Sound to Street Images, Gemini and Interior Design, and What Makes Elon Special

Tools and industry news from the world of artificial intelligence.

Morning y’all!

While Mondays are usually days that I try to catch up from the weekend, I like Tuesdays better since I can usually find enough time to take a small step backward and ask myself if I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, which is a complicated and hard questions at times! But do it we must.

• AI already can do all of the jobs that we can do. Ok.

• Former CEO of Google says we should be able to unplug this stuff if necessary.

• Liquid AI raises $250m. Wow.

• Sound recordings into accurate street images? Impressive.

• Meta releases Apollo.

• This week’s top research papers, a twitter thread.

• YouTube search demo. Pretty cool it’s free.

• Gemini is your personal interior designer.

• AI and regulation fix (video below):

• Agentic workflow for patient case summaries (medical).

• Google’s experiment, Whisk, can combine multiple images into one.

• Understand videos and search at the same time using Gemini 2.0.

• Job market sucks, worse than pre-covid levels. AI to the rescue?

• Andrej K. on what makes Elon so special.

• Google’s DeepMind Veo video tool is getting heads to turn.

• AI dating convo improvement app that’s making $190k per month. Great name.

• A big spreadsheet that captures models, datasets, and more.

• The AI we deserve and why we don’t have coherent results with GenAI.

• Replit can now anticipate your needs and make future suggestions. This doesn’t feel unnatural to me and I see more things moving from on-demand to automatic.

• Apple’s AGI Chief doesn’t want AGI.

• An experimental desktop app that watches your screen, terminal, and more.

• China’s AI Elite rethink immigration for national security.

• Full stack app using any LLM you want.

• Thousands of MidJourney styles.

• Ryne is your new study buddy.

• Another ChatGPT sidebar extension.

• Manga reader with built-in translation.

• More viral videos.

• Projects have now launched in OpenAI.

• Commentary on how the movie Ex Machina predicted the future in 2015.

And what it takes to be excellent. Doing things well over a long period of time is the key but most folks don’t do things with excellence and they quit long before they see the results. So, keep it up folks!

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— Summer