Meta Launches New AI Tool

Plus 6400 Midjourney style reference codes...

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Jelani Abdus-Salaam
July 24, 2024

Welcome back, AI’ers!

Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

  • 🤖 Meta Launches New AI Tool

  • ✨ Midjourney Style Reference Visual Index

  • 📰 News Hot Off The Press

  • 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools

TOOL HIGHLIGHT

TODAY’S FEATURED TOOL

🖥️ Reeler AI

Reeler AI is a revolutionary video creation tool that transforms text prompts into engaging, high-quality videos. This innovative platform uses advanced AI technology to bring your ideas to life in the form of dynamic videos.

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

TRENDING STORIES

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Meta AI Gets New ‘Imagine Me’ Feature

Meta AI has gained new creative tools, expanded language support, and access to more advanced models to enhance its capabilities across Meta's apps and devices.

  • The new "Imagine Yourself" feature generates stylized selfies based on user prompts, letting people place themselves in fantasy scenarios.

  • Meta AI can now communicate in 7 new languages including French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. It's also available in 7 more countries.

  • Meta's most advanced language model, Llama 3.1 405B, is being made available to handle complex queries, especially math and coding questions.

Study reveals rapid increase in web domains blocking AI models from training data

The visualization provided by the Data Provenance Initiative shows that many content providers have switched to blocking access to their content for AI companies in the second half of 2023, either through robots.txt files, clauses in website terms of use, or both. | Image: Data Provenance Initiative

A recent study has uncovered a significant surge in the number of websites blocking AI models from accessing their data for training purposes. The findings highlight a growing concern among website owners about the potential misuse of their content by AI systems.

  • The study, conducted by a team of researchers, analyzed over 1 million websites across various domains and found that an increasing number are implementing measures to prevent AI models from scraping their data.

  • Common methods used by websites to block AI access include the use of robot exclusion protocols, such as robots.txt files, and the implementation of CAPTCHAs.

  • The trend is particularly prominent among news and media websites, which often rely on original content and are concerned about the potential for AI models to generate misleading or false information based on their data.

Perplexity Gets Hit With A Cease and Desist

Condé Nast has sent a cease-and-desist letter to AI search engine Perplexity, alleging copyright infringement for using its content to train AI models without permission.

  • Perplexity, a startup founded by former Google researchers, uses web content to train its AI models for question-answering.

  • Condé Nast claims Perplexity violated its copyrights and terms of service by scraping and using its content, including from Wired, The New Yorker, and Vogue.

  • The publisher is demanding Perplexity stop using its content and destroy any copies of the data.

QUICK BITS

MORE NEWS

Open Source AI Is the Path Forward (link)

Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature (link)

Recently Target rolled out a new AI chatbot to help employees and apparently, they hate it (link)

Majority of Grads Wish They’d Been Taught AI in College (link)

Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet (link)

Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop (link)

Senators probe OpenAI on safety and employment practices (link)

FTC is investigating how companies are using AI to base pricing on consumer behavior (link)

Meta AI Is Now Multilingual, More Creative and Smarter (link)

NVIDIA AI Foundry Builds Custom Llama 3.1 Generative AI Models for the World’s Enterprises (link)

OpenAI bombshell: Free Finetuning for GPT-4o Mini (link)

Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices (link)

Japanese supermarket uses AI to track employees' smiles and service (link)

Elon Musk and xAI just announced the Memphis Supercluster — “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world“ (link)

MIT's AI identifies breast cancer risk (link)

Nvidia preparing version of new flagship AI chip for Chinese market (link)

Elon Musk revealed in a tweet that Tesla will have humanoid robots working internally next year at Tesla (link)

Scaled Foundations announced GRID Beta, a free and cloud-based IDE to develop AI for robots (link)

Japan’s copyright rules draw AI groups — and alarm from creators (link)

Shaped Raises Series A, Launches Self-Serve Platform to Power the Future of AI-Driven Recommendations & Search (link)

Why AIs Need to Stop and Think Before They Answer (link)

NeuralGCM by Google - Climate AI model that simulates a week in less than 10 seconds (link)

Stability AI releases research paper for Stable Audio Open, trained with Creative Commons data (link)

NIST Announces Funding Opportunity for AI-Focused Manufacturing USA Institute (link)

Google brings AI agent platform Project Oscar open source (link)

AI ON SOCIAL

FROM THE WEB

✨Midjourney

Midjourney's style reference (sref) codes are a powerful tool for generating images with specific styles, techniques, and colors. The AIIQ Portal provides a comprehensive visual index and learning library for Midjourney v6 sref codes.

Key details:

The AIIQ Portal offers access to over 4,500 sref codes, with new codes added daily

Users can search for srefs by style, technique, or color

The learning library includes prompts and parameters to use with srefs.

Check it out here (link)

NEW TOOLS

FROM OUR DATABASE

BrandSocial AI - an artificial intelligence-powered tool designed to streamline social media management processes. This tool is primarily aimed at businesses, professionals, marketing agencies, non-profit organizations, e-commerce brands and social media managers seeking to elevate their social media presence with efficiency and ease.

TravelBot - an AI-driven tool designed to function as a travel companion and assistant. Its primary purpose is to assist in trip planning, serving as a virtual travel agent available for interaction via chat.

Therapartners - an AI-assisted platform designed to bolster the professional development of therapists by enhancing their operational tasks. It predominantly focuses on areas such as transcript generation, report creation, session analysis, and provides real-time support through an advanced AI model.

AI Maker Pro -  an advanced tool for generating unique and high-quality art pieces powered by artificial intelligence. As an AI Art Generator, it provides users an ample suite of tools designed specifically to ignite creativity and innovation.

LastApply - an AI-powered tool designed to streamline and enhance the job application process. After registering and uploading their current resume, users can add job applications by supplying the relevant links.

Queryable - an application that facilitates the search within your photo album using natural language inputs. It functions in an entirely offline mode, hence securing your photo album privacy.

See more of the newly added tools here.

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