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Hey Everyone, Alex here, thanks for being a subscriber! Let's get you caught up on this weeks most important AI news!

The main thing you need to know this week is likely the incredible Image model that ByteDance released, that overshoots the (incredible image model from last 2 weeks) nano 🍌. ByteDance really outdid themselves on this one!

But also, a video model with super fast generation, OpenAI rumor made Larry Ellison the richest man alive, ChatGPT gets MCP powers (under a flag you can enable) and much more!

This week we covered a lot of visual stuff, so while the podcast format is good enough, it's really worth tuning in to the video recording to really enjoy the full show.

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It's rare for me to start the newsletter not on Open Source AI news, but hey, at least this way you know that I'm writing it and not some AI right? 😉

ByteDance SeeDream 4 - 4K SOTA image generation and editing model with up to 6 reference images (Fal, Replicate)

The level of detail on ByteDance's new model, has really made all the hosts on ThursdAI stop and go... huh? is this AI? Bytedance really outdid themselves with this image model that not only generates images, it also is a fully functional image editing with natural language model. It's a diffusion transformer, able to generate 2K and 4K images, fast (under 5 seconds?) while enabling up to 6 reference images to be provided for the generation.

This is going to be incredible for all kinds of purposes, AI art, marketing etc'. The promt adherence is quite incredible, text is also crisp and sharp at those 2/4K resolutions. We created this image live on the show with it (using a prompt extended by another model)

I then provided my black and white headshot and the above image and asked to replace me as a cartoon character, and it did, super quick, and even got my bomber jacket and the W&B logo on it in there! Notable, nothing else was changed in the image, showing just how incredible this one is for image editing.

In you want enhanced realism, our friend FoFr from replicate, reminded us that using IMG_3984.CR2 in the prompt, will make the model show images that are closer to reality, even if they depict some incredibly unrealistic things, like a pack of lions forming his nickname

Additional uses for this model are just getting discovered, and one user already noted that given this model outputs 4K resolution, it can be used as a creative upscaler for other model outputs. Just shove your photo from another AI in Seedream and ask for an upscale. Just be ware that creative upscalers change some amount of details in the generated picture.

DecART AI Lucy 14B Redefines Video Generation speeds!

If Seedteam blew my mind with images, Decart's Lucy 14B absolutely shattered my expectations for video generation speed. We're talking about generating 5-second videos from images in 6.5 seconds. That's almost faster than watching the video itself!

This video model is not open source yet (despite them adding 14B to the name) but it's smaller 5B brother was open sourced. The speed to quality ratio is really insane here, and while Lucy will not generate or animate text or faces that well, it does produce some decent imagery, but SUPER fast. This is really great for iteration, as AI Video is like a roulette machine, you have to generate a lot of tries to see a good result.

This paired with Seedream (which is also really fast) are a game chan