Happy Friday!

Apple is dominating the AI news this week, but the newest kid on the block is Dream Machine; the next-gen video model bringing a lot of hype about video generation. Check it out now and have a good weekend 🌴 

Today’s News 👇️ 

• Mistral raises $640M in a massive Series B investment round valuing the AI startup at $6B on its 1st birthday.

• Jurny is an AI hospitality platform designed to automate 90% of backend tasks and disrupt the short term hospitality scene. It has also made investment available to the public.

• Tim Cook is ‘not 100%’ sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations.

• WienerAI is the new AI meme coin that raised $5M in presale that’s dubbed a hilarious and intelligent trading bot.

• Elon Musk threatens to ban iPhones at his companies.

• Dog Barks are being decoded with AI.

🗞️ AI Feature

Dream Machine is the next Sora rival.

Dream Machine is a text-to-video AI model that can generate videos at 120fps.

Luma Labs has unveiled a new AI-powered video creation tool called Dream Machine, now available to the public. Everyone can try it for free to see what kind of impressive videos they can create using text and images. If you've been surprised with Sora and Kling, this text-to-video AI model can help bring your ideas to life.

The company announced the new AI model on Twitter / X, showcasing examples of videos created with Dream Machine. Best of all, you can create 30 videos for free, although it was only released yesterday so there is a delay generating content due to the excessive demand. Check it out!

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💻️ AI at work

WhatsApp is able to create high quality GenAI images.

• Step 1: Open WhatsApp and select “Ask Meta AI or search” at the top

• Step 2: Use the prompt “/imagine a pink eagle”

• Step 3: Ask it to “animate the eagle” which will generate a GIF.

🎨 Gen AI art

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🔨 AI productivity tools

Take your game to the next level with tools to supercharge your workflow.

1. Argon is a realistic AI headshot generator. Just upload a selfie to convert into a professional AI generated headshot.

2. Domo lets your creativity flow by converting an image or video into an animated video. You just pick the style.

3. Exante is an AI powered contract repository to achieve another level of visibility into your contracts.

4. GetImg lets you unleash your imagination and create any type of image or art with text at scale.