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AI Imagery News: Week Ending 02/09/2024

February 25, 2024

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Midjourney becoming a consumer hardware company seems under discussed

Midjourney becoming a consumer hardware company seems under discussed pic.twitter.com/RAwJU4ET7T
— Zack Hargett (@zackhargett) February 5, 2024

“The amount of detail you can specify in –v 6 with proper prompt format is insane There’s much going on here and MJ just gets it 💬 35mm film still of three teens having a picnic. In the middle is a black man wearing a white tee shirt opening a wicker picnic basket. On the… https://t.co/McdG75QnZV” / X – https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1754885335211762002

“If you’ve made >1000 images on Midjourney you can now help us alpha-test our image creation website at https://t.co/YAg9YaYE78. Design and features will rapidly change for a while and as things mature we will expand access. Desktop is the focus for now, but mobile is coming too. https://t.co/MpcBU1ztau” / X – https://twitter.com/midjourney/status/1755714302152225253

“Checking in on the image generators with my traditional test, now that Google has entered as a player. https://t.co/R4bch5VC3a” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1755645686610076081

“Google released MobileDiffusion, a new approach that allows for near-instantaneous text-to-image on mobile. The announcement states the model can generate a 512×512 high-quality image in half a second on mobile… and is only 520M parameters. https://t.co/ZerOQ5Ld5g” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1754375935317393787

“Stability AI released the first update to its Stable Video Diffusion model, with enhanced motion and consistency in generations. Will 2024 be the year of open-source AI?https://t.co/IgmZF5p21T” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1755429385891446918

“Apple and UC Santa Barbara researchers introduced MGIE, an open-source AI system for editing images via natural language prompts. Image editing is about to get even easier: https://t.co/0Txmnvm6Nj” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1755429341226217624

“I’ve been looking forward to this You can now edit images generated with Dall-E 3. It works directly in Copilot thanks to Designer (and for free) 🧵 https://t.co/Lccf4kedAN” / X – https://twitter.com/itsPaulAi/status/1755273709211025539

“✨ Introducing Smooth Skin – The latest feature in Imagen ✨ Achieve the perfect balance of flawless complexion with Imagen’s Smooth Skin. Just one click and your photos pop with natural beauty. Visit our blog post to learn more: https://t.co/EFUYdWBQaP https://t.co/481LGjfrin” / X – https://twitter.com/AiImagen/status/1755259883912298717

“Apple’s🤩MGIE is now opensource! Edit your images with natural language 💡𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐋𝐌-𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 or MGIE derives more expressive instructions for the model to follow the edits & leads to notable improvements in editing Project links👇 https://t.co/1gEaJlozB6” / X – https://twitter.com/Gradio/status/1754453142874530221

MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device – Google Research Blog – https://blog.research.google/2024/01/mobilediffusion-rapid-text-to-image.html

New and better ways to create images with Imagen 2 – https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-imagen-2/
Dall-E is in Bing Copilot
Image Creator from Microsoft Designer – https://www.bing.com/images/create

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The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.