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:

• Google releases Gemma – Google has launched a new family of lightweight, open-source AI models built from the same research as its larger Gemini models, designed to run on laptops and workstations.
• Reddit strikes $60M deal to sell data for AI training – Reddit has reportedly signed a contract to provide its user-generated content to an unnamed large AI company, which coincides with its plans for an IPO.
• Klarna’s AI assistant is doing the work of 700 agents – Klarna’s new OpenAI-powered AI assistant is now handling two-thirds of the company’s customer service chats, resolving issues faster and more accurately.
• Midjourney launches ‘Character Reference’ feature for consistent characters – The new “–cref” feature allows users to generate images of the same character in different scenes and styles by referencing a source image URL.
• Google updates Imagen 2 with inpainting and text-to-live-image features – Google’s text-to-image model can now edit images by adding or removing objects and can create 4-second “Live Images” from text prompts, similar to GIFs.
• Pika Labs adds sound effects to its AI video generator – Users can now generate sound effects for their AI-created videos by describing the sound they want or letting the AI suggest sounds based on the video content.
• New Mistral “Next” model possibly leaked online – An unreleased, high-performance large language model, speculated to be from Mistral, was briefly available on Hugging Face before being taken down.
• Groq’s LPU hardware shows incredibly fast LLM performance – Demos are showcasing Groq’s custom LPU (Language Processing Unit) chips running open-source LLMs at speeds of nearly 500 tokens per second, significantly faster than traditional GPUs.
• Nvidia launches Chat with RTX – This new free application allows users to run a personalized chatbot locally on their Windows PC, using their own documents and data for context.
• Wayve unveils Lingo-1, a driving model that explains its actions – The AI model for autonomous vehicles can now provide real-time commentary on its driving decisions and the surrounding environment, improving transparency and safety.
• Apple researchers release Keyframer – Apple has developed an AI tool that animates a static 2D image based on natural language text prompts, allowing users to specify animations with simple instructions.
• Stability AI releases Stable Cascade – This new text-to-image model offers high-quality image generation with a focus on efficiency, easy fine-tuning, and the ability to run on consumer hardware.
• Stack Overflow partners with Google Cloud to provide data for AI training – The partnership will give Google’s AI models access to Stack Overflow’s vast knowledge base to improve coding-related AI tools.
• Microsoft launches Copilot for Finance in public preview – This new AI assistant for Microsoft 365 is designed to automate financial tasks, conduct variance analysis, and streamline workflows in Excel and Outlook for finance professionals.
• Google introduces SMERF for creating 3D scenes from a single image – This new model can generate immersive 3D “fly-through” experiences of a scene in real-time on a browser, using just one 2D photo as a starting point.
• Amazon officially launches Rufus, its AI shopping assistant – Rufus is a new generative AI-powered expert integrated into the Amazon shopping app to answer customer questions and provide product recommendations.
• Wix launches an AI that generates a professional portfolio website in seconds – Users can input information from their LinkedIn profile or resume, and the AI will create a complete online portfolio website.
• Figure raises $675M for its humanoid robots from tech giants – The humanoid robot company has secured funding from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI at a $2B valuation.
• DoNotPay CEO faces class-action lawsuit for allegedly misrepresenting his product as AI – The lawsuit claims the “robot lawyer” service was not powered by AI as advertised, but by human agents.
• ElevenLabs introduces AI Dubbing Studio – The new tool allows creators to translate and dub their video content into 29 different languages while maintaining the original speaker’s voice.
• Microsoft launches AutoGen Studio v0.1.0 – This update to Microsoft’s multi-agent framework makes it easier for developers to build and manage complex AI agent-based applications.
• Perplexity partners with Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank – The AI search engine will be offered to mobile customers of these major telecom providers in Germany and Japan.
• SEC is investigating whether OpenAI investors were misled – The investigation follows the board’s decision to temporarily oust CEO Sam Altman last year.
• EU launches formal investigation into TikTok over Digital Services Act compliance – The probe will examine potential failures to protect minors, transparency in advertising, and management of risks like addictive design on the platform.
