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Sunday Rundown

10X AI (Issue #19): Stable Audio, Microsoft phi-1.5, AI Coaching, and Epic Poker

PLUS: Runway's Director Mode, Amazon's AI out of testing, Adobe Firefly out of beta, Würstchen text-to-image, and prompting ChatGPT with its own output.

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Daniel Nest
Sep 17, 2023
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Happy Sunday, friends!

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

Let’s get to it.

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🗞️ AI news

Here are this week’s AI developments.

1. Stable Audio music model is here

Welp, it looks like text-to-music is the next area of rapid growth in generative AI.

Just last week, I wrote about Chirp v1 (which composed an epic gangsta rap about Why Try AI).

This week, Stability AI unleashed Stable Audio onto the world.

Stable Audio is a latent diffusion model that takes text prompts as input to generate music clips with a 44.1 kHz sample rate.

And it’s available to everyone right now!

You simply describe the track you want…

Text prompt: Electropop with elements of hip hop. Upbeat and happy. Danceable. - prompt in Stable Audio

…and then get your track:

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