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’s GPT-4o – OpenAI launched GPT-4o (“omni”), a new flagship model that is significantly faster, cheaper, and natively multimodal across text, audio, and vision.
• Google’s Project Astra – Google revealed its vision for the future of AI assistants with Project Astra, a real-time, multimodal agent that can see, hear, and understand the world around you.
• Google’s Veo – Google announced Veo, its most advanced text-to-video model yet, designed to compete with OpenAI’s Sora by generating high-quality, minute-long videos in 1080p.
• AI Overviews in Google Search – Google is rolling out “AI Overviews” to its main search results page for all U.S. users, fundamentally changing the search experience with AI-generated answers at the top.
• OpenAI Pauses ‘Sky’ Voice After Scarlett Johansson Statement – OpenAI has paused the use of its ‘Sky’ voice in GPT-4o after Scarlett Johansson stated the company had previously asked her to voice the assistant and she declined, noting the voice’s resemblance to her own.
• Elon Musk’s xAI raising $6B – Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is reportedly closing a $6 billion funding round that would value the company at $24 billion to compete with industry leaders like OpenAI.
• Apple nearing 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.
• Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash – Google introduced Gemini 1.5 Flash, a new lightweight AI model optimized for speed and efficiency in high-volume, frequent tasks.
• Perplexity launches Pages – Search engine Perplexity AI launched “Pages,” a new feature that automatically generates comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports on any topic from search queries.
• Humane seeks buyer for AI Pin company – Following poor reviews of its AI Pin, startup Humane is reportedly looking to sell its business for a price between $750 million and $1 billion.
• Scale AI raises $1B, doubling valuation to $13.8B – Data labeling and evaluation company Scale AI raised $1 billion in a new funding round, doubling its valuation to $13.8 billion.
• Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as CPO – Anthropic has hired Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as its new Chief Product Officer to oversee product engineering, management, and design.
• Microsoft releases Florence-2 vision model – Microsoft released Florence-2, a new open-source vision model capable of handling a wide range of computer vision and vision-language tasks using a unified text-prompt-based approach.
• Google’s 6th-gen Trillium TPUs – Google announced Trillium, its sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which delivers a 4.7x improvement in compute performance per chip over the previous generation.
• EU gives final approval to landmark AI Act – The European Union has given its final approval to the landmark AI Act, establishing the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence.
• U.S. and China hold first formal talks on AI risks – Top officials from the United States and China met in Geneva to discuss the risks and safety of advanced artificial intelligence, marking their first formal dialogue on the topic.
• UK self-driving startup Wayve raises $1.05B – UK-based self-driving car startup Wayve raised $1.05 billion in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank to advance its AI-powered autonomous vehicle technology.
• Amazon reportedly building an AI-powered search engine – Amazon is reportedly working on a major overhaul of its Alexa voice assistant and an AI-powered search engine, codenamed ‘Project PI’, to compete with Google.
• Google DeepMind unveils AlphaFold 3 – Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs unveiled AlphaFold 3, a revolutionary AI model that can predict the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules with unprecedented accuracy.
• Pika adds AI sound effects to its video generator – AI video platform Pika Labs introduced a new feature that allows users to generate sound effects for their videos by simply typing a prompt.
• Mistral AI models are now available on Microsoft Azure – Mistral AI’s open and commercial language models are now available for developers to use through Microsoft’s Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning.
• Google introduces custom ‘Gems’ for Gemini – Google is launching “Gems,” a new feature that allows Gemini Advanced users to create and share customized versions of the AI chatbot tailored to specific tasks or personas.
• New York Times accuses OpenAI of hacking – The New York Times alleged in a legal filing that OpenAI may have used unauthorized tools to “hack” its website to access and scrape copyrighted articles for training its models.
• LinkedIn adds AI-powered tools for job-seekers – LinkedIn is launching new AI-powered features, including the ability for job-seekers to get feedback on their resume and cover letter from an AI coach.
• Meta and other platforms to start labeling AI content – Major social media platforms including Meta have begun implementing policies to automatically label AI-generated images and videos from companies like Google, OpenAI, and Adobe.
• Luma Labs opens waitlist for Dream Machine video model – Luma Labs has opened a waitlist for its upcoming text-to-video model, Dream Machine, positioning it as another competitor to OpenAI’s Sora.

