Elon Musk's xAI Unveils Grok-2 for Uncensored Images

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Welcome to FavTutor’s AI Recap! We’ve gathered all the latest and important AI developments from the past week in one place, just for you.

In Today’s Newsletter: 😀 

• Generate Images on X with Grok 2 (with More Freedom?)

• Behold OpenAI! Google’s Gemini Live is here

• Meet Genie: New AI Rival for Software Engineers?

• 3 Cool AI Tricks Google’s New TV Streamer Can Do

• Get a Research Paper for $15 from an “AI Scientist”

xAI
💡 Generate Images on X with Grok 2 (with More Freedom?)

xAI, the company owned by Elon Musk, has launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta release. And IT CAN CREATE IMAGES! However, the highlight is that the model does not have strict limits on image generation, generating somewhat offensive images of famous personalities and politicians.

Here is one of the least controversial images made by Grok that we can share here:

Insights for you:

• The Grok 2 Image Generator on X is now available and it has fewer restrictions, from allowing images including celebrities, brands and even cartoons.

• Because of that, Some users go on to claim that it is the best image generator available in the AI world right now.

• This new model also has better chat reasoning and coding capabilities.

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Google
🗣️ Behold OpenAI! Google’s Gemini Live is here

Google’s Gemini Live is capable of hands-free conversations and has 10 different human-like voice options. You can interrupt mid-response to dive deeper into a particular point. You can even keep talking with the Gemini app in the background or when your phone is locked.

Insights for You:

• OpenAI’s Voice mode has some competition with Google’s launch of Gemini Live.

• Gemini Live is rolling out today in English to Gemini Advanced subscribers on Android phones.

• It is also now the default assistant on Google’s Pixel 9.

Genie
🧝 Meet Genie: New AI Rival for Software Engineers?

Alistair Pullen, the CEO and co-founder of Cosine AI, has launched Genie, the most capable autonomous software engineer model that can develop code successfully without errors and faster than a human ever could.

Insights for You:

• Genie had the World’s highest score on SWE-Bench: 30.08%, outperforming competitors by a wide margin

• It was trained on the unique dataset to imitate real software engineers’ workflow.

• Genie can generate successful code significantly faster than humans.
  

Google
📺️ 3 Cool AI Tricks Google’s New TV Streamer Can Do

Google introduced a streaming device: Google TV Streamer that can provide improved personalized streaming and smart home experience for consumers. It has many interesting features like AI summarized reviews for shows and movies.

Features of Google TV Streamers:

1. Based on your previous watch preferences and AI, this device will curate content suggestions for you across all your subscriptions.

2. It will provide summaries and reviews of movies and season-by-season breakdowns of shows that you are about to watch.

3. You can create AI images as your background image in ambient mode, by prompting with voice mode.

Research
🧪 Get a Research Paper for $15 from an “AI Scientist”

The “AI Scientist” is developed by Researchers from the University of British Columbia, and the University of Oxford, Sakana AI. It can generate new research ideas, perform experiments, and even visualize results.

Insights for you:

• Researchers at Sakana AI develop a fully automated AI system that writes research papers for 15 dollars.

• It can save a lot of time for scientists and lead to faster advancements in various fields.

• The model still has limitations and the results published are not completely accurate.