👬 Elon and Mark’s “happy ending”

Happy Monday, tool trackers!

Welcome to your daily edition of the AI ToolTracker newsletter. 🗞️

In today’s AI news:

🎧 will.i.am launches his AI-powered app: FYI

🖼️ Meta's CM3Leon: a quantum leap in AI image generation

👬 Elon and Mark’s AI-generated “happy ending”

🫁 AI’s breakthrough in lung cancer screening

🛠️ 3 trending tools & tool updates

🎧 will.i.am launches his AI-powered app: FYI

Built to revolutionize the creative process, FYI is designed to streamline communication, project management, and idea protection for creatives.

Key Highlights:

• The application integrates various tools like messaging, file management, digital asset management, and a calendar to provide a one-stop solution for creative collaborations.

• The app's forthcoming feature, developed in collaboration with IBM, will allow users to generate NDAs for idea protection, promoting IP security.

• will.i.am suggests that the creativity and spontaneity of humans will not be overridden by AI, emphasizing the need for regulations around essence and likeness.

will.i.am's FYI poses a question: Are we ready for a future where creativity and technology become inseparable allies?

🖼️ Meta's CM3Leon: a quantum leap in AI image generation

Meta recently announced the launch of its new AI-powered image generator, CM3Leon, which is purported to have the best performance in text-to-image generation.

Key Highlights:

• CM3Leon’s efficiency outperforms most transformers, requiring five times less computation and a smaller training dataset than previous methods.

• Meta trained CM3Leon using a dataset of millions of licensed images from Shutterstock, building it up to 7 billion parameters, over twice as many as DALL-E 2.

• With a technique called supervised fine-tuning, CM3Leon's performance is enhanced in image generation and image caption writing, enabling image editing via text instructions.

CM3Leon symbolizes a pivotal advancement in AI image generation, simultaneously pushing efficiency and innovation boundaries. Will it revolutionize AI capabilities or raise more questions about artificial creativity and originality?

👬 Elon and Mark’s AI-generated “happy ending”

Amidst ongoing rivalry, these AI-generated images showing Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg in heartwarming scenarios go viral on Twitter.

Key Highlights:

• The two billionaires are seen in casual attire, enjoying playful beach moments in the AI-generated images.

• The post has received significant attention, accumulating seven million views and 130,000 likes. The unusual yet captivating visuals elicited humorous and positive responses from various social media users.

• Elon reacted to the viral post with a laughing emoji, implying his acknowledgment of the jovial sentiment.

This AI-rendered, peaceful depiction of these tech titans paints a fascinating alternate reality. It begs the question: Can rivalry and camaraderie coexist in the competitive world of tech?

🫁 AI's breakthrough in lung cancer screening

Healthcare providers worldwide are increasingly adopting AI to aid in early lung cancer detection.

Key Highlights:

• Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in the UK and Bacs-Kiskun County Hospital in Hungary are conducting AI trials that have successfully aided early cancer detection.

• Kheiron Medical Technologies' AI model, Mia, provides additional checks for mammogram scans, identifying areas of concern often missed by the human eye.

• Dr. Anand Sachithanandan, founding president of the Lung Cancer Network Malaysia (LCNM), initiated a free lung cancer screening using AI-enabled chest X-rays at health clinics in the Klang Valley.

• The AI X-ray software qXR, developed by India-based tech company Qure.ai, uses deep learning algorithms to detect, pinpoint, and identify abnormalities, enhancing radiologists' performance.

The potential of this AI underscores the urgent need for innovative approaches to address the looming cancer crisis.

⚒️ Trending Tools

Google's NotebookLM is an AI-powered notebook designed to synthesize facts and ideas from multiple sources. It functions as a virtual research assistant, generating document guides, answering queries, and fostering brainstorming.

RoboReply revolutionizes customer interactions by offering real-time, human-like responses. It provides context-sensitive information, increases sales, and handles support queries without templates or complex decision trees.

ToSummary simplifies complex information into concise summaries using advanced AI technology. It effectively turns any text, such as meeting notes or research articles, into easily digestible summaries.

🔄 Latest Tool Updates

ChatGPT

• Code interpreter is now rolling out in beta on the web (July 6). It lets ChatGPT run code, optionally with access to files you've uploaded.

• Browsing is temporarily disabled due to issues with content display.

• Mobile updates: iOS app available in more countries, shared links in alpha, Bing Plugin, disable history on iOS.

Google Bard

• Bard is expanding to over 40 languages and new countries, including Brazil and Europe.

• Bard introduces features for more customized responses, including adjustable tone and style.

• Users can now listen to Bard's responses in multiple languages.

• Four new features enhance productivity: pinning and renaming conversations, exporting Python code to Replit, sharing Bard chats via links, and image uploads with Google Lens analysis.

Claude 2

• Claude 2 is now available to general users in the U.S. and U.K. through a beta-test website.

• The updated model, Claude 2, is more accessible, with a beta-test website (claude.ai) available for general users in the U.S. and U.K. Businesses can access the new model through an API, at the same cost as Anthropic's previous version, Claude 1.3.

• Claude 2 is powerful and can summarize up to about 75,000 words. For comparison, a typical novel is about 60,000 to 80,000 words long.