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AI is blowing up this week! 🔥

From Meta's groundbreaking new AI video tool to OpenAI's collaborative writing interface and BlackForest Labs Flux 1.1 Pro big reveal

There's a lot to cover 💥

Let’s get into it

📝 Today’s Menu

• 📧 Gmail Users on iOS Can Now Chat

• 🎬 Meta Unveils "Movie Gen" – Not Public (Yet)

• 💻 OpenAI Launches Canvas for Writers and Coders

• 🎨 Flux 1.1 Pro Is Officially Live With Big Upgrades

• ⚡ Meta Connect 2024: Big Announcements in AI, AR, and VR

• 🚀 Microsoft Copilot Gets a Major AI Boost

• ▶️ YouTube Support Added to NotebookLM

• 🔥 Quick AI Developments

• 🤖 Trending AI Tools

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MAIN AI UPDATES

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📧 Gmail Users on iOS Can Now Chat

Good news for iOS users! 

Gmail just got smarter with the integration of Google's Gemini AI, a feature previously available only for Android.

Key Features:

📥 Ask Gemini Direct Questions: Need specific information from your inbox? Now you can ask questions like, "How much did we spend on our last marketing event?" or "Show me unread emails from Sarah."

📥 Summarize Emails: Gemini can summarize emails on key topics. Simply ask for a digest of quarterly planning discussions or other specific topics.

📥 Future Google Drive Integration: Soon, Gemini will expand beyond email, pulling data from Google Drive to give you a more comprehensive view of your documents.

📥 Seamless Search Integration: While the traditional Gmail search bar remains, there’s a new Gemini button for AI-driven searches, offering quicker results.

This feature is available to Google One AI Premium subscribers and Google Workspace accounts with Gemini Business, Enterprise, or Education plans.

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🎬 Meta Unveils "Movie Gen" – Not Public (Yet)

Meta’s AI development team has introduced a breakthrough in video creation: Movie Gen, an AI tool that can turn text prompts into fully realized videos complete with sound effects.

However, while the technology is generating a lot of buzz, it has not been released to the public.

Core Features of Movie Gen:

📽️ Text-to-Video: The AI can take prompts like "A car driving through a forest" and create realistic video scenes. It even adds environmental sounds, like engine noise or birds chirping.

📽️ Audio Integration: Movie Gen automatically inserts matching sound effects based on what’s happening in the video, although voice generation is not yet supported.

📽️ Editing Through Text: Users can alter scenes by simply typing commands like, "Change the background to a beach" or "Make the car red."

📽️ Camera Controls: You can command the camera to "pan left" or add tracking shots for a more cinematic feel.

Technical Limitations:

• The resolution tops out at 768p, upscaled to 1080p, and only supports clips up to 16 seconds long at 16 frames per second.

• There’s no voice generation at this time due to concerns over syncing lip movements with speech accurately.

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💻 OpenAI Launches Canvas for Writers and Coders

OpenAI has rolled out Canvas, a new interface for ChatGPT that offers a more dynamic workspace for writing and coding projects.

Initially available in beta to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users, Canvas provides a visual workspace alongside the usual chat interface.

Key Features:

🔥 Editable Workspace: Users can now highlight specific sections of AI-generated content for refinement or editing, rather than rewriting entire prompts.

🔥 Writing Assistance: Canvas helps generate documents, emails, and more, while offering options to adjust tone, length, and even translate text into other languages.

🔥 Coding Support: Developers can create code, add comments, and request explanations of code snippets.

🔥 Collaboration-Driven Enhancements: By allowing for inline feedback and text adjustments, Canvas aims to boost user experience, making collaboration easier and more efficient.

Canvas elevates ChatGPT beyond just a chat-based AI model, aligning it with other AI tools like Anthropic's Artifacts, while catering to developers, writers, and teams looking to streamline their workflows.

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🎨 Flux 1.1 Pro Is Officially Live With Big Upgrades

In exciting news for the AI-generated content space, Black Forest Labs has unveiled Flux 1.1 Pro.

