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 announces Apple Intelligence – Apple unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” a personal AI system deeply integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that prioritizes privacy, on-device processing, and a new partnership with OpenAI for complex queries.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices and drops OpenAI lawsuit – In response to Apple’s new OpenAI integration, Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies and then abruptly moved to withdraw his lawsuit against OpenAI.
• Mistral AI raises $640 million – French AI startup Mistral confirmed it has raised €600 million ($640 million) in a new funding round, bringing its valuation to nearly $6 billion.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI has released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, its most advanced text-to-image open model yet, which is smaller in size for running on consumer PCs and laptops.
• Luma Labs launches Dream Machine video model – Luma Labs has publicly released Dream Machine, a new text-to-video generation model capable of creating high-quality, realistic, and coherent five-second video clips.
• Runway teases Gen-3 Alpha video model – Runway released several stunning preview videos from its upcoming Gen-3 Alpha model, showcasing major improvements in generating realistic humans and consistent motion.
• Perplexity launches Pages to generate articles from prompts – AI search engine Perplexity has launched a new feature called Pages, which allows users to generate comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports on any topic from a single prompt.
• Character.AI launches voice cloning – Character.AI introduced a voice cloning feature that allows users to create a custom voice for any character by providing just 10 seconds of audio.
• Inflection makes its flagship model available via API – Inflection has made its Inflection-2.5 model, which powers its Pi chatbot, available to all users through an API on its platform.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge after $202M IPO – The maker of the popular low-cost computers, Raspberry Pi, saw its shares jump over 30% after raising $202 million in its London Stock Exchange IPO.
• U.S. weighs more limits on China’s access to AI chips – The Biden administration is considering further restrictions on China’s access to advanced gate-all-around (GAA) chip technology crucial for building AI models.
• Hitachi and Microsoft announce multi-billion dollar AI partnership – Hitachi and Microsoft have agreed to a multi-billion dollar, three-year partnership to accelerate the adoption of generative AI across various industries.
• Snowflake acquires Wolken AI – Snowflake has acquired Wolken AI, an early-stage startup focused on building an LLM-powered platform for enterprise video and multimedia content.
• Poolside is raising $400M for its code-generation AI – Poolside, a startup building a foundational model for software development, is reportedly raising approximately $400 million in a new funding round.
• Saudi Arabia is creating a $40 billion fund for AI – A new report details Saudi Arabia’s plans to create a massive $40 billion fund, in partnership with Andreessen Horowitz, to invest heavily in artificial intelligence startups.
• AI discovers new class of antibiotics – Researchers used a deep learning model to discover a new class of compounds that can kill Acinetobacter baumannii, a drug-resistant bacterium that often infects hospital patients.
• CoreWeave plans $2.2B data center in Norway – AI cloud computing provider CoreWeave announced plans to invest $2.2 billion in a new data center in Norway that will be powered by 100% renewable energy.
• Baseten launches open-source model server ModelMesh – Baseten introduced ModelMesh, an open-source model server designed for efficiently scaling diverse machine learning models with intelligent request routing and scheduling.
• Cleanlab raises $25M to automatically fix data for AI – Cleanlab, a data-centric AI startup spun out of MIT, has raised a $25 million Series A to expand its platform that helps businesses automatically clean and curate datasets.
• Study finds Google’s AI Overviews show fewer links – A study from BrightEdge revealed that Google’s AI Overviews are now showing fewer links to websites than they did when the feature initially launched.
• Brave Search adds AI-powered answers to results – The Brave browser’s native search engine has integrated a new “Answer with AI” feature that provides synthesized answers directly at the top of the search results page.
• YouTube is testing server-side ad injection to fight ad blockers – YouTube is experimenting with injecting ads directly into the video stream on the server side, a method that makes them much harder for ad-blocking software to detect and block.