Trending AI Tools:

• Codestral – A 22-billion parameter large language model from Mistral AI, specialized for code generation tasks across more than 80 programming languages.
• Glean – An enterprise AI search and knowledge discovery platform that connects all of a company’s apps to provide relevant answers and insights.
• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s latest flagship multimodal model, whose advanced voice and vision features have been delayed for further development.
• Pika – An AI video generator that recently introduced a new feature to automatically lip-sync dialogue to any character’s face in a video.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that creates songs from text prompts and has recently partnered with Microsoft to integrate into Copilot.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant which has recently integrated the Suno AI music generator, allowing users to create songs via the chatbot.
• Minion – A browser-based AI agent designed to automate web tasks, fill out forms, and complete workflows on your behalf.
• Riffusion – An AI tool for generating music from text prompts, which has recently launched an official app for iOS.
• Giga ML – A platform that allows you to run open-source large language models efficiently on your local laptop.
• Chirr App – An AI-powered tool designed to help you write and publish engaging Twitter threads more effectively.
• MindStudio – A no-code platform that enables users to build and launch their own custom AI applications in minutes.
• Adobe Premiere Pro – A professional video editing software that has integrated new AI features like ‘Generative Extend’ to intelligently add frames to clips.
• Krea – A real-time AI image and video generator that has recently added several new creative features and enhancements.
• Udio – A text-to-music generator that allows users to create full-length tracks with AI, and recently added features for sharing via social media and video.
• Viggle – An AI tool that generates videos of characters dancing or moving based on a source video motion template.
• Foundry – ServiceNow’s AI platform designed to bring generative AI to large enterprises for business process automation.
• Luma Labs Dream Machine – A new and highly anticipated AI model for creating high-quality, realistic videos from text and images.
• Devin – Billed as the first AI software engineer, this autonomous agent is starting to grant access to users on its waitlist.
• Midjourney – A leading AI image generator that is now testing a ‘Personalization’ feature to create images that better match your personal style.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that launched a new ‘Video Translate’ feature for dubbing videos into different languages while maintaining the speaker’s voice.
• OpusClip – An AI-powered tool that automatically edits long videos into shorter, viral-ready clips for social media.
• ElevenLabs – A popular AI voice generator known for its realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning capabilities.
• PowerInfer – A high-speed inference engine designed to run large language models on personal computers with consumer-grade hardware.
• Fine-Tuner – An open-source tool that allows you to finetune any open-source LLM with a simple, click-based interface.
• Adept – An AI research and product lab building general intelligence and developing an enterprise platform for AI agents.
• Superhuman – An AI-powered email client that recently added a feature to automatically summarize email attachments.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can create a fully designed website with copy and images in seconds from a simple prompt.
• Tome – An AI-powered tool for creating compelling presentations, documents, and narratives from a simple text prompt.
• MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 – A high-performance, open-source multimodal model that can rival proprietary models like GPT-4V in certain benchmarks.
• Video to Midjourney – A tool that analyzes a video file and generates a sequence of descriptive Midjourney prompts to replicate its style.
• AeroVoxel – An AI tool that allows you to create and iterate on 3D models using natural language text prompts.
• Synthesia – A leading AI video generation platform that creates professional videos with AI avatars and voiceovers.
• CoPrompt – A collaborative, document-style interface for teams to work together on prompting and iterating with large language models.
• Poolside – A newly funded AI startup focused on building a foundational model specifically for code generation.
• Prompter – A tool that lets you create and share custom, interactive guides to help people use your custom GPTs effectively.
• Chatling – An AI chatbot builder that learns from your website content and documents to provide instant customer support.
• SuperKalam – An AI-powered tutor that provides personalized study plans and guidance to help students prepare for exams.
• Hugging Face – A central platform and community for sharing and collaborating on open-source AI models, datasets, and applications.
• Replicate – A cloud platform that allows developers to easily run and scale thousands of open-source machine learning models via API.
• Together AI – A cloud platform providing fast inference for leading open-source generative AI and language models.
• Fireworks AI – An inference platform offering high-speed performance for deploying and serving generative AI models.
• Lepton AI – A platform for efficiently building and deploying AI applications with a focus on running open-source models.
• Perplexity Labs – A playground from Perplexity AI where users can test and interact with a variety of open-source language models.
• Llama 3 8B – A powerful open-source language model from Meta, often used for tasks like code generation and chat.

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• Modal – Modal lets you run code on-demand in the cloud, on GPUs or CPUs, without managing servers.
• Vultr & Abacus AI – Vultr and Abacus AI are hosting a webinar to teach you how to build your own custom small language models on a cloud GPU platform.
• Work ছাপ – Work ছাপ is an AI-powered job search platform to help you find your next role in AI.
• RunPod – RunPod allows you to rent cloud GPUs for AI inference and training for as little as $0.2/hour.
• Hugging Face – Hugging Face provides guides and tools for efficiently fine-tuning large language models.
• AE Studio – AE Studio is a development, data science, and design studio that partners with companies to build AI solutions.
• Brilliant – Brilliant helps you build a strong intuition for AI and math with interactive, bite-sized lessons.
• RYSE – RYSE has created a SmartShade device that motorizes your window shades and integrates with your smart home.
• Guidde – Guidde is a generative AI platform that helps you create video documentation in seconds.