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A huge week in A.I. Announcements and news.

Let’s dive in!

The Rundown

• FEATURED

  • MidJourney Partnering with X
    

• NEWS

  • Google drops their new model GENIE that can create games!!

  • Reddit partners with Google AI

  • Adobe introduces CAVA to compete with Open AI

  • Eleven Labs is included in Disney’s Accelerator Program

  • The Justice Department gets a Chief AI Officer

• TOOLS

  • Adobe introduces AI to their PDF’s

  • Opus Clip upgrades to 3.0

  • Suno upgrades their Music Software

  • Windows is getting Magic Eraser tool

• FEATURED CREATOR

  • Ted Xiao announcement

FEATURED: Midjourney hints at a possible partnership with X

• In a recent revelation, Elon Musk hinted at a potential partnership between X (formerly Twitter) and the AI image generator Midjourney, aiming to revolutionize content creation on the social media platform.

  Key Points:

  • Musk confirmed ongoing discussions with Midjourney

  • The partnership aims to enable AI-generated content on X, enhancing user experience

  • AI-generated content's growing prevalence on social media could transform user interaction, and

  • Musk's vision for X includes diversifying into areas like e-commerce and streaming, with AI content creation further establishing X's innovative edge

    This could give X an incredible advantage amongst other social channels. When will the other social platforms do the same? It’s only a matter of time.

NEWS: Your Weekly Tech Update

• Google releases information about Genie which can create generative interactive environments!

  • Genie represents a groundbreaking advancement in generative AI, introducing the ability to create interactive, playable environments from mere images, sketches, or text inputs. This innovation heralds a new era where users can generate and explore limitless virtual worlds, fundamentally altering how we interact with digital environments. Here are four key takeaways from Genie's introduction:

    1. Versatile Input Compatibility: Genie can transform a wide array of inputs, including synthetic images, real-world photographs, and sketches, into fully interactive, controllable worlds, showcasing its remarkable adaptability and creative potential.

    2. Learning Without Explicit Action Labels: Through analyzing a vast dataset of internet videos, Genie learns to identify controllable elements and infer a variety of actions within these generated environments, despite the absence of explicit action labels.

    3. Empowering a New Generation of Creators: By enabling the creation of dynamic environments from single images, Genie opens up unprecedented opportunities for creators to conceptualize and engage with virtual worlds in innovative ways.

    4. Facilitating Advanced AI Training: Beyond entertainment and creative expression, Genie's technology paves the way for training more sophisticated, generalist AI agents by providing an infinite curriculum of diverse, generated worlds, thus expanding the possibilities for AI development and application.

    Genie's ability to generate playable worlds from static images or sketches not only democratizes virtual content creation but also signifies a significant leap forward in the field of generative AI and its practical applications in gaming, simulation, and AI training.

  Reddit partners with Google

  

  • In a significant development for both tech and social media spheres, Google and Reddit have announced an enhancement of their long-standing partnership, aiming to leverage Google's Cloud and AI technologies to elevate the user experience on Reddit. This collaboration is set to integrate Vertex AI into Reddit's platform, enhancing its search functionalities and overall capabilities. Recognizing the role Reddit plays in hosting vibrant, authentic discussions across a myriad of topics, Google's initiative seeks to make these discussions more accessible through its search and other products. By utilizing Reddit's Data API, Google aims to offer more timely and structured access to Reddit's content, thereby enriching the information available to users and fostering deeper engagement within Reddit's communities. This partnership underscores a mutual commitment to improving the flow of information and interaction on the open internet.

  • It also appears that Google will now have the entirety of Reddit to train its models which will include quite a lot of data.

• Adobe introduces CAVA to compete with Open AI

  

• The Justice Department gets a Chief AI Officer

  • The U.S. Justice Department has appointed its first official focused on artificial intelligence, Jonathan Mayer, a professor at Princeton University. Mayer will serve as chief science and technology adviser and chief AI officer, advising on integrating AI into investigations and criminal prosecutions​

• Eleven Labs is included in Disney’s Accelerator Program

  

  • ElevenLabs has been selected to join the 2024 Disney Accelerator program, a milestone that CEO Mati Staniszewski describes as a "dream come true." This partnership with Disney, a brand celebrated for its enduring characters and stories, aligns with ElevenLabs' mission to transcend language and communication barriers, leveraging Disney's vast creativity and imagination​

  • Knowing all of the animation and sound design that is done to make Disney’s projects and use in Disney’s properties, this partnership could grow to be very fruitful for both. Keep in mind that Eleven labs creates voices and could be used in Disney’s animation.

TOOLS: Give Yourself Powers

• Globe

  • Your own personalized Wiki on anything you want to know when you want to know about it.

• AI in your PDF’s

  • Ask any PDF questions so you can dive into PDF’s like never before.

• OpusClip 3.0

  • Break down longer videos into short viral clips automatically in a fraction of the time.

• Suno

  • Generate music from simple prompts

• Magic Eraser for Windows

  • Edit photos with AI

FEATURED CREATOR: Ted Xiao

• Ted Xiao

  • Ted works at GoogleAI/DeepMind teaching robots to be smarter .

  • Definitely someone to watch in the next few weeks as Google starts to make some big announcements.