AI Search Innovations, Grok 2 Large & More Use Cases

this week there have been many long awaited  releases like GPT 40 fine-tuning or search gpts   finally rolling out to some people but it might  not be as good as you think and I'll show you some   better Alternatives plus the AI image and video  space is seeing a literal Space Race to getting   the best models with the best tooling possible and  for this video we research tested and summarized   it everything for you so you can easily stay on  top of all the AI news that you can actually use

all right and I'm going to start off by talking  about search this week because AI search is   seeing some major developments and as you might  have heard openi has been releasing search GPT to   select users but the competition is not asleep  at the wheel with perplexity leading the pack   and applications like gigabrain that specialize  on only Reddit search also adding upgrades so   let's briefly talk about this AI search what is  the status of it right now well their goal is to   disrupt Google search and different people have  different opinions and preferences which search   is better than the other and while you might  not have access to cat gbt search which I don't   either right now as you can see in this email that  many people who sign up to the wait list received   search jpts on a wait list and they're not giving  out access to anybody you absolutely have access   to some of the Alternatives like perplexity or  gigabrain and the good news is these tools are   actually better than search GPT and I say this  confidently because various people got access   to search GPT already and reviewed tested it  and shared their opinion with me I'm talking   about various YouTubers or AI Advantage community  members and there's a consensus everybody pretty   much says that perplexity is just better it's  more feature the model is more advanced there's   references to the various pieces of information  receive in the text not just in a separate tab   so you can see where this info is actually  coming from and you have so many more features   surrounding it this is not a deep dive on search I  just want to point out that it's slowly but surely   becoming better and if you're looking  for a specific answer rather than a list of links   and resources AI search is probably the way to  go most of the time because it just gives you the   answer rather than giving you multiple resources  that probably have the answer if you're looking   for Reddit results this is certainly a better way  to search all of Reddit than going to Google so if   you're looking for an opinion which Reddit is  really great for you just go to gigabrain and   you look for something like best smartwatch and  it's going to give you all the Reddit opinions   compiled into one thing and yes this includes all  the comments which is incredible if you want to   go even wider than that you can go to perplexity  and ask the same thing and it's not just going   to look at Reddit but all of the internet and  process all those results through their large   language model and give you a digested result  with all the references I really think there's   value to having both of these bookmark that's why  I'm showing this to you and if you were just like   me and worried about the fact that you don't  have search GPT don't be I honestly think they   didn't roll this out more widely because they're  not there yet and the product is not good enough   for prime time where some of these competitors  are becoming really good even on the free   plan but just because the status quo is that open  AI is sort of behind on search doesn't mean that   is going to be the case in the future because  they released a Brant new blog post outlining   one of their many news Outlet Partnerships so they  might just be getting started because if you look   at all the news outlets that opening I partnered  with it's starting to get ridiculous you have a   lot of the big names in this list and their  live feeds are going to be integrated with open   AI Services sooner or later as of now they're  just building these Partnerships and search   GPT is just a prototype but expect this to get a  lot better over time and another AI search engine

that released this week is actually the full model  of grock 2 we talked about the Mini version last   week but now the full version is accessible if  you have a Twitter premium subscription so these   other ones are free this one is paid but this does  plug into the Twitter fire hose now if you give it   something like tell me to this's headline it's  does look at all the Twitter data and uses their   quite capable Gro to language model to present you  with the answers the problem is there is no option   to really focus this you would have to prompt  it which is not just extra work but you need   to be aware of what kind of news you want to be  looking at because by default it's going to give   me news about the Nigerian government and polish  headlines now this just released so I think over   time it will learn about your preferences and your  Twitter feed and what you interact with and then   integrate that as context with the llm but as of  now this is just very generic and you would need   to ask specifically to get specific answers and  that's why for this news and research use case   I really do prefer something like perplexity  or gigabrain one more note on grock 2 is that   it is really solid xai has become a serious  competitor to some of these other companies   but it just doesn't have the features yet that  many of their competitors do like I literally   can't even set custom instructions where if I'm  looking at this news use case with something like   perplexity I could actually go in here and  set my custom instructions which I actually   have done in here so now all the searches consider  my personal context and given a used based on my   preferences by the way if you care to learn how to  do this yourself I did many tutorials and custom   instructions on this channel and if you want to  go in depth and learn the whole process that's   what we teach in the advantage Community next up  we have something that a lot of people have been

