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Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool

June 20, 2023
Adobe’s stock soared after a strong earnings report last week — where executives touted the success of its “commercially safe” generative AI image generation platform Adobe Firefly. They say Firefly was trained on hundreds of millions of licensed images in the company’s royalty-free Adobe Stock offering, as well as on “openly licensed content and other public domain content without…
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Now hear this: Voice cloning AI startup ElevenLabs nabs $19M from a16z and other heavy hitters

June 20, 2023
ElevenLabs, a year-old AI startup from former Google and Palantir employees that is focused on creating new text-to-speech and voice cloning tools, has raised $19 million in a series A round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), former Github CEO Nat Friedman and former Apple AI leader Daniel Gross, with additional participation from Credo Ventures, Concept Ventures and an array of strategic angel…
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Vimeo unveils AI tools to make video creation a breeze

June 20, 2023
Vimeo, the popular video hosting and software company, announced today the launch of a suite of AI tools that it says will transform professional video production. The company is introducing a script generator, an on-camera teleprompter and an automated video editor that can remove unwanted filler words and pauses instantly with the click of a button. In a recent interview with VentureBeat, Ashraf…
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Hidden Door launches playtests for Wizard of Oz games created by generative AI

June 19, 2023
Hidden Door has launched limited playtests for its Wizard of Oz role-playing game platform that uses generative AI to create custom games for each player. Hidden Door’s development preview is a digital tabletop game role-playing game set in the land of the Wizard of Oz, a public domain intellectual property that includes 14 books written by L. Frank Baum. This is the first of numerous properties…
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