Microsoft and Meta's Gamechanging AI Partnership 🤝

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✍️ News: Microsoft and Meta’s Game-Changing AI Partnership
🛠️ Tools: Leonardo AI, Adobe Firefly
🎨 Creator Corner: Generative TV, DreamGenerator AI Camera, Book Cover Art

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One top headline in the AI space to know:

📚 AI and Authors Clash in Copyright Battle

We tweeted Monday that there would likely be some big news coming out of Microsoft’s Inspire keynote this week — and the company certainly did not disappoint.

The AI giant released a series of announcements that made waves across the space, unveiling a major partnership with Meta to open-source and introduce LLaMA 2 — Meta’s formidable AI language model — onto Azure and Windows platforms.

This partnership extends far beyond just number-crunching power; it offers developers the tools to forge cutting-edge AI applications leveraging LLaMA 2's impressive generative capabilities. And the decision to open-source echoes Microsoft and Meta's shared vision of democratizing AI — aiming to make high-powered tools accessible to all.

Some great notes on LLaMA 2 from the always insightful Dr. Jim Fan:

In their own product lineup, Microsoft also announced the rollout of Bing Chat Enterprise — an AI chatbot for enterprise use cases that keeps business data private and secure. The release brings AI integrations to work (at no added cost) for millions of Microsoft 365 business subscribers — while also providing assurances that company data won’t be shared or used to train models.

Microsoft also revealed pricing and expanded capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot — which takes AI productivity to the next level by combining LLMs with a company's Microsoft 365 data.

It can generate meeting notes, analyze data, write content and more. Copilot will cost a substantial $30 per user per month (much higher than most expected), so it remains to be seen if the value matches the price tag.

Additionally, Bing Chat itself is gaining new powers — including a Visual Search feature that allows users to ask detailed questions about any photo (like the cat example we shared yesterday).

The market appeared to love the moves, with $MSFT stock surging on the busy news day:

Microsoft is rapidly executing on an ambitious vision to bring advanced AI to the masses.

And with the decision by Meta open-source their tech, Zuckerberg and co. are bringing serious heat to push competitor OpenAI in the battle for AI supremacy.

Two AI-powered platforms to add to your toolbox:

While we talk a lot about Midjourney in this newsletter, it is a paid service — so here are a few alternatives to start creating stunning images:

• Leonardo AI — Generate production quality assets for your creative projects (link)

• Adobe Firefly — Experiment, imagine, and create an infinite range of images (link)

Three of our favorite tweets, threads, AI generations and more:

An interesting camera for the AI age:

A cool Midjourney prompt to generate awesome book cover art:

Amazing Midjourney website design ideas:

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