waiting for a while and it's GPT 40 fine tuning  I'm not going to go too in depth on this if you   want a full tutorial on how to use it we actually  did one in one of the previous episodes of AI news   you can use it's this section right here we'll  put a link to it in the description below but   basically they have been withholding fine tuning  capabilities to their largest models like gb4 and   then 40 forever and now they're finally releasing  it as the competition has forced them to do so   again fine tuning is only relevant if you have a  super specific use case and then you want to be   using the API to perform that use case something  like classification or the generation of specific   code you could show additional examples to the  model of how you would like these things to be   processed and then you have a brand new model that  can do that and now they unlock the ability to use   their most potent model instead of just a mini  model as up until now so yeah this is a big deal   for people who have been waiting for this and for  all others let's move on to the next one which is

also simple one but I touched on this when it  released but it was only accessible to the US   but 11 Labs has application that is now accessible  worldwise to everyone and it is completely free it   is called 11 laps reader and I got to say some  team members actually reported back that from   our extensive testing of various AI apps for our  video where we looked at the most useful AI apps   that are freely available right now this one  has some real stickiness to it and what I mean   by that once you start using it there's some  real value here and you might just find yourself   integrating it into your everyday life because  what this app doesn't nutshell is it uses AI   voices that sounds humanlike to read out anything  on your phone and on the internet to you meaning   you could have articles or text messages read  out to you with these AI voices and as of now   11 Labs made this completely freely available  which is quite generous it doesn't take a Pro   Plan credits nothing and the news here is that  this app is now accessible worldwide for free so   go give this a try and see if maybe you could  be listening to something interesting on your   way to work or while going for a walk instead of  listening to a podcast might be a great tool to   bad and now let's move on to the next one as you  can see various tools are getting more powerful by

the week and it's becoming easier than ever to  create videos with AI especially if you find a   platform that lets you take advantage of multiple  tools at once and one fantastic platform that lets   you do exactly that is the sponsor of today's  video dbdb I'll quickly give you an overview of   what dtab offers but then I'll go in and show  you the step by step of this particular video   creation use case so first of all they offer lip  syncing of talking avatars you can also generate   AI voices you can clone your own voice translate  your voice transcribes video with AI write and   even generate sound effects but what I really  want to focus on today is this voiceover feature   so if you go in here you can create a brand new  voiceover like soul and what I really love about   this is that you have a lot of detailed control  and fine-tuning ability to the voices with many   other tools you just generate the voice and then  it is what it is here you can adjust the speed   pitch and all of these details like pause settings  the Rhythm the emphasis on certain words and so   much more and beyond that you could also create  multiple voiceovers where you have a dialogue of   multiple characters happening but we'll just go  with a single voice over here to demo this for   you and what you can do in here is you can select  your voice actors I'll just go with the default as   it has a lot of emotional options here today is  the day to remind yourself that you possess the   power and strength you need to bring I'm just  going to go with Jensen here and here with the   tone we're going to go with newscast I'll use the  AI writing feature here with a simple prompt to   write a fictional short voiceover script about  cats and hats all at once becoming a cultural   phenomenon going from simple pet owners putting  hats on their cats to it becoming a worldwide   sensation I believe one day this will happen I'll  add only include the voiceover transcript exclude   all formatting and this should give us the clean  scripts that we can then generate with this tool   one more followup to make it shorter should do  the trick and there we go now that I have the   script and I selected my voice and the tone I can  simply generate it and then afterwards I could go   in and change for example the Rhythm here to be  a bit longer let's have a listen in a Whimsical   twist of fate a trend arose as pet owners began  sharing photos of their cats in various hats okay   excellent I think you see Point here we'll export  this as a wave file and now that I have my voice   over I can head on over to the video editing tool  and create a brand new video right in here but   what we ended up doing here is actually taking the  voiceover and creating a video of our own with a   combination of M Journey Runway gen free and the  dubd voiceover that was created here and without   further Ado here it is in a Whimsical twist of  fate a trender Rose's pet owners began sharing   photos of their cats in various hats from cozy  beanies to Fancy top hats this innocent Pastime   exploded into a global sensation with Millions  joining the # catsin hats movement showcasing   their stylish felines in Creative headgear the  charm was infectious attracting influencers and   celebrities and prompting fashion designers to  create cat accessory lines cat hat parades emerged   worldwide and local businesses thrived with custom  designs in cat themed cafes television networks   even launched shows featuring fashion able felines  this delightful craze sparked conversations about   pet care and companionship reminding us that  simple Joys can unite us unexpectedly all right   so there it is that's one example of how you could  be using dubdub to create videos for social media   or other purposes so go ahead and try dubdub for  free with a link in the video's description and   create your first videos within minutes with  the power of AI a big thank you to dbup for   sponsoring this video now let's get back to some  more AI news you can use all right next up let's

