10X AI (Issue #33): Suno in Copilot, GitHub Chat, OpenVoice, and Superhero Love

PLUS: Leonardo Motion, Copilot on Android, OpenAI news, Pika wide release, Midjourney's site update, and Google's VideoPoet.

Happy 2024, friends!

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

This is the first issue after a two-week hiatus, so we have some news to catch up on.

Let’s get to it.

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🗞️ AI news

Here are the main highlights.

1. Suno comes to Microsoft Copilot

Remember Suno’s Chirp bot that writes songs with lyrics from a single prompt?

Well, you no longer need Discord for it!

Thanks to a partnership with Microsoft, Suno is now available inside Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat).

You’ll have to log in with your Microsoft account, then make sure to toggle Suno in the Plugins tab:

Now, you can request a song directly through the usual chat interface:

Here’s what I got for that request:

And it sounds like this:

Go make your own at copilot.microsoft.com.

2. In turn, Microsoft Copilot comes to Android

Microsoft also released Copilot as an Android app you can download right here.

Source: Microsoft on Playstore

It doesn’t appear that the above Suno plugin works via the app, so you’ll still need the web version for now.

There’s no iOS version yet but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t coming soon.

3. No more waitlist for Pika

A few days after Christmas, Pika dropped the waitlist:

This means you can head to Pika.art right now and start making videos for free!

Just watch how happy these totally regular hu-mans are about it:

4. Leonardo joins the video game with Leonardo Motion

But wait, there’s more AI video!

Leonardo just released Leonardo Motion:

Any image you generate within Leonardo now has a “Generate Motion video” button:

Click it to animate your image.

Just watch how thrilled these perfectly normal people are about it:

Unlike Pika, Leonardo Motion doesn’t offer a text-to-image option. It can only animate existing images on the site. At least for now.

5. Google teases VideoPoet video model

But wait, we’re still not quite done with AI video yet!

Google is cooking up its own video generation model called VideoPoet, capable of doing an impressive range of cool things:

• Video-to-audio: Input a video clip and VideoPoet will generate audio that matches it.

• Image-to-video: You know what this is (see above).

• Controllable video editing: Change a video using text prompts.

• Interactive video editing: Extend input video and evolve it based on your preferred candidates.

• Zero-shot stylization: Stylize a video using text descriptions.

• Zero-shot camera motions: Apply a camera movement by simply describing it

Here’s a collage from Google:

You can see more examples on the research site.

VideoPoet isn’t yet publicly available, but seeing how Google’s starting to finally release its in-house projects more regularly, we should hopefully get to try it later this year.

6. MyShell’s new voice cloning tool

MyShell just launched a tool called OpenVoice, allegedly able to clone voices based on very short input clips:

There’s even a demo you can try for free.

So I did, and I can’t say I was impressed with any of my attempts.

Here’s the (second) input clip with my actual voice:

And here’s what OpenVoice claims I sound like:

But hey, maybe you’ll have more luck? I’d love to hear if anyone manages to get a better voice clone.

Otherwise, check out the OpenVoice site with more impressive examples.

7. GitHub Copilot Chat is available to all

GitHub announced that their interactive Copilot Chat is now generally available to anyone using a GitHub Copilot plan.

GitHub Copilot Chat is integrated into products like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, demoed here:

8. News from OpenAI

OpenAI added the option to archive your ChatGPT chats and clean up the sidebar. There’s now an “Archive” button next to every chat:

This throws the chat into an archive that you can access via Your Profile > Settings & Beta > General:

What seems to be missing is a “Bulk Archive” button that’s likely to be more relevant to power users with hundreds of chats. Maybe next time?

OpenAI also announced via email that the GPT Store is about to launch:

If you’re a ChatGPT Plus user and have been making GPTs, you might want to get them prepped according to the above guidelines to qualify for inclusion in the store.

I think we’re about to see an avalanche of GPTs with only a tiny percentage of them being truly unique and profitable.

Time will tell!

9. News from Midjourney

Midjourney’s made a few updates, too!

First off, V6 got upgraded further:

It should now be even better at understanding your prompts and generating text.

I tested this using some of the prompts from my recent post about Version 6:

Vintage propaganda poster that says "This one's way too long, buddy!"

This is way closer than any image in my original grid!

Neon sign by a shady motel that says "Vacancy"

Photo of an old man's face. He has bright blue eyes, a black wart on his nose, and is wearing a yellow cap. He is laughing and we can see that his teeth are crooked.

Landscape photo of an alien planet full of bioluminescent plants and tall, purple trees

Yup, it’s an improvement: Every image is a step up from its original version.

Midjourney also quietly upgraded the Alpha site and added better ways to sort, filter, create folders, and otherwise organize your work:

Still no word about when the Alpha site will be available to people outside of the “10K+ images” club, but hopefully it will happen in January.

🤦‍♂️ 10. AI fail of the week

I gave Pika just the starting frame. Spider-man’s passion is 100% improvised!

Sunday poll time

I want to evolve “10X AI.”

I’d like to condense the current segments into shorter, skimmable highlights and make room for new insights.

Here are some ideas:

• AI Voices: Round-up of short answers from real AI writers and experts to a specific question of the week. (Readers could vote on what to ask.)

• AI Videos: Video embeds with tutorials, interviews, and so on.

• AI Stats: Fresh stats about AI usage, platforms, and more.

• AI in Action: Links to stories of AI being successfully used by regular people like creators, artists, solopreneurs, and so on.

I’m also open to other ideas you may have, so let me hear them!

Leave a comment or shoot me an email at whytryai@substack.com.

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