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Canva is getting AI image generation, interactive coding, spreadsheets, and more

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Although there has been significant pushback from artists regarding the proliferation of AI design tools and the content used to train generative models, the companies making the software for creative work are nevertheless building AI into their toolkits. It’s a signal of just how quickly AI has gained importance — regardless of what their customers […]

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Google Whisk, an image remixing tool, is now available in 100+ countries

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Google keeps releasing experimental products built with its AI models to give users a taste of its capabilities. Last year, the company debuted an image remixing tool called Whisk that was available to users in the U.S. On Tuesday, Google made the tool available in more than 100 countries. There are plenty of image-generation tools

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X says its new image generator, Aurora, will launch for all users within the week

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X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, quietly added a new image generator to its Grok assistant this past Saturday. Then, it removed it. Now, it’s bringing it back — and officially announcing it. The image generator, called Aurora, was developed by Musk’s AI company, xAI, and trained on billions of examples from the

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A mysterious new image generation model has appeared

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A mysterious new image generation model is beating models from Midjourney, Black Forest Labs, and OpenAI on the crowdsourced Artificial Analysis benchmark. The model, which goes by the name “red_panda,” is around 40 Elo points ahead of the next-best-ranking model, Black Forest Labs’ Flux1.1 Pro, on Artificial Analysis’ text-to-image leaderboard. Artificial Analysis uses Elo, a

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Black Forest Labs, the startup behind Grok’s image generator, releases an API

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Black Forest Labs, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup behind the image generation component of xAI’s Grok assistant, has launched an API in beta — and released a new model. The new API provides Black Forest Labs’ family of image generation models, Flux, in a managed package. Using it, developers can choose which Flux model to build

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Before Midjourney, there was NightCafe — and it’s still kicking

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Elle Russell, co-founder of Cairns, Australia-based NightCafe, which offers a suite of AI-powered art-creating tools, prefers to avoid the spotlight. “I like to remain hidden behind my monitors,” she told me in a recent interview. NightCafe is similarly low profile. The company, which Russell helped her partner, Angus Russell, launch five years ago, doesn’t get

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