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:

• Apple unveils ‘Apple Intelligence’ – Apple introduced “Apple Intelligence,” its new personal intelligence system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, featuring on-device processing, a private cloud compute option, and an integration with ChatGPT.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies due to security concerns over Apple’s new partnership with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into its operating systems.
• Perplexity AI raises $62.7M, triples valuation to $3B – AI search startup Perplexity raised $62.7 million in a new funding round, tripling its valuation to $3 billion as it expands its enterprise offerings.
• Inflection AI is paying Microsoft $650M in a licensing deal for its models – Following its recent pivot and hiring of top staff by Microsoft, Inflection AI is paying its new partner around $650 million to license its AI models and use Azure cloud services.
• Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B training has reportedly finished – Meta has reportedly finished training Llama 3.1, a massive 405 billion parameter model, which is expected to be released in July and could rival top proprietary models.
• ElevenLabs raises $80M and launches text-to-sound effects – AI voice company ElevenLabs raised an $80 million Series B funding round and launched several new products, including a text-to-sound effects generator, a new dubbing studio, and a mobile app.
• Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer for up to $1B – Humane, the company behind the much-criticized Ai Pin, is reportedly exploring a sale with an asking price between $750 million and $1 billion just weeks after its product launch.
• Raspberry Pi confirms London IPO – Raspberry Pi, maker of the popular single-board computers, confirmed its plans for an initial public offering in London, aiming to raise $211 million at a valuation of around $690 million.
• Cognition AI CEO predicts AI could automate a significant portion of jobs – The CEO of Cognition AI, the company behind the AI agent Devin, predicted that AI is on a path to automate a significant portion of jobs within the next five to ten years.
• Snowflake acquires TruEra to boost AI observability – Data cloud company Snowflake has acquired TruEra, an AI observability platform, to help customers evaluate and monitor LLM and machine learning models in production.
• Mistral AI launches new developer platform and expands to the US – Mistral AI has launched a new developer platform called “La Plateforme” and announced its expansion into the US with a new office in San Francisco led by a former Google executive.
• YouTube tests server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers – YouTube is testing a method of injecting ads directly into the video stream on the server side, which would make them significantly harder for ad-blocking software to detect and skip.
• Nvidia overtakes Apple as the world’s second most valuable company – Fueled by the ongoing AI boom and demand for its chips, Nvidia’s market capitalization surpassed Apple’s, briefly making it the world’s second most valuable company behind Microsoft.
• Former OpenAI researchers launch an AI safety company – Jan Leike and Daniel Kokotajlo, former members of OpenAI’s superalignment team, have launched Safe AI, a new company focused on AI safety research and avoiding the competitive pressures of big labs.
• Microsoft delays controversial Recall feature, makes it opt-in – Following widespread privacy and security concerns from researchers, Microsoft announced it is delaying the launch of its screenshot-capturing Recall feature and will make it an opt-in experience.
• Amazon commits an additional $230M for generative AI startups – Amazon Web Services is committing an additional $230 million to support early-stage generative AI startups, providing them with credits, mentorship, and education to accelerate their growth.
• Google AI model predicts outcomes of gene-silencing therapies – Researchers from Google AI and Verve Therapeutics have developed a model that can predict the outcomes of gene-silencing therapies, potentially accelerating the development of new medicines.
• Andrej Karpathy starts a new project building an OS from scratch – Prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy announced he is building a small, simple operating system from scratch as a personal educational project, which he plans to document on YouTube.
• Suno releases update for longer songs and instrumentals – The AI music generation tool Suno has released an update allowing users to create longer songs up to four minutes and generate purely instrumental tracks.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI has released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, its most advanced text-to-image model yet, which is smaller and more efficient for consumer hardware while delivering high-quality outputs.
• AI detects Parkinson’s in brain scans seven years before symptoms – Researchers have developed an AI that can detect signs of Parkinson’s disease in brain scans up to seven years before physical symptoms appear, opening the door for early intervention.
• Microsoft introduces VASA-1, an AI model that makes portraits sing – Microsoft has introduced VASA-1, a new AI model that can generate a lifelike talking or singing video with expressive facial expressions from a single portrait photo and an audio clip.
• The Browser Company is building an AI-native browser – The Browser Company, creators of the Arc browser, revealed they are working on a new browser built from the ground up with AI at its core, aiming to create an “internet computer.”
• AI-generated political ad sparks backlash – An ad from the Republican National Committee that used AI-generated images to depict a dystopian future under President Biden sparked backlash and renewed debate over the use of AI in political campaigns.
• TikTok is developing an AI avatar feature for creators – TikTok is reportedly developing a feature that would allow creators to generate AI avatars of themselves for use in branded content and ads, which could be licensed to advertisers.
• Baseten acquires open-source model deployment tool Truss – Baseten, an infrastructure platform for AI, has acquired the open-source model deployment tool Truss and its engineering team from Patch, aiming to simplify model deployment for developers.
• Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics create open-source humanoid robot – Hugging Face is collaborating with Pollen Robotics to create Reachy 2, an open-source, AI-powered humanoid robot designed for real-world interaction and research.
• AI-generated photos are now officially allowed for US passports – The U.S. State Department has updated its guidelines to explicitly permit the use of AI-edited or generated photos for passports, provided they meet all existing requirements for a clear and accurate likeness.
• Stanford study finds humans still outperform AI in creative ideation – A Stanford University study found that while AI can match human performance in generating a large quantity of ideas, humans still excel in producing the most novel and valuable creative concepts.
• Google’s NotebookLM now available globally with major upgrades – Google’s AI-powered research tool, NotebookLM, is now globally available and has been upgraded with Gemini 1.5 Pro, adding new features like audio overviews and inline citations from sources.
• Animate 1-2-4 can create full motion video from a single image – A new AI research project called Animate 1-2-4 demonstrates the ability to generate a full animated video of a character turning around from just a single source image.
• OpenAI reduces cost of fine-tuning GPT-3.5 Turbo – OpenAI has updated its API, making it cheaper and more efficient to fine-tune the GPT-3.5 Turbo model and introducing new, more powerful text embedding models.
• Midjourney is reportedly training a video model on a massive dataset – Midjourney is rumored to be training its upcoming video generation model on a vast dataset of videos, which has raised questions among artists about the sourcing and licensing of the training data.
• Brave browser launches its AI assistant, Leo, on iOS – The privacy-focused browser Brave has launched its own AI assistant, Leo, which is now available on all its platforms including iOS devices, offering free and premium versions.
• Luma Labs teases ‘Dream Machine’ text-to-video model – Luma Labs, known for its 3D capture technology, is teasing a new text-to-video model called Dream Machine and has showcased several high-quality example outputs.
• The AI Engineer World’s Fair is happening June 25-27 – The AI Engineer World’s Fair, a major conference for AI developers and engineers featuring speakers from top AI companies and researchers, is scheduled to take place in San Francisco.