Trending AI Tools:

• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s newest and fastest AI model, which sets new industry benchmarks for intelligence and is available for free on Claude.ai.
• Artifacts by Anthropic – A new feature in Claude that allows users to create, edit, and iterate on AI-generated content like documents and code within a dedicated workspace.
• Luma Dream Machine – A publicly available text-to-video AI model that generates high-quality, five-second video clips from text and image prompts.
• Runway Gen-3 Alpha – Runway’s next-generation video model that offers a major leap in detail, consistency, and motion for creating highly realistic human characters and controlled video outputs.
• Perplexity Pages – An AI tool that transforms prompts or research into comprehensive, well-structured articles, presentations, or reports with automatic citations.
• Kling – A powerful Chinese text-to-video model from Kuaishou capable of generating up to two minutes of continuous, high-quality 1080p video.
• Viggle – A free AI tool that animates any character with a reference motion video while maintaining character consistency.
• Sora – OpenAI’s highly advanced text-to-video model known for creating cinematic and realistic video clips from text prompts.
• Cognition AI Devin – An AI agent designed to operate as an autonomous software engineer, capable of handling entire development projects from start to finish.
• Krea AI – An AI tool that allows for real-time generation and enhancement of images and videos with features like upscaling and logo illustration.
• Ideogram 2.0 – An AI image generator with state-of-the-art, reliable text rendering capabilities, allowing for clear text within images.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates original songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool that generates high-quality music in various styles from text prompts.
• Splash Pro – An AI music generation tool that offers features like text-to-vocals, instrumentals, and lyric writing assistance.
• Grok – xAI’s conversational AI model which was recently open-sourced, allowing developers to build applications with its 314 billion parameter base model.
• ElevenLabs – A leading AI voice generator for creating realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, and AI-dubbed audio.
• Durable – An AI-powered website builder that can generate a complete business website with copy, images, and a contact form in seconds.
• Pika – A popular AI video generator that creates and edits videos in various styles from text and image prompts.
• Midjourney – A widely used AI image generator known for producing artistic and high-quality visuals from text prompts via Discord.
• Sudowrite – An AI writing partner designed to help authors and writers brainstorm, expand, and polish their stories and novels.
• Leonardo AI – A comprehensive suite of tools for generating high-quality game assets, concept art, and other visual content.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that helps you create polished presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text instructions.
• Argil – A no-code platform that allows creative agencies to build custom AI workflows and automations for their specific needs.
• Mano – An AI-powered video editor that automates the process of finding and adding relevant b-roll footage to your videos.
• ThinkDiffusion – A cloud platform that provides easy, one-click access to run Stable Diffusion models without needing powerful local hardware or complex setup.
• Keywrds.ai – An AI tool that helps you discover thousands of keyword ideas and check domain availability to boost your SEO.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A platform that enables users to create and manage their own AI agents by fine-tuning models on their specific data.
• Uizard – An AI-powered design tool that helps users quickly create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for apps and websites.
• Chie – An AI-powered search engine for your personal knowledge base, allowing you to ask questions of your notes in Obsidian or Notion.

Sponsors:

• Modal – A serverless platform that allows you to run or fine-tune open-source AI models using Python without any infrastructure setup.
• Vultr – Vultr offers on-demand deployment and scaling for AI & LLM applications with a large GPU inventory and provides $250 in free credits to start.
• Motional – An AI-native software development platform where you can build full-stack web applications from a simple prompt.
• Weights & Biases – A leading MLOps platform for building AI models and LLM-powered applications.
• Growth School – Offers a 4-week program to become a top AI growth marketer by teaching how to leverage AI for business growth.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that allows you to buy shares in fine art by famous artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• AE Studio – An agency that provides world-class AI development and data science teams to build products for companies, including those in the Fortune 500.
• CommandBar – A platform for building user-facing AI assistants that can take actions and answer questions directly within your application.
• CodiumAI – CodiumAI helps you ship code faster and with fewer bugs by providing meaningful test generation for your code.
• Notion – An all-in-one workspace that now includes Notion AI to help you write faster, think bigger, and augment your creativity.
• Brilliant – An interactive learning platform with thousands of bite-sized lessons in math, data, and computer science.
• Imagine – An easy-to-use platform that allows you to create high-quality, AI-generated images from your ideas.