The AI Landscape: Musk's New Rival, Godmode, Amazon Bedrock & SDXL
And a few easy image prompts to create stunning visuals!
AI News This Week
Elon Musk appears to be creating an AI rival to OpenAI. Read more about it here.
You can deploy AI agents to complete tasks using AutoGPT from your browser with the Godmode app. Try it here.
Amazon Bedrock is a new service for building and scaling generative AI applications. It gives customers access to several large foundational models.
Stable Diffusion XL
Stability AI announced the release of Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL), with improvements over the current Stable Diffusion 2.1, including:
Ability to interpret shorter text prompts to produce descriptive imagery
Increased capability to generate legible text on images
More photorealistic results
Try SDXL in DreamStudio, NightCafe, and for free at ClipDrop.
Learn about SDXL’s API at Stability AI here.
Matt Wolfe has an excellent summary of the “AI News You Probably Missed This Week” on YouTube. He simplifies complex topics for anyone to understand, in less than 15 minutes:
I host a weekly Generative AI Twitter Space every Friday afternoon (EST), with Matt Wolfe, Bilawal Sidhu, Linus Ekenstam, and Taylor Peterson on the panel. We discussed AutoGPT, Amazon Bedrock, Roblox, and other AI news.
Listen to the conversation here.
Simple Image Prompts
Stylized Landscape Painting
Stylized painting of a mountain range at sunrise
Results from Lexica, Midjourney, and Prompt Hunt are in the gallery below.
View them on Twitter here.
Minimalist Collage
[Minimalist future art collage, ultra simplicity] [ your subject ]
Example: [Minimalist future art collage, ultra simplicity] [fashion] dark cyan and purple and fuchsia and gold --ar 16:9 --s 750 --v 5
I used “fashion” as my subject and added colors because I love colors! This prompt is from Midjourney version 5, but you can use it on any image generator without adding the aspect ratio (ar), stylize (s), or version number (v).
The images below were generated in Midjourney version 5 (v5):
View them on Twitter here.
Advanced Image Prompts
These prompts are more complex than the ones shown above, but you don’t have to be experienced to try them - every result will be unique and you only learn by doing!
Character Illustrations
a tattooed girl in colored clothing with sunglasses in the style of 2d game art comic illustration, hyperrealistic, cityscape, luminescent color scheme, anime aesthetic, highly detailed, sharp & vivid colors, intense gaze, daytime urban background
Cute black girl in trendy colored sunglasses, blue hair shoulder - length wavy hair, trendy hooded sweatshirt, in the style of 2d game art, urban and edgy, dark magenta and light amber, high tonal range, luminous colors, highly detailed, 8k
I generated the images below on Midjourney version 5, but you can use the prompts in any image generator:
Change the colors, gender, clothes, etc., for your image prompts. My prompts are meant to be a framework for you to adjust to your preferences.
View them on Twitter here.
AI Tools
The Oasis AI-powered dictation tool is live on Product Hunt. I beta-tested this app for about two months and it is an amazing tool. Speak into the microphone and it automatically generates an outline, text message, email, and more from your transcription. Try it here.
Easy-Peasy AI upgraded the AI image generator to create stunning images. You can also use the GPT-4 chat function or one of the 83 available copywriting templates. You can see some of my results with Easy-Peasy’s new generator here. Try it yourself here.
Kaiber announced the Transform video-to-video generator feature, available to all Kaiber Pro users. Change the style of your video or image with a short text prompt. Check it out here.
Kittl's AI-powered design tools easily generate vector logos & images with text prompts. Save time creating product designs or social media posts. Try it here.
Gamma creates presentations, webpages, or documents in minutes with AI. Try it here.
Get it free: The AI Visual Creator’s Toolkit
I’m constantly adding more resources to this database of visual AI tools anyone can use to level up content – and it’s yours for free!
I’ve broken tools into these categories:
Visual AI Generation Tools
AI Image Generation Tools
AI Editing Tools
AI Animation Tools
AI Gaming Assets
Prompt Generation Tools
Styling Resources
Want access? Grab it here.
Thank you for reading and have a week!