A fashion photoshoot of a runway look inspired by paint. A large screen displays the word “Images” –ar 4:3 –style raw
Flash Diffusion
Accelerating Any Conditional Diffusion Model for Few Steps Image Generation
“Tonight I grabbed some other ingredients: milk from the kitchen and black ink from my son. Watching the images emerge is like clearing my mind. Some parts of this video have been sped up 4x, while others are in real-time. Real-time diffusion with Stream Diffusion + SDXL Turbo.
Adobe
“Tough week for Adobe — their new terms are causing a massive uproar among creatives. 3 observations: 1. ToS seems to give Adobe free rein including human review of your files if you upload to their cloud, thanks to a very broad and permissive sublicense. 2. Even if Firefly
Adobe scolded for selling ‘Ansel Adams-style’ images generated by AI – The Verge
“So am I reading this, right? @Adobe @Photoshop I can’t use Photoshop unless I’m okay with you having full access to anything I create with it, INCLUDING NDA work?
MidJourney
“Elaborating on how to use Midjourney’s “Style Reference” feature This is how you break free of MJs default training data “aesthetic”, and fine tune the way it interprets your prompts Codes & examples 👇
“Midjourney has changed so much over the last year My process & approach to generating imagery has fundamentally shifted It used to be all about finding the right words, now it’s more about visually directing your scene I’m gonna start breaking down my process thread by thread”
Other Image News
“Generating your dream images shouldn’t be hard & unpredictable, especially when it comes to commerce. Introducing WorkBrow, to bring their vision to life with AI with precise control over your generated images. Stunning images, as per your needs. #AI #imageGeneration #Content https://x.com/WorkBrowhq/status/1661334174459121666
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!
Thanks for reading!
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