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:

• Google I/O Announcements – Google unveiled a massive wave of AI updates at its I/O conference, including the real-time assistant Project Astra, the video generator Veo, and deep integration of its Gemini models across all its products.
• OpenAI GPT-4o – OpenAI launched GPT-4o, a new flagship “omnimodel” that processes text, vision, and audio much faster and is being made available for free to all users.
• Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder – Anthropic has hired Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as its new Chief Product Officer to oversee the company’s product engineering, management, and design efforts.
• Apple finalizing deal with OpenAI – Apple is reportedly finalizing an agreement with OpenAI to incorporate ChatGPT features into the upcoming iOS 18.
• Claude 3 Opus tops Chatbot Arena – Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus has surpassed GPT-4 to become the top-ranked model on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard, a popular crowdsourced evaluation platform.
• Stack Overflow partners with OpenAI – Stack Overflow has partnered with OpenAI to integrate its technical knowledge base into ChatGPT, providing developers with verified answers and attribution.
• SEC investigates OpenAI investors – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating statements made by OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman to investors surrounding his temporary ouster last year.
• Mistral releases Codestral – Mistral has released Codestral, its first open-source generative AI model designed specifically for code generation tasks across more than 80 programming languages.
• Scale AI raises $1B – AI data-labeling company Scale AI has raised $1 billion in a funding round, nearly doubling its valuation to $13.8 billion.
• Brain-computer interface helps paralyzed woman speak – A woman unable to speak due to severe paralysis can now communicate through a digital avatar that translates her brain signals into speech and facial expressions.
• Researchers create first generative AI worm – Researchers have developed Morris II, the first AI worm that can spread between generative AI models to steal data and send spam emails.
• ElevenLabs launches text-to-sound-effects – ElevenLabs has launched a new text-to-sound-effects generator that allows users to create soundscapes, instrumental tracks, and various sound effects from a text prompt.
• Perplexity launches Pages – Perplexity has launched “Pages,” a new feature that converts search queries and research into comprehensive, visually appealing, and shareable articles with citations.
• Hume AI raises $50M for ’empathic’ AI – Hume AI, a startup developing an “empathic” AI voice assistant that can detect emotions, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round.
• Pika Labs raises $80M for AI video – AI video generation startup Pika Labs has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round to scale its platform and team.
• Meta introduces Chameleon models – Meta AI has introduced Chameleon, a new family of early-fusion multimodal models capable of natively processing and generating images and text in any sequence.
• Klarna’s AI assistant replaces 700 agents – Klarna announced its AI assistant now manages two-thirds of all customer service chats, performing the equivalent work of 700 full-time human agents.
• Bipartisan bill targets Section 230 for AI – A new bipartisan Senate bill proposes removing Section 230 liability protection for generative AI, potentially making companies responsible for harmful AI-generated content.
• Microsoft releases Phi-3-vision – Microsoft has released Phi-3-vision, a new lightweight, multimodal AI model capable of analyzing images and answering questions about them on mobile devices.
• Google announces Music AI Sandbox – Google announced Music AI Sandbox, a new suite of AI-powered tools designed to help musicians create and experiment with new music.
• YouTube tests AI-generated music for Shorts – YouTube is experimenting with a new feature that lets creators generate instrumental soundtracks for Shorts videos using AI from text prompts.
• Report finds social media fails to label AI political content – A new report finds that social media platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and X are failing to detect and label AI-generated images depicting political violence.
• Microsoft hires new head for London AI hub – Microsoft has appointed AI scientist and engineer Jordan Hoffmann to lead its new London-based AI hub, focusing on advancing state-of-the-art language models.
• Amazon lays off staff from ‘Just Walk Out’ team – Amazon has laid off several dozen employees from its “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology division amid a broader restructuring of the business.

Trending AI Tools:

• Suno – Create radio-quality, full-length songs from text prompts using its new v3 model.
• Devin – The world’s first autonomous AI software engineer that can handle entire development projects.
• Wondercraft – An AI-powered platform for creating studio-quality podcasts with realistic AI voices.
• Foundry – A suite of AI-powered tools for professional visual effects (VFX), animation, and media creation.
• Leonardo – An AI image and art generation platform featuring a new high-performance model called Phoenix.
• Puter – An open-source, full-featured web desktop environment or “Internet OS” with AI capabilities.
• Claude 3 – A family of powerful AI models from Anthropic, excelling at complex reasoning and offering a large context window.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI used for a wide range of text-based tasks.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator particularly skilled at creating images with coherent and accurate text.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that instantly creates notes, summaries, and answers questions from any document or video.
• Opus Clip – A generative AI video tool that repurposes long videos into viral short clips for social media with a single click.
• Sidekick – An AI meeting assistant that can join your calls to record, transcribe, and summarize them.
• Synthesia – An AI video creation platform that allows you to produce professional videos with realistic AI avatars.
• Luminary – An AI assistant for your personal and professional life that can manage tasks like scheduling and booking travel.
• Tldraw’s Make Real – A feature within the tldraw whiteboard that turns drawings and sketches into functional websites and user interfaces.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing highly detailed and artistic visuals from text prompts.
• Giga – An open-source tool for creating high-quality, long-form videos with AI.
• Olympia – An AI-powered executive assistant designed to handle complex operational tasks like scheduling and travel management.
• Ema – A universal AI employee that integrates across all enterprise applications to automate workflows and boost productivity.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that handles routine tasks like email drafting, meeting scheduling, and contact management.
• Rallly – An AI-powered tool that summarizes long video or audio meetings from a provided transcript.
• Domo – A business intelligence platform that uses AI to help companies manage and act on their data.

Sponsors:

• Incogni – A service that contacts data brokers on your behalf to get your personal information deleted from their databases.
• Vowel – Vowel is an AI meeting platform that provides AI-powered summaries, talk-time metrics, and an AI action item generator.
• Ben’s Bites – An advertising platform to reach over 250,000 AI enthusiasts, creators, investors, and leaders through the Ben’s Bites newsletter.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that allows users to invest in shares of multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Picasso.
• The Rundown AI – An advertising platform to reach over 600,000 founders, investors, and AI enthusiasts through The Rundown AI newsletter.
• Runway – Runway has launched Gen-3 Alpha, its new foundation model for generating highly detailed and consistent video.
• Height – An AI-powered project management tool that can automate tasks and manage projects for you.
• MOBIUS – A comprehensive 3-in-1 framework on Udemy that helps developers build and deploy LLM-powered applications.
• Superhuman – An advertising platform to reach over 500,000 AI builders, researchers, and professionals through the Superhuman newsletter.