Big Leap forward

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In today’s update:

📰 News: Big leap forward in Text-to-Image AI models

🛠️ Tools: Research 10x faster, personalized AI chatbots with pre-defined roles.

🧠 Learn: How to connect with OpenAI’s APIs.

🎲 Misc: Harvard’s new CS teaching assistant is a chatbot

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Big Leap forward in AI image generation

Stability released a huge upgrade to their text-to-image generation model, just two months after the beta launch of SDXL AI model.

The new SDXL 0.9 version produces massively improved image and composition details, and can generate hyper-realistic images.

Along with text-to-image, the new model includes -

• Image-to-Image prompting: inputting one image to get variations of that image.

• In-painting: Reconstructing missing parts of an image.

• Out-painting: Constructing a seamless extension of an existing image.

Tech: Under the hood, the new model has one of the largest parameter counts of any open source image model, with 3.5B and 6.6B parameters for base model and ensemble pipeline respectively.

To compare, the beta version runs on 3.1B parameters and uses just a single model.

Key takeaway: AI models are getting better and “smaller”. For instance, you could run this state-of-the-art model on your laptop with a regular 16GB graphics card!

New Tools
Leverage AI to grow

• Avatars AI: A privacy focused AI chat companion app that lets you create chat avatars with 50+ personalized roles, each with their unique personality in 10+ diff categories.(link)

• Investor Hunter: AI-powered platform to help you connect with compatible investors. (link)

• Upword: Research 10x faster with auto-generated key ideas from your content in seconds. (link)

• Brandix AI: Generates unique brand names instantly along with real-time availability.(link)

Learn

• Learn how to create images from text prompts using MidJourney (link)

• Beginner’s guide to getting started with OpenAI API’s (link)

Misc
From the corners of the Internet

• Youtube is testing a new tool to automatically dub videos into 70 languages using AI - Techcrunch

• People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI - MIT Technology Review

• Harvard’s new computer science teaching assistant is a chatbot - The Harvard Crimson

• Startups are catching up to OpenAI: Inflection released a new AI model outperforming GTP-3.5 (ChatGPT) and Meta’s LLaMa.