No more Apple Watch?

Happy Thursday and happy first day of winter, technically. Today is officially the shortest day of the year and the Winter Solstice. 

🐦 In not-so-good news, X suffered a major outage that lasted an hour. 

🎞️ Warner Bros, Paramount, and Discovery might be merging.

⌚ Apple lost an appeal to avoid a ban on selling its Apple Watch Series 9 models.

🍎 Apple is reportedly ramping up Vision Pro production with consumer models aiming for a February launch.

There are a lot of different AI tools for different tasks. It can become overwhelming filtering through just how many have launched this year alone. But what if instead of relying on multiple tools for your workflow, you could rely on one that does a lot? 

Krea launched yesterday in open beta as a suite of AI tools. Its main feature set revolves around image generation, visual enhancement, video generation, and some more quirky ideas like pattern generation (remember those spiralized patterns we saw a while back?) 

Here’s the low down: 

Real-time Generation: This behaves somewhat differently than you might expect. Rather than a prompt, you draw a crude illustration using shapes, and the AI will magically morph it into a work of art. You can even enable your webcam to generate a fantastical scene based on you and your surroundings. 

Upscale & Enhance: This does exactly what it says on the tin. Upload an image, maybe one of those old-timey film ones, and Krea will use AI to scale it up to modern-day looks. You can customize the enhancement to suit your style. 

AI Patterns: This feature takes the popular spiralized style that went viral a few months back and makes it easier to do. Drop in an image, and it will be instantly spiralized. 

AnimateDiff is all about making animation easier. It can’t get much easier than simply writing a prompt and letting the AI do its magic, which is exactly what this feature does.

You can even craft your own AI models by training them on your own assets so you can refine them to your liking even more. 

• Drawww is a real-time AI drawing app for the iPad.
• Coaster helps you find a local guide for outdoor adventures.
• Dr. Change helps you build healthy habits with AI.

• You can now generate native, 3D apps for iPhone with Spline.
• Cline is a lightweight A/B testing tool for the web. 
• Helix lets you train an AI with your own data.