RIP TikTokers

🧵 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.

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. 

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 

• BrandVox is an all-in-one analytics tool for social media.
• Mangools is a suite of tools to supercharge your SEO.

In this week's episode, we're talking about two products with two unique applications of AI — AI Garage Sale and flowRL. We'll also talk about the latest news, from the arrival of Tesla's Cyber Trucks to the new Grand Theft Auto trailer that just dropped.