talk about all the Innovations in the AI video  and imaging space and let me tell you these top   companies here they're shipping namely you have  a new model from Runway a cheaper alternative to   their top tier gen free and a new and improved  model out of luma lab's dream machine that is   also top tier and then an image generation SES  two of the top tier companies there also release   brand new things namely the mid Journey web UI is  finally up to par with the Discord experience even   with the in painting features we'll have a look  at that briefly and then ideogram the previously   state-of-the-art text image generator meaning it  was the very best deex to flux at generating text   now has a brand new model ideogram 2 little side  notes the developers of ideogram were kind enough   to give us early access to this so we got to begin  our testing on it even before it released which is   wonderful so let's quickly have a practical look  at all of these tools and improvements and what   we found in our research and testing process  in all of these starting off with runway's new

model gen free Alpha turbo this is essentially a  lightweight version of genre you can think of this   as the equivalent of GPT mini versus GPT 40 it's  seven times f faster and 50% cheaper than gen free   gen free is quite pricey but has the highest  quality level this is 50% cheaper but what do   the results look like because that's what really  matters we went in and really tested the image to   video feature without a prompt attached as both  gen free and genf free Alpha turbo support this   right now on screen you can see various examples  of these two different models and while you look   at these let me briefly present you our findings  and my take on what the difference between   these two models are besides the obvious speed  Improvement which is very noticeable I think the   X number does apply and it just feels super fluid  to work with this new model you just upload an   image hit generate and within seconds you have a  result and you can iterate super quickly it feels   super good to work with this but what about the  quality cuz that's what really matters here well   first and foremost all jree Alpha turbo results  are just a little more subtle the main genf free   model is just a little crazier it's out there  it drank one or two red bulls too many before   generating the images now don't get me wrong this  can be a great thing depending on your use case   if you really want those dramatic camera moves  gen Frey is your friend but jfrey Alpha turbo   is just a little more subtle if it decides to  zoom in it still does that it just doesn't zoom   in so much now that's the movement side of things  but what about the image quality well genre Alpha   turbo is generally speaking a little brighter and  more sharp and especially the sharpness is quite   visible I don't think it's a bad thing it's just  a different look and something to be aware of and   in the quality of the animation Department well  because gen free is a little crazier and a little   more out there it can also be more hit or miss and  you can read see the difference but out of a dozen   images that we threw into both of these models  only on one of them we clearly preferred jrey over   genre Alpha TBO namely it's this image from the  kingdom of the Planet of the Apes the animation   here is just way better in the full gen free  model but this was literally the only one where we   really preferred gen free other than that you're  probably better off saving time and money with Gen   free Alpha turbo and then if you're not satisfied  with a result you can always switch over and do   the same thing in genre but using this as the  default model just seems to make sense and also

