The Roundup
by Product Hunt
🐕 A startup is trying to use science to make your dog live longer.
✈️ Virgin Atlantic flew the first transatlantic flight using sustainable fuel.
🧵 Europeans, you might finally be getting Threads – as a little treat.
🤖 OpenAI has a new board that includes Microsoft.
🐦 Elon had some choice words for advertisers pulling out of X.
This viral AI product just lowered the barrier to entry
Generative AI and video are a match made in heaven lately. Companies like Runway initially set the bar with Gen2. Now, new platforms are trying to raise that bar.
Pika is one of them. It's founded by Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, two former Stanford PhD students, and Pika just raised a whopping $55 million led by Lightspeed Ventures.
Pika crafted its own foundational video model that lets users generate entire clips through text prompts. For example, an animated Elon Musk in an astronaut suit, which the team demonstrated in its launch video.
That's a spicy soup
🌶The latest AI art trend is: Asking for more, yup, it's that simple. Just keep asking ChatGPT to make your image "spicier," "happier," "sillier," and the results speak for themselves.
🐶 Dog lovers, rejoice: Science wants to be the best friend to your best friend. A startup is currently working on ways to ensure your dog lives longer.
🖼️ Google 🤝 Memes: Bored of the usual .com and .net domain names? So is Google and that’s why the company announced a new top level .meme domain extension.
Leaderboard highlights
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PRODUCTIVITY
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- Albus for Community is an AI-powered knowledge bot that lives in your team’s Slack workspace.
DEV TOOLS
- Ploomber Cloud lets you deploy AI and ML apps for free.
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DESIGN
- This tool uses AI to generate high-quality design assets.
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MARKETING
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