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Bing Image Creator

Bing Image Creator has an updated model, a fresh design, and more ways to generate images.

Using the latest DALL-E 3 model PR16, it’s now twice as fast as before with higher quality.

Conveniently, you can now create images right from the Bing search bar and the Microsoft Edge address bar.

Just search up “create an image of…” and your images will appear in the SERP.

Whisk

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Google’s newest AI tool is called Whisk.

Instead of responding only to text prompts, Whisk generates images using other images.

Compose the subject, scene, and style of your desired image using a series of your own references.

The outputs are pretty good, but you can always tweak things with text prompts if you want.

We’re loving the playful UI and the much needed break from prompt-writing.

Web Apps

Can’t figure out how to rotate a PDF? Don’t ask a millennial! We’re very tired!

What you need is a free cache of simple, user-friendly tools to convert files and edit video, audio, and more. Web Apps is it.

They’ve just added some new features, too, like text-to-speech and a screen recorder.

If you need to work with larger files, the premium version is only $6 / month.

Openvibe

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“So, where do we go now?”

If you’ve been around long enough, you’ve seen a few mass social-platform migrations.

It’s a weird feeling—everyone scatters, your digital routine is upended, and all you wanna do is find your people again, wherever they are.

Openvibe is cool because it’s all decentralized social networks (Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads, and more) in a unified timeline.

This way, you can migrate your followers, and connect across platforms without boundaries or platform conventions.

OpenAI’s Sora

OpenAI’s video-generation AI tool for ChatGPT, Sora, has launched for Pro and Plus subscribers.

You can now generate clips between 5 and 22 seconds long.

ChatGPT Plus users get 1,000 monthly credits for up to 50 priority videos at 720p, while Pro users get 10,000 monthly credits for 500 priority videos at 1080p (or unlimited low-priority videos).

Resolution costs:

480p: 20–150 credits
720p: 30–540 credits
1080p: 100–2,000 credits

Postiz

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Postiz is an open-source social media scheduling platform that you can host on your machine, if you need to.

Connect to basically any social channel; schedule and cross-post to multiple channels all at once; manage your content calendar; leverage AI for copilots, creative, and auto-completion; and take advantage of comprehensive analytics.

Great for privacy-first brands and agencies who work with ’em.

Amazon Nova

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a new family of multimodal generative AI models—Amazon Nova—at the re:Invent conference.

The Nova family includes 4 text, image, and video generating models; Micro, Lite, and Pro are available now, with Premiere set to drop in early 2025.

Nova models are fast, multimodal, customizable, and 75% less expensive than other best-in-class models.

Email Me

If the best way to get in contact with you is via email, you should try emailing yourself your best ideas.

Seriously. What’s the use of a well-jotted thought if it’s buried in an Notes app that you rarely revisit?

Email Me is an Mac app that opens up a fresh email addressed to you with one click. You can also send audio notes, clipboard content, images, links, and more.

A Video From Santa

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Why not delight (or frighten) your loved ones this holiday season with a personalized video from AI Santa Claus?

It’s powered by 11ElevenLabs, Creator Kit, and Tavus. Just pick a template, type your script, enter your email, and generate a video in just 7 minutes.