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Jelani Abdus-Salaam
June 26, 2024

Welcome back, AI’ers!

Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

  • 🤖 Synthesia 2.0 - New AI Avatars

  • ✨ Eleven Labs Releases iOS App

  • 📰 News Hot Off The Press

  • 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools 

TOOL HIGHLIGHT

TODAY’S FEATURED TOOL

🖥️ Soundeff

Soundeff is a revolutionary AI Sound Effects Generator that transforms text into unique, professional-grade sound effects in seconds. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, it can create a wide range of sound effects, from a wolf howling across a canyon to a police siren echoing in the night.

Tools are sourced from our database and are not sponsored or affiliated.

TRENDING STORIES

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Google Is Enhancing Gmail

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Google is rolling out new AI capabilities called Gemini to enhance Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive for paid users. The Gemini sidebar in Gmail can summarize email threads, help draft new emails, and answer questions using advanced language models like Gemini 1.5 Pro.

  • Gemini features are exclusive to paid Google Workspace subscribers with the Gemini add-on or Google One AI Premium members.

  • The Gmail mobile app for Android and iOS will also get email thread summaries powered by Gemini.

  • While helpful, it's recommended to double-check important Gemini-assisted emails as AI can sometimes misinterpret things.

Apple No Longer Integrating Meta’s AI Models

Apple has decided against integrating Meta's AI models into iPhones due to privacy concerns and potential image implications, given Apple's past criticisms of Meta's privacy practices.

  • In March, Apple discussed potential AI model integrations with Meta and other companies but ultimately chose not to incorporate Meta's models.

  • Apple recently introduced its own AI features under the "Intelligence" brand and partnered with OpenAI to provide iPhone users access to ChatGPT for specific queries.

  • While Meta may not have direct integration into Apple devices, the company will continue leveraging its popular apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger to reach billions of users globally.

Synthesia Releases Updates 2.0 Version

Synthesia has introduced Synthesia 2.0, the world's first AI video communications platform designed for the future of work. The platform reinvents the video production and distribution process to help businesses create and share AI-generated videos at scale.

  • Synthesia 2.0 introduces two new types of Personal AI Avatars and previews a new generation of AI avatars with hands coming later this year

  • AI Video Assistant can convert an entire knowledge base into a library of videos and supports brand elements like custom fonts, colors, and logos

  • Synthesia is building a new video player that will enable personalized, real-time, and interactive video experiences

Here are all the new features released:

Personal AI Avatars:

  • Two new types of Personal AI Avatars

  • Preview of a new generation of AI avatars with hands coming later this year

  • AI Video Assistant:

    • Converts an entire knowledge base into a library of videos

    • Supports brand elements such as custom fonts, colors, and logos

    • Bulk video creation from existing content

  • AI Screen Recorder:

    • Turns screen recordings into AI avatar-powered video presentations

    • Simplifies the process of creating tutorial videos

  • New Video Player:

    • Enables personalized, real-time, and interactive video experiences

    • Features like clickable hotspots, embedded forms, quizzes, and personalized call-to-actions

  • Enhanced Translation Capabilities:

    • One-click translation into over 120 languages

    • Automatic playback of videos in the viewer's language

  • Expressive AI Avatars:

    • Improved realism and engagement

    • Avatars adjust tone, facial expressions, and body language based on script context

  • Collaboration Tools:

    • Enhanced features for teams to collaborate on video creation

  • Triggers:

    • Script-driven animation 2.0 for intuitive video editing

QUICK BITS

MORE NEWS

Meta Expands AI Startup Program in Europe (link)

Google discusses how it created its Google AI Essentials course (link)

Amazon developing AI chatbot that would compete with ChatGPT and others (link)

IBM Quantum System Two and AI Integration (link)

Central banks must prepare for profound impact of AI, BIS says (link)

Building a personalized code assistant with open-source LLMs using RAG Fine-tuning (link)

New Google Chrome can run Gemini locally and offline at an unprecedented speed (link)

Together AI releases a tutorial to build your own personalized code assistant using Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 (link)

Google is reportedly building AI chatbots based on celebrities and influencers (link)

Nvidia shares rebound after steep sell-off (link)

OpenAI moves toward its own AI operating system and a post-browser world (link)

Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model (link)

Venture firms could be the latest target for AI disruption, and that's not the only threat to VCs (link)

The Future of AI in Glaucoma Is Around the Corner, Though Not Without Some Challenges (link)

AI titans Microsoft and Nvidia reportedly had a standoff over Microsoft's use of B200 AI GPUs in its own server rooms (link)

China’s ByteDance partners with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip (link)

Multi is joining OpenAI (link)

Etched is Making the Biggest Bet in AI launching its custom chip Sohu (link)

AI ON SOCIAL

FROM THE WEB

✨ Eleven Labs Releases iOS App

Eleven Labs has released an iOS app allowing users to listen to any article, book, or doc using AI-generated voices.

Available to US users now with EU users getting access in a few weeks.

✨ Claude Updates Their UI

Claude just announced new features to their UI called Projects.

Projects provide a 200K token context window, equivalent to a 500-page book, enabling users to add relevant documents, code, and insights to enhance Claude's effectiveness across a wide range of tasks. The feature also allows users to define custom instructions for each Project to tailor Claude's responses and share snapshots of conversations with teammates to inspire new ways of working with AI.Key details:

  • Projects tackle the "cold start" problem by grounding Claude's outputs in an organization's internal knowledge like style guides, codebases, and past work

  • Artifacts provide a dedicated space alongside the chat for Claude to generate and display content like code, documents, graphics, and website designs

  • North Highland, a leading consultancy, reports their teams are completing content creation and analysis tasks up to 5x faster using Claude's Team plan with Projects

NEW TOOLS

FROM OUR DATABASE

FreeAIChatbot - an AI tool primarily designed to assist users in various tasks that center around coding, learning, and expanding their knowledge.

Soundeff - an Artificial Intelligence tool used to generate sound effects instantly and effortlessly. The tool's primary function is to transform text into bespoke, professional-grade sound effects, utilizing cutting-edge AI technology.

DiagramMatic - an AI assistant developed by Mauricio Perera, designed to transform textual descriptions of flows into Mermaid diagrams in a user's chosen language.

MakePodcast - an AI-driven tool designed to assist in streamlining the process of generating professional-quality podcasts. The tool leverages sophisticated AI technologies like Open AI TTS and Eleven Labs Voices to expedite podcast production.

BuilderKit - a highly modular NextJS AI Boilerplate designed to facilitate the development and deployment of AI applications within a short time frame.

ChatPlayground AI - an AI-based tool that enables users to engage with multiple AI models simultaneously. This platform integrates advanced models including GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 3.5, Gemini 1.5 Pro and much more.

Ada Health - a health management tool that extends both to individual users and enterprise partners. It provides services to assist people to manage their health more effectively, and offers enterprise solutions to partners, enabling them to improve health and care.

See more of the newly added tools here.

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