Instagram Launching AI Avatars

Plus a $1.8m AI Domain Name...

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Jelani Abdus-Salaam
July 31, 2024

Welcome back, AI’ers!

Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

  • 🤖 Instagram Launches AI Avatar

  • ✨ A $1.8m AI Domain Name

  • 📰 News Hot Off The Press

  • 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools

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TRENDING STORIES

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Instagram To Launch AI Avatars

Instagram has launched AI Studio, allowing users in the US to create AI versions of themselves or fully custom AI characters. These AI profiles can interact with humans in chat threads and respond on behalf of their author's account.

  • Users can customize their AI profiles based on their persona, topics to avoid, and what they want to share

  • AI Studio also enables the creation of totally new AI characters that can be deployed across Meta's apps

  • The AI chatbots will primarily show up in messaging for now and will be clearly labeled as AI

Canva Buys Leonardo AI

Canva, the popular design software company, has announced its acquisition of Leonardo.ai, an Australian generative AI startup, to expand its suite of visual AI tools. While the financial details were not disclosed, this move will allow Canva to integrate Leonardo.ai's customizable text-to-image and text-to-video generators into its existing Magic Studio offerings.

  • Leonardo.ai will continue to operate as an independent product, similar to Canva's previous acquisition of Affinity creative software.

  • The startup's technology and Phoenix foundation model will be quickly incorporated into Canva's Magic Media generator for images and videos.

  • This acquisition is part of Canva's strategy to broaden its platform and compete with Adobe's creative software suite.

Perplexity Launched Publishers’ Program

Perplexity AI has launched the Perplexity Publishers Program, an initiative designed to reward and support content creators who contribute their knowledge to the AI platform.

  • The program offers a 50/50 revenue share model, allowing publishers to earn money when Perplexity AI uses their content to answer user queries.

  • Publishers retain full ownership of their content and can choose which articles to include in the Perplexity knowledge base.

  • Perplexity AI aims to create a mutually beneficial ecosystem that supports content creators while enhancing the platform's ability to provide accurate and informative answers.

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MORE NEWS

Google’s recent Olympic ad for its Gemini AI went viral and people are not happy (link)

Google parent Alphabet’s partnership with AI firm Anthropic under investigation in the UK (link)

Regulators consider first federal rule on AI-created political ads (link)

Introducing SAM 2: The next generation of Meta Segment Anything Model for videos and images (link)

Apple says its AI models were trained on Google’s custom chips (link)

Canva adds a new generative AI platform to its growing creative empire (link)

NVIDIA Announces Generative AI Models and NIM Microservices for OpenUSD Language, Geometry, Physics and Materials (link)

UAE blocks meetings between AI firm G42 and US congressional staffers, spokesperson says (link)

What are the threats to the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom? (link)

Meta has released version 2 of its Segment Anything model with a demo tool to try it out (link)

OpenAI is offering an experimental version of GPT-4o with a maximum of 64K output tokens per request (link)

Nvidia CEO Jensen and Zuckerberg discuss the future of AI (link)

Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: A New Frontier for Video Generation (link)

Nvidia announces new support for humanoid robots (link)

UK antitrust body probes Google’s ties with AI rival Anthropic (link)

New U.S. Commerce Department report endorses ‘open’ AI models (link)

Meta's AI safety model vulnerable to simple space bar trick (link)

Forget coding bootcamps: Airtable’s AI can build your app in seconds (link)

Amazon racing to develop AI chips cheaper, faster than Nvidia's: Executives (link)

AI ON SOCIAL

FROM THE WEB

✨New AI Wearable Buys Domain For $1.8m

There is a new AI wearable on the market and this one has a $1.8m domain name.

Friend.com is a tool that is supposed to act like your friend by listening and responding to real life actions.

We don’t need more AI wearable tech we need more human connection.

NEW TOOLS

FROM OUR DATABASE

MemFree - an Artificial Intelligence-based search tool designed to improve knowledge management. It provides a platform where users can search and ask questions about their stored bookmarks, notes, and documents.

S10 AI - a powerful tool designed to ease the burden of medical documentation for healthcare professionals. It utilizes sophisticated speech recognition technology to document patient-clinician encounters in real-time, directly into the Electronic Health Records (EHR).

AITranslator - its feature-rich interface and extensive support for multiple languages, it's poised to handle complex translation tasks with ease. Whether it's a document or a quick phrase, users can depend on AI Translator to offer swift and reliable translations.

RapidREI - an AI-powered platform designed to streamline the real-estate investment process. It provides a set of tools and services particularly beneficial to wholesalers, investors, and agents.

Opal - an advanced AI-powered study tool designed to enhance the learning process by integrating several features to facilitate studying. It functions as a personal tutor, providing AI-powered note-taking, allowing learners to understand key concepts and details of any uploaded document.

CannyArt -  an AI tool designed for otaku and fan creators. It offers a platform to express one's creativity through doodling and leverages AI to assist in generating the desired images.

PSY - AI Therapists - a cutting-edge platform offering mental health support through the use of novel AI technology. This advanced tool is designed to facilitate objective and non-judgmental conversations and creates a safe, supportive environment for users.

See more of the newly added tools here.

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