10X AI (Issue #13): AudioCraft, YouTube AI, Parenting Apps, and a Not-Quite-Platypus
PLUS: Google's and Meta's AI personas, ChatGPT improvements, multiple documents in Perplexity AI, and using Bing to summarize paywalled articles.
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Welcome back to 10X AI: a weekly look at beginner-focused AI news, tools, and tips.
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🗞️ AI news
Here are this week’s AI developments.
1. Meta open-sources AudioCraft
Meta really doesn’t want to leave the headlines these days.
This week, they’ve open-sourced Audiocraft, a framework that turns text prompts into high-quality audio and/or music. Audiocraft is built upon three separate models:
MusicGen (I did a comparison of MusiGen vs. MusicLM a while back)
AudioGen, which is like MusicGen for sounds that aren’t music
EnCodec for audio compression
There’s no public demo yet, but the code is on GitHub, if you know what to do with it.
2. ChatGPT quality-of-life improvements
OpenAI isn’t exactly sleeping, either. The company just announced a bunch of updates to make ChatGPT better:
Prompt examples above the “new chat” field:
You can initiate a chat by clicking any example, then take it from there.
Suggested replies: I wasn’t able to trigger these in my own chats, but…