This week in AI – Midjourney V6, Suno AI, Google VideoPoet & GPT-engineer.
Not sure what happened but we had another crazy week. I've tried to cherry pick some of the things that stood out to me. Enjoy and Merry Christmas.
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Midjourney V6 Alpha is here
Midjourney V6 is blurring the line between what's real and what's AI-generated. We’re seeing countless examples being posted all over the internet, mainly on X.
My take is that while V6 is extraordinary in quality, it also comes with a quite different art direction than previous models. It's almost as if we have a new hand at play with the general vibe of the model.
Suno AI - text to music generative AI
Honestly, this is one of those applications that are hard to believe is actually real. It’s still very early days. But I find it relatively easy to plot out a 12-month line and see rapid improvement across the board. If this follows the same trend as generative images have done, we’re in for one crazy 2024.
AI tools I’m all over this week.
Bluedot: AI note-taker that records your meetings without a bot joining the calls. I love this, as a user of existing AI note takers, not having it join in the call. Install free extension.
Magnific.ai — Enhance any image for greater quality and details.
HeyGen – Effortlessly produce studio quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
SunoAI - Make any song with Suno
Google VideoPoet
This one flew under the radar this week. VideoPoet is a large language model for zero-shot video generation. It has a few modalities: Text-to-video, Image-to-video, Video Editing, Stylization & Inpainting.
What's more impressive is that it also has Video-to-audio, so it can look at a generated video and apply the correct sounds to it.
Below is a short video demonstration of what VideoPoet is capable of.
GPT Engineer App
Specify what you want. Get a published web app. Iterate in plain English. This will open up the possibilities for anyone to create apps without knowing how to code.
YouTube and Studio Updates
We’ve completed the framing of the new storage room and the new second floor. Between managing the kids, work, and everything in between, I’m happy we managed to get this far this week.
The YouTube episode is not live yet. I’ll let you know when it is.
Partnerships.
I’ve continued to enjoy good reach on X. This has resulted in some great outcomes for some of the partnerships I’ve done. In the past 28 days, I’ve generated more than 137 link clicks on X.
Fully sold out in 2023, but really looking forward to building some long-term relationships with a select few brands/products during 2024.
If you are interested, feel free to reach out. Looking forward to talking. Check out partnership opportunities here: passionfroot.me/linus
Word of the year
I mean, could it be any better?
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