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10X AI (Issue #3): DeepFloyd IF, StarCoder, Speech-To-Notes AI, and a Cheating Surfer

Plus more stuff coming to Bing, Stability AI's new open-source LLM, learning negotiation skills with AI, and other tools and tips.

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Daniel Nest
May 07, 2023
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Happy Sunday, friends!

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

Let’s dive right in.

AI news

Here are this week’s AI developments.

1. Text-to-image AI that can spell

Man, Stability AI are on a roll these days!

Two weeks ago, I wrote about their entry into the LLM game with StableLM.

Now they dropped a text-to-image model called DeepFloyd IF. What sets it apart from all other text-to-image models on the market is its ability to spell.

Here’s the pre-upscale grid from DeepFloyd IF for “shop sign that says ‘WELCOME’”:

DeepFloyd IF results for "shop sign that says "WELCOME"

This might not seem too impressive, but here’s what the latest and greatest Midjourney V5.1 returns for the same prompt:

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