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Stay ahead with the latest in Generative AI!

This week, we experiment with a new publishing day. Join us as we delve into the latest on Leonardo AI and Canva's Visionary Alliance, Gemini 1.5 Pro Shattering Expectations, ChatGPT Advanced Voice Feature and more.
Additionally, we’ll explore Meta’s AI Studio, Midjourney V-6.1 and our AI tool of the week, Rewind.

THIS WEEK’S MENU:

• Top 5 AI News of the Week 📰

• Top AI Tool of the Week 🔧

• Gen AI Art Picks 🖌️

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Top 5 AI News of the Week

🤝 This Week’s News…

🧑‍🎨 Creative Synergy: Leonardo.Ai Teams up with Canva

Leonardo.Ai, a pioneering Generative AI platform, has announced its merger with Canva, the global design powerhouse. This collaboration aims to supercharge AI-driven creativity and democratize access to cutting-edge design tools.

• Shared Vision: Both companies focus on empowering creativity through innovative AI technologies.

• Accelerated Innovation: The merger will enable Leonardo.Ai to scale up research and expand its feature set rapidly.

• Independent Operations: Leonardo.Ai will continue to operate as an independent platform while integrating with Canva's ecosystem.

🔮 Meta Unleashes AI Studio: Create Your Own AI Assistant

Meta has launched AI Studio, a platform that allows users to create and share custom AI characters. Built with Llama 3.1, this innovative tool empowers individuals to craft personalized AI assistants based on their interests and needs.

• Customizable AI Characters: Users can create AI assistants with unique personalities, tones, and avatars.

• Creator-Focused Tools: Instagram creators can set up AI extensions to handle common DM questions and story replies.

• Multi-Platform Integration: AI characters can be used across Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and web platforms.

🖼️ Midjourney's V6.1: The Next Frontier in AI Imagery

Midjourney has released Version 6.1 of its AI Image Model, bringing substantial improvements to image generation. This update enhances image quality, coherence, and processing speed while introducing new customization options.

• Superior Detail Rendering: V6.1 excels at creating more precise and detailed small image features.

• New Upscaling Capabilities: The update introduces 2x upscalers with significantly improved image and texture quality.

• Personalization Enhancements: A new personalization model offers improved nuance, surprise, and accuracy.

🗣️ OpenAI Rolls Out Hyper-Realistic Voice to Select Users

OpenAI has begun rolling out ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode to select paying users. This alpha version of the highly anticipated feature showcases GPT-4o's ability to generate hyper-realistic audio responses.

• Multimodal Processing: GPT-4o handles audio tasks without auxiliary models, significantly reducing response times.

• Gradual Implementation: OpenAI is carefully monitoring usage as it slowly expands access to the feature.

• Enhanced Safety Protocols: New filters and extensive testing aim to prevent misuse and copyright infringement.

🏆 Gemini 1.5 Pro Shatters Expectations: Beats GPT-4o/Claude-3.5

Google's latest AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, surprised everyone. The experimental "version 0801" is now available for early testing on Hugging Space, scoring the highest on the Lmsys leaderboard.

• Unprecedented Performance: Gemini 1.5 Pro tops the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard with an ELO score of 1300, surpassing GPT-4o and Claude-3.5 Sonnet.

• Enhanced Capabilities: The model excels in multi-lingual tasks, mathematics, complex prompts, and coding, showcasing its versatility across various domains.

• Expansive Context Window: With a context window of up to two million tokens, Gemini 1.5 Pro can process and reason about vast amounts of information, opening new possibilities for enterprise applications.

What AI Twitter users & us would like to highlight, however, is that albeit usually without fault, currently this leaderboard seems to be inaccurate due to it showing ChatGPT-4o mini outperforming Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

✨ Top AI Tool of the Week ✨

🧠 Rewind: Your Personal AI Memory Assistant

Rewind is an innovative AI tool that captures and analyzes your digital footprint. It serves as a personalized assistant to enhance recall and productivity.

• Effortless Note-Taking: Automates meeting recordings and generates shareable summaries.

• Comprehensive Backup: Provides a backup of all work, allowing easy retrieval of lost information.

• Privacy-Focused Design: Ensures data privacy with local storage and user-controlled settings.

GenAI Art Picks: Your Weekly Dose of AI Inspiration

We’re back with our top AI art picks this week to get you inspired to create your own AI masterpieces. 🖼️✨

Isn't it incredible that these stunning images were entirely AI-generated? Believe it or not, every single pixel was crafted by a machine!

That's it for this week's AI tips & news! Hope you found some gems to spark your curiosity and imagination. Stay tuned for more AI news and tips next week. Keep exploring and stay awesome in the world of AI!

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