a sunny day with blue skies. an apple orchard. a large canvas painting with the word “Images” –chaos 50 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8 (I love the little signed word ‘images’ at the bottom left)

Adobe

“Sharing an update on changes and clarifications coming to Adobe’s Terms of Use to address customer concerns. As technology evolves, so must our Terms of Use. Learn more: 

Sharing an update on changes and clarifications coming to Adobe's Terms of Use to address customer concerns. As technology evolves, so must our Terms of Use. Learn more: https://t.co/NYx1LjAYPd pic.twitter.com/Ci1IX6XCpZ

— Adobe (@Adobe) June 10, 2024

Google (Imagen)

“A paper origami owl, a felt robot, a skater made of clay… here’s how Imagen 3 can generate visually rich images with complex textures. 👀 

A paper origami owl, a felt robot, a skater made of clay… here’s how Imagen 3 can generate visually rich images with complex textures. 👀 pic.twitter.com/j4wiqjjBj9

— Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) June 11, 2024

MidJourney

“Midjourney default image quality with style personalization turned on is significantly better 

Midjourney default image quality with style personalization turned on is significantly better pic.twitter.com/FTyL6JWiKN

— Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats) June 14, 2024

“Midjourney just released a new feature called ‘model personalization’ It lets you tune the MJ algorithm to your own personal tastes, removing much of the MJ “bias” that comes from its training data Breakdown of how it works: 

Midjourney just released a new feature called 'model personalization'

It lets you tune the MJ algorithm to your own personal tastes, removing much of the MJ "bias" that comes from its training data

Breakdown of how it works: pic.twitter.com/c952I3GD9A

— Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats) June 12, 2024

“Midjourney’s new personalization feature has made me realize that I have a dark and demented soul –p hywvz4y 

Midjourney's new personalization feature has made me realize that I have a dark and demented soul

–p hywvz4y pic.twitter.com/5yOITLkdd9

— Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats) June 12, 2024

“interesting that 99% of AI videos made with tools like Luma, Pika, and runway are generated from images originally created in Midjourney 😏” / X

interesting that 99% of AI videos made with tools like Luma, Pika, and runway are generated from images originally created in Midjourney 😏

— Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats) June 14, 2024

“We’re releasing model personalization today. Get at least 200 image ratings and then add –p after your prompt. Personalization completely changes the way our system interprets your prompts and we think you’ll really like the new direction it takes. Have fun!” / X

We're releasing model personalization today. Get at least 200 image ratings and then add –p after your prompt. Personalization completely changes the way our system interprets your prompts and we think you'll really like the new direction it takes. Have fun!

— Midjourney (@midjourney) June 12, 2024

Stability AI

“Stability AI released the open model weights for Stable Diffusion 3 Medium. The 2B parameter text-to-image model offers “advanced photorealism, prompt understanding, and typography capabilities” 

Stability AI released the open model weights for Stable Diffusion 3 Medium.

The 2B parameter text-to-image model offers "advanced photorealism, prompt understanding, and typography capabilities" pic.twitter.com/7wqQjIK44o

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) June 14, 2024

Stable Diffusion 3 Medium — Stability AI

https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3-medium

“And SD3 by @StabilityAI is already the #1 trending model on HF! 

And SD3 by @StabilityAI is already the #1 trending model on HF! https://t.co/KNtnCiIvqT pic.twitter.com/1J2sWijYcC

— clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) June 12, 2024

Other Image News

How AI Image Models Work

https://every.to/p/how-ai-image-models-work

Introducing Shutterstock ImageAI, Powered by Databricks: An Image Generation Model Built for the Enterprise – Databricks

https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/introducing-shutterstock-imageai-powered-databricks-image

“New code was spotted within Grok’s code over the weekend If accurate, then xAI is probably planning to integrate image generation within Grok soon. Back in February, Elon also teased a potential Midjourney partnership: 

New code was spotted within Grok's code over the weekend

If accurate, then xAI is probably planning to integrate image generation within Grok soon.

Back in February, Elon also teased a potential Midjourney partnership: https://t.co/HwrgGKNAF0https://t.co/rYypPppGcl

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) June 10, 2024

The AI Arms Race to Combat Fake Images Is Even—For Now – IEEE Spectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/deepfake-detection

“NEWS: xAI might be working on image generation 👀 

NEWS: xAI might be working on image generation 👀 pic.twitter.com/VTkX1pN5ir

— X Daily News (@xDaily) June 8, 2024

Photographer takes on the machines in AI competition – and wins | Photography | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jun/13/photographer-takes-on-the-machines-in-ai-competition-and-wins

AsyncDiff: Parallelizing Diffusion Models by Asynchronous Denoising
https://czg1225.github.io/asyncdiff_page/

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AI News #37: Week Ending 06/14/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 7 Must-Read 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
• Google
• 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
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• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

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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/
• Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
• Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
• Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
• Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
• Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
• Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett

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