Yesterday's news broke the internet as Open AI announced its latest development — text to video. Whilst it's not available for general use yet, access is being given to visual artists, designers, and filmmakers for feedback.
It’s not just AI news, the AR news is also ramping up with Apple Vision Pro updates, including a hot off-the-press, native app release from TikTok.
Plus, in the spirit of St Valentine, learn how you can balance your love language with a more long-term approach.
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Playing around with Adobe Firefly Image 2 — Sarah, Marketing Manager
1. Creating video from text
AI video production just took a monumental leap forward — OpenAI introduced Sora: A text-to-video model that can generate realistic and complex scenes from text. It's not available yet, but things just got wild.
An examination into the process of “enshittification”, a term coined by author Cory Doctorow about how platforms colonized the internet, why all those platforms are degrading so quickly, and why it matters.
Google invites users globally, in 40 languages, to try its latest releases, Ultra 1.0 and a brand new mobile app enabling you to collaborate with AI, on the go.
An innovative text-to-image model introduces an interesting three-stage approach, setting new benchmarks for quality, flexibility, fine-tuning, and efficiency with a focus on further eliminating hardware barriers.
No matter how hard each player in this ecosystem worked, the past 12 months have seen the ‘hype’ around Web3 fashion wane – what’s next and how does the future of digital fashion look?
9. How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix
According to the subscription figures late last year, a young South African company has zoomed past Netflix to become Africa’s streaming platform of choice.
10. What the 5 love languages get right, and what they get very wrong
While love languages often help couples get in the habit of communicating better, just this one approach isn’t going to last in the long run –– we need a balanced diet.
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