Trending AI Tools:

• Ideogram – An AI image generator renowned for its exceptional ability to accurately render text within images.
• Leonardo AI – A comprehensive AI art platform for generating high-quality images, textures, and other visual assets.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator, accessed via Discord, known for its highly artistic and stylized outputs.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s versatile conversational AI capable of a wide range of tasks from writing and coding to general knowledge queries.
• Runway – A creative suite of AI tools for creators, specializing in advanced text-to-video and video-to-video generation.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit short video clips from text prompts or still images.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that creates complete songs, including vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating professional videos featuring realistic AI avatars and voice cloning.
• ElevenLabs – A leading AI voice generation and text-to-speech platform known for its realistic, emotive, and customizable voices.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that allows you to quickly create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
• Luma AI Dream Machine – A new text-to-video model capable of generating high-quality, realistic, and dynamic video clips from prompts.
• Viggle AI – An AI model that generates videos of characters moving realistically by combining a still image with a motion prompt video.
• Krea AI – A suite of AI tools that offers real-time image and video generation, upscaling, and enhancement for creative workflows.
• Pinokio – A desktop tool that allows you to install, run, and control any AI application on your own computer with a single click.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool that generates high-quality songs complete with vocals and instruments from simple text descriptions.
• Opus Clip – An AI video repurposing tool that automatically turns long videos into short, shareable clips for social media.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources.
• Scribe – An AI tool that automatically documents your processes by capturing your screen and creating step-by-step visual guides.
• Fathom – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, highlights, and summarizes your online meetings so you can focus on the conversation.
• Magnific – An AI-powered image upscaler and enhancer that can add stunning detail and resolution to your images.
• Recraft – An AI design tool that generates and edits vector art, illustrations, and 3D images while maintaining a consistent brand style.
• Julius AI – An AI data analyst that allows you to analyze and visualize data from spreadsheets, CSVs, and other sources using natural language.
• Claude – A family of large language models from Anthropic, designed for a wide range of conversational and text-processing tasks.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models integrated into Photoshop and other apps for image generation and editing.
• Tome – An AI-powered presentation tool that helps you generate entire narratives and build compelling slide decks from a single prompt.
• Invideo AI – An AI video generator that creates publish-ready videos with scripts, stock footage, voiceovers, and captions from a simple text prompt.
• Veed – An online video editing platform that uses AI to simplify tasks like transcription, subtitling, and removing background noise.
• Figjam – Figma’s collaborative online whiteboard with AI features to help teams brainstorm, summarize, and organize ideas.
• Recast – An AI tool that summarizes long articles, newsletters, and other text-based content into concise audio summaries.
• Character.ai – A platform for creating and interacting with AI-powered chatbots based on fictional characters, historical figures, or original personalities.
• Poe by Quora – An app that provides access to a variety of AI chatbots and language models, like ChatGPT and Claude, in one place.
• Microsoft Designer – A graphic design app that uses AI to help you create professional-quality social media posts, invitations, and other visuals.
• Gencraft – An AI-powered art and video generator for creating unique visual content from text prompts.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that creates notes and answers questions from any document, video lecture, or meeting recording.
• Saga – An AI-powered workspace that organizes your notes, tasks, and documents, and automatically creates links between related information.
• Magic Hour – A platform that allows you to create your own personalized AI agent and share it with others via a link.

Sponsors:

• That AI Collection – A free directory to discover a wide variety of AI tools.
• 10k – A daily newsletter that delivers startup ideas, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
• Runhouse – An open-source platform for running AI applications and models on any hardware from any location.
• Intel Developer Cloud – A platform offering free access to advanced Intel hardware and optimized AI software for developing and testing AI applications.
• Vellum – A platform that helps you quickly add AI features to your SaaS product.
• Workera – An AI skills verification platform that helps enterprises evaluate and develop their teams’ AI capabilities.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that allows you to invest in shares of blue-chip art.
• Arize AI – A market-leading ML observability platform for monitoring and troubleshooting machine learning models.
• Consensus – An ad-free, AI-powered search engine that extracts answers directly from scientific research papers.