Zuck Showcases RayBan's Voice Commands

Today’s Menu 🥠

• Zuck Showcases RayBan’s Voice Commands

• Midjourney’s Character Consistency Feature

• Covariant Is Building ChatGPT For Robots

• Apple To Allow iOS App Downloads From Web

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Fast Snacks 🥡

Midjourney Bans All Stability AI Employees
On March 2nd, Midjourney posted an update acknowledging an extended server outage preventing generated images from appearing in user galleries. In an update call on March 6th, they linked the near 24-hour service outage on ‘botnet-like activity’ from two accounts linked to the Stable Diffusion creator.

Slack Gives The Gift Of GIFs
Slack has started rolling out a GIF picker that uses the Tenor search engine owned by Google, which is a true blessing for anyone who has never fully trusted that they wouldn’t send their dumb search term, rather than the GIF itself, when using the “/giphy” command.

Engineering Analytics To Boost Developer Productivity (partner) 
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“Hey Meta”
RayBan’s Voice Commands Are Nearly Here

As of today, RayBan’s Smart Glasses have only allowed you to take pictures and videos, but yesterday Zuck shared a few videos of their coming multimodal AI beta in action.

The handful of demos found on Zuck’s Instagram showcased on-the-fly information on a local landmark, having snow explained to him like a cave man, and getting a quick answer to a question about horses.

All he needs to do now is add a real-time heads-up display like the one proposed by Google Glass years ago…

Consistent Characters
Midjourney Testing Highly-Requested Feature

The generative AI service’s new algorithm can now use the same character across multiple images and styles without deviating too far from their original design.

How it works 

• Type --cref URL after your prompt with a URL to an image of a character

• You can use --cw to modify reference 'strength' from 100 to 0

• strength 100 (--cw 100) is default and uses the face, hair, and clothes

• At strength 0 (--cw 0) it'll just focus on face (good for changing outfits / hair etc)

What It’s Meant For 

• This feature works best when using characters made from Midjourney images. It's not designed for real people / photos (and will likely distort them as regular image prompts do)

• Cref works similarly to regular image prompts except it 'focuses' on the character traits

• The precision of this technique is limited, it won't copy exact dimples / freckles / or tshirt logos.

• Cref works for both Niji and normal MJ models and also can be combined with --sref

Note: For the full breakdown of this feature, you can find instructions in Midjourney’s Discord server in the ‘Announcements’ channel.

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Test Your Skill
Snack Quiz: Choose The Real Image 🔍

Energy Consumption
Building ChatGPT For Robots

Covariant, an AI software company, just made a groundbreaking announcement with the launch of RFM-1.

RFM-1 is basically an LLM [Large Language Model] for robots inspired by the tech behind those chatbots that answer your questions online [like ChatGPT or Claude], but instead of text, RFM-1 chugs data from cameras, sensors, and even good old-fashioned human language.

This lets robots see the world, understand what they're grabbing, and follow your instructions in plain English.

For now, these brainy bots are sorting and grabbing your online orders in warehouses. However, the real excitement is in the future when the bots handle tasks in factories, fields, and maybe even your laundry! 

EU Crackdown
iOS Apps Available For Download From The Web

This new app distribution model will enable developers to bypass the App Store for web download in EU countries.

However, this option comes with several requirements & restrictions: 

• Developers part of the Apple Developer Program,

• Registered in EU,

• Clean Compliance Record,

• Significant Install Base [1M+ Downloads],

• Notarization & Domain Registration in App Store Connect,

• and other various criteria…

The move opens a new avenue for app distribution in the EU for large developers, and relaxes rules around linking to external pages for purchasing digital goods, offering developers more flexibility in promoting deals.

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I Would Play These
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