Discover the New Gen-1 App by Runway & Explore Niji's Scenic Midjourney Styles
Discover the New Gen-1 App by Runway & Explore Niji's Scenic Midjourney Styles
Create stunning visuals with Niji's Scenic style magic
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AI News This Week
Runway launched the Gen-1 mobile app for generative video tools to “Turn Anything into Everything.” The multi-modal AI generates videos from text, other videos, or images. Available for iOS - download the app here and see my example video here.
Amazon adds Dialogue Boost to Prime Video for certain Amazon Originals series and films for increased accessibility. Customize the volume relative to background noise and music to suit your needs. Read about it here.
Google’s Bard is now available in ‘Experiment’ mode as another alternative to ChatGPT. Try Bard here.
Image Prompts
Niji•Journey Scenic Style
Niji•Journey introduced the Scenic style in Midjourney.
Add '--niji 5 --style scenic' to the end of your text prompt to use this style.
Check out more Niji Scenic styles on Twitter here.
My favorite styles this week:
Synthwave Binary Waterfalls
A shimmering lake made of binary data, surreal illuminating waterfall in the style of synthwave, cryptopunk, highly detailed, volumetric, 3D, 8k
Kirigami Waterfalls
Paper kirigami quilling waterfall flowing into a lake made of digital binary barcode data in the style of cryptopunk vector dot matrix futuristic landscape art, metallic gradients, 3d, highly detailed, algorithmic symmetry, cinematic lighting, 8k
Check out the images in the comments of my Twitter post, created by the community here.
Imagine
I was impressed with the quality of images from Imagine. I used the Anime style available on Imagine to generate the three images below:
Visit Imagine here.
Cool Tools
HuggingChat: ChatGPT alternative from the open-source favorite, HuggingFace. Powered by OpenAssistant/oasst-sft-6-llama-30b. (link)
Forefront Chat: ChatGPT alternative lets you choose a persona, organize chat folders and share conversations easily. Powered by GPT-4. (link)
CLIP Interrogator 2.1: Describes potential prompts for Stable Diffusion images, similar to Midjourney’s ‘/describe’ tool. (link)
Loopin: Browser extension improves meetings with the right context, including notes on one platform, and AI-generated summaries to share with your team. (link)
ChartGPT: AI-powered chart tool transforms text into visuals. (link)
Clarity: Simplify complex topics quickly with an AI-generated summary overview of any article. Tap text in the summary if you want more detailed information about that subject. (link)
Stark Design Studio: Display AI-generated paintings in your home or office with custom pieces. (link)
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Why do you guys keep pushing gen1 when the only cool videos people are making is with gen2? Apparently you give some people access but not everyone.
I want the bleeding edge stuff and to know a gen3 is on the way and that I will get access to it as a tool in my toolkit. Like the way Topaz Labs does their business model. Davinci Resolve and Ableton Live are also fair and appreciated.
Affinity said “for life upgrades” but now they are selling a new version and not upgrading the old one. It feels gross in some way.
I don’t want DALL-E 1 when I know someone else has access to midjourney v5.
Only the elite class that can afford it gets access to GPT5.
I like how Topaz is upfront that you own the product and it will be upgraded up to a specified date that is agreed upon. I understand that they need the cash flow to pay their crew and engineer new things.
What I’m trying to say is that I want a fair interaction and exchange of value.
Let people make cool things and don’t worry about getting sued. Let’s make some dank memes with this incredible new tech.
Davinci does a pay once upgrade forever model. I like that option too.
Thanks for reading, Steven.
I included Gen-1 in my headline and wrote about it because I signed up for the beta and had the opportunity to use it before it was released. Gen-2 is a great tool, too.
I write about topics I understand and want to share with my audience. There are tons of new products and tech on the horizon, but I'll write about those when they're closer to release for the public.
I agree with you about the elite class being able to afford or get access to new technology. I'm not 'elite' and I have a paid subscription to Runway. I have to carefully choose my paid subscriptions, just like you do.
I don't work for Runway or any tech company so I can't tell you when new versions will be available.
I hope you can find something in my newsletter you can use, but I appreciate your feedback!