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Welcome back to The Daily Update — Happy Friday! Here’s today’s menu:
🗞️ The Latest in AI: Meta has a new tool that creates music from text
🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Create logos and brand materials with Looka
📸 Business Spotlight: Tinder rizz might get a boost from AI
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
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🗞️ The Latest in AI: Meta has a new tool that creates music from text
Click on the image to listen to an AudioCraft sample shared with the media.
Meta just released a new open-source AI model called AudioCraft that can create music and sounds entirely through generative AI.
What you need to know:
It consists of three AI models: MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec.
MusicGen takes text inputs to generate music. It was trained on 20,000 hours of music owned by Meta or licensed for this project.
AudioGen creates audio from written prompts, simulating footsteps, sirens, etc. It was trained on public sound effects.
An improved version of EnCodec lets users create sounds with fewer artifacts.
The models are now open-source, meaning researchers can train their own models using Meta’s dataset.
Why it matters:
Music artists and record labels around the world are rallying against AI due to copyright concerns. Others say AI presents new opportunities to the music industry.
Meta’s synthesizer will compete with Google’s MusicLM, a model that is only available to researchers.
Admittedly, the sample audio that Meta shared with the media isn’t that impressive, but this tool still has huge potential. Listen to “Heart On My Sleeve” (an AI-generated cover of Drake and The Weeknd) to see why everyone’s talking about AI music.
🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Create logos and brand materials with Looka
(Not sure if I like this better than my actual logo, but it would’ve saved hours of work.)
Looka is perfect for you if you’re starting a business or rebranding. It’s also a great place to design a logo for any other organizations or groups that you’re involved with. You can generate a wide selection of logos in less than five minutes, and each logo is fully customizable.
The platform also provides all users with a brand kit that can be purchased for $96 a year. The kit includes your customized logo and over 300 branded materials that are automatically updated if you change your logo.
The brand kit most notably includes:
Website templates
Business cards
Print products
Social media profiles and posts
Presentations
Advertisements
Flyers
Newsletters
If you already have a logo that you love, you can upload it to Looka and receive all of the platform’s branding materials at the same price. This is worth looking into if you’re searching for new ways to brand your business or organization.
Click here to try Looka.
📸 Business Spotlight: Tinder rizz might get a boost from AI
Screenshot: Match Group
Tinder is currently testing an AI photo selection feature that looks at a user’s photo album and selects the five that best represent them for their dating profile. Parent company Match Group revealed the project during its earnings call Wednesday.
Key takeaways:
AI-powered photo selection aims to eliminate the struggle of finding photos to build a profile.
Match Group is testing other AI features that it plans to roll out in the coming months.
Last month Tinder CPO Mark Van Ryswyk hinted that generative AI could be used to write bios.
Match Group wants to be careful about its approach to AI dating.
The bigger picture: AI romance has gained popularity at an alarmingly fast pace. It might not be long before AI can write every single text you send to a potential partner.
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
AI in video games: Inworld, a generative AI platform for creating NPCs, lands an additional $50+ million in funding.
AI warfare: Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of military technology supplier Palantir, advocates for U.S. development of AI weapons.
AI regulation: UN Security Council debates AI’s impacts on peace and sustainable development.
AI-driven disinformation: Big AI won’t stop election deepfakes with watermarks.
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Jack
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