Vision Pro, Google's New AI Tools, HuggingFace Assistants & More

Plus top tools for music, productivity, and images

Heather Cooper

Feb 06, 2024

Total reading time around 4 minutes.

Welcome to Visually AI!

Things are moving quickly in generative AI news this week. Get ready for this to continue for a while!

🔮AI Spotlight

🥽Apple Vision Pro

The first Apple Vision Pro orders were filled this week for many excited users (I decided to hold on to a few thousand dollars, for now).

In case you forgot or don’t know all the things it can do, you can read about it here.

Available Vision Pro apps include:

Zoom
Slack
TikTok
Disney+
Discovery+
Cisco Webex
Microsoft 365
Candy Crush Saga
Amazon Prime Video
NBA 2K23 Arcade Edition

🧪Google AI Test Kitchen

Google's AI Test Kitchen is a platform where users can experiment with AI and creativity. (link)

It offers three main tools: ImageFX, MusicFX, and TextFX, each designed to transform text prompts into different forms of content - images, music, and enhanced text respectively.

ImageFX is a tool that allows users to create images from a simple text prompt. (link)

It has "expressive chips" that allow users to easily modify the generated images.

You can watch my demonstration using a long image prompt with visual examples on 𝕏 here.

MusicFX is a tool that brings your musical ideas to life.

It generates up to 70 seconds of music and sound loops, plus you can test different prompts with expressive chips. (link)

Just describe the music or instruments you want to hear and MusicFX can generate a piece of music that sounds like the details you enter:

TextFX is an AI-powered language tool designed to supercharge your writing process. (link)

It helps you generate creative phrasing, acronyms, scenes, points of view, alliterations, and more.

For example, if you enter the word "control", TextFX can generate phrases like "control panel", "mind control", and "out of control".

Unfortunately, these tools are currently only available in the U.S., Australia, Kenya, and New Zealand, according to the FAQs.

🤗HuggingFace

HuggingFace launched a free ChatGPT alternative tool to build AI assistants, similar to GPTs in OpenAI’s GPT Store.

You can choose between open-source models available on HuggingFace including Mixtral, Claude, and CodeLlama:

HuggingChat & HuggingFace Assistants

HuggingChat: A free, open-source ChatGPT alternative uses advanced language processing technology to help you understand complex topics, and answer your questions. (link)

HuggingFace Assistants: Talk to the AI Assistant of your choice from the HuggingChat application. Choose agents to output Python code, crypto tips, generate images, and more. (link)

I chatted with Marcus Aurelius about resilience:

🎙️Generative AI Friday Recap Space on 𝕏

This week we focused on AI music innovation, tools, and creation with a variety of features like text-to-MIDI generative AI at my weekly AI Space on 𝕏.

The panel was amazing and represented a wide range of interests from AI evangelists, the open-source community, AI-generated music apps, generative video tools, and AI in the music industry.

You can check it out on my new YouTube Channel, where I’m posting the full recordings and individual clips from our fantastic weekly discussions: Tune In: AI’s Music Mastery

I host the Generative AI Friday Recap every week at 5 p.m. EST, and you can check here for details: Spaces Dashboard

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🚀 This Week’s AI Tools

Restream

Restream is mainly a browser-based streaming platform with integration into OBS, Zoom, vMix, and more, but there are quite a few helpful tools anyone could use, for Free: (link)

Mic test
Camera test
Audio converter (MP3 & WAV)
Video converter (MP4 & WEBM)
Audio remover & Audio extractor
Audio / Video / Podcast transcription to text

Remix

Remix added 5 new models with impressive output:

Animagine XL (anime)
Juggernaut XL (photorealism)
DynaVision XL (3D)
LEOSAM’s HelloWorld (photorealism)
SDXL Niji Special Edition (anime)

Try Remix for FREE here.

Here are a few examples from the Animagine XL and DynaVision XL models:

Shortwave: AI-powered email app streamlines email management by analyzing your entire email history to find the information you need, translates text, and creates personalized drafts instantly. (link)

Splash Music: AI-powered tool lets you create, customize, and share original music easily. Features include Text-to-Singing, Generative Text-to-Music, a library of sound packs , a beatmaker instrument, Voice Transfer, Composition, anyone can use regardless of musical expertise. (link)

AudioCipher: MIDI melody and chord progression generator that allows users to turn words into music directly in their DAW. It includes features such as a word-to-MIDI converter, playback controls, drag-to-MIDI functionality, randomize rhythm output, chord and melody generation, and the ability to choose key signatures. (link)

Tracksy: Generative AI assistant allows users to create their own unique music, regardless of their level of experience with samples in various styles and genres such as Focus, Electronica, and EDM. (link)

🖼️ Image Prompts

I love this prompt from my friend, LudovicCreator on 𝕏 - he posts several amazing prompts every day, and I highly recommend checking him out and following!

Prompt: camera toss image of [subject], [setting or scene]
Example: camera toss image of a shooting star in the night sky over a sleepy, quiet hilltop neighborhood
Example 2: camera toss image of a beach volleyball game at sunset
Example 3: a camera toss image of an assassin from Assassin's Creed running across a rooftop in a chase