ByteDance Has A New AI
Plus Synethesia personal AI Avatars launch...
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
August 08, 2024
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Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today
🤖 ByteDance Has A New AI
✨ Synethesia Personal AI Avatars Launch
📰 News Hot Off The Press
💰️ Newly Added AI Tools
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Amazon Music’s new AI feature lets you browse podcast episodes by topic
Amazon Music has introduced a new AI-powered feature called 'Topics' that allows users to explore podcast episodes by specific topics discussed in each episode. The feature relies on a combination of AI analysis of podcast transcripts and descriptions, along with human curation to determine relevant topic tags.
Topic tags appear below podcast episode descriptions, allowing users to find related episodes on specific subjects like 'Coffee' or 'Dopamine'.
The feature is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and human team members who refine the AI-generated tags.
Topics is initially available for top podcasts on Amazon Music in the U.S., with plans to expand coverage to more podcast content.
Reddit to test AI-powered search result pages
Reddit is testing AI-powered search results to summarize content and help users discover new communities related to their searches. The company is also considering putting certain new types of content behind a paywall, while keeping the existing free version of Reddit intact.
Reddit plans to use a combination of first-party and third-party AI products to enhance search results for its 1 billion monthly searches
The AI-powered search feature aims to provide answers and help users dive deeper into the site by discovering new relevant communities
Reddit is exploring the possibility of introducing paid content for new use cases and exclusive content, while maintaining the existing free version of the site
ByteDance joins OpenAI's Sora rivals with AI video app launch
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, has launched an AI-powered video creation app called Lemon Video, joining the ranks of OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney in the generative AI space. The app, currently available in China, allows users to generate short videos from text descriptions, leveraging ByteDance's advanced AI capabilities.
Lemon Video is part of ByteDance's suite of AI-powered tools, which also includes text-to-image and chatbot services.
The app's launch comes amidst a surge in generative AI interest, with tech giants like Microsoft and Google investing heavily in the field.
ByteDance's foray into AI video generation could potentially disrupt the creative content industry and provide new opportunities for content creators.
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MORE NEWS
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South Korea will start using AI-infused textbooks in its “future classrooms” next year (link)
Automattic launches AI writing tool that aims to make WordPress blogs more readable and succinct (link)
Audible is testing an AI-powered search feature (link)
Apple Intelligence may come to EU after all…but only for Mac (link)
Dell Makes Cuts to Boost AI Pivot, Reportedly Laying Off 12,500 Employees (link)
Amazon upgrades its AI image generator (link)
How chip giant Intel spurned OpenAI and fell behind the times (link)
Palantir sends AI-fueled TITAN prototype to Army (link)
OpenAI Bets Big on Hardware with Opal Investment (link)
Runway Gen-3 Alpha Can Now Bookend Your AI Videos. Creators, Take Note (link)
Sam Altman accused of being shady about OpenAI’s safety efforts (link)
RoCE networks for distributed AI training at scale (link)
OpenAI responds to ‘very popular demand’ with launch of key LLM safety feature for developers (link)
New York Times can add another seven million works to its complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft (link)
Web3 ecosystem thrives as AI DApps capture 28% market share (link)
AI Demand Drives $5 Billion in New Business and Massive Expansion of the Internet (link)
Elon Musk says his brainchip patients will soon 'outperform a pro gamer', then takes a big old puff and says 'let’s give people superpowers' (link)
S&P Global and Accenture Partner to Enable Customers and Employees to Harness the Full Potential of Generative AI (link)
American Bar Association releases its view of the growing use of generative artificial intelligence in law (link)
Amazon launches Trusted AI Challenge - A global university competition focused on responsible AI and LLM coding security (link)
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✨Synthesia Launches Personal AI Avatars
[ Introducing Personal Avatars ]
They’re more lifelike than ever, sound and look just like you, and take only 5 minutes to record with your webcam or smartphone.
Watch this launch event with our CEO @vriparbelli and learn how you (and your business) can benefit from them 👇 x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Synthesia 🎥 (@synthesiaIO)
4:42 PM • Jul 31, 2024
Synthesia, a HeyGen competitor, has launched their own version of personal AI avatars. The avatars mimic your movements and voice allowing you to duplicate your onscreen self essentially. Check out the demos in the video above.
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100% Free AI Headshot Generator | Supawork AI - 100% Free AI Headshot Generator | Supawork AI (no sign-up) was manually vetted by our editorial team and was first featured on August 7th 2024.
AI Bible Chat - an interactive assistant designed to help users explore the Bible and receive Christian counseling support. The app utilizes advanced AI technology to facilitate biblically-rooted conversations, assisting with faith-based questions and life challenges.
Olovka AI Essay Writer - an advanced artificial intelligence tool designed with the purpose of assisting students in their academic writing tasks. Powered by OpenAI, the tool supports different types of academic work, including essays, theses, research papers, literature reviews, case studies, and project reports.
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