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AI4C Issue #11 🌀 The signal was crystal clear ✨✨✨

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AI for Creatives
July 17, 2025

Hi, fellow creatives, welcome to Issue #11: To the optimists, the curious, the creatively wave‑minded. Fuel your AI energy & stay sharp. Fresh drops of news, tools, & insights from the edges of creativity, where design, art, tech, / bold ideas blur. Landing in your inbox every Thursday (ish), with a breeze of salty inspiration.

🌊 The tide has spoken

You told us what you want,

🎨 Creativity, only creativity (66.7%)
🌟 Artist spotlights (33.3%)
🧠 Zero love for ethics, trends, or tools

So here we go: Issue #11 is creative-first, artist-forward, & dripping with inspiration. Let’s dive in

Jump into: 👨🏿‍🎤 Artist spotlight | 🔭 Tools | 🐠 Catch of the Week | 🌊 Ripple Effect  

👨🏿‍🎤 Artist spotlight: Sofia Crespo & EntangledOthers

This week, we’re lifting the curtain on Sofia Crespo, an artist diving deep into the ecology of imagination. Together with Entangled Others, she’s weaving AI into the natural world, training models on marine biology, organic decay, and the alien beauty of deep sea creatures.

💡 “It’s possible to look at things in a new way”. On recombining data to create novel perspectives
→ [Sofia Crespo on AI to weave new worlds]

🛠️ Top Tool

We now have 536 tools in our repository focusing on Creative tooling.

LUMALabs launches Dream Machine and is giving Midjourney a motion blur, and AI4C is here for it

A beautifully crafted landing page introduces the content.
A tutorial on getting started with Dream Machine can be found here.
We especially love the prompt tips, like how to create those otherworldly cosmic bubbles.

🐠 This week’s AI catch

→ 01 New Gemini (Google) tools for students and educators. Google just launched a FREE AI school system for teachers using Gemini in Workspace for Education. First spotted it here

→ 02 Google’s Gemini AI can access your messages, Apps & WhatsApp. Do you want to turn it off? First spotted it here

→ 03 Google Maps new AI Update. New outstanding features. AI4C loves the 3D Experiences overall. First spotted it here

→ 04 Have you heard about Any’s xAI’s Grok chatbot? A sexualized anime Bot, accessible even in kid mode, sparks controversy. First spotted it here 

→ 05 Grok4 Elon Musk's xAI unveiled Grok 4 as the world's smartest AI model, achieving PhD-level performance across all subjects and solving 25% of problems on the extremely difficult "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmark. First spotted it here 

→ 06 Meta drops $300M bait to reel in OpenAI minds. Meta has lured two senior researchers away from OpenAI with a jaw-dropping offer reportedly worth $300 million over four years. It's not just about paychecks, it's about power, patents, and pushing the frontier of intelligence, artificial or otherwise.

Have you watched Halt and Catch Fire? Sam Altman feels like he walked straight out of that show, even if it aired a decade ago. Worth a re-watch.

 

🌊 The ripple effect

… “You wanted more creativity, so we trained the algorithm on moonlight, myth, and bioluminescence.” 🌕🔮🌊

🐚 That’s All, Folks

The people spoke, less lecture, more creativity. So here we are.
Next time, we might go deeper into “AI x folklore,” or “AI zines that slap.” Let us know what you want more of.

📥 Wanna share your work or someone else’s magic?
Just reply or whisper to [email protected]

Till then, stay fluid.
The AI4C crew 🌴

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