10X AI (Issue #23): Adobe MAX, AI Reference Sites, and a Moonwalking Dinosaur

PLUS: More features in Google's SGE, multilingual dubbing by ElevenLabs, Character AI group chat, and Replit AI for everyone.

Happy Sunday, friends!

Welcome back to 10X AI: a weekly look at beginner-focused AI news, tools, and tips.

I’m away with the kids for the school autumn holiday, so I’ll keep the commentary short today.

Let’s get to it.

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🗞️ AI news

Here are this week’s AI developments.

1. Adobe’s AI avalanche

Adobe is the undisputed AI headliner of the week. During its Adobe MAX conference, the company either released or teased an absolutely astonishing amount of new AI features, tools, upgrades, and WIP projects.

Released:

• New Firefly Image 2 model that can create photographic images

• Generative Match that lets you apply the style of an image to your own

• Prompt Suggestions that help you create more detailed prompts

• Text-to-Vector that creates fully scalable vector graphics from a single prompt

• Text-to-Template that creates editable templates for any requirements

Teased:

• Project Fast Fill that can remove or change objects in videos

• Project Draw & Delight: an impressive doodle-to-image creation tool

• Project Neo that makes it very easy to create 3D elements

• Project Scene Change that can seamlessly insert a subject into a separately filmed scene

• Project Primrose showcased interactive wearables that change their look on demand

• Project Glyph Ease can create entirely new font families from just three reference letters

• Project Poseable lets creators pose subjects with precision before generating images based on them

• Project Res Up can upscale low-resolution videos to HD quality

• Project Dub Dub Dub lets you redub videos into 70+ languages while matching the speaker’s voice

• Project Stardust that makes image editing extremely intuitive

• Project See Through can clean up images shot through windows by removing reflections and distortions

Nothing I write can fully do justice to just how impressive many of these tools are.

If you’re even remotely interested, here’s the keynote with the stuff that’s out:

To get a sneak peek of all the upcoming stuff, check out MAX Sneaks:

You can try the new Firefly Image 2 model and several of the new features for free over at firefly.adobe.com.

2. Google’s SGE updates

Google now lets you generate images directly within its Search Generative Experience by simply typing in your request:

You’ll also be able to create AI-assisted text drafts while searching the web for ideas and then export those to Google Docs for further refining.

Both should be available to US customers who have opted in for SGE.

3. ElevenLabs multilingual dubbing

While Adobe’s Project Dub Dub Dub is still a work in progress, ElevenLabs has already launched its own multilingual dubbing for audio and video:

And yes, you can try it for yourself!

4. Replit for all

This is mostly for the coding-inclined among you. Replit made its AI copilot, Replit AI, available to all developers (instead of just the Pro users).

Now every user can get coding assistance and chat to Replit AI in order to work iteratively on their code.

5. Character AI launches a group chat

Character AI, the second most-visited AI app after ChatGPT, has introduced Character Group Chat, which lets users create chatrooms populated by a mix of AI characters and humans.

Character AI lists a bunch of potential use cases for the functionality, including book clubs, roleplaying games, study groups, and more.

The Character Group Chat is currently available to c.ai+ subscribers, which is a paid plan with a monthly fee of $10 (no, sorry, $9.99).

📚 AI reference sites

Instead of the usual tools and tips, today I’m sharing four reference sites that are either about or powered by AI.

6. WhatPlugin

There are now hundreds of third-party plugins for ChatGPT. The problem is that the native ChatGPT plugin search isn’t very effective in helping you find what you need.

That’s where WhatPlugin.ai comes in!

The site lets you search, filter, and sort plugins based on different criteria, which makes finding what you need easier.

7. There’s An AI For That

There’s An AI For That serves a similar function but for AI tools more broadly.

The apps and sites are categorized, searchable, and sortable. You can also see the average rating for each tool and how often it’s been bookmarked, giving you an idea of its relative popularity. Plus the site provides a few alternative tools for each listing.

8. Vedeo

Vedeo is the place to discover new AI-generated videos submitted by users.

It’s worth a visit if only to be impressed by the sheer volume and creativity of people making everything from teaser trailers to complete short films in every genre imaginable.

Go take a look!

9. Consensus

Consensus pulls together insights from peer-reviewed research papers to give you fact-based answers to any question, as long as it’s sufficiently covered.

Of course, the answers you get are only as good as the underlying research, so take them with a grain of salt. Unless it’s about the benefits of wine, in which case, embrace it without any further critical analysis¹:

I’m off to go and improve my health!

🤦‍♂️ 10. AI fail of the week

“Mouse riding a dinosaur.” Exactly as I imagined it. (Mouse hemorrhoids were an unexpected bonus.)

Sunday chat

In lieu of the usual poll, I’d like to try a subscriber chat thread this time around. Today’s question:

“Which generative AI field surprised you with its pace of progress in 2023?”

See my take and join the chat right here:

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