Flux 1.1 Pro is built for speed and quality, generating images six times faster than its predecessor while offering improved adherence to user prompts.

Highlights of Flux 1.1 Pro:

• Speed & Efficiency: Flux 1.1 Pro is faster and more responsive, generating high-quality images almost instantly compared to its competitors like DALL-E and MidJourney.

• Top of the Leaderboards: In tests, Flux 1.1 Pro outperformed rival models across multiple parameters in the AI-generated image arena, setting a new standard for text-to-image models.

• API for Developers: The new Flux 1.1 Pro model comes with an API that third-party developers can integrate into their own apps, expanding its accessibility and utility.

The model is now available through partners like Together AI, Freepik, and FAL AI, with pricing at just $0.05 per image.

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

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⚡ Big Announcements in AI, AR, and VR

Meta's Connect 2024 event was packed with major updates that underline the company’s commitment to advancing AI, AR, and VR technologies.

From new smart glasses to AI-generated content on Instagram, here are the key highlights:

AI & AR Innovations:

👓 Orion AR Glasses: These cutting-edge glasses aim to replace smartphones by offering features like real-time translation and personal assistance.

🕶️ Ray-Ban Smart Glasses: Now equipped with AI-powered language translation and memory assistance, the upgraded glasses also integrate with Spotify, Amazon Music, and more.

🎧 Quest 3S VR Headset: With improved visuals and affordability, Meta’s new VR headset is aimed at making immersive experiences more accessible

🦙 Llama 3.2 Model: Meta’s open-source AI model, Llama 3.2, can now process both text and images, further advancing the company’s AI capabilities.

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🚀 Copilot Gets a Major AI Boost

Microsoft is upgrading its Copilot assistant with several new features designed to make interactions more intuitive and personalized.

New Capabilities:

🗣️ Voice Integration: Copilot now supports natural speech interactions, making it easier to use conversational commands.

👀 Vision Support: Copilot can analyze web content and offer context-aware assistance, particularly useful for research or shopping tasks.

🧠 Enhanced Reasoning: With the "Think Deeper" feature, Copilot now employs chain-of-thought reasoning for more complex problem-solving.

These updates make Copilot a more powerful, user-friendly assistant, bringing it closer to the goal of becoming a truly autonomous agent for Windows users.

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▶️ YouTube Support Added to NotebookLM

NotebookLM, Google’s AI-powered note-taking tool, just got a major upgrade.

It now supports YouTube video and audio file integration, making it easier than ever to manage a variety of multimedia sources within your notes.

What’s New?  

📝 YouTube URL Integration: NotebookLM now accepts public YouTube URLs, allowing users to extract summaries and key concepts from videos. Whether it’s a lecture or a tutorial, you can get AI-generated notes quickly.

📝 Audio File Support: You can also upload audio files, which the AI will transcribe and summarize, perfect for handling podcast episodes, interviews, or voice memos.

📝 Audio Overview Sharing: This viral feature lets users create AI-generated podcasts from their notes, PDFs, and Google Docs, now with an option to share them via public links. Collaborating with others just got easier.

QUICK AI BITES

🧠 Google DeepMind introduced AlphaChip, an AI that designs computer chips in hours instead of months using reinforcement learning

💃🏼 TikTok parent company ByteDance is reportedly planning to develop a new AI model primarily using Huawei chips, diversifying from U.S. suppliers like Nvidia to counteract export restrictions

📽️ Luma Labs upgraded its Dream Machine AI video model speed, allowing for full-quality generations in under 20 seconds.

👨🏻‍🎓 Japanese researchers utilized AI to uncover 303 new geoglyphs dating back to 200BC near Peru's Nazca Lines, depicting animals and human figures.

🤖 Trending AI Tools

📝 Notion AI - Search and chat with documents across Notion, Slack, and Google Drive

🔍 Lumona - AI search engine leveraging social media insights

🖼️ Magnific Mystic V2 - Advanced AI generator that can output up to 4k resolution images

⏱️ Motion - Automatically plan your day based on your tasks and priorities

🖌️ MolyPix - Effortlessly create editable graphic designs from text inputs.

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