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’ to integrate AI across its apps – Apple unveiled a new personal intelligence system integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, which includes a partnership to bring OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Siri.
• Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI – Elon Musk has withdrawn his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, which had accused the company of abandoning its original non-profit mission.
• Perplexity introduces ‘Pages’ to turn research into articles and presentations – The new Perplexity Pages feature allows users to curate information from search results and generate a polished article, report, or presentation with citations.
• Mistral AI raises $640M at a $6B valuation – The Paris-based AI startup confirmed a new funding round led by General Catalyst, significantly increasing its valuation in the competitive AI landscape.
• Oracle partners with Google Cloud to make its database available on Google’s infrastructure – The new partnership allows customers to run Oracle’s flagship database services directly on Google Cloud’s data centers, improving multi-cloud flexibility.
• Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0 – This updated model can generate full-length, coherent songs up to three minutes long with structured compositions from a single text prompt.
• Sakana AI demonstrates evolutionary model merging – The Japanese AI lab introduced a method that uses evolutionary techniques to automatically merge different open-source models to create new, more capable ones without intensive training.
• MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 becomes best open-source multimodal model – A new powerful, open-source multimodal model has been released that reportedly outperforms GPT-4V and Gemini Pro on various benchmarks.
• Google DeepMind unveils video-to-audio (V2A) generation technology – Google’s new V2A technology can generate synchronized soundtracks, sound effects, and dialogue for silent video footage based on visual cues and text prompts.
• Court rules Section 230 protects AI companies from liability – The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Section 230, which protects online platforms, also shields AI companies like Meta from being held liable for harmful content generated by their models.
• Google DeepMind releases OpenVLA, a new standard for robot manipulation – OpenVLA is a new open-source 7B parameter Vision-Language-Action model that sets a new state-of-the-art for robotic control and decision-making.
• Code generation model Alpha-Codium 2 is released – The team behind AlphaCodium has released a new, improved version of its open-source model specialized for code generation, which now includes a commercial-use license.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 38% in London IPO – The maker of the popular low-cost single-board computers saw its stock price jump significantly on its first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange.
• Philippine congressman introduces first bill fully written by ChatGPT – A bill aimed at regulating the e-commerce industry in the Philippines was introduced, with its text entirely generated by ChatGPT to showcase AI’s potential in legislative drafting.
• Amazon to invest €10 billion in German cloud and logistics network – Amazon Web Services announced a multi-billion euro investment to expand its data center and logistics operations in Germany, citing growing demand for cloud and AI technologies.
• CoreWeave offers to acquire CoreScientific for over $1 billion – AI cloud provider CoreWeave made an unsolicited offer to buy Bitcoin miner CoreScientific in a bid to expand its infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Snowflake and NVIDIA partner to build an AI data platform – The partnership aims to provide businesses with an integrated platform that combines Snowflake’s data management capabilities with NVIDIA’s AI processing power.
• Hume AI launches its Empathic Voice API – The new API allows developers to build applications with emotionally intelligent AI voices that can understand and adapt to the user’s tone.
• Hugging Face partners with Pollen to decentralize AI infrastructure – The partnership will leverage Pollen’s decentralized mobile network to create distributed infrastructure for running and fine-tuning AI models.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Labs Dream Machine – A new and publicly available AI model for creating high-quality, realistic videos from text and image prompts.
• Suno – An AI music and song generator that creates realistic audio, including vocals, from a simple text prompt.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate, edit, and extend videos using text, image, or video inputs.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its ability to reliably create images that include coherent text.
• ChatGPT – A versatile conversational AI developed by OpenAI for a wide range of text-based tasks, including writing, coding, and analysis.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, cited answers to user questions.
• Runway – A comprehensive creative suite of AI magic tools for generating and editing video, images, and more.
• Google Vids – An upcoming AI-powered video creation app for Google Workspace designed to help create business videos.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing highly artistic and detailed visuals from text prompts.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generator for creating realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, and AI dubbing.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that can translate and dub videos into different languages while syncing lip movements.
• Krea – A creative suite of AI tools that can generate images and patterns in real-time as you type or draw.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can generate a complete business website with copy, images, and a contact form in under a minute.
• Splash – An AI music platform that allows users to create and perform original music using generative AI tools, including text-to-vocals.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from a simple text prompt.
• Tome – A generative storytelling and presentation tool that uses AI to help you build compelling narratives and visuals from scratch.
• Beautiful.ai – An AI presentation maker that automatically applies design principles to create professional and stunning slides.
• Tldv – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes your calls on platforms like Google Meet and Zoom.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that allows users to ask questions and get answers from a variety of different AI chatbots in one place.
• Fabric – A personal intelligence assistant that organizes your digital life and helps you find information across your apps.
• Magic Loops – A no-code platform for building and automating AI-powered workflows and browser actions.
• Vizcom – An AI-powered design tool that transforms your sketches into stunning photorealistic product renderings in seconds.
• Finalle – An AI tool that helps you create professional presentations and slides quickly.
• Defog – A tool that converts natural language questions into SQL queries to help you search your database without writing code.
• Fine-Tuner – A platform for fine-tuning large language models to create specialized and more accurate AI assistants.
• Hugging Face – A platform providing tools and resources for building, training, and deploying state-of-the-art machine learning models.
• Coursera – A global online learning platform offering a wide range of courses, specializations, and degrees in fields like AI and data science.
• Udacity – An online learning platform offering courses and nanodegrees focused on in-demand tech skills, including AI and machine learning.
• Deeplearning.ai – A platform founded by Andrew Ng that provides comprehensive AI education, courses, and specializations.

Sponsors:

• NetSuite – A unified business management suite that helps you gain visibility and control of your financials, inventory, HR, and more.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that allows you to invest in multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Doppler – A universal secrets manager that helps developers manage app secrets and environment variables across any application, environment, and cloud provider.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that connects and understands all your company’s knowledge to bring you the answers you need.
• Brilliant – A fun and interactive way to learn math, data science, and computer science.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that partners with companies and startups on their key initiatives.
• beehiiv – A newsletter platform built for growth, used by many of the world’s top newsletters.
• Brave – A browser with a built-in AI assistant, Leo, that can summarize pages, answer questions, and generate new content right in the sidebar.
• Wonder Tools – A newsletter that helps you discover and make the most of the most useful sites and apps.