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🌐 ChatGPT on chat.com: OpenAI’s new $15M domain.
🗺️ Microsoft’s Magentic One: Smart agents for web browsing & coding.
📞 OpenAI Voice Calls: 5 new voices make calls more natural.
📹 Google Vids: AI-powered video creation in Google Workspace.
🎶 Beatles Make AI History: Grammy noms for AI-restored "Now and Then."
👀 Realistic Facial Animation: ByteDance’s X-Portrait 2 advances character expressions.
📊 High-Res Flux Images: Flux 1.1 Pro now at 4-megapixel quality.
🎶 Suno V4 Teaser: Improved vocals in AI music.
❓ Artisan’s “Stop Hiring Humans”: A bold call for automation sparks debate.
🌐 OpenAI secured the “chat.com” domain, likely costing around $15 million. Users can now access ChatGPT simply by visiting chat.com.
🗺️ Microsoft’s New Autonomous Agent System: Microsoft introduced “Magentic One,” a multi-agent workflow system that coordinates tasks like web browsing, code execution, and information retrieval. The system is impressively accurate, navigating complex processes such as placing online orders and even analyzing stock trends.
Voice Calls with Human-Like Interaction 📞: OpenAI agent now features five new, expressive voices for more natural-sounding conversations. It can call businesses to gather information and schedule appointments.
The agent handles nuanced interactions, like adjusting to specific requests (e.g., scheduling dental appointments) and responding to contextual cues, even without detailed programming.
📹 Google Vids Revolutionizes Video Creation: Google Workspace introduces Google Vids, an AI-powered video creation tool that uses prompts to help users generate storyboards, scripts, and scenes. Integrated with Google’s Gemini technology, it offers a vast library of royalty-free media and a recording studio, making professional video production easier than ever.
🎶 The Beatles Make AI History at the Grammys: The Beatles' new track "Now and Then" is nominated for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance at the 2024 Grammys. Using AI to restore John Lennon’s vocals from a 1970 demo, the song features contributions from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, marking the first AI-enhanced track eligible under new Grammy guidelines. Winners will be announced on February 4, 2024.
Advancements in AI-Driven Facial Animation
Recent progress in AI-driven facial controls is bringing the industry closer to enabling authentic character narratives in AI filmmaking. Video-to-video techniques, such as ByteDance's X-Portrait 2, offer enhanced realism and emotional depth by using real human performances as source material. Additionally, advancements in lip-syncing technologies, like KLING - AI Videos's function combined with Runway's slow-motion feature, are delivering fluid animations, raising discussions about accurately representing human experiences in AI-generated content.
📊 Black Forest Labs’ Flux 1.1 Pro: Known for its high-resolution AI-generated images, Flux now supports 4-megapixel images in just 10 seconds, adding a “raw mode” for natural, candid photo aesthetics.
🎶 Suno V4 Music AI Teaser: Suno previewed V4 of its AI-driven music generation model, showcasing improved voice quality and more human-like vocal expressions, making it a strong competitor to other AI music tools like Udio.
What do you think about Artisan’s bold statement, ‘Stop Hiring Humans’?
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