Adobe just introduced an IP indemnity clause for enterprise customers, promising to pay legal claims if they get sued over artwork created with Firefly. Because the model was trained exclusively on Adobe Stock and public domain content rather than the open internet, the company is treating copyright protection as an insurance policy to win over skittish corporate buyers.
Midjourney just rolled out version 5.2, introducing a camera-like "zoom out" feature that builds out wider scenes while keeping the original subject intact. The update also brings a revamped aesthetic system and a handy "/shorten" command to trim bloated prompts. The catch: you can't upload custom images to expand yet—it only works on Midjourney's own generations.
Stability AI just launched SDXL 0.9, bringing a significant upgrade to its flagship text-to-image pipeline over the April beta. It uses a 6.6B parameter two-stage ensemble to generate high-res 1024x1024 visuals while still fitting on a consumer GPU with 8GB VRAM. Why it matters: High-fidelity open models are closing the gap with closed competitors, with a full open release slated for mid-July.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told Cannes Lions attendees that generative AI will augment, not replace, human creativity across text, 3D, and video. Through a partnership with ad giant WPP, NVIDIA is building an AI content engine to produce personalized marketing assets at scale. Why it matters: The $700B digital ad market is moving from retrieving a few static ads to generating billions of tailored variations on the fly.
Celebrities are striking deals with AI startups like Metaphysic and Soul Machines to license their own digital doubles for brand marketing. Instead of fighting unauthorized deepfakes, stars like Neymar and Eva Herzigova can appear in campaigns, de-age decades, or walk virtual runways without ever showing up on set.
Hidden Door just opened limited playtests for its Wizard of Oz role-playing platform, which uses generative AI to generate tailored story adventures for each player. An AI narrator adapts plots, characters, and artwork in real time based on player inputs, with the full game arriving in Winter 2023. Why it matters: It shows how generative tech can transform public domain lore into collaborative, endless narrative sandboxes.
Google just launched a new virtual try-on feature that generates photorealistic images of clothing on diverse real models. Moving away from awkward image warping, the new diffusion-based model generates garments from scratch to accurately capture wrinkles, drape, and stretch. It is rolling out first for women's tops from brands like H&M and Everlane.
Meta just open-sourced I-JEPA, a computer vision model that predicts missing parts of images using abstract concepts rather than calculating pixel by pixel. Trained in under 72 hours on just 16 A100 GPUs, it uses up to 10x less compute than traditional methods. Yann LeCun sees it as a major proof of concept for building common-sense world models.
Adobe just rolled out Generative Recolor in the Illustrator beta, powered by its Firefly model. Designers can type prompts like "neon jungle" to instantly spin up fresh color palettes for vector graphics without tedious manual adjustments, all covered by commercial copyright protection.
Meta just gave employees an internal look at a suite of upcoming generative AI features, including customizable chatbots for WhatsApp and Messenger, prompt-based photo editing on Instagram, and an internal assistant dubbed Metamate. Mark Zuckerberg said the tech will eventually touch every single product.
Clipdrop just released Uncrop, an outpainting tool built on Stable Diffusion XL that extends image backgrounds to complement existing photos and adjust aspect ratios. Users can resize images or fix framing without writing prompts, and the tool is available for free on the web app without requiring a login.
Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign just released an attack ad against Donald Trump featuring three AI-generated deepfake images of Trump embracing Anthony Fauci. Forensic experts flagged telltale flaws like mangled White House signage and airbrushed textures, highlighting how political campaigns are now actively blurring reality with synthetic media.
Adobe just rolled out a major revamp of Adobe Express, integrating its Firefly generative AI directly into the browser workflow for text-to-image and text effects. The update brings an all-in-one editor covering drag-and-drop video creation, PDF enhancements, and real-time syncing with Photoshop and Illustrator assets.
Tafi just announced it is developing a text-to-3D character engine capable of exporting production-ready assets straight into Unreal, Unity, Blender, and NVIDIA Omniverse. Trained on its massive Genesis character dataset, the platform also includes a built-in attribution and monetization model to pay participating artists.
Google just introduced StyleDrop, a style transfer technique for its Muse text-to-image model that learns any visual style from a single reference image in under three minutes. It captures tricky shading, textures, and color schemes significantly better than LoRA or DreamBooth.
Snapchat just rolled out My AI Snaps for Snapchat+ subscribers, letting users snap photos to the chatbot and receive AI-generated images in return. Powered by ChatGPT and GPT-4, the feature turns AI chat into visual messaging, though camera roll support and web access remain limited for now.
Microsoft just integrated its AI-powered graphic tool Designer into the free version of Teams, rolling out in preview on Windows 11. Powered by OpenAI's DALL-E 2, it lets users spin up posters, presentations, and social graphics directly from text prompts. It essentially brings Canva-like design convenience right inside your daily collaboration hub.
NVIDIA Research just revealed Neuralangelo, an AI model that turns standard 2D video clips into high-fidelity 3D assets. Borrowing instant neural graphics primitives from Instant NeRF, it reconstructs tricky textures like roof tiles and marble with remarkable detail. The breakthrough makes building virtual environments far easier for game developers and robotics teams, and the code is already live on GitHub.
Stability AI's Clipdrop just launched Reimagine XL, an upgraded visual tool that creates brand-new variations of any uploaded photo without touching its original pixels. Instead of relying on text prompts, it uses an advanced image encoder to output high-resolution alternatives across diverse aspect ratios.
A fake, AI-generated image showing a massive blast near the Pentagon just went viral on Twitter, briefly knocking the US stock market down 0.26% before it recovered. Spread by high-profile accounts including Russian state media RT, the hoax was quickly debunked by the local Arlington Fire Department, while eagle-eyed users spotted warped fences and classic AI artifacts.
