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In todayโ€™s Future AI Lab Menu:

  • ๐ŸŸAI Snacks - Big week in AI text2video and text2image generators!

  • ๐Ÿฑ AI Creatorsโ€™ Corner - Lumaโ€™s new Text to Video

  • ๐Ÿค–Baking with Bots - Turn static images into animations!

  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ 3 Taste Test Tools

  • ๐ŸŽญ Memes of the week

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๐ŸŸAI SNACKS๐ŸŸ

๐ŸฟAI Snacks

๐Ÿฅž Midjourney on web is now open & very easy to use - temporary free trials

๐Ÿฉ 4 people in 4 months built a Sora, Runway & Luma competitor, HotShot

๐Ÿญ While OpenAI Sora sleeps, Luma launches an upgraded AI to Video tool

๐Ÿ The best text-rendering AI, Ideogram, just unveiled its latest update

๐Ÿฅจ Interesting ways big brands have used AI for advertisements

๐Ÿฐ Viral $100 AI-run business experiment last year died fast

๐Ÿ” AI giants unleash game-changing tech in weekly showdown

๐Ÿฅ— US Gov holds contests for 'AI hackers' to attack AI systems

๐Ÿฃ iPad Tool, Procreate takes powerful stance to never use AI in its products

๐Ÿ— Anthropic hit with lawsuit over training its AI with copyright material

๐Ÿค OpenAIโ€™s SearchGPT strikes deal with Vogue to compete with Google

๐Ÿ• GPT-4o fine-tuning promises higher performance at lower costs

๐Ÿง  AI CREATORSโ€™ CORNER ๐Ÿฑ

Lumaโ€™s Dream Machine 1.5 is here & dominating

New update's serving:

  • Text-rendering โœ…

  • Consistent Character โœ…

  • Color correction โœ…

  • Smooth Transition โœ…

Bonus: Motion tracking sharper than your grandma's eyesight! ๐Ÿ‘ต๐Ÿ”


Just look at the dramatic transition between 30 to 36 years old ๐Ÿ˜

The AI community is loving Dream Machine 1.5. Check out their work.

๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸณBAKING WITH BOTS ๐Ÿค–

Tutorial: Turn your static product pic into video

Great for your website or custom B-Roll for your social media!

  1. Shoot your product or generate one using ChatGPT, Flux or MJ

    (Static Image that looks dynamic works best!)

  2. Go to Luma Dream Machine

  3. Click Try Now to create an account

  4. Upload the photo, Enter your prompt

  5. Hit the generate icon and wait for it to complete rendering

  6. Done!

Quick Tip: How to Keep Your Claude Chat Private

All you have to do is give the conversation a "thumbs up" ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป or "thumbs down" ๐Ÿ‘Ž๐Ÿป, or directly email them at [email protected].


By default, your Inputs and Outputs are not used to train their AI models however I personally still wouldnโ€™t enter confidential information due to automatic and international data transfer.

๐ŸดTASTE TEST TOOLSโš’๏ธ

  1. Freepik - AI image generator that uses the newest AI model like Flux

  2. Softr - Turn your spreadsheets into client portals and dashboards

  3. Vectorshift AI - A low-code AI assisted automation platform

๐ŸŽญ MEMEs OF THE WEEK ๐Ÿคก

๐ŸŽญ Memes of the Week

Who says humans can't replicate AI-generated videos? ๐Ÿค–๐ŸŽฅ

Credits: Mu Tianran

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