🔨 AI Powered Tools 🔨 

A run down of the latest SaaS products and services which leverage AI to help you take back some time.

• CodaAI - for productivity boosts. Coda AI is a comprehensive work assistant designed to seamlessly integrate into your team's workflow. It's built into Coda, specifically for Doc Makers

• TaskadeAI - Five AI-powered tools in one to supercharge your team’s productivity. With Taskade, all your work is in sync in one unified workspace.

• OpusAI - For game designers. Entertainment content creator and distributor. Converts literary text into high-fidelity living breathing worlds in the blink of an eye.

📰 News 📰 

Sora: OpenAI's Leap into Text-to-Video AI

Hot off the presses, OpenAI just announced Sora, a very impressive, cutting-edge AI model capable of generating detailed and imaginative video scenes from textual descriptions. Sora represents a significant advancement in AI's ability to simulate the physical world in motion, aiming to assist in solving real-world interaction problems. Currently accessible to red teamers for risk assessment and select visual artists for feedback, Sora is designed to create up to a minute of high-quality video, showcasing OpenAI's commitment to enhancing creative possibilities.

Check out samples on OpenAI's website

Slack's AI Features for Enhanced Productivity

Slack introduces AI-powered features to transform enterprise communication, improving productivity and workflow efficiency. With AI search tools, summarization capabilities, and natural language processing, users can swiftly navigate institutional knowledge, summarize discussions, and receive AI-generated answers. These features aid in understanding vast amounts of data, ensuring enterprise users quickly catch up on conversations through thread summaries and channel recaps. This move underlines Slack's aim to boost productivity by facilitating access to shared knowledge.

Read More At: TechCrunch, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Register

Partial Victory for OpenAI in Copyright Lawsuit Amid Ongoing Legal Battle

In a significant legal development, a US judge has partially sided with OpenAI in a copyright infringement lawsuit, dismissing several claims but allowing others to proceed. The lawsuit, spearheaded by novelists including Sarah Silverman, accuses OpenAI of using copyrighted materials without authorization to train its AI models, raising concerns about copyright violation and unfair competition. While the court dismissed some allegations, it recognized the potential for unfair business practices, granting the plaintiffs until March 13 to refine their complaint. This mixed ruling underscores the complexity of copyright laws in the context of AI development, leaving room for further legal scrutiny as the case against OpenAI continues. The outcome of this lawsuit could have profound implications for the AI industry, highlighting the balance between innovation and copyright respect.

Read More At: The Register, VentureBeat, Engadget, Ars Technica

💬 Generative Models 🗨️ 

Apple's Keyframer: Revolutionizing 2D Animation with AI and Text Prompts

Apple's latest innovation, Keyframer, introduces a groundbreaking approach to animating 2D images using generative AI and text descriptions. This tool, leveraging OpenAI's GPT4, allows users to create dynamic CSS animations from static images through simple text prompts, eliminating the need for extensive coding knowledge. Aimed at simplifying the animation workflow, Keyframer utilizes large language models to interpret natural language inputs, facilitating animated illustrations and design prototyping with ease. Apple's strategic focus on generative AI extends beyond Keyframer, with advancements in on-device inference optimization, open-source models like Ferret and MGIE, and the development of software tools such as MLX. These advancements in tools and research underscores Apple's commitment to empowering users with AI-driven design innovations.

Read More at: The Verge, VentureBeat, MacRumors

Google Gemini 1.5: A Leap Forward in AI with Enhanced Performance and Context Understanding

Google's Gemini 1.5 model represents a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, introducing a next-generation AI chatbot that challenges ChatGPT Plus with superior text translation and business information processing. Despite its prowess in analytical tasks, Gemini Advanced shows limitations in creative endeavors such as image generation. The Gemini 1.5 and its Pro variant boast improved efficiency, a groundbreaking Mixture-of-Experts approach for quicker responses, and a remarkable ability to understand long contexts with a 1 million token window. This enhancement enables the handling of extensive data sets, including large PDFs, code repositories, lengthy videos, and even 11 hours of audio or an hour of video content, catering to complex reasoning and problem-solving tasks.

Read More at: The Verge, Google Blog, Google Developers Blog, DeepMind Blog, TechCrunch

Exploring the Future of Image Generation with Stable Cascade

Stability AI introduces Stable Cascade, an innovative text-to-image generative model, surpassing its predecessor Stable Diffusion in flexibility and efficiency. Built on the Würstchen architecture, Stable Cascade uses a three-stage modular process to transform text prompts into high-resolution images, offering significant improvements in training efficiency and image quality. This approach not only reduces computational demands but also enhances prompt alignment and supports advanced features like image variations and in-painting. Currently in research preview, Stable Cascade is available for non-commercial use on GitHub.

Read more about this breakthrough on VentureBeat. 

🗞️ Other News Rollup 🗞️ 

AI Search Engine Rivalry - OpenAI rumored to challenge Google with Bing-powered search product, shaking up the search engine market.

Karpathy Leaves OpenAI - Andrej Karpathy confirms second departure from OpenAI to pursue personal projects, denying drama or specific reasons.

AI in Crypto Gaming - Ultiverse showcases AI's impact in crypto gaming, attracting non-crypto users and revolutionizing production. $4M funding boosts growth.

AI in Cyber Attacks - Hackers use AI to refine tactics, exploit vulnerabilities, and automate operations, posing a significant cyber threat.

Robotics Transforming Farming - Hippo Harvest raises $21M for lettuce production with robots, aiming to revolutionize indoor farming efficiency.

AI Inventor Guidelines - USPTO mandates human inventors, not AI. Guidelines allow AI assistance but not inventor credit. Balancing human ingenuity and AI.

Deepfake Duality: Love vs Concern - Companies and academics embrace deepfakes creatively, but concerns rise over their misuse in disinformation and elections.

AI Satelite Methane Tracking - Google has teamed up with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in a pioneering initiative to trace and map methane emissions using advanced satellite technology, MethaneSAT, alongside artificial intelligence (AI) and mapping tools

🎶 Prompts 🎶 

Prompts used to generate some of this issues images. Unless otherwise stated all images are using Dall-E and ChatGPT Plus.

That’s all for today.

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