AI Artist Earns Over $1 Million In One Day!

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Rise and shine—it’s Thursday, and a lot happened in the AI world! This is the newest issue of /Imagine, your go-to source for the freshest news and developments in AI. Let’s dive in…

High Level: AI Artist Claire Silver’s AI Art Drop Yields Over $1 Million in One Day 🎨

The Bytes:

✣ AI Art Revolution: AI artist Claire Silver has made waves in the digital art collectible world with her fashion drop, which sold out instantly, raising an impressive 500 ETH, equivalent to $1.17 million. Yes, you read that right.

✣ Art Meets Technology: This collection merges the boundaries between AI, fashion, and digital artistry, showcasing the potential of AI in creating not just art, but wearable digital designs.

✣ A Milestone for AI Art: Claire Silver’s achievement is a testament to the market demand and acceptance for AI-generated art.

Why You Should Care: Don’t let anyone tell you your Midjourney AI art obsession is worthless. Claire’s drop is indicative of a larger trend where digital AI art becomes a significant cultural and economic force within the art world.

High Level: ElevenLabs GPT Highlight: Ammaar Reshi’s Custom Voice Bot🗣️

The Bytes:

✣ Voice GPT: Ammaar Reshi (@ammaar) introduces ElevenLabs GPT, an awesome custom GPT that transforms text prompts into lifelike audio, without having to ever leave ChatGPT.

✣ Accessible Content: The technology extends to reading online articles aloud and converting uploaded documents into audio, making information more accessible and convenient for users on the go.

✣ Experience the Magic: The demo above showcasing ElevenLabs GPT’s capabilities illustrates the seamless transition from text to speech, highlighting the potential of AI in enhancing our daily digital interactions.

Why You Should Care: ElevenLabs GPT is an intuitive and easy way to experience voice AI without leaving ChatGPT, offering content creators and consumers a new, dynamic way to experience text-based media. Try it out here!

High Level: Midjourney’s Evolution: Alpha Website Launch & New Consistency Feature 🌐

The Bytes:

✣ Alpha Website Breakthrough: Midjourney has launched its alpha website, allowing users to generate AI images directly on the site. Finally! As highlighted in my tweet above, this new platform offers a vastly improved user experience, with enhanced control, better organization, and an end to the endless scrolling through Discord channels.

✣ Consistency Feature Beta: Midjourney introduces “Style References,” a beta feature that enables users to create images with consistent styles. Users can input URLs as style references after their prompt using --sref followed by the URLs. This instructs the AI to generate images that match the aesthetic of the provided styles.

✣ Tutorial on Using Style References:

After your text prompt, type --sref followed by one or more image URLs to define the style.

Adjust the influence of each style by adding :: and a number after the URL (e.g., urlA::2 urlB::3).

Control the overall style strength with --sw (e.g., --sw 100 for default strength).

Place any regular image prompts before --sref.

This feature is compatible with both V6 and Niji V6 models.

Why You Should Care: Midjourney’s new alpha website and consistency feature represent significant strides in AI image generation from the best image generator on the market. These will offer creators more flexibility and precision in bringing their visions to life. Constantly impressed with Midjourney.

High Level: Figure AI’s Potential Funding Boost: Microsoft & OpenAI’s Vote of Confidence 🤖

The Bytes:

✣ Funding Frontier: Bloomberg teased us yesterday that Figure AI, a startup at the forefront of developing humanoid robots, is in talks to secure a substantial $500 million funding round, potentially led by tech giants Microsoft and OpenAI.

✣ Strategic Investment: The investment, which could value Figure AI at around $1.9 billion signifies a strategic move by Microsoft and OpenAI to bring their AI to the real world through hardware investments.

✣ Future of Robotics: Figure AI’s humanoid robots, designed to perform tasks unsuitable for humans, could revolutionize industries by addressing labor shortages, enhancing productivity, and changing our everyday lives.

Why You Should Care: The potential investment in Figure AI by Microsoft and OpenAI could accelerate the development of AI-powered robots, impacting the future of work and technology. It's starting to look like the future. Brace yourselves for the rise of physical/hardware AI, starting this year.

/Imagination of The Day: Let’s end the day on a creative note. I love this prompt, and you can modify it slightly for whatever fantasy art style you are looking for, and the results are incredible.

Prompt Share: The World of Warcraft in a film setting, in the style of a dark fantasy creature, rendered in unreal engine, Blizzard Entertainment, close-up intensity, goblin, gold detailing, strong facial expression, powerful, 8k, incredible detail --chaos 50 --ar 16:9 --style raw --v 6

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