Happy Friday everyone, you made it! Welcome back to Big Brain.

It’s been quite the week of announcements for AI. After today’s edition, you’ll be even more thankful to have the weekend, so you can soak it all in.

Let’s check out the latest.

🔦 Today's AI spotlights:

• Canva launches AI tools for 126M users

• ChatGPT launches plugins

• Meet the next AI unicorn

🔦 CANVA LAUNCHES AI TOOLS FOR 126M USERS

The age of AI is ushering in all sorts of ways to automate time consuming tasks.

One company plans to take this concept to a whole new level…

Canva has announced a new initiative: Canva Create.

The graphic design platform will soon offer a range of new AI tools through this program.

These features will make creating content way easier to those without professional experience.

Remember how much your company had to budget for advertising materials? That may be a thing of the past.

Canva's Visual Worksuite will provide tools to help users remain consistent with their organizations' visual identity. Here are some examples:

• Magic Replace: upload an image, select a style, and let Canva visualize a design for you

• Magic Edit: use text prompts to edit images

• Translate: “speak your audience’s language”

• Beat Sync: automatically sync audio and video

• Magic Write: give Canva some text and it’ll give you anything from a blog post to social captions

Now we certainly want to empathize with our graphic designer readers. Seeing something like this come about may be a bit scary (if not expected).

But like all advancements, new tools empower curious minds.

How will the next generation of graphic designers use these tools to hone their craft even more?

📰 Read the Full Article Here (non paywall here)

📢 What does AI know about you?

Good? Bad? Or is it hallucinating?

Typing in your name is a super fun way to explore Learn.xyz: They’re a learning platform that uses AI to make learning about anything fun again.

Just type in your name, and it’ll create an entire course about you, including quizzes.

(Use my code BIGBRAIN to skip the waitlist)

🙈 Don’t want to see what’s out there about you? Try any other topic, like… 

• “Who is [replace with your friend’s name]?”

• “Why is the sky pink at sunset?”

• “How do I make $10k/month with my own newsletter business?”

And in seconds, their app spits out an entire course with lessons, images, and quizzes. It also suggests new topics, so you’ll spend hours going down (productive) 🌪️ vortexes.

If you love to learn, this might end up on your home screen.

They’re in closed beta but are giving Big Brain readers exclusive access to the platform with code “BIGBRAIN”.

🔦 PLUGIN CHATGPT, YOU SAY?

Ever get tired of switching browsers to feed ChatGPT information from a particular website? (After all, it’s knowledge base is literally “stuck” in 2021)

Well, OpenAI just announced its new plugin support for its prized product.

This new capability is designed to help models:

• Access up-to-date information

• Run computations

• Use third-party services .

As usual with any new feature, OpenAI will roll out plugins to a small set of users at first. They’ll gradually increase access as more is learned.

A documentation to help developers build a plugin for ChatGPT has also been provided.

ChatGPT has implemented safeguards to ensure plugins don’t perform nefarious and/or unwanted activities.

These can range from prompt injection, to sending fraudulent emails, to even misusing information sent to the plugin.

However, the plugin offers new risks that may increase the capabilities of bad actors who may defraud or abuse others.

📰 Read the Full Announcement Here

🔦 MEET THE NEXT AI UNICORN

Character.AI, a Silicon Valley start-up that builds online chatbots, has raised $150 million in a recent funding round.

The company is currently valued at $1 billion!

Founded by ex-Google employees, the company is one of a few start-ups that could one day rival the industry-changing OpenAI.

If we compared now to the Gold Rush, LLMs (large language models) would be the pans. Character.AI is gunning to be the number one seller.

However, building such powerful systems requires enormous amounts of computer processing power, estimated at least $500 million.

This fact will most likely lead to a few big players dominating the LLM market.

📰 Read the Full Article Here (non paywall here)

📰 OTHER HEADLINES & STORIES

• How California is Tackling AI Legislation

• Employers Are Posting More Jobs Involving AI Tools

• New Shopify/Google Cloud AI Integration Brings Advanced Ecommerce

• Nvidia Is Winning AI Race, but Can’t Afford to Trip (non paywall here)

🛠️ AWESOME AI TOOLS

• PixelBin Generative Background Creator: Revolutionize your Product Photography with the Power of AI

• CodiumAI: Generating meaningful tests for busy devs

• Use ChatGPT: Use ChatGPT & GPT-4 on any website without copy-pasting

• Lindy: Your AI personal assistant

🖼️ AI ART PIECE

Nighthawks meet Pixar — by Kail Tescar

🤖 CHATGPT PROMPT OF THE DAY

Not going to lie, this one tripped me up for a bit even.