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:

• Scarlett Johansson on OpenAI’s “Sky” voice – Scarlett Johansson stated that OpenAI’s new “Sky” voice is “eerily similar” to hers, which she claims was created after she declined an offer from Sam Altman to voice the system.
• Microsoft’s “Copilot+ PCs” – Microsoft announced a new category of “Copilot+ PCs” with powerful on-device chips to run AI features locally, including a “Recall” function that lets users search through everything they have ever seen on their screen.
• OpenAI’s new Safety and Security Committee – Following the departure of its top safety researchers, OpenAI has formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by board members to oversee the development of its next frontier model.
• NVIDIA’s record-breaking revenue – NVIDIA reported record-breaking quarterly revenue of $26 billion, far exceeding expectations due to high demand for its AI chips, and announced a 10-for-1 stock split.
• Humane seeks a buyer – Following its poorly-received product launch, the company Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer for between $750 million and $1 billion.
• Google’s flawed “AI Overviews” – Google’s new “AI Overviews” in Search has been observed providing dangerous and incorrect answers, such as advising users to put glue on pizza.
• Microsoft’s Phi-Silica model – Microsoft has released Phi-Silica, a 3.3 billion parameter language model specifically designed to run efficiently on the neural processing units of its new Copilot+ PCs.
• Ilya Sutskever’s new company – Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder and former chief scientist, announced on X that he is starting a new, currently unnamed, company.
• OpenAI partners with Reddit – OpenAI has partnered with Reddit to bring real-time content from the social media platform into ChatGPT and future OpenAI products.
• Google DeepMind’s Project Astra – Google DeepMind demonstrated Project Astra, a real-time, multimodal AI assistant that can see, hear, and understand the world through a phone’s camera to answer questions and be helpful.
• Viggle AI animation tool – A new AI tool called Viggle allows users to animate a static image of a person by applying the motion and dance moves from a separate video.
• Privacy concerns over Microsoft’s “Recall” – Privacy and security experts are raising alarms over Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature for Windows, which screenshots user activity every few seconds, calling it a potential “nightmare.”
• Apple’s OpenELM models – Apple has released OpenELM, a family of small, open-source AI models designed to run efficiently on devices like phones and laptops.
• Alibaba’s new AI models – Alibaba’s cloud unit has unveiled new AI models, including a vision-language model claimed to rival GPT-4V and a video generation model to compete with OpenAI’s Sora.
• Google’s Veo video model – Google introduced Veo, its most advanced text-to-video model designed to generate high-quality, 1080p videos and compete directly with OpenAI’s Sora.
• Meta training Llama 3.1 – Meta is reportedly close to finishing the training of Llama 3.1, the next version of its powerful open-source model.
• ElevenLabs’ AI sound effects – ElevenLabs, known for its voice-cloning technology, is launching a new tool that can generate sound effects from text prompts.
• Spotify’s “AI Playlists” – Spotify has launched a new “AI Playlists” feature in the UK and Australia that allows users to create playlists using creative text prompts.
• CoreWeave raises $7.5 billion – AI cloud provider CoreWeave has raised an additional $7.5 billion in debt financing from major investment firms to expand its fleet of NVIDIA GPUs.
• Mistral models on Microsoft Azure – Mistral’s open and commercial AI models are now generally available for developers to use through Microsoft’s Azure AI platform.
• Perplexity launches “Pages” – Perplexity has launched “Pages,” a new feature that allows users to convert their research into shareable articles, reports, or guides.
• Hugging Face’s Reachy 2 humanoid robot – Hugging Face has partnered with Pollen Robotics to develop Reachy 2, an open-source humanoid robot aimed at making advanced robotics more accessible.
• LoRA+ fine-tuning method – Researchers have proposed a new method called LoRA+ that improves the efficiency and quality of fine-tuning large text-to-image diffusion models.
• Google MusicFX’s “DJ Mode” – Google’s experimental text-to-music tool MusicFX now has a “DJ Mode” that can generate continuous loops of music and mix between different prompts.
• Microsoft Copilot on Telegram – Microsoft has released a version of its Copilot AI assistant as a bot within the messaging app Telegram, currently in a free beta.
• AI adoption by Hollywood executives – A new study reveals that 84% of Hollywood’s C-suite executives are already using AI in their work, primarily for tasks like research and summarizing documents.
• Global AI Safety Summit – The UK and South Korea are co-hosting the second global AI Safety Summit to discuss regulations and the risks of advanced AI models.
• China’s national AI committee – China has established a national committee dedicated to artificial intelligence to better coordinate development and security efforts across the country.
• Poe’s multi-bot chats – AI chatbot platform Poe has launched multi-bot chats, allowing users to tag and converse with multiple different AI models within a single conversation thread.
• Hugging Face acquires Argilla – Hugging Face has acquired Argilla, a data-curation company, to enhance its capabilities for enterprise customers building AI with their own data.
• LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard – The LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard provides an ongoing ranking and evaluation of open-source models based on crowdsourced human feedback.
• Fine-tuning GPT-2 to play chess – A new tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on how to fine-tune a small GPT-2 model to learn and play the game of chess.
• Llama 3 on a Raspberry Pi 5 – A developer has successfully run Meta’s Llama 3 language model on a Raspberry Pi 5, achieving an inference speed of over 10 tokens per second.

