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 unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” its personal AI system focusing on privacy and deep integration into its operating systems, and also announced a partnership to bring ChatGPT to its platforms.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices at his companies, calling the integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT at the operating system level an “unacceptable security violation.”
• Meta releases Llama 3.1 with a 405B parameter model – Meta announced Llama 3.1, a new family of models including a powerful 405B version accessible via API, featuring a 128K context window and enhanced coding and reasoning capabilities.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn prompts into articles – AI search engine Perplexity launched Pages, a new tool that transforms prompts into well-structured, shareable online articles complete with citations, images, and customizable sections.
• Mistral AI raises $640M at a $6B valuation – French AI startup Mistral AI confirmed a $640 million funding round led by General Catalyst, tripling its valuation to $6 billion to further its development of open and commercial AI models.
• Inflection AI launches Pi assistant as a desktop app – Inflection AI launched a new desktop app for its conversational AI assistant Pi on macOS, with a Windows version planned for the future.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge in successful IPO – Shares of Raspberry Pi, the maker of low-cost single-board computers, surged over 30% in their stock market debut on the London Stock Exchange.
• AI startup Humane reportedly seeks a buyer – Following weak reviews for its AI Pin, hardware startup Humane is reportedly looking to sell the company for a price between $750 million and $1 billion.
• AI can detect deepfakes by analyzing eye reflections – Researchers have developed a new tool that can spot deepfake photos by analyzing inconsistent light reflections in the corneas of the eyes.
• Sakana AI uses evolution to merge AI models – Japanese AI lab Sakana AI introduced a new method that uses evolutionary algorithms to automatically merge and improve existing open-source models, creating powerful new models without retraining from scratch.
• Runway introduces Gen-3 Alpha, its next-generation video model – AI video company Runway has introduced Gen-3 Alpha, its new flagship video generation model, promising major improvements in quality, consistency, and motion over previous versions.
• Google DeepMind reveals AI that creates soundtracks for video – Google DeepMind has unveiled a new “video-to-audio” (V2A) technology that generates synchronized sound effects, music, and dialogue for silent video clips based on visual cues.
• Microsoft delays controversial “Recall” feature after privacy backlash – After facing backlash over privacy and security, Microsoft announced it will delay the broad launch of its “Recall” feature, making it an opt-in preview for its Windows Insider Program instead.
• Stability AI’s new CEO outlines monetization strategy – Stability AI’s new CEO, Prem Akkaraju, outlined a strategy to monetize the company through enterprise solutions while remaining a champion of open-source model development.
• Databricks acquires Tabular to advance data compatibility – Databricks announced its acquisition of Tabular, a data management company founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg, in a deal aimed at unifying competing open-source data storage formats.
• Nvidia and Genentech researchers use GenAI for drug discovery – Researchers from NVIDIA and Genentech have developed a generative AI model called MolMIM, which can generate novel molecules and accelerate the early stages of drug discovery.
• Cerebras launches new 8 exaflop AI supercomputer – Cerebras announced Condor Galaxy 3, its latest AI supercomputer, offering 8 exaflops of AI compute to enable the training of models significantly larger than GPT-4.
• Chinese companies offer AI ‘clones’ of deceased relatives – Companies in China are using AI to create realistic digital avatars of deceased individuals, offering a controversial way for grieving families to interact with their lost loved ones.
• Twelve Labs raises $10M for video understanding AI – Twelve Labs, a startup developing AI models for video understanding, has secured an additional $10 million from investors like Intel Capital and Samsung Next to enhance its technology.
• Education platform Section acquires Applied AI Course – The online business education platform Section has acquired the Applied AI Course to enhance its curriculum with practical, hands-on AI training for professionals.
• Harvey AI launches a specialized AI platform for tax professionals – Harvey, an AI startup for legal and professional services, has launched “Harvey for Tax,” a specialized platform designed to streamline tax-related research and analysis.
• US Navy launches AI challenge for personnel – The U.S. Department of the Navy has launched the SECNAV AI Challenge, inviting personnel to submit ideas for using AI to improve naval operations and efficiency.

Trending AI Tools:

• GitHub Copilot Workspace – An AI-native developer environment from GitHub that helps developers go from an idea to code using natural language.
• Mistral Codestral – A new 22B open-weight generative AI model from Mistral explicitly designed for code generation tasks across more than 80 programming languages.
• Krea AI – An AI tool that generates images and videos in real-time as you type or provide inputs like images, text, and colors.
• Luma Dream Machine – A new text and image-to-video generation model capable of producing high-quality, realistic 5-second clips with smooth motion and consistent characters.
• Google Imagen 3 – Google’s highest quality text-to-image model to date, excelling at understanding natural language prompts to produce photorealistic and detailed images.
• Google Veo – Google’s most capable video generation model, able to create high-quality, 1080p videos over a minute long in various cinematic styles.
• Pika – An AI-powered tool that allows users to add a wide range of sound effects and ambient music to videos by simply typing a prompt.
• Splash – An AI music generator that lets you sing, hum, or type a prompt to create unique music with customized AI vocalists.
• Recast – An AI tool that summarizes articles, newsletters, and podcasts into short, digestible audio clips.
• Kindred – An AI-powered personal journaling app designed to help you organize thoughts and manage your mental well-being.
• Unakin – An AI-powered platform that assists game developers by generating assets, code, and entire levels from text or image prompts.
• My AskAI – A tool that allows you to create a custom AI customer support assistant for your website using your own content.
• Fine-tuner.ai – A platform for building custom AI agents with long-term memory that can be trained on your data.
• Chirr App – An AI tool designed to help you write, schedule, and publish engaging content and threads for Twitter.
• Brevit – A platform that simplifies backend development, allowing developers to build production-ready backends for AI products in minutes.
• Arcads – An AI tool that creates high-converting video ads in minutes by analyzing top-performing ads in your industry.
• Viggle – A JAX-based AI model that allows users to control the movements of characters in a video with text prompts.
• Google Music AI Sandbox – A suite of AI tools for music creation, including tools for generating instrumental parts from a hummed melody.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that creates songs with lyrics and vocals from a simple text prompt.
• GPT-SoVITS – A powerful open-source library for zero-shot voice cloning, allowing for high-quality voice replication from a short audio sample.
• Hugging Face – The leading open-source platform for the AI community, hosting models, datasets, and tools like Mistral’s Codestral.
• HeyGen – An AI video creation platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voices.
• ElevenLabs – A popular AI platform for generating realistic and expressive speech in a variety of voices and languages.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI video editing and generation platform offering a suite of tools for creative projects.

Sponsors:

• Incogni – A personal data removal service that automatically contacts data brokers on your behalf to get your personal information off their lists.
• Google Cloud – Provides secure, open, and intelligent tools and services for businesses to build with generative AI.
• Guidde – A generative AI platform that helps you create stunning video documentation 11x faster.
• Imbued – An AI research and product company building AI systems that can reason and code.
• Firecrawl – An API that scrapes any website, converting it into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data.
• Seek – Automate data tasks for your team and customers using natural language.
• Beehiiv – The AI-powered newsletter platform, built for growth.
• Semrush – The all-in-one marketing platform to boost your online visibility.
• Rows – The AI-powered spreadsheet for teams to build and share interactive reports and dashboards.