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Hi, fellow creatives, we are over the moon!
Welcome to our issue #4. It’s Saturday, we know! We’ve been busy and not spaced out for the last two weeks. Our friends at NextDC invited us to present a lecture and run a workshop on Creativity & AI at Shapeshift Festival (Sofia, Bulgaria). Back to Earth. We are in Lisbon for EpicWeb3 to learn how AI, Web3 & Blockchain technologies live together. The goal: bringing you the latest in these spaces.
At Shapeshift, inspired by incredible speakers such as Professor Henk Hoekstra we learned about Dark Matter. And the to-be-launched Euclid satellite. We met Alexandre Glas from NFT Gallery. Professor Gergana Rusenova, architect, scientist, and creative. She created the Rock Print Pavillion among others. We’ve talked about space, the universe, technology, and of course AI! We are over the moon, but feel like we are experiencing a Supernova!
Top 3 AI Tools
We have now 529 tools in our repository focusing on Creative tooling.
Luma AI from Luma Labs is an iOS app that generates 3D views (and also models) of objects based on photos. Capture people, objects, landscapes, and anything you can dream of. What used to take light years using Desktop computers, now is possible with your smartphone in seconds. You can get inspired by exploring their universe of impressive examples.
Their big bang does not stop there. You can transform your videos using their API to 3D models & NeRFs. What are NeRFs (Neural Radiance Fields)? Neural networks are trained to reconstruct objects in 3D from pictures as sources. Last but not least, Luma released an imagine feature to prompt an AI model to generate a 3D model - what’s next wormhole space traveling?
Let’s stay in the 3D galaxy. What about Polycam? An app for iOS, Android & web that lets you capture objects and scan complete rooms in 3D. Poly can help you build floor plans, architectural renderings, VFX and filmmaking, 3D art, scene building, and more. Remember when LiDAR scanning was only accessible through iPhone Pros? Not anymore with Poly!
Apart from a meteoric app, they also have a stellar community sharing their incredible creations. The fun does not stop here, Poly also has a 3D material generator. We are just starting in the 3D space, but things are heating up like a supernova!
Let’s travel to a different universe. This time we will visit the constellation of Stability.AI. Let’s talk about ClipDrop, an image manipulation website tool. You can remove & replace backgrounds from images or remove text. But since is powered by Stable Diffusion. You can also generate variations or use inpainting to erase unwanted parts of an image. They offer a generous free tier that allows you to edit images with a resolution of up to 1024×1024.
ClipDrop most recent feature is UnCrop. A new take on the ability to paint beyond the original image canvas. Yes, the “outpainting” feature that DALL-e popularised last year and everyone is adding to their stack. Even Adobe.
A last note that ClipDrop’s AI model is trained on large images which can result in very impressive results. Specially reimagining variations from a single image as you can see in their post announcing ReImagine XL.
10 AI topics to share with your pals
Are we moving from Human centricity to Machine centricity intelligence? Sam Altman has something to say on the topic. The audience might be skeptical and laughing, but we could not agree more on this topic. The 4 stages
Gen-2 is now publicly available, blowing everyone’s mind. Have you tried it yet? Check this beautiful sample of a “moving image”. Thanks, Runway, one of our favourites tool at this moment
Who does not like a good cocktail? We dream of cocktails on the beach. Try to shake those outdated variants with BarGPT. The AI-powered bartender. You can impress your guest with the 9150 drinks for you to choose from!
Are you into the Adobe Express app, always on the move? Check their 25 new features on the Beta here
Apple Vision Pro. Of course, everyone is talking about Apple Vision Pro. We foresee AI Machine Learning playing a great role in this context. Remember: Apple never said AI. Yet sometimes Machine Learning… Good reflection on Apple’s company vision. And how to stay focused, avoiding the AI hype here. Do you remember this one from Sundar Pichai (Google’s CEO)?
We believe in the power that Art has to change this world! Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo) presents A.I.C.C.A. , an AI new "critical eye" on the art scene. Shout out if you see A.I.C.C.A. around!
What do people think about AI at work? BCG has done research on the topic and surveyed 13,000 individuals across 18 countries.
Who doesn’t like a beautiful color book? Learn Video Colorization with Pre-trained Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Bored with desktop ChatGPT? If you use an iPhone, you are lucky. OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT App for the iPhone. Android peeps, as someone of us will need to wait… What an Android life!
This just made our day and we could not stop laughing… we want to share the fun times with you!
Feeling space-y & overwhelmed?
The AI-space race is on and everyone is feeling it
…and this's a wrap on this weekly edition of our AI-powered newsletter!
How have we done? Anything you would like to see more of? Remember, this is for you. Reply to this email and let us know, what you want to read next week, are you looking for a specific tool? We love to meet inspiring creatives and better humans to create together even better worlds!
Remember: The sky is the limit, aim for the stars! Let’s keep the same orbit ❤️ Keep creating, keep innovating, and keep on being dope!
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