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Plus: Create immersive digital worlds with Hedra

July 03, 2024

Welcome back! I’ve got a hot topic for you today: Microsoft AI boss Mustafa Suleyman made some controversial comments on copyright and AI recently, suggesting that anything published on the open web is essentially "freeware." 

This stance has sparked heated debate, especially given the ongoing lawsuits against Microsoft and OpenAI for using copyrighted content to train AI models. What do you think? Is content on the web truly up for grabs? Hit reply and tell me your POV.

P.S. Our newsletter team will be off for July 4 through the rest of this week, so that means no Future Tools on Friday. I’ll see you in your inbox again next week. Enjoy the summer holiday!

Hedra Creates Realistic Animated Speaking Characters

How it works: Hedra’s Character-1 model allows you to create lip-synced videos to any audio from a still image. And? You can add expressive movements with customizable levels of animation. This is huge for creators—no matter their niche, from gaming to education—who want to streamline the content creation process.

Here’s how →

  • Create a free account and either upload or generate audio. 

  • Choose your still photo or prompt Hedra to generate one in-platform.

  • Click “Generate Video” and your character will come to life (available to either download or share with the world).

Coming soon: Hedra plans to develop a multimodal studio for fully controllable and realistic characters for a complete range of expressive dialogue and movement.

Pricing: Free, in Beta

Devv AI Enhances Your Coding Efficiency

How it works: Devv AI is a search engine tailored specifically to developers’ needs. You can use it in three modes: Chat Mode, Web Mode, and GitHub Mode. Here’s the rundown → 

  • Chat Mode: Direct AI conversations for instant coding assistance and brainstorming

  • Web Mode: Get accurate, web-sourced answers to your development queries

  • GitHub Mode: Integrate with your repositories for seamless code refactoring and support

An example use case: Imagine you're working on a complex coding project and need assistance with refactoring some old code. In Devv AI’s GitHub Mode, you can integrate your repository and get contextual support, ensuring your code is optimized and error-free. And Chat Mode allows you to brainstorm ideas and get instant coding assistance, making your workflow more efficient.

Pricing: Freemium

Relay.app Simplifies Your Automation Tasks

Relay.app is an AI automation platform that integrates various applications and services to streamline your workflows. 

What that means: Start by connecting your apps (Airtable, Notion, Hubspot, etc.). Then, build automations to perform a variety of tasks. You can summarize content, translate text, extract data, insert checkpoints for approvals or data inputs, and more. Also? You can use built-in AI actions for common tasks and create mini AI Agents for autonomous actions. 

The big AI features:

  • Content summarization & extraction: Quickly summarize content and extract data from emails, meeting notes, and websites

  • AI agents: Build mini AI Agents for tasks like customer support or news scraping

  • Multi-model prompting: Send customized prompts to any AI model (Mixtral, Claude 3, GPT-4o) and use their responses in your workflow

Bonus: Multiplayer collaboration allows teams to work together seamlessly on automation projects.

Pricing: Freemium

Learn AI Like It’s 2024

Brilliant is your shortcut to building skills in AI, data science, programming, CS, and more. Thousands of bite-sized, interactive lessons help you:

  • Understand cutting-edge concepts in minutes a day

  • Learn through hands-on problem solving

  • Build real knowledge of LLMs, data structures, quantum computing, and more

  • Sharpen your mind and become a better problem solver

Join the 10 million people on Brilliant and start your 30-day free trial today. Plus, this link will get you a special discount on a premium annual subscription.

Hummingbird Brings AI Assistance to Your Desktop

Hummingbird is a native macOS app designed to be a convenient AI personal assistant.

How it works: Hummingbird provides quick information retrieval, built-in web browsing, and real-time searches for Mac users. It's customizable, allowing you to tailor the AI's responses to your needs. For example, you can set the prompt to "Provide a brief summary" to always get concise answers.  

Use case: If you’re preparing a market analysis report and need to gather recent data on industry trends, Hummingbird can quickly search the web, retrieve relevant information, and present it in an organized manner without leaving the app. 

Pricing: Free

Audioatlas Finds Your Perfect Music Match

How it works: Audioatlas allows users to find music from a global database of 200+ million songs. 

Who’s it for? If you’re a music lover or looking for the perfect soundtrack for your project, this tool might be for you. You can browse Audioatlas’s platform or search for music based on your own taste.

Bonus: Audioatlas provides convenient music licensing so you can use royalty-free audio for any project—videos, podcasts, digital ads, and more. 

Pricing: Free

The Rise of Generative AI Video Tools

In this week’s episode of The Next Wave, we explore the future of entertainment powered by AI. We discuss: 

  • The potential for AI video tools like Sora and Luma’s Dream Machine

  • Copyright laws and effects on the creative industry

  • How AI will expand creative horizons

  • The role of indie game developers in the tech scene

…and so much more.

Don’t miss this one! Check it out wherever you listen to podcasts.

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That's a wrap for this week! Don't forget to share your thoughts on Microsoft's stance on web content copyright by hitting reply. See you next week!

—Matt (FutureTools.io)

P.S. This newsletter is 100% written by a human. Okay, maybe 96%.