Happy Friday!

It’s been a massive week for AI, and today is nothing short.

Let’s get to it.

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 Google’s ChatGPT rival launches new features

• 🎨 Stability AI releases sketch-to-image

• 🗞️ OpenAI to train AI models on AP news

• 🛠️ 7 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

🤖 Google’s ChatGPT rival launches new features

Image source: Google

The Rundown: Google is making their ChatGPT competitor, Bard, available in more than 40 languages and bringing it to the European Union after initial delays due to data privacy concerns.

Key features:

• Listen to Bard's responses in all 40+ languages (text-to-voice)

• Integration with Google Lens, enabling users to upload images with prompts (multimodal)

• Adjust the tone and style of responses, choosing between simple, long, short, professional, or casual tones

• Responses can be shared via links, allowing for broader collaboration and sharing of ideas

• Available in over 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, and Spanish, and in countries like Brazil and across Europe

Why it matters: Having Bard talk and respond to visual prompts feels like we’re living in the year 2050. Bard’s range of possibilities easily just doubled.

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STABILITY AI

🎨 Stability AI releases sketch-to-image

Image source: Stability AI

The Rundown: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, just released ‘Stable Doodle,’ a new tool that turns your sketches into images.

Details:

• Accepts both a sketch and a descriptive prompt to guide the image generation process,

• The quality of the output depends on the detail of the initial drawing and the prompt

• Utilizes the latest Stable Diffusion model and the T2I-Adapter, a "conditional control solution"

• Designed for both professional artists and novices, offering more precise control over image generation

• Stability AI was last valued at $1 billion and reportedly aims to quadruple that value within the next few months

Our take: Not only is this really cool, but Stable Doodle will have real-world applications in various verticals, including real estate, in the future.

OPENAI

🗞️ OpenAI to train AI models on AP news

Image source: Daily Beast

The Rundown: OpenAI has reached an agreement with The Associated Press (AP) to train its AI models on AP's news stories for the next two years, including content in AP's archive dating back to 1985.

Details:

• AP will have access to OpenAI’s technology and product expertise, although specifics are not yet clear

• AP has been utilizing AI since 2014, with applications in automated reporting about company earnings, Minor League Baseball, and college sports

• OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap notes that AP's feedback and access to its high-quality, factual text archive will help improve OpenAI’s systems

Noteworthy: Despite the partnership, AP has clarified that it will not use AI technology in its news stories. Phew.

TRENDING TOOLS

💻 Bruinen enables developers to integrate end-user data and actions into their LLMs - auth, permissions, and action confirmations included*

👕 Swap Anything allows you to swap people, clothes, or backgrounds with AI instantly

💯 Character Counter highlights any text and uses AI to edit

♾️ Nekton automates your day-to-day tasks with AI

🕵️‍♀️ GPT Researcher summons an autonomous agent designed for comprehensive online research

📣 Cheerleader AI boosts your daily motivation from a group of AI friends

🔮 Supertools organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot

QUICK HITS

🚨 FTC investigates OpenAI's ChatGPT

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly investigating OpenAI, probing whether its AI, ChatGPT, has made false or misleading statements about individuals, potentially causing "reputational harm."

💰 Google’s $4B missed opportunity

Eight Google researchers developed one of the most revolutionary systems in AI, Transformer, but left to build their own startups, now valued at $4.1B, as Google grappled with turning the innovation into usable services.

🇨🇦 Canada excluded from Google Bard

Amid regulatory tensions with the Canadian government, Google has excluded Canada from the launch of its AI chatbot Bard, placing it among a few nations, including Russia and China, without access to the service.

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