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The research project EMO from China makes a photo (or a graphic or a painting like the Mona Lisa) talk and sing. The facial expressions are quite impressive, the lip movements not always. Unfortunately, there is no way to try EMO for yourself.
AI video generator Pika shows off its lip sync feature that makes people speak in AI videos. The voice is either pre-recorded or created from text using Elevenlabs’ AI. The feature is currently only available to paying “Pro” users. Read more on VentureBeat.
Jamix brings ChatGPT to the enterprise. The startup aims to integrate the chat assistant into the tools companies already use. Source: VentureBeat
Writer Palmyra-Vision wants to bring AI-assisted workflows to businesses. The new AI is specifically designed for enterprise use and is “multimodal”: it understands not only text as input, but also photos and scans, for example. Source: VentureBeat
The “Wolf-Schneider-KI” can quickly improve your German texts. Interestingly, you don’t have to pay a monthly fee, but rather buy packages with a certain number of characters in advance.
Mistral has already attracted attention with freely available AI language models. Mistral Large is now the most powerful offering with which the French company is targeting OpenAI’s GPT-4. A special feature is its multilingualism. Mistral Large should not only work well in English, but also in French, Spanish, German and Italian. Unfortunately, Mistral Large is …
Text has always been a big problem for image generators. In the beginning it was illegible gibberish, later it looked better, but was still full of errors and therefore mostly unusable. Ideogram promises an improvement with version 1.0. Our tests show: It can work well, but unfortunately not always. You can test Ideogram for free.
Anthropic has released Claude 3, the latest version of its AI language model. It comes in three sizes: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. The smallest offering, Haiku, will be released later. Sonnet and Opus are already available, but not yet in German-speaking countries. This is a pity, as both Claude 3 variants delivered very good results …
Stability AI is a provider of numerous AI tools that focuses more than others on open availability. There is now a large family of image generators that can be used on your own computer under the name Stable Diffusion. The recently announced Stable Diffusion 3 promises better quality in the future. This is especially true …
Local AI is an interesting concept: AI assistants similar to ChatGPT that do not run in the cloud, but on your own PC or on a server you operate yourself. One challenge is the speed of the answers. Nvidia has now presented “Chat with RTX”, which uses the computing power of its own graphics cards. …