Sora Killer? 4 person startup launches in 4mo

PLUS upgrades for all big AI video & image tools!

In today’s Future AI Lab Menu:

  • 🍟AI Snacks - Big week in AI text2video and text2image generators!

  • 🍱 AI Creators’ Corner - Luma’s new Text to Video

  • 🤖Baking with Bots - Turn static images into animations!

  • 🛠️ 3 Taste Test Tools

  • 🎭 Memes of the week

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🍟AI SNACKS🍟

🍿AI Snacks

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

🍩 4 people in 4 months built a Sora, Runway & Luma competitor, HotShot

🍭 While OpenAI Sora sleeps, Luma launches an upgraded AI to Video tool

🍝 The best text-rendering AI, Ideogram, just unveiled its latest update

🥨 Interesting ways big brands have used AI for advertisements

🍰 Viral $100 AI-run business experiment last year died fast

🍔 AI giants unleash game-changing tech in weekly showdown

🥗 US Gov holds contests for 'AI hackers' to attack AI systems

🍣 iPad Tool, Procreate takes powerful stance to never use AI in its products

🍗 Anthropic hit with lawsuit over training its AI with copyright material

🍤 OpenAI’s SearchGPT strikes deal with Vogue to compete with Google

🍕 GPT-4o fine-tuning promises higher performance at lower costs

🧠 AI CREATORS’ CORNER 🍱

Luma’s Dream Machine 1.5 is here & dominating

New update's serving:

  • Text-rendering

  • Consistent Character

  • Color correction

  • Smooth Transition

Bonus: Motion tracking sharper than your grandma's eyesight! 👵🔍


Just look at the dramatic transition between 30 to 36 years old 😍

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

👨‍🍳BAKING WITH BOTS 🤖

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" 👍🏻 or "thumbs down" 👎🏻, 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 wouldn’t enter confidential information due to automatic and international data transfer.

🍴TASTE TEST TOOLS⚒️

  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

🎭 MEMEs OF THE WEEK 🤡

🎭 Memes of the Week

Who says humans can't replicate AI-generated videos? 🤖🎥

Credits: Mu Tianran

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