8 Biz-Boosting (+ 9 Quirky 🙃) AI Tools This Week

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We owe you an apology for a pretty big oversight in last week’s newsletter. The ‘reallly good AI video tool’ we referred to was actually the Flux IMAGE generator. 🤦 We certainly didn’t mean to be misleading or cause any confusion. To make it up to you, we did a deep dive on Flux. Check it out below 👇.

In This Issue:

• 💥 Big News: Midjourney’s new editing tool, customizable GPT-4o, 5 image & video generator releases, 3 new Microsoft models + 7 more

• ✨ Weekly Spotlight: Build voice-driven AI products

• 🔥 Hot Tools: Identify your next best product, eliminate unnecessary meetings, find ready-to-buy leads + 5 more

• 💡 Quick Guide: Ignite your creativity with 9 quirky AI tools

• 👀 Tool Deep Dive: Meet Flux, the powerful new AI image generator

💥 Big News

AI Releases From Big Tech

Google enhanced its AI image generator, AI Overviews, & options to help you refine your emails.

OpenAI now lets you fine-tune GPT-4o (get 1 million tokens/day for free until Sept 23).

Midjourney unleashed an all-in-1 editing tool, synchronized Discord & website messages, & now lets anyone use its new website (New user? Create 25 images for free).

Microsoft launched 3 new Phi-3.5 models… all with near state-of-the-art performance.

Perplexity is rolling out an enhanced code interpreter with plot rendering capabilities.

Meta’s new image generator, which creates personalized images that don’t need complicated adjustments, is in beta for US users.

Ideogram’s latest AI image model offers more customization, photorealism, & more.

ElevenLabs’ Reader app reads aloud in 30+ languages & 100’s of voices (get 3 months free).

Luma Labs’ Dream Machine AI video generator now boasts better realism, motion following, & more.

Best Buy is rolling out AI-powered, minute-by-minute delivery tracking.

Hotshot launched a new text-to-video generator (try it for free).

💫 Check out the 72 AI products & features Big Tech launched in the last week.

✨ Weekly Spotlight

Build Voice-Driven AI Products with Just 10 Lines of Code

AssemblyAI is the most accurate speech-to-text API on the market. Period. Built by AI experts and trained on extensive multilingual data, Assembly AI sets new standards for accuracy — enabling you to create AI-powered products using voice data.

• High-accuracy transcription — even with accented speech, background noise, & natural conversations

• Seamless integration with models for speech recognition, speaker detection, summarization, & more

• Low-latency processing, ideal for real-time applications

✨ Weekly Spotlight

Build Voice-Driven AI Products with Just 10 Lines of Code

AssemblyAI is the most accurate speech-to-text API on the market. Period. Built by AI experts and trained on extensive multilingual data, Assembly AI sets new standards for accuracy — enabling you to create AI-powered products using voice data.

• High-accuracy transcription — even with accented speech, background noise, & natural conversations

• Seamless integration with models for speech recognition, speaker detection, summarization, & more

• Low-latency processing, ideal for real-time applications

🔥 Hot Tools

8 Trending & Featured AI Tools

ViableView: Identify your next best-selling product**

Conva.ai (freemium): Create an AI assistant for your app in 1 click

Magnific: Turn images into detailed, high-resolution masterpieces

Timetics (freemium): Seamlessly book appointments & manage events

Coldreach: Find ready-to-buy leads

Minvo (freemium): Make & schedule high-quality videos for social media

Tusk (freemium): Complete UI changes from ticket to pull request

Alterfy: Eliminate unnecessary meetings

Tripo (freemium): Instantly create 3D models using text or images

**Featured

🚀 Don’t miss out! Log in to Futurepedia each Thursday for your 5 personalized tool recommendations.

💡 Quick Guide

Ignite Your Creativity with 9 Quirky AI Tools

While most of these AI tools are impressively practical, some are downright… weird. But since we had so much fun with them (check out our full video 😂), we thought you might, too.

1. Skyglass: Play with 3D characters that mirror your movements & facial expressions (TIP: Replace their voices using ElevenLabs’ speech-to-speech feature)

2. BG Bye (free): Easily remove image backgrounds

3. GenType (free): Make a photo alphabet out of anything

4. GeoSpy (freemium): Discover where an image was taken

5. SoBrief: ‘Read’ any book in 10 minutes

6. Aspect (freemium): Explore this Instagram-with-a-twist “social” app where every other ‘person’ is AI

7. Friend: Interact with a wearable AI companion that listens, learns, & engages with you

8. Fal: Use tons of different open-source image generation models in the cloud

9. WebSim (free): Create immersive websites instantly (TIP: Check out the helpful WebSIM URL Prompting Bible)

👀 Tool Deep Dive

Meet The Powerful New AI Image Generator, Flux

Developed by Black Forest Labs (whose team is composed of former Stability members… i.e., the creators of Stable Diffusion), Flux is capturing attention for its highly realistic and detailed images.

Flux offers three versions: Pro for commercial use, Dev for creating custom apps, and Schnell, which generates images 10x faster than Pro with less computational requirements.

Flux’s Key Features

• Highly photorealistic: Flux generates hyper-realistic images (particularly human figures & complex scenes) by employing advanced techniques like rotary positional embedding

• Accessibility: Flux Dev & Schnell can run locally on a high-performance laptop — eliminating the need for expensive hardware or cloud storage

• Open-Source: Integrates into a wide range of applications

How Flux Compares

Midjourney outshines Flux in artistic flair and slightly surpasses Flux in realism. But Flux excels at image structure & rendering consistent text.

DALL-E 3 takes the win in terms of creativity, but Flux offers more customization options, handles complex prompts better, and renders text within images more accurately than DALL-E.

Plus, unlike the free-to-use Flux, Midjourney and DALL-E both have a cost for entry. Flux can also be run locally on your computer, and is open source — a significant benefit over the public API-lacking Midjourney & DALL-E, which you can only use via API or online platforms like ChatGPT.

How To Access Flux

• Locally on Your Computer: Install Pinokio > Go to the ‘Explore’ tab > find Flux Web UI > Click ‘Download’ (Check that you have enough VRAM: ~12GB)

• Other Apps: Try it via NightCafe, Based Labs, Fal, or Poe: Pro & Schnell

• Hugging Face: Use Flux Dev & Flux Schnell… no sign up needed