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AI Imagery News: Week Ending 03/01/2024

March 4, 2024

MidJourney

“Extreme closeups in Midjourney are getting more and more insane https://t.co/YmPKJLoQ0X” / X – https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1761897896792707345

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools – https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

Aperture

“Introducing Aperture v4 — Lexica’s best image generation model to date which can natively generate near 4k resolution images. You can use it for free right now: https://t.co/ehQiYPFCM2” / X – https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1760342835994439936?s=20

Other Image News

Apple made an AI image tool that lets you make edits by describing them – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/7/24065125/apple-generative-ai-image-editing-mgie-open-source-model

“Upscalers can really bring images to another level Just spent some time in Magnific testing out all of its settings (there’s a lot of them) It can feel a bit overwhelming, but once you dial things in it’s kinda like magic Prompt & upscale settings below 🔍 https://t.co/5ATwBnduUk” / X – https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1762201299121025475

“Xiaomi AI Portraits 😯 Create new portraits based on your previous photos #XiaomiHyperOS #XiaomiLaunch https://t.co/U2NJicGlDb” / X – https://twitter.com/bengeskin/status/1761758655274217692

“Ideogram 1.0 does a surprisingly good job with text: photograph of a open ancient mystical spell book with titles of spells “Fireball” “Steve’s Invisible Fist,” “Magic Tuba” and “Cheese Wall” https://t.co/MhRMEYoK5K” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1764065100099440918

“We’re excited to announce the launch of Dashtoon Studio Beta, the AI assisted comic creator! Dashtoon Studio gives comic creators a high level of creative control with consistent characters, perfect composition and more. AI assisted storytelling is revolutionary! https://t.co/QIkTeYF7x7” / X – https://twitter.com/dashstudioai/status/1749467553754128617

“After 15 iterations, I’m happy to share my new AI Colorization pipeline for Stylize. With a combination of different open-source models, we’re able to add vivid color to old black-and-white photos. More examples below 🙂 https://t.co/taN6iByBqI” / X – https://twitter.com/big_schmitz/status/1762241439872999535

“Artificial intelligence tools tailored for small and medium-sized e-commerce teams have arrived! With iFoto, your e-commerce team can quickly produce high-quality images suitable for e-commerce, including clothing model images, product background images, image product color… https://t.co/MaCuXnDN0x” / X – https://twitter.com/Lewis_Owen_/status/1761997788697739371

“https://t.co/se6AvQvR1d by @Suhail is a standout product in a crowded space: ◆ Beginner-friendly with preset styles and prompt expansion ◆ Image-to-image or text-to-image ◆ Fast as hell After watching months of discovery tweets by Suhail, this is no surprise. https://t.co/DWeCy6rCxh” / X – https://twitter.com/TedSpare/status/1762545293579456844

“Introducing the new photorealistic real-time image generator at @freepik. Last month, we hit 1M/day and 2x photo quality. Time to speed it up. This video is at 1x and no edit, that’s how fast it is 😎 Available for AI partners, Premium and 100 people reading this thread👇 https://t.co/Wm4EkHZXw5” / X – https://twitter.com/ompemi/status/1763234236448833720

“Interesting experiment. Diffusion can “render” algorithms. It implements maze traversal purely from pixels, even with U-Net that is far weaker than transformer. I always think of diffusion as a renderer, and transformer as the reasoning engine. It seems that the renderer itself…” / X – https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1762888644933902681

Google aims to relaunch Gemini AI image tool in a few weeks – https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-hopes-relaunch-gemini-ai-150314497.html

playgroundai/playground-v2.5-1024px-aesthetic · Hugging Face – https://huggingface.co/playgroundai/playground-v2.5-1024px-aesthetic
“Happy to share that Ideogram raised $80 million in series A funding to help people become more creative through generative AI! Thanks to @a16z for leading the round and @Redpoint, @pearvc, @IndexVentures, @svangel for participating! Ideogram 1.0 will improve considerably soon!” / X – https://twitter.com/mo_norouzi/status/1763247769492377683

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AI News #22: Week Ending 03/01/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 25 Stories

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