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Last week was filled with essential announcements, big tech news, and a few disturbing stories. With the new edition, you'll learn about Adobe's new GenAI for music, Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, why Apple gave up on building an electric car, new AI tools for Windows, and more!
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Adobe reveals a GenAI tool for music (but we won't get it yet)
Speaking at the Hot Pod Summit in Brooklyn, Adobe unveiled Project Music GenAI Control. It's a new platform that can generate audio from text descriptions or melodies and allows you to customize the results in a single application.
With Project Music, users will be able to adjust different audio tracks on demand by changing tempo, intensity, repeating patterns, and structure. They will also be able to create music based on straightforward Prompts like "powerful rock," "happy dance," or "sad jazz." AI can extend any track to any length, remixing the music or creating endless loops.
Instead of manually slicing existing music to create intros, splash pages, and background sound, Project Music GenAI Control can help users make the pieces they need, solving workflow pain points, Adobe says.
This could be very useful in movie production, gamedev, podcasting, and advertising campaigns. Here's how Adobe describes the prospects for the product:
Instead of manually chopping up existing music to create intros, splash pages, and background sound, Project Music GenAI Control can help users create exactly the pieces they need, comprehensively solving workflow pain points.
Interestingly, Project Music GenAI Control was developed not only by Adobe but also with input from UCLA and Carnegie Mellon researchers. The partners say the new platform is being finalized, but it doesn't even have a user interface for now.
Adobe promises more news about Project Music soon. When it's released, the platform will align with Firefly's AI for image generation. You can track Project Music GenAI’s development — alongside other experiments Adobe — over at the Adobe Labs website.
Speaking of AI-generated sound. In case you missed it, check out our newsletter on how creators are using AI Voices in their work:
News Of The Week 🌍
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman
An ideological battle in the world of artificial intelligence. According to a lawsuit filed Thursday in a San Francisco court, Elon Musk was approached by Sam Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman in 2015 to create a nonprofit lab that would develop general AI for the "benefit of humanity." According to Musk's lawyers, OpenAI turned its back on the idea.
“To this day, OpenAI, Inc.‘s website continues to profess that its charter is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity.’ In reality, however, OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft,” the lawsuit filing said.
Musk's attorneys added that the lawsuit was filed to force OpenAI to return to its mission of developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for the personal gain of the individual defendants. There have been no comments from OpenAI, Microsoft, and other parties to the case, but we will continue to monitor developments.
Apple has abandoned EV development to focus on building GenAI
After 10 years of design, development, and search for partners, Apple suddenly abandoned the creation of an electric car code-named Titan. The company did it for a reason: to move the best developers to a project related to artificial intelligence.
According to Mark Gurman, the company's changes will affect more than 2,000 employees. The developers will move to a division where they will work on genAI under the leadership of the head of AI, John Giannandrea. The team is tasked with creating its search engine, known internally as Pegasus, which could become the basis for the new Spotlight. From the looks of it, Apple believes in AI.
Figure AI raises $675M from investors, including Nvidia and OpenAI
The startup working to build humanoid robots that can perform dangerous and undesirable jobs got a big vote of confidence from some of the largest names in artificial intelligence. The company said Thursday that it raised $675 million at a $2.6 billion valuation from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, and Microsoft.
Founded in 2022, Figure AI has developed a general-purpose robot called Figure 01 that looks and moves like a human. The company sees its robots being used in manufacturing, shipping and logistics, warehousing, and retail, “where labor shortages are the most severe.” However, its machines aren’t intended for military or defense applications.
The developer also shared a video of the robot in action:
Microsoft's Windows 11 Copilot gets smarter with new plugins and skills
Windows is slowly moving towards AI. A couple of months ago, Microsoft announced that the Copilot button would soon be coming to PCs (sounds fun, but it's actually a tectonic shift that only Microsoft and Apple can pull off). And now, the company has announced a set of new AI features for Windows 11.
The new features will roll out in late March. With those, you can turn your battery saver on and off, show device, system, and battery information, launch live captions and the text-to-speech Narrator, display your IP address, and empty your recycle bin.
Separately, Microsoft also unveiled Copilot for Finance, an extension for Microsoft 365 designed to simplify the work with finance. This update will help financial analysts quickly conduct a variance analysis in Excel using natural language prompts, streamline the reconciliation process in Excel, and enable customers to turn raw data in Excel into presentation-ready visuals and reports.
Lightricks announces AI-powered filmmaking studio to help creators visualize stories
The company that creates popular apps, including Facetune and Videoleap, has announced a new AI-powered filmmaking tool. It's called LTX Studio. The platform allows you to create short clips from short ideas. According to the developer's idea, the tool will help directors and screenwriters understand how a storyline can develop.
Now, LTX Studio is accepting applications from users and adding them to the waiting list. The release will take place next month, and the platform will be available free of charge for all the company's clients.
Humane reveals first international market for the Ai Pin, partnering with SK Telecom
Startup Humane has announced plans to enter its first international market by striking a deal with South Korean operator SK Telecom. The strategic partnership includes licensing Humane's CosmOS operating system and arranging shipments to the South Korean market. The AI Pin device sales, priced from $699, will start next month.
AI Pin is a wearable device with a new form factor. It comprises sensors, genAI, and a mini projector that transmits essential information to any surface. For example, on the palm of the wearer's hand.
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Inkitt, the platform using AI to develop bestsellers, nabs $37M
A new startup called Inkitt believes it can use AI to turn the most ordinary users' stories into real Disney-level blockbusters. Its platform recently raised $37M for the ambitious initiative.
Inkitt allows people to post stories. Then, using artificial intelligence and data science, it selects what it thinks are the most interesting to customize and then distributes and sells in another app, Galatea. The company says its business has already attracted 33 million users and helped create dozens of best-selling books.
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