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 Intelligence Announced – Apple unveiled its new personal intelligence system, “Apple Intelligence,” which integrates generative AI deeply into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia with a strong focus on privacy and on-device processing.
• Apple and OpenAI Partnership – Apple is integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Siri and system-wide Writing Tools, allowing users to access its capabilities without an account.
• Elon Musk Threatens to Ban Apple Devices – Elon Musk stated he would ban Apple devices from his companies over security concerns if the OpenAI integration is built into the operating system.
• Nvidia Overtakes Apple in Market Cap – Nvidia’s market capitalization surpassed $3 trillion, making it the world’s second most-valuable company ahead of Apple, driven by the AI chip boom.
• Luma Labs Launches Dream Machine – Luma Labs released Dream Machine, a new text-to-video AI model capable of generating high-quality, 5-second video clips from textual prompts and images.
• Perplexity Introduces Pages – AI search engine Perplexity launched “Pages,” a new feature that converts search queries or documents into comprehensive, well-cited articles, presentations, or reports.
• xAI to Build World’s Largest Supercomputer in Memphis – Elon Musk’s xAI plans to build the world’s largest supercomputer, dubbed the “Gigafactory of Compute,” in Memphis, Tennessee.
• Mistral AI Raising $600M – French AI startup Mistral AI is reportedly raising $600 million in a new funding round that would value the company at $6 billion.
• Humane Reportedly Seeking a Buyer – Following poor reviews for its AI Pin, Humane is reportedly looking to sell its business for a price between $750 million and $1 billion, with HP being a potential suitor.
• Stability AI Appoints New CEO – Stability AI has named Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of visual effects company Weta Digital, as its new Chief Executive Officer.
• Raspberry Pi Shares Surge in IPO – Shares of Raspberry Pi, the maker of low-cost single-board computers, jumped over 30% in their London Stock Exchange IPO, raising $202 million.
• Google Unveils VLOGGER AI for Video Generation – Google introduced VLOGGER, a new AI model that can create realistic, controllable videos of a person speaking and gesturing from just a single still image.
• Character.AI Launches Voice Cloning Feature – Character.AI introduced a new voice feature that allows users to clone their own voice from a 10-second audio sample to give it to any AI character.
• AI Recreates Pink Floyd Song From Brainwaves – Researchers successfully reconstructed Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” by using AI to decode brain recordings from people listening to the song.
• Adobe Develops AI to Spot Deepfakes via Eye Reflections – Adobe Research created a new method for detecting AI-generated images by analyzing the subtle, often inconsistent 3D reflections in a subject’s eyes.
• Chinese AI Chip Firms Slash Prices – Chinese AI chip companies, including Huawei, are cutting prices on their processors to gain market share before a new, more affordable Nvidia chip arrives in China.
• Inflection-2.5 Now Available via API – Inflection has made its high-EQ model Inflection-2.5, which powers the Pi assistant, available to developers through an API.
• OpenAI Hires New CFO and CPO – OpenAI appointed former Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar as its first CFO and former Instagram and Twitter executive Kevin Weil as its new Chief Product Officer.
• Runway Announces Multi Motion Brush – Runway introduced Multi Motion Brush, a new feature for its Gen-2 model that allows users to control the movement of multiple, distinct areas within a generated video.
• Sakana AI Uses “Evolution” to Merge Models – Japanese startup Sakana AI has developed a method using evolutionary algorithms to automatically merge different open-source AI models to create new, more powerful ones.
• Wayve Raises Over $1B for Self-Driving AI – UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Wayve secured over $1 billion in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank to advance its “embodied AI” technology for self-driving cars.
• SEC Investigates OpenAI Investors – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating whether investors in OpenAI were misled during the period of leadership turmoil that saw CEO Sam Altman temporarily ousted.
• Microsoft and G42 Invest $1B in Kenya Data Center – Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 are investing $1 billion in a geothermal-powered data center in Kenya, which will also host a new Microsoft Azure cloud region.
• Adept AI Raises $50M from Microsoft and Nvidia – Adept, a startup building AI agents to perform tasks on enterprise software, secured $50 million in a convertible note from strategic backers including Microsoft and Nvidia.
• Open-Source SQL Model Released by Defog AI – Defog AI has open-sourced SQLCoder-70B, a 70-billion parameter model designed to convert natural language questions into efficient SQL queries.
• Nearly Half of Gen Z Use AI Chatbots for Therapy – A new study reveals that nearly half of Gen Z Americans are turning to AI chatbots like ChatGPT as a free and accessible form of therapy.
• Google DeepMind Introduces Neko AI Model – Google DeepMind has developed Neko, a new AI model that can learn skills and concepts directly from watching vast quantities of video data.
• Genspark, a New AI Search Engine, Launches – A new AI-native search engine called Genspark has launched, aiming to compete with Google and Perplexity by generating summarized “Sparkpages” from multiple sources.
• Cohere’s Command R+ Now Available on Microsoft Azure – Cohere’s advanced enterprise-focused model, Command R+, is now generally available on Microsoft’s Azure AI, allowing developers to build production-scale AI applications.
• Microsoft Replaces Journalists with AI – Microsoft is laying off dozens of contract journalists at its MSN news organization and replacing their work of curating news with AI-powered systems.
• Kore.ai Secures $150M for Conversational AI – Enterprise conversational AI company Kore.ai has secured $150 million in a funding round led by FTV Capital to accelerate its market expansion.