on a similar note LTX Studio which we talked about  before added even more features they're thei video   generator with a lot of amazing features but the  base model is just not very good at all and I'm   showing you this because I hope that features like  this will come to something like genre or Luma lab   soon or surely LTX studio will upgrade their video  generation model over time but having something   like face motion capture or detailed character  animation or character dialogues where it actually   lip syncs would be a very welcome feature in these  top tier models all right next up we have a new

version of dream machine 1. 5 and they released  a brand new guide which is quite detailed so   if you want to learn about how to use this just  go to this link in the video's description and   you can learn about all these techniques in the  guide that they created but what's new with this   version well their main claim is that the text to  video is way better and what that also implies is   that their Emoji to video is also way better  so that's what I went ahead and tested I had   some fun with this here's a few examples this is  what happens if you give it a light bulb and this   mind blown icon it just creates a little visual  like this could be interesting for some sort of   of presentation or maybe something like this  Reddit post here that uses it as the background   of a website I think this is actually one of the  Prime use cases to use these videos but hey if   you're doing a website like this might as well  put something proper there like this generation   of a film camera Thunder and a chicken wouldn't  this be an incredible website I surely think so   it was really easy to prompt it it's just free  emojis little Pro tip the film camera usually   adds this cinematic movement to it because if you  included film as a part of your prompt it would   add a little more cinematic characteristics to the  shot so let me show you my favorite of this Bunch   The Prompt was a camera fire and an eagle and you  got this Eagle sort of flying for a fiery Sky uh   editing note insert a eagle sound effect you know  like a okay I don't know I kind of butchered that   sound and interestingly some users even reported  back that the text to video is better and I just   ran some of the same gen free test that we  did in here and this is really night and day   compared to gen free this is just not even close  to being usable same for the other attempts when   I played around with the settings it's just  not suited for this use case dream machine   really is best for these animation type use  cases where it's just a little more subtle   but I think for things like this genre still best  dream machine is really good for these animation   style use cases stuff that you would animate  in After Effects like this and among some of   these other new and improved features I would just  generally say yes it does feel like an improvement   not a major one but it's certainly very welcome  and considering this tool came out about a month   ago I think we're already getting updates like  this it really is a bit of a space race in this   entire AI video generation Niche and I'm here for  it especially while people use it for random creat   like this if you haven't seen this is a really fun  one but also on a more serious note McDonald's is   actually using this for commercials in Japan not  kidding this was generated with dream machine and   they're running this as proper ads also many  Olympic ads were AI generated so this is just   becoming more and more present in our culture and  that's just the way it is hey if you're watching   and enjoying this video I would really appreciate  if you hit that like button it really helps the   channel out and with that being said let's move on  to the next piece of AI news that you can use all

