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’ and partners with OpenAI – Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a new personal AI system deeply integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that focuses on on-device processing and privacy, and includes an integration with ChatGPT.
• Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI – Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, which had accused the company of abandoning its original non-profit, open-source mission for profit.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn prompts into articles – AI search engine Perplexity launched “Pages,” a new feature that allows users to create, customize, and publish visually appealing articles and reports from simple prompts.
• Mistral AI raises $640M at a $6B valuation – French AI startup Mistral AI secured $640 million in a new funding round led by General Catalyst, nearly tripling its valuation to $6 billion.
• Microsoft makes its controversial Recall AI feature opt-in – Following widespread security and privacy backlash, Microsoft reversed course on its “Recall” feature for Copilot+ PCs, making it opt-in rather than enabled by default and adding extra security measures.
• Inflection releases Inflection-2.5 model – Inflection AI made its new Inflection-2.5 model, which claims to offer performance competitive with GPT-4 using 40% less compute, available to all users of its Pi chatbot.
• Stability AI’s new CEO commits to open source while seeking profits – The new CEO of Stability AI reaffirmed the company’s dedication to open-source models while aiming to build a sustainable business through enterprise services.
• Adept’s $1 billion funding effort reportedly sputters – AI agent startup Adept is reportedly facing challenges in its attempt to raise a new $1 billion funding round as investors question its high valuation.
• Bipartisan bill aims to strip AI of Section 230 protections – Senators introduced a bill to clarify that the broad legal immunity provided by Section 230 does not apply to generative AI tools, potentially opening tech companies to more lawsuits over AI-generated content.
• Luma Labs releases Dream Machine text-to-video model – Luma Labs launched Dream Machine, a new publicly available AI model that can generate high-quality, 5-second video clips from text prompts and images.
• Snowflake to acquire AI observability platform Truera – Data cloud company Snowflake announced its acquisition of Truera to integrate AI observability and model monitoring capabilities into its platform.
• Runway teases its next-generation Gen-3 Alpha video model – AI video company Runway released a short teaser showcasing the capabilities of its upcoming Gen-3 Alpha model, which promises major improvements in generating realistic human characters and complex scenes.
• Google DeepMind unveils video-to-audio generation technology – Google DeepMind has developed a new V2A (video-to-audio) technology that generates synchronized sound effects, music, and dialogue for silent video clips based on visual content and text prompts.
• IMF study suggests AI will complement rather than replace many jobs – Research from the International Monetary Fund indicates that AI is more likely to augment the skills and learning abilities of workers in up to 40% of jobs, boosting their productivity.
• SEC charges producer with fraud over fake AI film-picking platform – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a film producer for fraudulently raising $1.2 million by falsely claiming to use an AI-driven platform to select profitable movie projects.
• Character.ai launches real-time voice conversations – Chatbot platform Character.ai has rolled out a new voice feature that enables users to have spoken conversations with its cast of AI characters.
• Microsoft releases Phi-3-vision, a small multimodal model – Microsoft has launched Phi-3-vision, a 4.2B parameter multimodal model capable of analyzing images and text that is small enough to run on mobile devices.
• Sakana AI uses evolutionary algorithms to merge open-source models – Japanese AI lab Sakana AI is pioneering a method that uses evolutionary techniques to automatically discover the best ways to combine different open-source AI models to create more powerful new ones.
• Databricks acquires Tabular to advance open data formats – Databricks announced it will acquire Tabular, a data management company founded by the creators of the Apache Iceberg open-source project, in a deal valued at over $1 billion.
• Wayve introduces LINGO-1, a self-driving model that explains its actions – Autonomous driving startup Wayve has developed LINGO-1, an AI model that can provide real-time commentary in natural language to explain its driving decisions.
• Godot Engine announces official AI SDK – The open-source Godot game engine is launching a new AI SDK in partnership with Convai to help developers integrate conversational AI, smart NPCs, and other AI features into their games.
• ElevenLabs report finds creators are embracing voice AI – A study by voice AI company ElevenLabs found that 59% of content creators believe AI voices will become a standard tool in content creation within the next five years.
• Google AI Overviews show answers with zero links – Some of Google’s new AI Overviews are appearing without any links to source websites, sparking fresh concerns among publishers about the impact on referral traffic.
• Eraser launches AI feature to turn diagrams into code – The digital whiteboarding tool Eraser has released a “diagram-to-code” feature that uses AI to automatically generate code from technical architecture diagrams.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Labs Dream Machine – An AI model that generates high-quality, realistic videos from text prompts and images.
• Krea AI – A real-time AI design suite that can upscale images, generate patterns, and now create video from text prompts.
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s latest and most advanced AI model, offering superior intelligence, speed, and cost-effectiveness for complex tasks.
• Artifacts – A feature within Claude that creates a dedicated window for users to view, edit, and iterate on AI-generated content like code or designs in real-time.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that automatically generates well-structured, shareable articles and reports from a single prompt.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice and sound effects generation platform that can create lifelike speech and audio from text.
• Viggle – A free AI tool that animates a character from a still image to match the motion from a reference video.
• Pika – An AI video generation platform that now allows users to generate and add a wide range of sound effects to their videos.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates full-length songs with vocals from simple text prompts.
• Physical – An iOS app that uses your phone’s camera to create high-quality 3D scans of real-world objects.
• Keyframer – An experimental animation tool from Google that uses a large language model to turn static images and prompts into animated sequences.
• Mindtrip – An AI travel planner that creates personalized itineraries and provides recommendations based on your preferences.
• Vizcom – An AI-powered design platform that transforms sketches and prompts into high-quality product renders instantly.
• Recap – An AI meeting tool that automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes your virtual meetings.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that manages your calendar, drafts emails, and handles other administrative tasks.
• Paper-to-Poem – An AI tool that transforms the content of academic research papers into creative poems.
• ThinkDiffusion – A cloud-based platform that provides easy access to powerful AI image and video generation tools like Stable Diffusion with no setup required.
• Deforum – An open-source animation tool that uses Stable Diffusion to create videos by generating frames that transition between different text prompts.
• Chai – A platform for developers to build, deploy, and monetize conversational AIs for entertainment.
• Replicate – A platform that lets you run and fine-tune open-source AI models with a cloud API without managing infrastructure.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform for building and hosting fine-tuned AI models tailored to specific business needs.

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