• Meta releases V-JEPA, an AI model that learns about the physical world from video – This non-generative model learns by predicting missing parts of a video, enabling it to develop a deeper understanding of object interactions without needing supervised labels.
• Stanford researchers build a robot that can cook a shrimp dish – The Mobile ALOHA robot demonstrates complex bimanual coordination by autonomously completing the multi-step process of cooking a meal.
• Google rolls out a new AI search feature for developers – AI-powered overviews in search results will now provide faster answers and code snippets for programming and technical queries.
• Microsoft opens a new AI hub in London – The new hub will be led by AI scientist Jordan Hoffmann and focus on advancing Microsoft’s consumer AI products and research.
• Magic, an AI software engineer startup, hires a new CTO – Erik Brynjolfsson, a prominent AI researcher and economist from Stanford, has joined the company as its new Chief Technology Officer.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new AI model for generating high-quality, realistic videos from text prompts and images.
• Google Vids – An AI-powered video creation app for work that helps users create storyboards, scripts, and videos.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct, cited answers and can now convert research into structured articles and reports.
• Krea – An AI tool suite that includes features for real-time image generation, enhancing, and upscaling videos to higher resolutions.
• Pika – An AI video generation platform that creates and edits videos from text and images.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI video editing and generation platform for creators.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its reliable text rendering capabilities, now with an improved prompt helper and editor.
• StoryDiffusion – An open-source model for generating a sequence of consistent images for a story or comic book.
• Domo – A business intelligence platform that now uses AI to automate actions and workflows based on data insights.
• Fine – An AI agent designed to act as a software engineer, handling programming tasks from high-level specifications.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel agent that helps you plan and book your entire trip.
• Pincites – A legal AI tool from Harvey that automatically finds and verifies citations within legal documents.
• Neko – A new AI method for generating therapeutic antibodies from scratch with a single sequence.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI that can answer questions, write text, code, and more.
• Sora – OpenAI’s text-to-video model known for its ability to generate highly realistic and imaginative scenes from text.
• Suno – An AI platform that generates original music, including lyrics and vocals, based on user prompts.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool for creating full-length songs with vocals and instruments from text prompts.
• Leonardo AI – A creative AI suite for generating images and now videos, along with other artistic assets.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows users to create studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Adobe Express – Adobe’s all-in-one design app, now enhanced with Firefly AI for features like text-to-image and generative fill.
• Tome – An AI-powered storytelling and presentation tool that helps you generate entire narratives from a single prompt.
• Microsoft VASA – A Microsoft Research project that creates lifelike talking faces from a single static image and an audio clip.
• Norm AI – An AI platform that converts complex regulations into computer code to help businesses automate compliance.
• Cognito – An AI platform that centralizes and organizes team knowledge, acting as a “second brain” for your company.
• GigaPDB – An open-source method that uses a large language model to generate novel 3D protein structures.

Sponsors:

• beehiiv – A newsletter platform built for growth, used by many top AI newsletters.
• Vellum – A platform for building, evaluating, and deploying production-ready LLM applications.
• AMD – AMD provides powerful Instinct MI300X accelerators and the ROCm 6.1 software ecosystem for demanding AI workloads.
• The AI Summit – The AI Summit is a conference in New York City where leaders from major tech companies gather to discuss artificial intelligence.
• Runway – An AI video generation platform that recently released Gen-3 Alpha for creating highly detailed and consistent video clips.
• Mindport – An AI-powered platform that automates qualitative analysis for market researchers to turn customer feedback into insights quickly.
• Notion AI – Notion AI integrates artificial intelligence into your workspace to help you work faster, write better, and think bigger.
• Sieve – An AI video platform designed to help developers understand, search, and edit video content at scale.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that builds custom software and AI solutions for enterprises.
• Gainful – A service that delivers personalized protein and supplement products tailored to your specific needs directly to your door.