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 strikes content deal with News Corp – OpenAI signed a multi-year deal reportedly worth over $250M with News Corp to use content from publications like The Wall Street Journal for model training and in-product displays.
• Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI copied her voice for ChatGPT – Scarlett Johansson stated that OpenAI’s ‘Sky’ voice sounds ‘eerily similar’ to hers after she declined an offer to voice it, leading OpenAI to pause its use.
• Microsoft Build 2024: All the AI updates – Microsoft’s Build conference unveiled ‘Copilot+ PCs’ with on-device AI, a ‘Recall’ feature to find anything you’ve seen on your PC, and GPT-4o integration into its Copilot assistants.
• Nvidia earnings soar again on AI chip demand – Nvidia announced record Q1 revenue of $26 billion, a 262% year-over-year increase driven by AI chip demand, and a 10-for-1 stock split.
• Google is dialing back its AI Overviews in search – Google is scaling back its new AI Overviews in search results after widespread public criticism and sharing of bizarre and inaccurate answers.
• Nvidia announces Project G-Assist, an AI assistant for your games – Nvidia revealed Project G-Assist, an AI assistant that provides context-aware help for games and optimizes PC performance settings.
• Scale AI raises $1B at a $13.8B valuation – Data-labeling company Scale AI raised $1 billion in a new funding round, nearly doubling its valuation to $13.8 billion.
• Elon Musk’s xAI is closing its funding round this week – Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is reportedly finalizing a $6 billion funding round that values the company at $18 billion.
• Meta releases Chameleon models that can understand and generate images and text – Meta introduced Chameleon, a new family of multimodal models capable of understanding and generating both text and images interchangeably.
• Google presents 4 new AI research models for video, text-to-live, and more – Google Research presented several new models, including VLOGGER, which can create realistic talking avatars from a single still photo.
• Amazon researchers build a model that can read your mind with 75% accuracy – Amazon researchers developed a system using diffusion models to reconstruct high-quality video of what a person is seeing from their brain signals.
• Google also expands its partnership with News Corp – Google is expanding its partnership with News Corp to collaborate on new AI-powered advertising products and provide AI tools for journalists.
• Microsoft Introduces Phi-3-vision, a New Multimodal Model for Azure AI – Microsoft launched Phi-3-vision, a new powerful yet small open-source multimodal model that can analyze both images and text.
• Hume AI raises $50M to build empathetic AI – Hume AI, a startup focused on building AI with emotional intelligence, raised $50 million in a Series B funding round.
• Snowflake announces Arctic, a new family of enterprise-grade LLMs – Snowflake released Arctic, a new family of open-source, enterprise-grade language models designed for complex business workloads.
• ElevenLabs releases a sound effects generator – AI voice company ElevenLabs launched a new tool that can generate sound effects from simple text descriptions.
• Character AI introduces Character V3 model and new features – Character.ai launched its new V3 model along with new features like group chat and a visual avatar creator.
• Introducing Claude for Sheets – Anthropic released an official add-on that integrates its AI assistant Claude directly into Google Sheets for data analysis and manipulation.
• LinkedIn is testing an AI job coach – LinkedIn is developing an AI-powered coach to provide job seekers with personalized advice on their resumes and interview preparation.
• GitHub Copilot for Azure is now generally available – GitHub Copilot for Azure, which allows developers to build and manage Azure applications using natural language, is now generally available.
• New York Times experiments with a new game using GenAI – The New York Times is experimenting with a new puzzle game where players group AI-generated images based on a hidden common theme.
• How to use ChatGPT’s new desktop app – A practical guide details how to install and use the new native ChatGPT desktop application for macOS.
• How to create AI images with your face using Midjourney – A tutorial explains how to use Midjourney’s InsightFace feature to consistently generate AI images that include your own face.
• Build your own AI voice assistant – A guide provides the steps to build your own custom AI voice assistant using APIs from companies like Vapi and Bland.
• Klart AI – Klart AI is a new tool that records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings, integrating with platforms like Google Meet and Zoom.
• Guidde – Guidde is a tool that helps create video documentation and how-to guides by automatically capturing workflows and adding AI-generated voiceovers.
• Magic Studio – Magic Studio offers a suite of AI-powered tools for creating and editing images, including background removal and image generation from text.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma AI’s Dream Machine – A new text-to-video generation model available to the public that can create high-quality, five-second video clips.
• Krea AI – An AI suite whose latest update introduces high-quality video-to-video generation and a storyboarding feature.
• Genspark – A new AI-powered search engine that organizes search results into custom, summary-like pages called “Sparkpages”.
• Suno – An AI tool that generates original songs with vocals and instrumentation from a simple text prompt.
• Viggle AI – A video generation AI that can create character-consistent videos of people dancing from just a photo and a motion prompt.
• Midjourney – An AI image generator known for producing highly artistic and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s conversational AI that can answer questions, write text, and assist with a wide range of tasks.
• Pika – An AI video platform for generating and editing videos from text, images, or other videos.
• Runway – A suite of creative AI tools for advanced video and image generation and editing.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generator that creates realistic, human-like speech synthesis and voice cloning.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length songs with vocals from text prompts.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources.
• Ideogram – A free AI image generator that excels at creating images with coherent text.
• Claude – A conversational AI assistant from Anthropic designed for a wide range of text-based tasks.
• AI Storyteller – An app that lets you create personalized, illustrated audio stories for children featuring familiar voices.
• Jellypod – An AI tool that turns your unread emails and articles into a personalized daily podcast.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that creates personalized itineraries based on your preferences.
• Gamma – An AI tool that creates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text prompts.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows you to create engaging business videos with generative AI avatars and voices.
• Splash – An AI-powered music creation platform that allows anyone to make and share original music.
• Leonardo AI – An AI platform for generating high-quality images, textures, and other visual assets for creative projects.
• Explainpaper – A tool that helps you read academic papers faster by letting you highlight confusing text to get an AI-powered explanation.
• Guidde – An AI-powered tool that helps you create video documentation and how-to guides instantly.
• Supergrow – An AI-powered tool to help you write viral carousels and posts for LinkedIn to grow your personal brand.
• Poe by Quora – A platform to ask questions and get answers from a wide range of different AI bots in one place.
• Promethean AI – An AI assistant designed to help digital artists and game developers build virtual worlds.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows users to create and fine-tune their own custom AI agents.
• Defog.ai – An AI tool that helps you query and visualize your data by generating SQL and Python code from questions.
• Poly.ai – An enterprise-grade platform for creating realistic, conversational voice assistants for customer service.

Sponsors:

• FourthBrain – Offers a 16-week MLOps & LLMs program designed to help you launch or advance your career in machine learning.
• Automation Anywhere – Provides an intelligent automation platform to help businesses discover, digitize, and automate their processes.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that helps clients build and ship their AI products.
• Brilliant – A platform for learning math, data science, and computer science through hands-on, interactive lessons.
• Vana – A user-owned data network that enables developers to build personalized AI applications based on users’ digital selves.
• Dust – A platform that helps you design and deploy powerful large language model applications.
• CommandBar – A user assistance platform that adds an AI-powered copilot and search bar to your app to help users.
• Secureframe – An all-in-one platform that helps businesses achieve and maintain security and privacy compliance using automation.
• Inferkit – Provides a web interface and API for state-of-the-art neural text generation.