10X AI (Issue #17): Ideogram, Google Cloud Next, AI Image Tools, and Creepy Simpsons
PLUS: Loom's AI suite, Poe's bot search, and improving the quality of Midjourney images with this one weird trick they don't want you to know (whoever "they" are).
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🗞️ AI news
Here are this week’s AI developments.
1. Ideogram’s free text-to-image model goes public
After making a few splashes already last week, Ideogram officially launched its text-to-image model on August 29.
Another image-making AI?
Why?!
Well, Ideogram’s claim to fame is solving the classic issue with most other models: Their inability to generate non-gibberish text. DeepFloyd IF that I wrote about in May did something similar.
But it appears Ideogram truly takes this to the next level, maintaining text consistency even with longer sentences.
Some examples of prompts and results:
Homer Simpson with a T-shirt that spells "I Hate Peter Griffin", painting
Blacklight futuristic banner that spells "Why Try AI?", conceptual art, typography