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 integrates ChatGPT into its operating systems – Apple announced its new personalized AI system, “Apple Intelligence,” which will be integrated across iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, and includes a partnership to bring ChatGPT to its platforms.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Following Apple’s announcement, Elon Musk stated he would ban Apple devices from his companies, citing the integration of OpenAI at the operating system level as an “unacceptable security violation.”
• Luma Labs launches Dream Machine, a high-quality text-to-video model – Luma Labs released Dream Machine, a publicly available text-to-video model that can generate high-quality, 5-second video clips from text prompts or images.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, its most advanced text-to-image model yet, which at 2 billion parameters is compact enough to run on consumer PCs while excelling at photorealism and typography.
• Mistral AI raises $640M at a $6B valuation – Parisian AI startup Mistral AI confirmed a new $640 million Series B funding round, nearly tripling its valuation to $6 billion in just seven months.
• Perplexity is reportedly raising $250M+ at a $3B valuation – AI search engine Perplexity is reportedly in talks with new and existing investors to raise over $250 million in a funding round that would value the company at $3 billion.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge over 30% in London IPO – Shares of Raspberry Pi, the company known for its low-cost single-board computers, jumped as much as 38% in their London Stock Exchange debut.
• AI model discovers new class of antibiotics to fight superbug – Researchers utilized a deep learning model to discover a new class of compounds that can kill Acinetobacter baumannii, a multidrug-resistant bacterium that often infects hospitals.
• Inflection makes its 2.5 model available via an API and on Hugging Face – AI studio Inflection has made its Inflection-2.5 model, which is competitive with models like GPT-4, broadly available to developers through an API and by releasing its weights on Hugging Face.
• Google DeepMind’s new AI enables robots to learn tasks from a single demonstration – Google DeepMind introduced Visual VCR, a new “visual correspondence” method that allows robots to understand and replicate complex tasks by watching a human do it just once.
• Tokyo to launch an official AI-powered dating app – To combat declining birth rates, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is developing its own AI-powered dating app, which will require users to provide proof of income and a signed letter stating they are ready to get married.
• CoreWeave offers to acquire Core Scientific for $1.6B – AI cloud provider CoreWeave made an all-cash offer of $1.6 billion to acquire Bitcoin mining company Core Scientific, just after the two firms signed a massive 200-megawatt AI hosting deal.
• Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI raising funds at a $3.4B valuation – Zhipu AI, a leading generative AI startup in China, is reportedly closing a new funding round from state-backed investors at a valuation of approximately $3.4 billion.
• Waymo recalls 672 self-driving vehicles after one hit a pole – Waymo has issued a recall for its self-driving vehicle fleet to update software and hardware after one of its cars struck a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Figure AI hires top robotics engineers from Boston Dynamics – Humanoid robotics startup Figure has hired several key engineers from competitors like Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind to accelerate its development.
• AMD releases new software to better compete with Nvidia CUDA – AMD launched a new version of its ROCm software stack, expanding support for consumer-grade Radeon GPUs in an effort to provide a more competitive alternative to Nvidia’s dominant CUDA platform for AI development.
• Klarna launches a feature to sign up with a photo of a website – Klarna introduced an AI-powered sign-up feature that allows customers to join its service by simply taking a picture of any retailer’s website, from which it automatically extracts the store’s name and product details.
• Y Combinator offers AI startups an extra $500k – Y Combinator announced a new deal for its AI startups, offering an additional $500,000 on top of its standard investment in exchange for more equity.
• Explainpaper, an AI tool for reading research papers, is acquired – The AI-powered tool Explainpaper, which helps users understand complex academic research papers, has been acquired by the knowledge discovery platform Odeo.
• Harvey announces partnership with PwC – Harvey, an AI startup building tools for legal and professional services, announced a strategic alliance with PwC to bring its generative AI platform to PwC’s legal and tax practices.
• Amazon introduces new generative AI tools for sellers – Amazon has rolled out a suite of new generative AI features that help its third-party sellers write more compelling product titles, descriptions, and create better overall listings.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new, freely available AI model for generating high-quality, realistic videos from text and images.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that can create full, radio-quality songs from text prompts.
• Krea AI – An AI suite for real-time image generation that includes a new tool to upscale and enhance images up to 16x.
• Perplexity – An AI search engine with a new ‘Pages’ feature that turns search threads into comprehensive, shareable articles.
• Superhuman – An email client that uses AI to summarize long emails and conversations to help you manage your inbox faster.
• Character.AI – A platform where you can create and chat with a wide variety of AI-powered characters.
• Magic Patterns – An AI-powered tool that generates and customizes UI components and front-end code from text prompts.
• Pika – An AI video generator that can create and edit videos from simple text and image prompts.
• Runway – A suite of AI-powered creative tools for professionals focused on video editing, generation, and effects.
• Sora – OpenAI’s highly anticipated but unreleased text-to-video model known for its exceptional realism and coherence.
• Kling – A Chinese text-to-video model from Kuaishou capable of generating high-resolution videos up to two minutes long.
• Tldraw – A collaborative digital whiteboard that can turn user drawings and instructions into functional websites and UI code.
• Audio-Reader – An app that transforms any text, such as articles and newsletters, into a personal, listenable podcast.
• Synthesia – An AI video platform that allows you to create professional-looking videos with realistic AI avatars from a text script.
• Prompts AI – A platform to discover, create, and share high-quality AI prompts for models like Midjourney and ChatGPT.
• Poe – An app from Quora that provides a single interface to access and chat with a variety of different AI models.
• Veed – An online video editing suite that uses AI for automated tasks like generating subtitles, transcribing audio, and cleaning up sound.
• Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models, integrated into its software suite and designed to be commercially safe for use.
• Story AI – An AI tool designed to help improve your writing by providing analysis and constructive feedback on your text.
• Grammarly – An AI-powered writing assistant that checks for errors in grammar, spelling, style, and tone across multiple platforms.
• ClickUp – A project management platform that uses AI to automate workflows, summarize tasks, and generate content within your projects.
• Zoom AI Companion – An integrated AI assistant for Zoom that can summarize meetings, help draft messages, and provide post-meeting analysis.
• Typeform – An online survey tool that leverages AI to help you build more effective forms and analyze the collected responses.
• Powerdrill – An AI tool that consolidates and analyzes user feedback from multiple sources to provide actionable insights for product teams.
• Defog.ai – An AI tool that connects to your database and automatically generates complex data queries and dashboards from plain English questions.
• Nooks – An AI-powered dialer for sales teams designed to automate manual tasks and provide real-time call insights.

Sponsors:

• Cursor – An AI-first code editor designed to help developers build software faster.
• Gamma – An AI tool that generates fully-designed, branded, and editable presentations in seconds.
• LlamaIndex – A data framework for building production-ready LLM applications over custom data sources.
• Masterworks – A platform that allows users to invest in shares of blue-chip art from artists like Banksy.
• Netskope – A company providing insights and security frameworks on how to safely implement GenAI in the enterprise.
• Notion – An AI-powered work assistant that can speed up tasks, simplify processes, and help you go from idea to action faster.
• Shortwave – An AI-powered copilot for meetings that automatically provides summaries, action items, and key takeaways.
• Vultr – A cloud platform offering access to over 100 AI models for free.
• Wavel – A provider of top-tier AI voice solutions, including Text-to-Speech and AI Dubbing, for content creators and businesses.