🧵 Threads is rolling out hashtags – now we just wait for threads.
🐦 X (formally Twitter) has started rolling out Grok to subscribers.
🌴 The first GTA 6 trailer is here after being leaked last week.
🚀 NASA plans to land a spacecraft on a world 800 million miles away.
TikTok dancer's worst nightmare just came true.
Okay, that’s hyperbole. But what if instead of having to record a carefully choreographed dance routine, you could just upload a single image and let technology handle the rest?
MagicAnimate, a new diffusion-based human animation framework built by ByteDance (the owners of TikTok) is getting a lot of hype on social media for doing exactly this.
MagicAnimate takes any static image and turns it into a full-blown animation. Imagine the Mona Lisa, and now imagine if da Vinci had the technology to record her dancing. The team behind MagicAnimate made that a reality.
Want to know how it works? According to the team, “MagicAnimate employs a video diffusion model and an appearance encoder for temporal modeling and identity preserving” for the sample image. For the animation process, it uses a “simple video fusion strategy that produces smooth video transition during inference.”
I’m not sure what all of that means either, but the results speak for themselves.
Are you really still typing?
Full disclosure: Wispr Flow is the AI dictation tool most of us at Product Hunt (use we still have a few holdout typers, what romantics). Hold a key, talk, and clean text drops straight into whatever app you're already in — Slack, email, Notion, your IDE, wherever your cursor lives. No switching windows. No copy-paste ritual. Just say the thing – yes, you can whisper it – and even your most run-on sentences will be turned into polished writing at 4x the speed of typing.
OpenAI has some competition
ChatGPT Killer: Maybe, but probably not. Google launched its long-awaited AI modal, Gemini. It comes in three different flavors, and the internet definitely has some opinions on it.
Meet your new assistant:This iPhone Shortcut uses GPT-4 to summarize basically anything that you’re currently looking at. Double-tap the back of your phone, and voila!
That’s a lot of zeros: Elon is looking to raise a whopping $1 billion for X. That’s 1/44 of what he paid originally to purchase what was then Twitter. The money will be raised for X AI.
Whether you’re a developer, designer, marketer or just want to be more productive, here are some top tools to help you start your week off.
PRODUCTIVITY
- Daily Read uses AI to make a podcast of your meetings.
- Gondolin is a cross-browser AI designed for productivity.
DEV TOOLS
- Visualith wants to make it easier and more affordable to deploy on AWS.
- Waypoint lets you build and send emails without writing any code.
DESIGN
- Lottielab makes it easier to animate your Figma designs.
- Inter 4.0 is a workhorse typeface for different uses.
MARKETING
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