Dream Machine, Apple Won’t Pay OpenAI, $230M from Amazon, and AI in Yahoo News

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Jun 14, 2024

Welcome to our weekly digest!

What do you think of Apple Intelligence? Maybe it's a problem of inflated expectations, but I thought we'd get something more. After all, we have already seen everything presented at WWDC performed by other companies.

However, I may take it back to when I see Apple's AI implementation.

By the way, if you missed it all, follow this post:

Apple Intelligence turns our iPhones into best AI devices 📲

Anastasiia Pernikova

Jun 13

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This Creators’ AI Edition:

Featured Materials 🎟️
News of the week 🌍
Useful tools ⚒️
Weekly Guides 📕
AI Meme of the Week 🤡
AI Tweet of the Week 🐦
(Bonus) Materials 🎁

Featured Material 🎟️

Luma AI Releases Dream Machine

So, Sora from OpenAI has a new competitor - Dream Machine by Luma AI. The new platform also generates videos based on simple text prompts, allowing companies, creators, and average users to create original video content in minutes.

And it's free and available to everyone right now.

Citing early beta testers, Luma AI claims Dream Machine’s main advantage is its ability to accurately depict certain objects, characters, actions, and environments, tell cohesive stories, and keep everything moving smoothly. I'm willing to agree with that.

However, Dream Machine has another major advantage: it’s an open-source project.

OpenAI's Sora is no less impressive, but it's only available to a select group of users. At the same time, anyone can try this AI right now, which gives Luma AI many resources to train its model in the long run.

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First Tests of Luma AI

You can find plenty of examples of how Dream Machine works in X. Just type Luma AI or Dream Machine into the search. Here’s one of them that I found pretty fun:

How to try Dream Machine?

This is probably the easiest and shortest guide I've done.

Go to the official Luma AI website and click "Try Now" in the top right corner.

Now, Sign Up with Google.

Type in your prompt or upload an image.

Wait for a few minutes while the AI prepares the result.

I didn't bother much and decided to animate one of my favorite memes: "Well yes, but actually no." And this is what I got:

I’d say that what's funny about the Dream Machine release is not so much the technology (we've seen this with Sora and other AIs), but its availability. A few months ago we were impressed by how cool the new video generator from OpenAI was and waited for access to the beta version, but now we get a similar tool for free on the day of the announcement. I wonder where we'll be in a year.

News Of The Week 🌍

Apple's AI announcement is one of the week's most important news, if not the first half of this year. So, we've covered everything you need to know in a separate post:
Apple Intelligence turns our iPhones into best AI devices 📲
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Jun 13
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But as is usually the case, big news spreads in waves worldwide, bringing implications and new details. Let's briefly discuss a few of them.

The Aftermath of Apple Intelligence Announcement:

Apple Won't Pay OpenAI for ChatGPT

This is what happens when you lead the mobile device market. Bloomberg reports that Apple will not pay OpenAI for using ChatGPT on its devices in cash.

The distribution of the chatbot itself will count as payment.

Apple Сonfirms Plans to Work with Google’s Gemini

Apple SVP Craig Federighi confirmed plans to work with additional third-party models beyond ChatGPT. He said Apple is looking forward to integrating Google's Gemini, for example, into the iPhone.

This gives cause for further speculation, as we've heard repeatedly that Apple is collaborating with Google on AI.

Elon Musk Wants to Ban Apple Devices from His Companies

Elon Musk really didn't like the news about Apple's collaboration with OpenAI. In addition to posting a meme (which you can see below), he said he wants to ban his employees from using iPhones and require business visitors to turn in their Apple smartphones to the Faraday cage.

After Musk's WWDC outrage, one X user suggested he make his own smartphone. And even outlined a short business plan. Musk responded briefly but confidently:

It is not out of the question.

That sounds good, but let's take it down a notch. Many media outlets have already spread these tweets across the Internet as if Musk is about to release a new smartphone. I, in turn, would like to remind you that Elon likes to troll, and all his statements should be treated with a degree of skepticism.

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LinkedIn Uses AI to Help You With Job Hunting

LinkedIn is expanding its job search capabilities with artificial intelligence for Premium subscribers. AI will help users find the right job and quickly adapt resumes for specific jobs. You can also search for jobs by typing queries in natural language.

First of all: I hate LinkedIn. It's the most awkward and ugly social network I use on a regular basis (and it's also where everyone posts about their success and productivity, which is infuriating). If AI can help someone log into that platform less often, I'll be nothing but happy.

Amazon Will Spend $230M on GenAI Startups

Big industry requires big money. Amazon said it will invest up to $230 million in startups creating generative AI-based applications in the coming years. About $80 million will fund Amazon's second AWS Generative AI Accelerator program. The company also promised that startups in the Generative AI Accelerator cohort will get access to expertise and technology from Nvidia, a partner in the program.

A legitimate move from Amazon. Who knows, maybe one of the startups in this gas pedal will make Alexa smarter than ever before?

Yahoo Starts Using AI to Personalize News Feed

Just recently, Yahoo launched AI features for its Yahoo Mail service, and now it's starting to modernize its news division. Right now, the company is rolling out an update for the Yahoo News app and preparing to update the web version of the platform. The developers promise to make news more personalized and relevant to its users.

At the heart of this update is technology from startup Artifact, which was bought by Yahoo in April this year. It's a company from the co-founders of Instagram that has made its own AI to help users find and consume more targeted news.

Elon Musk Drops Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

Let's discuss Elon Musk because we have a story to finish. Remember a couple of months ago when Musk's lawyers filed a bizarre lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman? (We wrote about it here). The head of Tesla, X, and SpaceX withdrew it the other day. Experts believe the decision is because the case initially had a rather dubious legal basis.

A little want to speculate on this topic, but there's not even any ground to think about. Apparently, Musk realized that his case was doomed to fail and gave up on it.

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