🔥 Hot AI Image News This Week 🔥
- Midjourney’s Back to Free Trials! 🎉 They’re giving out 25 free image generations again. Time to test those artistic skills! 🎨
- Ideogram 2.0 is Here (and Free)! 🆓 This model is known for awesome text generation within images. Give it a spin! ✍️
- AI Goes Political (and a Little Unhinged) 🤯 Even politicians are using AI image generation, sometimes with questionable results… 👀 Procreate, on the other hand, says “No way!” to AI. 🙅♂️ Will they stick to their guns? 🤔
🎬 AI Video Generators Level Up! 🎬
- Luma Labs’ Dream Machine 1.5 is making waves with higher quality text-to-video. Think custom text rendering and seriously cool effects! ✨
- Hotshot claims to rival Sora in AI video quality. The results? A little hit-or-miss, but promising nonetheless. 🤞
- LTX Studio is now open to the public, bringing motion tracking, scribble-to-scene, and super easy collaboration to your fingertips! 🙌
🧠 LLMs are Everywhere (and Facing Backlash) 🧠
- Perplexity now has a code interpreter! 🤯 It’s like having a coding assistant at your beck and call. But… get ready for ads, folks. 💰
- Anthropic’s facing a lawsuit (shocker! 🥱) for using scraped data. Are these lawsuits just the new normal for AI companies? 🤷♂️
- Microsoft’s Phi-3.5 model is designed for speed and efficiency, particularly on mobile devices. 📱 Get ready for even more AI in your pocket!
- OpenAI’s making moves: you can now fine-tune GPT-4o, and they’re partnering with Condé Nast to bring premium content to their models. 📰
🤖 The Rise of the Machines (and Other AI Updates) 🤖
- Remember Microsoft’s “recall” feature? It’s back! Get ready to relive all your digital memories (and maybe delete some questionable searches). 🫣
- Gmail’s getting a slick AI makeover. Think email polishing and draft refinement at your fingertips. ✨
- Unitree Robotics’ G1 robot is ready for mass production. For a cool $61,000, you can have your very own robot buddy! 🤖
- Best Buy, mosquitoes, and AI… what’s the connection? Find out how AI’s helping track deliveries and fight those pesky bloodsuckers! 🦟
Ready to dive deeper into the AI world? Check out these awesome resources mentioned in the video:
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HubSpot’s AI for Work Bundle: https://clickhubspot.com/eh84 (FREE!)
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Midjourney (with free trial!): https://x.com/midjourney/status/1826305298560418171
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Ideogram 2.0 (free!): https://x.com/ideogram_ai/status/1826277550798278804
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Dream Machine 1.5: https://twitter.com/LumaLabsAI/status/1825639918539817101
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Hotshot Video Generator: https://venturebeat.com/ai/hotshot-launches-new-text-to-video-ai-generator/
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LTX Studio: https://twitter.com/mreflow/status/1825962579606553076
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D-ID Translation: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/21/d-id-launches-an-ai-video-translation-tool-that-includes-voice-cloning-and-lip-sync/
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ElevenLabs Reader: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/19/elevenlabs-reader-app-is-now-available-globally/
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Unitree G1 Robot: https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/1825435336736120880
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a16z’s Top 100 Gen AI Apps: https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-3/
What AI news are you most excited about? 🤔