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▲ OpenAI's Major Update to ChatGPT

AND: Top 6 AI Video Generators to Look Out For

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Matt Lok
October 10, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

Welcome future tech & AI enthusiasts — this week’s highlights:

Meta launched Movie Gen, a new AI model. It generates high-quality videos and audio and is designed to boost content creation.

OpenAI has launched Canvas, a major update to the ChatGPT interface. It aims to improve collaboration on writing and coding projects.

We’ll also look at the top 6 AI video generators you can use today.

Let’s get into it.

In today’s issue:

▲ AI TECH

Meta has launched Movie Gen, a new AI model. It generates high-quality videos and audio, designed to boost content creation.

What you need to know

  • Model Specs: It can produce 1080p videos at 16 fps. Movie Gen is a transformer model with 30 billion parameters. It was trained on 100 million video-text pairs and 1 billion image-text pairs. This improved its ability to generate and edit videos from text prompts.

  • Functionality: The platform lets users create videos from text. They can edit footage and personalize content with images. It also generates audio that syncs with the visuals. They are pitching it as the complete video production tool.

  • Comparing Performance: There are claims that Movie Gen has beaten OpenAI's Sora and Runway Gen3 in various benchmarks. It excels at keeping video structure and detail while making motion realistic.

Key Ideas

▲ Inviting More Creativity: Movie Gen makes great video production accessible to more people. By enabling users to create high-quality videos without complicated video editing tools. This will open up more options for marketers, educators, and content creators.

▲ AI TECH

OpenAI has launched Canvas, a major update to the ChatGPT interface. It aims to improve collaboration on writing and coding projects.

This new feature was announced on October 3, 2024. It is now in beta for ChatGPT Plus and Team users. Plans are to extend access to Enterprise and educational users soon. Free users will gain access after the beta phase ends.

Key features of Canvas

  • Separate Workspace: Canvas opens in a new window beside the main chat. Users can now edit and manage projects together, without the limits of standard chat.

  • Enhanced Collaboration: Users can highlight text or code for ChatGPT to focus on. This allows for more nuanced feedback and suggestions. This feature aims to improve editing. It will enable inline critiques like those from a copy editor or code reviewer.

  • Writing and Coding Shortcuts: The interface has a sidebar with shortcuts for various tasks.

  • Writing: Options like "Suggest edits," "Adjust length," and "Change reading level."

  • Coding: It has "Review code," "Add comments," "Fix bugs," and easy translation to Python and JavaScript.

  • Automatic Activation: Canvas can auto-open when ChatGPT detects that a more structured workspace would help the task. Users can also invoke it by including "use canvas" in their prompt.

Key Idea

▲ Improving AI Interaction: Canvas is the first major update to ChatGPT's visual interface since its launch. It allows for a more natural and collaborative workspace and now gives you more room to play with your ideas.

▲ AI TOOLS

Top 6 AI Video Generators

The AI video generation field is changing fast. Let's go over the key players they are competing to offer the best, most user-friendly tools.

Key AI Video Players:

  • Runway: It leads with Gen-3 Alpha. It offers high-res, detailed videos and impressive speed, processing clips in 3-5 minutes. Runway has launched an API for developers to integrate their models into third-party apps.

  • Google's Veo: There are talks it will integrate into YouTube Shorts eventually. Which would reach a huge audience for short videos.

  • Luma: It has an API, with no waitlist. It can control virtual cameras in AI-generated scenes.

  • Pika: It has an image-to-video feature that keeps the background consistent. But, it struggles with complex motion dynamics.

  • Kling: Emerging as a strong contender alongside Runway in recent reviews.

  • Stability AI: Has developed its own video generation models. It has recruited director James Cameron to its board, signalling a push into the film industry.

Key Takeaway:

▲ Each platform has unique strengths. Each platform is competing to revolutionise content creation. This will affect industries from entertainment to marketing. Expect to see an explosion of AI video content in 2025.

The Lab

▲ AI EDUCATION

How to create text behind images with AI

A 16-year-old developer from Hong Kong released this text behind image generator. By using Cursor AI they were able to create and release a demo within a few hours. It’s a great tool and could be used for YouTube thumbnails for example.

Step-by-Step:

  1. Visit text behind image website Sign up or log in.

  2. Upload image: Can be a still from a video or any image

  3. Add text: It will automatically place it behind the image

  4. Refine: You can adjust the text, font, size, colours.

Pro Tip:

  • Test Multiple Images: Results can depend on the image so try different images if the text isn’t being placed properly.

🔬 Interested in learning about AI for business? Let us know what you want to learn & join The Lab waitlist.

▲ AI IMAGE SHOWCASE

Create this Pop Art comic style with a Speech bubble

Midjourney Prompt: flat art, a man wearing a tweed jacket and professorial vintage glasses points out , with a blank bubble for text above him

Image Usage Suggestion: Facebook Ad

💌 Reply to this email with your AI image generation or suggestion of what you’d like to see and I'll feature it in a future newsletter.

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Stay curious,
Matt Lok, Editor

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