The week in AI – 17th March ’24 – a quick summary

This week had a few significant updates in the world of Artificial Intelligence. In fact updates from across some of the major players like Midjourney as well as a new upstart start-up that is likely to be one of the biggest disruptors of 2024 – Cognition Labs.

Let’s dive in:

• Cognition Labs dropped a major update with Devin – the world’s first AI Software Engineer. We covered it earlier in the week, check it out here. Devin’s been up to a lot since release and we’re actually finding it hard to keep pace with all the cool things people are doing, but we’ll try and do another round-up later this week with some cool updates.
• Midjourney launched the Character Reference Feature that allows you to maintain consistency across Character creations. This still works best for characters generated within Midjourney and is a little spotty when it comes to trying to use it against Photographs. As we mentioned earlier in the week we’ve got a small demo and how-to lined up. (It’s actually almost ready, we just need to clean it up and publish.)
• Google Deepmind released an Aritifical Agent that can follow Natural Language commands to do stuff inside of games. You can read more about SIMA here. This is the birth of the AI NPC as we see it.
• Figure AI is just dropped the Devin equivalent – Figure 01 – for General Purpose Robots. They’re building on the OpenAI platform and are already worth US$ 2.6Bn and have the likes for Jeff Bezos, Nvidia and Microsoft. This is something worth keeping an eye on. We’ve got the demo video for you below:

• Magnific AI has been beta testing their ‘Style Transfer’ feature. From everything we’ve seen – this is going to be dope! Some examples below – thanks to FofrAI – who we are big fans of! and MayorKingAI for the references.

That’s it for this week’s round up! If you found this insightful, interesting or of any value, feel free to share it with others you know might benefit. See you again next week!

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