TollBit is a marketplace for publishers and AI providers

AI startup TollBit has raised $24 million in Series A funding. The round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, will help the company expand internationally and hire new employees, reports Sara Fischer for Axios. TollBit operates a marketplace that brings publishers and AI companies together and helps simplify their data exchange, both legally and commercially. The …

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Three services for AI-generated portraits

Artificial intelligence is making professional portrait photos possible without a photographer. Three AI services – Portrait Pal, PixelPose, and Dreamwave – turn simple photos into high-quality application photos, as Jon Stojan reports in an article for VentureBeat. The services differ primarily in price, processing time, and the number of photos delivered. The three services work …

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Google SynthID adds a watermark to AI text

Google has made its technology for watermarking AI-generated text publicly available. Developers and businesses can now freely download the tool called SynthID Text from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s Responsible GenAI Toolkit. As Kyle Wiggers reports on TechCrunch, the technology works by subtly modifying the probability of certain word sequences during text generation. …

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Image generator Ideogram adds “Canvas“

The Canadian AI startup Ideogram has expanded its image generation capabilities with a new interactive “Canvas”. As reported by Carl Franzen, users can now arrange, compare, and combine AI-generated images on an unlimited workspace. The new tool includes features like “Magic Fill” for targeted image editing and “Extend” for expanding image boundaries. Ideogram offers Canvas …

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Canva launches image generator Dream Lab

The design platform Canva has launched a new AI image generator called “Dream Lab”. The tool, based on Leonardo.ai technology, can create images from text descriptions in various styles such as “3D render” or “illustration”, reports Jess Weatherbed. Compared to Canva’s existing Stable Diffusion generator, Dream Lab is said to deliver better results particularly in …

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Runway Act-One aims to replace motion capture

Filmmakers and animators will soon be able to create facial expressions and micro-expressions for their characters with significantly less effort. This is promised by the new AI tool “Act-One,” which Runway is now introducing as part of its Gen-3 Alpha video model. The feature aims to replace complex motion capture procedures with simple video recordings. …

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Asana AI Studio helps to develop AI agents

Asana, a work management platform, has introduced AI Studio, a new feature for creating AI agents for workflow management. As Alex Hood, Chief Product Officer at Asana, explained to VentureBeat, users can now integrate multiple custom AI agents directly into their workflows without any coding knowledge. The aim is to relieve employees of routine tasks, …

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“Computer Use”: Anthropic’s Claude can now control your PC

Anthropic has unveiled an updated version of its AI model Claude 3.5 Sonnet. According to the company, the model can now control desktop applications and perform PC tasks. It uses a new “Computer Use” feature, which is in public beta. Anthropic emphasizes that the technology is still error-prone and recommends developers initially test it only …

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Stable Diffusion 3.5 is the latest version of the open source image AI

Stability AI has unveiled its latest family of image generation models: Stable Diffusion 3.5. According to the company, it includes three variants – Large, Large Turbo and Medium – that are said to be characterized by improved adaptability and versatility. The Large variant with 8 billion parameters is available immediately, while the Medium model is …

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CrewAI Enterprise is a new platform for AI agents

Startup CrewAI is launching “CrewAI Enterprise,” a new platform that allows companies to create and deploy teams of AI agents. As founder João Moura told VentureBeat, the system greatly simplifies the creation and deployment of multi-agent systems. The platform is based on CrewAI’s popular open source framework and allows users to develop AI agents with …

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