What’s New in Claude 3.5 Sonnet?
Magnific's Magic Spell🪄 Relight feature transforms backgrounds
Total reading time around 4 minutes.
Welcome to Visually AI!
What’s inside:
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Magnific’s new relighting feature
Toys “R” Us debuts a Sora brand film
ElevenLabs x TIME & new Reader App
My new YouTube collaboration with Miguel P
Sneak peek at my upcoming Intelliverse podcast
8 new AI tools and easy image prompts you can use
🔮AI News This Week
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model introduces several advanced features:
Frontier intelligence: Enhanced reasoning capabilities
2x speed: Faster performance compared to previous versions
State-of-the-art vision: Improved visual understanding and accuracy
High-quality content creation: Better at generating natural and relatable content
Real-time Artifacts integration: Interact with generated content in a dedicated workspace
Projects feature: Organize chats into projects for increased collaboration (Pro and Team plans only)
I tested a simple question about setting up a Notion gallery page for my Midjourney images. It’s simple for many people, but not for me…
I sped up the video for my typing, but Claude’s answers are at normal speed:
Magnific AI Magic Spell🪄
Magnific added a Relight feature called Magic Spell🪄 that lets you change scene lighting and background using a prompt, reference image, or light map.
I changed the background of the Input image with the Reference image and different settings in the example below. Check out the exact settings in my 𝕏 thread.
You can try Magnific AI here.
New Sora video from… Toys “R” Us?
Toys “R” Us partnered with Native Foreign to create the first brand film using Open AI’s Sora.
The one minute film features a young Charles Lazarus and his vision for Toys"R"Us and mascot Geoffrey the Giraffe in the early 1930s.
I didn’t realize Toys “R” Us was still around, but they surprised many people with this video. There are some obvious AI tells in the video, inconsistent characters, inexplicable sparkles, etc.
It will be interesting to see if other brands will test Sora’s capability soon.
Here is the video that recently debuted:
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs introduced a mobile Reader App that lets you listen to text, PDF’s, articles, emails, and more. It’s available on iOS in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. Sign up on the waitlist for other regions and the Android app here.
TIME teams up with ElevenLabs to provide automated voiceovers on TIME.com, making their content more accessible.
The Video to Sound app generates matching audio for videos up to 10-seconds in length. I shared a demo in last week’s edition of Visually AI. Try the app here.
ElevenLabs text to sound effects API is available now. Read the guide and docs here.
📸AI Snapshots
TransPerfect introduced GlobalLink Live, an AI-powered interpretation platform that improves multilingual communication for live, remote, and hybrid events, offering translation in over 90 languages with a mix of human and AI voice-to-voice technology.
Major record labels have filed lawsuits against AI music startups Suno and Udio, alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted material to train their AI models.
Amazon Web Services and Formula 1 unveiled “Statbot,” for rapidly analyzing historical and real-time data to assist broadcasters instantly. The two brands are also encouraging fans to try generative AI, by building a trophy.
Get 2 Fast GPU hours by helping Midjourney research “… the relationship between user demographics and aesthetic preferences…” by answering a short survey here.
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🛠️ This Week’s AI Tools
Notion Sites: Create a website in minutes with Notion's building blocks and new customization tools, including custom domains, navigation bars, themes, analytics, and SEO. (link)
Groqnotes: Creates structured notes from audio files. (link)
Artlist Voiceover: Generate AI voiceovers for videos using top voice actors exclusive to Artlist. (link)
aiarty: Desktop image upscaler and enhancement. Offering a free 1-year licenses for a limited time. (link)
Claptools: Free AI content creation tools, such as the Username generator, YouTube Script Writer, LinkedIn Hook Generator. (link)
tellers: Transforms any text, article, or story into a video in seconds. (link)
BuzzFeed Shrek Generator: Type in a celebrity to turn into Shrek with BuzzFeed’s free tool. (link)
IMGGEN.AI Text Remover: Free app quickly remove text from images in your browser. (link)
💻Visually AI on YouTube
I'm thrilled to launch a new collaboration with my good friend, Miguel (aka AP on 𝕏) to share resources & tips for open-source Gen AI models.
This week we talked about Hugging Face Spaces and Glif.
Our next episode will cover ComfyUI basics and generating images with Glif apps.
Check out our first episode here:
🎧Intelliverse Podcast
I’m launching a new podcast called Intelliverse to talk to some of the people building and shaping generative AI.
I have a variety of guests, from CEO’s to content creators - including AI skeptics like my first guest, Thomas Haynes.
Upcoming guests include:
Michael Lingelbach, Co-founder of Hedra
Araminta K, Founder of Promptcrafted
Victor Perez, Co-founder of Krea
I will let you know as soon as the episodes are uploaded to PodBean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and more.
Here’s a clip of my interview with my AI-skeptic business partner, Thomas Haynes:
🖼️ Image Prompts
Prompt: Majestic coastal cliffs bathed in the soft morning light, with waves crashing against the rugged rocks. Sea mist rises from the water, creating a dreamy, ethereal atmosphere. Seagulls soar above, silhouetted against the dawn sky.
Prompt: holographic moon phase infographic
Thanks for reading, and have a creative week!