10X AI (Issue #38): Gemini Ultra, Redesigned Copilot, Apple's MGIE, and a Headless Sloth
PLUS: Stable Video Diffusion 1.1, Hugging Face assistants, MetaVoice-1B, Smaug-72B, BUD-E voice assistant, and background removal by Bria AI.
Happy Sunday, friends!
Welcome back to 10X AI: a weekly look at generative AI news, tools, and tips for the average user.
I’m traveling with my wife and kids, so this will be a condensed, all-news edition.
Let’s get to it.
🗞️ AI news
Here are this week’s AI developments.
1. Gemini Ultra has arrived
After teasing Gemini Ultra—Google’s answer to GPT-4—in early December, Google finally made it available to the broader public.
In parallel news: Bard is no more. It’s now called Gemini and is found under gemini.google.com.
By default, Gemini is powered by what used to be called the “Gemini Pro” model.
But for $19.99 per month, you can upgrade to Gemini Advanced, which uses the newly released Gemini Ultra 1.0 model. (Yeah, it’s a bit of a naming mess.)
Google is clearly positioning Gemini Advanced as an alternative to ChatGPT Plus. The monthly price also includes 2TB of storage and several upcoming integrations: