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Midjourney’s new style tuner is here. Here’s how to use it.

Midjourney is one of the most popular AI art and text-to-image generators, generating high-quality photorealistic and cinematic works from users’ prompts typed in plain English that have already wound up on TV and in cinemas (as well as on VentureBeat, where we use it along with other tools for article art). Conceived by former Magic Leap programmer David Holz and launched in the summer of 2022…
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DeepMotion launches MotionGPT for text-to-3D animation

DeepMotion, a maker of AI-powered motion capture technology, wants to redefine the animation landscape with the launch of MotionGPT. This tool leverages the power of generative AI to seamlessly transform text prompts into intricate 3D animations, ushering in a new era of…
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SAP pushes generative AI front and center for developer productivity, custom apps

SAP is gearing up for the age of AI. At its TechEd conference in Bengaluru, India, the German software major doubled down on its AI efforts and announced a bunch of tools and capabilities to not only boost the productivity of developers but also enable them to build custom AI-powered applications. It unveiled AI-infused pro-code tools that accelerate application development in different ways and…
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AI pioneers Hinton, Ng, LeCun, Bengio amp up x-risk debate

In a series of online articles, blog posts and posts on X/LinkedIn over the past few days, AI pioneers (sometimes called “godfathers” of AI) Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Ng, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio have amped up their debate over existential risks of AI by commenting publicly on each other’s posts. The debate clearly places Hinton and Bengio on the side that is highly concerned about AI’s…
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Canva launches AI tools for education

Canva is not resting on its AI laurels. Less than a month after launching its new AI-powered Magic Studio, the decade-old Australian startup that’s won a massive userbase by offering cloud-based graphic design and digital multimedia tools for the non-art degree-holding…
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Forrester’s 2024 Predictions Report warns of AI ‘shadow pandemic’ as employees adopt unauthorized tools

Forrester Research unveiled its highly anticipated 2024 predictions report last week, charting a course for more measured AI growth while warning business leaders to prepare for rampant “shadow usage” as employees rely on their own AI tools to be productive. The 38-page report sees AI platform budgets tripling in 2024 as companies invest in scalable solutions to build, deploy and monitor AI…
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