Today in Generative Media

Midjourney 5.2; Stable Diffusion XL 0.9; 87% of game studios currently use AI

• Midjourney v5.2 just dropped. Here's what's new (Twitter). Here are 8 side-by-side comparisons using the same prompts & seeds (Twitter)

• Stability AI launches SDXL 0.9: A Leap Forward in AI Image Generation (stability.ai)

• 87% of game studios are CURRENTLY using AI (a16z games, Twitter)

• Samuel L. Jackson refuses to be replaced by AI in movies after he dies (New York Post)

• Get a clue, says panel about buzzy AI tech: it’s being ‘deployed as surveillance’ (TechCrunch)

• OpenAI To Bar Users From Copying Living Artists, Atty Says (Law360)

• AI Grant offers $250,000 on an uncapped SAFE for your AI-native product startup. (aigrant.org) The first batch of grants includes Replicate, Lexica, Cursor and other companies previously featured in this newsletter!

• Lynn Cole breaks down the Secret Invasion opening credit sequence. (Twitter)

• ReFace makes your photos and videos UnBoring (reface.ai)

• We have now integrated Neuroangelo into SDF Studio (Twitter)

• Vizcom's powerful combination of hand sketching and AI processing tools enables designers to create and render faster than ever before. (vizcom.ai)

• AudioPaLM: A Large Language Model That Can Speak and Listen (project page)

• Continuous Layout Editing of Single Images with Diffusion Models (arXiv)