right in the image generation Department there's  actually exciting news because if you wanted to   get your hands on Mid Journey but I were always  deterred by the paid wall well now is your time   they actually enabled a free trial for everybody  for 7 Days stting Wednesday August 21st meaning   it should end August 28th so depending on when  you watch this video mid Journey might just be   free and you don't even have to use Discord to  use it cuz now their web experience is available   to everybody not just people that generated a  lot of images in Discord and they even brought   some of the essential features from Discord to  this so understandably so I went in here and   right away generated a c with a hat you can just  hit enter here and as you can see in my browser   I'm generating mid journey level images just to  reiterate there might be other models that excel   at something specific like the text generation but  overall I think Mourne is still the most robust   and the most sophisticated image generation  tool with an artistic quality to it that is   just unmatched the Styles in here the default  Generations it's just excellent and if you need   something generated with it well this week you  can do it for free and what is the new feature   here well it's this editor that hides down here  because now we can actually do in painting so I   could do something like paint over the  entire hat Loosely and then you already guessed   it I could reprompt it and change it this is  probably the most powerful thing because AI   image generation always produces varying results  and with this workflow you get precise control   for example in here I could keep the rest of the  image of the cat and turn this into a oversized   wizard hat maybe let's give this a little more  space to really go for the oversized hat here   and there we go we submit and it will regenerate  only the region that we selected here up here you   can select the scale and the size of your brush  and there you go here at the top of our generation   stack it should already be creating this and as  I'm speaking it is creating our brand new image   and it seems like we don't even need to edit  to the completion of this because there you go   we have the same cat with a brand new oversized  wizard hat and a few variations and we got to do   this without losing our original cat with the bow  tie and the green eyes in here if you're familiar   with in painting you know how powerful this is now  it's available in the web interface too and you   can use mid Journey for free for a week have fun  creating and we got s lucky with this happening   because actually this Sunday we're running a remix  competition in our community for our creative   District here this is a thing we did recently  we split it into various districts depending   on interests and we'll be getting together with  various community members and remixing various   images with the SP Journey tool I'm excited for  this because this is really how our community got   started back in March 2023 in our Discord server  we were running a mid-journey remix competition   every Sunday for like 5 months I think all right  enough nostalgic thoughts for today let's move on

to the next one okay then we have ideogram coming  out with ideogram 2 if you weren't aware IDE   was actually the first model that got text  completely right before flux came and with all the   open capabilities of flux people sort of prefer  that but now ideogram strikes back with ideogram 2   and the level of manual control they brought with  this release is actually amazing and we actually   had Early Access to this so we got to test this  a bunch and I'll show all of that to you in a   second here but I just want to point out the fact  that if you're generating with ideogram the level   of manual control here is amazing you have five  different models General realistic design 3d and   Anime and especially this design model opens up  some use cases that were Unthinkable a few months   ago and a year ago people were saying that hey  AI image generation might be impressive but it's   useless because it just cannot get these assets  like text and logos right well that completely   changed now with models like this because with  the ideogram 2. 0 model you cannot just generate   images with a long piece of text completely  precisely like I'm talking 100% accurate but you   also get to control things like color palettes  you can upload your custom color palette for   the generation to be exactly on Brands then you  select the design model and off you go you have   a AI image generator that actually respects your  branding guidelines so as you can see in these   testing examples you can actually create movie  posters you can create greeting cards anything   with text on it in a custom color palette but  beyond that you can use all the capabilities we   already know and love from image generators like  putting up text in imaginative environments like   on imaginary skyscraper in London as this example  here shows or you just Abandon All productivity   and generate images of AI cats with AI hats beyond  that I want to point out one more thing and that   is the fact that the hyper realistic capability  of this are also excellent so look at this if I   prompted with something that implies realism like  a photo of a young man with curly broccoli hair   and a serious look dramatic rembrand lighting  blurred background of a rustic building and I   generate this in about 30 seconds we should see  the realism of this so not bad although it might   have misunderstood the broccoli hair if you're not  familiar that's the typical hairstyle for Gen Z   and it's sort of a meme on the internet let's run  this one more time without the broccoli and there   you go yet had another model that can fake reality  it's crazy to see how far we've come in just two

years and if you're sitting here just taking it  all in and feeling like you might not be able   to actually use some of these tools because  it might be too complicated just consider   this clip that made its rounds on Twitter this  week of a 8-year-old girl writing code with the   assistance of AI I found this super inspirative  because it shows what these tools make possible   if you just put your presuppositions of you  maybe not being as technical as is needed for   some of these workflows and just look at it  realistically these tools have become so easy   to use and so helpful that just by keep keeping a  little bit of an open mind even an 8-year-old can   start writing code and creating apps and that's a  deep end of the pool some of these other tools we   talk about are way easier to use and I just  wanted to let you know that absolutely everybody   can do this and that does include you all right  that's all I got for today see you next week