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It's been a huge day for AI with announcements from Alibaba, Lightricks, Ideogram, Apple, Adobe, OpenAI, and more. The 7 most important developments that happened: 1. Alibaba researchers unveiled EMO, an AI that adds lip-syncing to videos.

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Rowan Cheung2 years ago

2. Lightricks launched LTX Studio, an AI-powered filmmaking studio. The new enabling creatives to automatically generate scripts, editable storyboards, and short video clips. AI video creation is getting more insane everyday.

Rowan Cheung2 years ago

3. Ideogram rolled out a new 1.0 version of its text-to-image model. Most notably, is the incredible details in AI-generated text and a new feature called Magic Prompt to help with creating prompts.

Rowan Cheung2 years ago

4. Apple quietly released subtle AI updates to iOS. Between moves in AI research and recent comments, I think we're about to see a major AI update to Siri soon It'll probably be the next 'ChatGPT moment' for AI adoption. Nice find by @jason and @sundeep

Rowan Cheung2 years ago

@sundeep 5. Klarna just released a blog stating that they are using AI to replace 700 customer service rep workers. Crazy stats: -The chatbot handled a 2.3M conversations in the last month -Avg time to resolution dropped 9 min -$40M in additional profit in 2024

Rowan Cheung2 years ago

@sundeep 6. Adobe just demoed Project Music GenAI Control. Dubbed the 'Photoshop of Music,' the tool can easily generate and edit audio with AI — allowing creators to craft custom music tracks using text prompts.

Rowan Cheung2 years ago

@sundeep 7. Pika Labs introduced a new lip sync feature to its AI video generator. The new feature allows for realistic mouth movement and voice generation powered by ElevenLabs.

Rowan Cheung2 years ago

@sundeep If you want a more in-depth AI news report, all the new AI tools, and a free AI workflow, join 500,000+ reading my newsletter. You'll never miss a thing in AI ever again:

Rowan Cheung2 years ago

@sundeep That's it for today's news in the world of AI. I do these rundowns daily, so follow me @rowancheung for more. If you found this helpful, spare me a like/retweet to support my content 👇

Jeremy Nguyen ✍🏼 🚢2 years ago

There's so much Inequality in AI awareness: I was seeing people earnestly asking: yeah, but is gen AI actually able to do work? Meanwhile, Klarna replaced 700 workers.

Rowan Cheung2 years ago

Yeah, huge disconnect. And this is the worst AI will ever be.

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