Trending AI Tools:

• Runway Gen-3 Alpha – A new AI video model that significantly improves quality, consistency, and motion for generating highly realistic and cinematic scenes.
• Luma Dream Machine – A publicly available AI model for creating high-quality, realistic five-second video clips from text and images.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that converts search queries and research into comprehensive, editable, and shareable articles or reports.
• Sora – OpenAI’s highly anticipated text-to-video model that has set a high benchmark for realism and quality in AI-generated video.
• Kling – A new text-to-video model from Chinese company Kuaishou, seen as a powerful competitor capable of producing high-resolution, long-duration videos.
• Pika – An AI video generation platform that allows users to create and edit videos from text prompts, images, or existing video clips.
• Leonardo AI – A creative suite featuring a new foundation model called Phoenix for generating higher quality images and video with improved prompt adherence.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator renowned for its advanced ability to accurately and reliably render text within images.
• Viggle – An AI tool that can transfer a person’s motion from a source video to animate a static character image.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing highly artistic, stylized, and coherent images from text prompts.
• Poolside – An AI company building a foundation model specifically for software development that recently raised $126 million.
• Bland AI – A platform for building and scaling AI phone agents that can handle inbound and outbound calls for various business tasks.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that helps you create personalized itineraries based on your specific interests and preferences.
• DALL-E 3 – OpenAI’s image generation model, integrated into ChatGPT, known for its strong prompt understanding and integration with a chatbot.
• Stable Diffusion – A foundational open-source text-to-image model from Stability AI that has powered numerous applications and further research.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that creates complete songs, including lyrics and vocals, from a simple text prompt.
• Udio – An AI tool for generating high-quality music in various genres, including realistic vocals, based on text descriptions.
• Google VLOGGER – A Google research project for creating controllable videos of a person speaking and moving from just a single still image.
• Opus Clip – An AI video tool that automatically repurposes long videos into short, engaging clips suitable for social media platforms.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that quickly creates polished and engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text inputs.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows users to create videos with realistic AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Wonder Studio – An AI tool that automatically animates, lights, and composes computer-generated characters into live-action scenes without motion capture.
• Explainpaper – A tool designed to help users read and understand complex academic research papers by explaining confusing text.
• EverArt – An AI art generator specifically designed to create consistent characters across multiple different images and scenes.
• Krea – A suite of creative AI tools that includes real-time image generation, upscaling, and video generation capabilities.
• Kaiber – An AI video generation tool that transforms user ideas, images, and videos into dynamic visual stories.
• Uizard – An AI-powered design tool that can generate user interface mockups and prototypes from text prompts.
• Galileo AI – An AI tool that generates editable UI designs for apps and websites from simple text descriptions.
• Diagram – A suite of AI-powered design tools, including Automator and Genius, that was recently acquired by Figma.
• Figma – A leading collaborative interface design tool that is expanding its AI features through acquisitions and internal development.
• Vizcom – An AI-powered design tool that can quickly transform hand-drawn sketches into professional-looking product renderings.
• Superhuman – An premium email client that uses AI to summarize emails, write drafts, and help users manage their inbox more efficiently.
• Coze – A platform for quickly creating, debugging, and deploying AI chatbots that can be integrated into various messaging and social apps.
• Chatsimple – An AI chatbot designed to help small businesses convert their website visitors into qualified leads.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows users to easily fine-tune open-source large language models for specific tasks.

Sponsors:

• Dust – A platform for designing and deploying powerful Large Language Model applications and smart assistants.
• Incogni – A service that removes your personal information from the internet by handling data removal requests to data brokers on your behalf.
• Notion – Integrates artificial intelligence directly into its connected workspace to help users work faster, write better, and think bigger.
• Vanta – Provides a guide to help organizations navigate the AI landscape and ensure they are prepared for the AI revolution.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design agency trusted by major companies to build and implement AI solutions.
• Brilliant – An interactive learning platform that uses hands-on lessons to teach STEM concepts to over 10 million users.
• Brave – Offers a free, smart AI assistant built into its browser that can summarize pages, answer questions, and generate content.
• HubSpot – Offers an all-in-one connected customer platform for marketing, sales, and service teams in scaling companies.
• Wix – An end-to-end web creation platform designed for agencies and enterprises to build and manage client websites.
• Runway – A leading AI-native content creation suite for creators, artists, and developers.
• Latent Space – A podcast and community for AI engineers, researchers, and builders, featuring interviews with experts in the field.