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:

• Microsoft hires Inflection AI’s founders and team – Microsoft hired Inflection AI’s co-founders, Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, along with most of their team to lead a new consumer AI division called Microsoft AI.
• Figure demonstrates an OpenAI-powered humanoid robot – Humanoid robot company Figure demonstrated its Figure 01 robot having full, spoken conversations and performing physical tasks using vision and language models from OpenAI.
• Cognition Labs, creator of ‘Devin’, in talks for $2B valuation – Cognition, the startup that created the AI software engineer Devin, is reportedly in talks to raise funding at a valuation of up to $2 billion.
• Google develops VLOGGER for video generation from a single image – Google researchers have developed VLOGGER, an AI model that can generate a realistic, controllable video of a person talking and moving from just a single still image and an audio clip.
• ElevenLabs launches text-to-sound-effects generator – AI voice company ElevenLabs has launched a new tool that can generate a wide variety of sound effects from simple text prompts.
• Apple develops ReALM, a smaller AI model that outperforms GPT-4 on some tasks – Apple developed a new on-device AI model called ReALM that can understand screen context and outperforms GPT-4 in some tasks, potentially enabling a much smarter Siri.
• NVIDIA announces Project GR00T foundation model for humanoid robots – At its GTC conference, NVIDIA announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model designed to power humanoid robots and enable them to learn from human demonstrations.
• Getty Images and NVIDIA partner on a commercially safe AI image generator – Getty Images and NVIDIA are partnering to launch a new generative AI tool, trained on Getty’s licensed library, to create commercially safe and rights-protected images.
• Stable Diffusion 3 is now available via API – Stability AI has made its next-generation text-to-image model, Stable Diffusion 3, available in preview through its developer API.
• YouTube to require labels for realistic AI-generated content – YouTube is rolling out new labels that creators must use to disclose when their videos contain realistic-looking content generated by AI.
• Anthropic’s Claude 3 models are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock – Anthropic’s family of Claude 3 models, including the powerful Opus, are now generally available for developers to build with on Amazon’s cloud platform.
• EU Parliament gives final approval to the AI Act – The European Parliament has formally approved the AI Act, establishing the world’s first comprehensive set of regulations for artificial intelligence.
• First impressions of the Humane AI Pin are released – Early hands-on previews of the Humane AI Pin suggest the screenless, AI-powered wearable has promising features but is not yet ready to replace a smartphone.
• Google introduces Med-Gemini for the medical field – Google has introduced Med-Gemini, a new family of powerful multimodal models specifically optimized for complex reasoning tasks in the medical and healthcare fields.
• Stack Overflow partners with Google Cloud to integrate Gemini – Stack Overflow and Google Cloud announced a partnership to integrate the Gemini model into the Q&A platform and bring Stack Overflow’s knowledge base into Google’s AI tools.
• Midjourney tests ‘Character Reference’ for consistent characters – Midjourney is testing a new ‘Character Reference’ feature that allows users to maintain consistent characters across different generated images using a reference picture.
• Study finds AI is on the verge of passing the bar exam – A new study found that the latest generation of AI models are on the verge of being able to pass the Multistate Bar Examination for lawyers.
• Midjourney releases ‘Style Reference’ for consistent aesthetics – Midjourney released a ‘Style Reference’ feature that takes the aesthetics from a reference image and applies them to your prompt’s generations.
• Baseten open-sources Truss for model deployment – Baseten has open-sourced Truss, a Python library that allows developers to package and deploy AI/ML models to be served anywhere.

Trending AI Tools:

• Lumiere – A text-to-video model from Google designed to generate realistic and coherent motion in a single pass.
• ElevenLabs – An AI dubbing tool that translates video and audio into new languages while preserving the original speaker’s voice.
• Zapier Central – A no-code platform that allows you to build custom AI bots that can automate tasks across thousands of apps.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI model for generating text, answering questions, and assisting with a wide range of tasks.
• Midjourney V6 – The latest version of the popular AI image generator known for producing highly detailed and artistic visuals from text prompts.
• Glean – An enterprise AI search platform that helps employees find information and answers from across all of their company’s applications.
• Viggle – A video generation model with an understanding of physics, allowing for more realistic control over character motion.
• Suno AI – An AI music creation tool that generates songs from text prompts, with a new update enabling instrumental-only tracks.
• Animate Anyone – A research framework for creating character animations from a single still image.
• Runway – An advanced AI-powered suite of creative tools for video generation, editing, and special effects.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically finds the most compelling parts of long videos and turns them into shareable short clips.
• GPT-engineer – An open-source tool that generates an entire codebase for a software project based on a natural language specification.
• AI Pencil – A creative tool that transforms simple sketches into detailed images using AI.
• Vimeo AI – A suite of AI tools for video creation, including an automatic script generator and a text-based video editor.
• FigJam AI – A set of AI features within Figma’s online whiteboard to generate templates, summarize notes, and create diagrams instantly.
• Superhuman AI – An AI assistant integrated into the Superhuman email client that helps draft replies and summarize long threads.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that creates notes, summaries, and answers questions from documents, PDFs, or video/audio files.
• Guidde – An AI-powered platform for instantly creating video documentation and how-to guides for software and processes.
• Diagram – A suite of AI-powered design tools, including Magician and Genius, that automate and enhance workflows within Figma.
• ClickUp AI – An AI knowledge manager built into the ClickUp productivity platform to help teams find answers and insights quickly.
• DALL-E 3 – OpenAI’s image generation model that creates highly detailed and context-aware images from text descriptions.
• Magic Hour – An AI tool that instantly generates ideas and creates a complete social media content calendar for you.
• Cartwheel – An AI-powered shopping assistant designed to change how people search, discover, and purchase products online.
• Hugging Face – A platform and community providing tools for building, training, and deploying state-of-the-art machine learning models.
• Replicate – A cloud platform that allows developers to easily run and scale open-source machine learning models via an API.

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