• AI Used to Predict In-Flight Turbulence – Researchers are using AI to analyze vast datasets and satellite imagery to create more accurate and timely predictions of “clear-air turbulence,” a phenomenon invisible to radar.
• Cuebric Raises $4.5M for Generative AI Film Sets – Cuebric, a startup that uses generative AI to rapidly create virtual environments for film and television, has raised $4.5 million in a seed extension round.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new, publicly available AI model that generates high-quality, realistic videos from text and image prompts.
• Krea AI – A creative suite of AI tools that enables real-time generation and enhancement of images and video.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace – A new AI-native developer environment for brainstorming, planning, building, testing, and running code in natural language.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that allows you to access and chat with a wide variety of different AI models and custom bots in one place.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions by synthesizing information from the web.
• Viggle – An AI video tool that allows you to animate static characters with motion from a reference video, maintaining character consistency.
• Snowflake – A data cloud platform that launched new enterprise AI features like Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search to help businesses build AI applications on their own data.
• Pika – An established AI video generation platform for creating and editing videos from text, images, or existing video clips.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI video editing and generation platform used by creators for producing high-quality video content.
• Sora – OpenAI’s highly anticipated but not yet publicly released text-to-video model, known for its high-fidelity and realistic outputs.
• Kling – A powerful, unreleased text-to-video model from Chinese company Kuaishou, capable of generating long, high-resolution videos.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its reliable text rendering capabilities, which recently added a feature for describing specific regions of an image to edit.
• Brave Search – A privacy-focused search engine with its own independent index that incorporates AI-powered summarized answers.
• Unsloth – An open-source library that significantly speeds up the fine-tuning of large language models while using less memory.
• Bland AI – A platform for building, testing, and scaling AI phone calling agents that can handle thousands of concurrent calls.
• Godmode – A web platform that allows you to chain together multiple AI agents to accomplish complex tasks.
• Splash – An AI-powered music creation platform that allows anyone to sing, rap, or play an instrument and have it transformed by AI.
• Dola – An AI calendar assistant that schedules meetings and manages your calendar through a simple chat interface.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that creates realistic avatar videos and translates speech while syncing lip movements.
• ElevenLabs – A leading AI platform for generating realistic, human-like speech and voice clones in multiple languages.
• Zapier – An automation platform that now integrates AI to help users build automated workflows, or ‘Zaps’, more easily.
• Clipnote – A tool that provides AI-powered summaries, transcripts, and key insights from any online video with a single click.
• CodeRabbit – An AI-powered code reviewer that provides line-by-line suggestions to improve code quality and efficiency.
• Flowise – An open-source, low-code tool for developers to build customized LLM applications using a drag-and-drop UI.
• Vellum – A development platform for building production-ready large language model applications with features like prompt engineering and versioning.
• Trieve – An open-source search infrastructure that combines traditional search with language models to create more relevant search experiences.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that creates personalized itineraries and provides travel recommendations.
• Leap AI – An API platform that provides access to various AI models, including a new version for generating professional AI headshots.
• Prompts (by W&B) – A new tool from Weights & Biases for debugging, tracing, and evaluating large language model applications.
• AI Story Generator – A free online tool that generates unique stories in various genres based on a user’s text prompt.
• Patternz – An all-in-one AI marketing platform designed for audience intelligence, planning, and campaign activation.
• Cortex Analyst – A new Snowflake service that allows users to ask questions about their data in natural language and receive SQL queries and answers.
• Cortex Search – A new Snowflake service that provides a fully managed, hybrid search to help users build retrieval applications on their enterprise data.
• Domino AI Gateway – A secure, centralized platform for enterprises to manage access to various public and private AI models.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant and enterprise search platform that finds information across all of a company’s apps.
• Cohere – A platform providing powerful language models and RAG capabilities specifically designed for enterprise use cases.
• Replicate – A platform that makes it easy for developers to run and fine-tune open-source AI models via an API.
• Snowflake Arctic – A family of efficient, open-source language and embedding models developed by Snowflake for enterprise AI tasks.
• Superhuman – A premium email client that uses AI to help users manage their inbox faster with features like sorting and summarization.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI model that can answer questions, write text, generate code, and more.
• Claude – A family of large language models from Anthropic known for their strong performance in conversational and text-processing tasks.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant integrated across its products like Windows, Bing, and Office 365 to provide generative AI capabilities.

Sponsors:

• Brave – A browser with a built-in AI assistant, Leo, for summarizing pages, answering questions, and generating new content.
• Brilliant.org – An interactive learning platform that helps you build skills in math, science, and computer science through problem-solving.
• Godmode – An all-in-one AI platform that combines a chat interface with a multi-agent workflow builder.
• Google Cloud – A platform that helps you accelerate your AI journey with tools for developers, data scientists, and enterprises.
• HubSpot – An AI-powered platform with tools like a website builder, content assistant, and campaign assistant to help businesses grow.
• monday.com – A work OS that helps teams manage their projects, processes, and everyday work, now enhanced with an AI assistant.
• RunPod – A cloud platform that provides cost-effective GPU rentals for AI development and inference.
• Vapi – A developer platform for building, testing, and deploying voice AI applications.
• W&B (Weights & Biases) – A developer-first MLOps platform for building better machine learning models faster.
• Wayve – An AI company pioneering Embodied AI for self-driving to teach cars how to navigate roads.