New Chrome AI features, Google's generative AI tool, OpenAI's $100B chip project, AI-powered marketing & Spotify's AI playlist!

Welcome, AI enthusiast — Here’s this week’s edition of Inside AI,
Weekly Round-Up:

• AI Playlists by Spotify

• New AI Image Generation Tool

• Meta Confirms most Awaited AI release

• More AI tools & Resources
  

SPOTIFY
Spotify rolls out an AI-powered playlist feature

Spotify is building on its AI DJ feature, adding a new AI-powered playlist feature. No, this is not merely asking Spotify to spit out, say, metalcore classics from the 2010s, but instead something more of a “my dog is sad and I love the colour purple please make me a list of songs“ sort of thing. You can prompt it, and Spotify will come up with a list of tunes for you. How far you can push it remains to be seen, but I do intend to test its guardrails when I get the chance.

Spotify’s AI work nests into its other efforts to differentiate its service from rivals like Apple Music and offerings from Amazon. The European tech giant has also pushed into audiobooks, podcasting and even edtech in recent years.

Starting in just a few countries, the new AI playlist feature will roll out to more markets over time. How long it will take to reach your hands is not clear, if you, like myself, are not located in the feature’s launch countries. Some Spotify users have complained that the rollout of new products can take longer than they want to reach their home market, it’s worth noting.

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FREEPIK
Freepik redefines AI image generation with unrivaled realism in real-time

The leading tech company has launched the latest version of its AI Image Generator, which includes real-time generation and infinite scroll in a variety of styles

Freepik, the global tech company and world’s largest platform for audio-visual resources and generative AI tools, has launched the latest version of its AI Image Generator to the public. This groundbreaking tool redefines the creative process by offering users unparalleled access to one of the fastests real-time AI image generation, with infinite variations and photorealistic results.

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META
Meta confirms that its Llama 3 open source LLM

At an event in London on Tuesday, Meta confirmed that it plans an initial release of Llama 3, the next generation of its large language model used to power generative AI assistants, within the next month.

This confirms a report published on Monday by The Information that Meta was getting close to launch.

“Within the next month, actually less, hopefully in a very short period of time, we hope to start rolling out our new suite of next-generation foundation models, Llama 3,” said Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs. He described what sounds like the release of several different iterations or versions of the product. “There will be a number of different models with different capabilities, different versatilities [released] during the course of this year, starting really very soon.”

The plan, Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox added, will be to power multiple products across Meta with Llama 3.

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🛠️ More Tools

• Presence - Discover people in your area with shared interests and backgrounds. (link)

• TLDR This - Feeling overwhelmed by long articles? This clever AI tool can whip up a summary in seconds! Just paste the link, choose how much detail you want. Get your key points condensed for easy reading. (link)

• ArtFlow AI - Bring your animated stories to life! This AI tool lets you build unique scenes, characters, and even write their dialogs for a fun and easy way to create cartoon adventures. (link)

• Ideogram - Helps users visualize their data in a graphical format. It provides a simple, easy-to-use interface to create diagrams and charts that represent data points, relationships, and trends. (link)

📘 Resources

• Google Cloud and Hugging Face announced a new partnership to advance open-source AI, with HF users now able to leverage Google infrastructure to build models. (link)

• PayPal to launch AI-based products as new CEO aims to revive share price. (link)

• Apple Podcasts is getting auto-generated transcripts with iOS 17.4. (link)

• Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone. (link)

• Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes. (link)

• Etsy launches ‘Gift Mode,’ a new AI-powered feature that generates 200+ gift guides. (link)

• Ola founder’s Krutrim becomes India’s first AI unicorn. (link)

• General purpose humanoid robots? (link)

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