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 to announce AI-powered search product next week – OpenAI is reportedly set to announce its own AI-powered search engine on Monday, positioning it as a direct competitor to Google Search and Perplexity.
• Apple details on-device AI features for iOS 18 – Apple is preparing a major AI overhaul for iOS 18 that will run on-device, focusing on new proactive features and a revamped Siri, to be unveiled at its upcoming WWDC event.
• Scale AI raises $1B at a $13.8B valuation – Data-labeling and evaluation company Scale AI has secured $1 billion in Series F funding to meet the increasing demand for high-quality data for training frontier AI models.
• Google expands AI Overviews in its search results – Google is rolling out its “AI Overview” feature, which provides AI-generated summaries at the top of search results, to a much larger user base in the US.
• Mistral AI releases Codestral, a new model for code generation – Mistral has launched Codestral, a 22B parameter model explicitly designed for code generation tasks that supports over 80 programming languages.
• ElevenLabs launches a new model for text-to-sound effects – The AI voice company has released a new tool that can generate a wide range of sound effects and short instrumental tracks from simple text prompts.
• Ilya Sutskever is reportedly planning to start his own AI company – Following his departure from OpenAI, co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is rumored to be working on a new AI venture.
• Microsoft signs multi-billion dollar deal with CoreWeave for cloud infrastructure – To secure computing power for its AI models, Microsoft has committed to spending billions on cloud infrastructure from Nvidia-backed startup CoreWeave.
• OpenAI’s Sora used to create a full music video – Musician Washed Out released a music video for his song “The Hardest Part,” which was created entirely using OpenAI’s text-to-video model, Sora.
• Lawsuit alleges AI music generators Suno and Udio use copyrighted material – An investigation claims that popular AI music generation platforms Suno and Udio are creating music that contains recognizable, copyrighted material from famous artists.
• UK and US partner on AI safety science – The U.S. and U.K. have announced a formal partnership to align their scientific approaches and accelerate research into the safety of advanced AI models.
• Wayve raises $1.05B for autonomous driving AI – UK-based startup Wayve has secured over a billion dollars in a funding round led by SoftBank to advance its AI-powered “embodied AI” technology for self-driving cars.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace gets a technical preview – GitHub has launched a technical preview of Copilot Workspace, a new AI-native environment that helps developers go from an idea to a full coding plan and implementation.
• Study finds ChatGPT-4’s performance declined significantly over a few months – A study from Stanford and UC Berkeley revealed that the performance of GPT-4 on various tasks, including math problems and code generation, degraded noticeably between March and June 2023.
• Meta is testing AI-generated search results in Instagram – Instagram is experimenting with an “AI Search” feature in the search bar that utilizes Meta AI to provide direct answers and results within the app.
• TikTok is also testing AI-generated search results – TikTok is experimenting with integrating AI-generated results from a chatbot into its search page to provide users with more information about content.
• Google DeepMind introduces techniques for more reliable LLM reasoning – Researchers at Google DeepMind have developed new methods that allow AI models to solve more reasoning problems and verify their answers for greater reliability.
• Viggle AI raises $18M for its character-consistent video model – Viggle has secured $18 million in funding to develop its AI video generation tool, which allows users to animate characters with precise motion control while maintaining character consistency.
• Poe introduces multi-bot chats – The AI chatbot platform Poe now allows users to include multiple different bots in a single conversation, enabling them to compare answers or assign specialized tasks to each bot.
• Hugging Face launches free serverless inference for top models – Hugging Face now offers a serverless API that provides free, pay-as-you-go inference for popular open-source models like Llama 3, Mistral 7B, and Gemma 7B.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn prompts into articles – Perplexity has introduced a new feature called Pages that allows users to generate, customize, and share visually structured articles based on their search queries.
• New method makes diffusion models 30x faster – Researchers have developed a new consistency-based training method that can significantly speed up the image generation process for diffusion models with minimal quality loss.
• Amazon is developing ‘Project PI’ to personalize shopping with AI – Amazon is reportedly working on a major AI-driven overhaul for its search functionality, codenamed “Project PI,” to provide more conversational and personalized product recommendations.
• Spotify is testing AI-generated summaries for podcasts – Spotify is experimenting with a new feature called “Podcast Summaries” that uses AI to provide concise overviews of podcast episodes.
• Adept AI-agent startup shuts down its product after a $65M funding round – Adept, an AI startup focused on building general-purpose agents, is discontinuing its product and refunding customers despite having recently raised $65 million.
• Rabbit Inc. is reportedly seeking a buyer for around $1B – After a mixed reception for its R1 AI-powered device, Rabbit Inc. is exploring a potential sale of the company to a larger corporation.
• SambaNova brings Composition of Experts to Llama 3 – SambaNova Systems has released a Composition of Experts (CoE) version of Meta’s Llama 3 model, claiming superior performance by combining multiple specialized models.
• Mistral-7B-v0.3 is now available on Hugging Face – A new iteration of Mistral’s 7-billion parameter model has been released with updated tokenization and support for the v3 tokenizer.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – An AI model that generates high-quality, 5-second videos from text and image prompts.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that turns search queries into comprehensive, shareable articles or reports.
• Claude – A conversational AI assistant from Anthropic, now with the ability for all its models to interact with external tools and APIs.
• Pika – An AI platform for generating and editing video from text and images, which recently added a sound effects feature.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice platform for creating realistic text-to-speech audio and cloning voices.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its reliable text rendering, which now allows image uploads for style references.
• Krea – A suite of AI-powered creative tools including real-time image generation and an upscaler enhanced to 16x.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating videos with AI avatars and voices, featuring an updated instant avatar creator.
• ChatGPT – A conversational AI developed by OpenAI capable of understanding and generating human-like text for a wide range of tasks.
• Sora – OpenAI’s text-to-video model for creating highly realistic and imaginative video scenes, which is not yet publicly available.
• Kling – A text-to-video model from Kuaishou capable of generating high-resolution, complex motion videos.
• Viggle – An AI tool that generates videos of characters dancing or moving in a user-specified way based on a source video.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that creates songs with lyrics and vocals from simple text prompts.
• AI Storyteller – An application that brings children’s drawings to life by turning them into animated, narrated stories.
• Runway – An advanced online video editor and creative suite powered by various AI magic tools.
• Character.ai – A platform that lets you create and chat with interactive AI-powered characters.
• Leonardo AI – A comprehensive platform for creating and editing AI-generated art, textures, and other assets for creative projects.
• Tome – An AI presentation and storytelling tool that helps users generate and design compelling narratives and slides.
• Rationale – An AI-powered decision-making tool that helps users analyze options by generating pros and cons lists or SWOT analyses.
• Fireproof – An AI tool that automates the creation and maintenance of end-to-end tests for web applications by analyzing user sessions.
• Uizard – An AI-powered design tool that enables non-designers to create mockups and prototypes for apps and websites.
• Guidde – An AI-powered platform that helps create how-to guides and video documentation with screen captures and voiceovers.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows users to fine-tune open-source language models for specific tasks.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that provides enterprise search capabilities across all of a company’s applications.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that creates notes and answers questions from any document, presentation, or video.
• Briefly – An AI-powered tool that provides concise summaries of long documents and articles.
• Chatling – A no-code platform for building custom AI chatbots trained on your own website content and data.
• Co-Writer – An AI writing assistant designed to help with drafting content, correcting errors, and improving writing style.
• Patternz AI – An AI platform that helps businesses with competitive intelligence by identifying and monitoring competitors.

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