Dream Machine – An AI model that creates high-quality, realistic videos from text prompts and images.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI, capable of a wide range of tasks from answering questions to generating creative text and code.
• Kling – An AI video generation model capable of producing high-resolution, long-duration videos with complex motion.
• Pika – An AI-powered platform for generating and editing videos from text, images, or other videos.
• Google’s VLOGGER – An AI method from Google for creating controllable, lifelike talking avatars from a single still image.
• Krea AI – An AI tool that offers real-time image and video generation and enhancement, allowing for interactive creative control.
• Viggle – A free AI tool that can animate any character based on a motion video, making still images dance or move.
• NVIDIA Nemotron-4 340B – A family of open-source large language models from NVIDIA designed for generating high-quality synthetic data to train other models.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates full tracks with vocals and instruments from text prompts.
• Suno – An AI tool for creating original songs, including lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation, from simple text prompts.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that allows users to curate and share collections of information discovered through the AI-powered answer engine.
• Runway – An advanced AI video editing and generation suite for creators, offering features like text-to-video and video-to-video transformation.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for creating highly artistic and detailed visuals from text prompts via Discord.
• Vanna AI – An open-source Python-based AI SQL agent that allows you to ask questions in natural language and get back SQL queries.
• Explainpaper – An AI-powered tool that helps users understand complex academic papers by allowing them to highlight and ask questions about the text.
• Glass AI – A tool for clinicians that helps generate a differential diagnosis or clinical plan based on a diagnostic summary.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows users to create and manage fine-tuned AI models for specific tasks.
• Ideogram – An AI image generation tool that excels at rendering coherent and readable text within images.
• Leonardo AI – A generative AI platform for creating high-quality images, textures, and art assets for creative projects.
• MindPal – An AI-powered knowledge management tool that allows you to chat with your documents, notes, and other files.
• Final Frame – An AI-powered video enhancement tool that improves video quality through upscaling, color correction, and stabilization.
• Lexis – An AI-powered legal assistant that helps lawyers with research, drafting, and managing case files.
• Claude – A family of large language models from Anthropic known for their focus on safety and constitutional AI principles.
• Deforum – An animation tool that utilizes diffusion models to create mesmerizing video sequences with smooth transitions.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models integrated into their suite of products, designed to be commercially safe.
• MindStudio – A no-code platform for building and launching custom AI applications, from internal tools to scalable businesses.
• Layer AI – An AI tool that helps game developers and artists generate an infinite amount of art assets in their specific style.
• Brev.dev – A platform that provides powerful, pre-configured cloud development environments on GPUs for AI developers.
• Keymate – An AI-powered web search and browsing tool that acts as a personal researcher within ChatGPT.
• SQL Llama – An open-source project designed to turn natural language instructions into SQL queries using a Llama model.
• Pipedream – An integration platform for developers to connect APIs and automate workflows with code.
• HubSpot AI – A comprehensive CRM platform that integrates AI-powered tools for marketing, sales, and customer service.

Sponsors:

• Masterworks – An art investment platform that allows you to invest in shares of iconic artworks from artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Inc. Business Media – Hosts a virtual summit connecting founders with AI-focused investors to secure funding.
• Beehiiv – An all-in-one platform for creating, growing, and monetizing newsletters.
• Bland AI – A platform for building, testing, and scaling AI phone agents in minutes to automate calls.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that partners with companies to build and implement custom AI solutions.
• LMNTRIX – A cybersecurity company offering a modern, integrated platform for continuous threat detection and response.
• HubSpot – A customer platform that provides software and resources to help businesses connect with their customers.
• Attentive – An SMS marketing platform that helps businesses drive revenue and build strong customer relationships through text messaging.