A fashion photoshoot of a runway look inspired by hip hip recording studios. A large screen displays the word “Audio” –ar 4:3 –style raw
ElevenLabs
“The new @elevenlabsio text-to-sfx feature dropped this weekend after months of anticipation. Here’s a complete overview of the app, with a demo video showing ~40 prompts. Listen for yourself and let me know what you think of the audio quality. #ai #aimusic
“Text to Sound Effects is here. Our newest AI Audio model generates sound effects, short instrumental tracks, soundscapes, and a wide variety of character voices, all from a text prompt. Available now for all users. Everyone from content creators, video game developers, to film
“ElevenLabs launched Text to Sound Effects. It’s a new AI model that generates sound effects, short instrumental tracks, and soundscapes from text prompts. The lines have officially fully blurred
OpenAI
Character voices with GPT-4o voice – YouTube
Stability
Stable Audio Open — Stability AI
Suno
“Want to make a song from any sound? 🎧 Help us make a video for VOL-5, and we’ll pick 3 winners to receive early access! 1 winner’s video will be made into our next VOL-5 to be shared on social media 🙌 Comment on this post with a video of audio that you’d like to be turned into”
Udio
“Udio just dropped Audio Prompting, and it’s mind blowing. People can “Upload” their own music/sound and it will extend it. 10 wild examples: 1. @udiomusic
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #36: Week Ending 06/07/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 40 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive 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.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
For previous issues, please visit the archives!

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