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Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• Amazon’s new art tool? 🎨 🤖 

  It launched Titan Image Generator v2.

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• Audible’s new audiobook tool 🧠 📸

  It’s beta testing Maven, an audiobook search tool.

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Will you use Amazon’s art tool? 🎨 🤖 

Probably not… 🤷‍♂️

Yesterday, Amazon launched Titan Image Generator v2. This version gives you more tools and customization options to generate and edit images.

What's new?

The new capabilities include image conditioning, subject consistency, background removal, and color control.

What’s image conditioning?

It allows you to use reference images to guide AI-generated outputs. It preserves key elements like edges and regions to create more precise and tailored results.

Ah, and subject consistency?

It lets you fine-tune the model to accurately depict specific subjects (like products or logos) across multiple generated images.

Background removal. Pretty basic, right?

Yupp. Amazon claims it’s “advanced.” It isolates main subjects from backgrounds so you can integrate them into new scenes as you would expect.

Color control? I have control issues…

You’re in luck. Color Conditioning allows you to input specific color codes for brand consistency.

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SIDE SALAD

New audiobook search tool 🧠 📸

Speaking of Amazon…

Yesterday, Audible started beta testing Maven. It’s an AI-powered search feature for audiobook recommendations.

What does it do?

It gives personalized audiobook recommendations based on your requests.

How does it work?

Just input the type of audiobook you're looking for, and it will suggest relevant titles from Audible's catalog.

Anything else?

Audible is also testing AI-curated collections and AI-generated review summaries.

Can I use it now?

It's available to about half of U.S. customers on iOS and Android, but currently only searches a subset of Audible's library.

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Think Pieces 🧠

How sketchy are OpenAI’s safety efforts? Senator Chuck Grassley demands evidence that its NDAs do not stifle employees from reporting safety concerns.

Startup News 💰

Amazon Music launched Topics. It allows you to explore podcast episodes by specific topics. It’s available now on iOS and Android in the U.S.

Research 👨‍🔬

MiniCPM-V — an efficient multimodal language model designed for mobile devices. It provides strong performance and multilingual support.

LLaVA-OneVision — an open multimodal model excelling in single-image, multi-image, and video tasks with strong transfer learning capabilities.

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