🪇 This is ChatGPT for music - produce hits at the touch of a button

AI-HOI, AInauts!

Happy April 1st! And don't worry, we're not joking when it comes to AI.

On the contrary, we've compiled the most exciting news and the list of the top 50 AI tools - and even created the next chart-topper along the way. Well, almost...

That's what we have in store for you today:

• 🎶 Suno is the ChatGPT of AI music - how to create your own hits

• 🌐 These are the top 50 AI tools, on the web and mobile

• 📰 AI-News-Quickie: The HAI-lights

Let's go!

🎶 Suno is the ChatGPT of AI music - how to create your own hits at the touch of a button

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Oh, how right the great science fiction author Sir Arthur C. Clarke is.

Suno has released version 3 of its music generator, and it's really powerful.

The magic of Suno lays in its ability to generate your very own two-minute songs in radio quality with just a few clicks!

Just enter a short description and a new AI song is born! Try it for free today - log in and get started. You can easily create 2-3 songs with the free credits.

Here is our first attempt with a simple prompt, zero post-processing - not bad, ey! *in German, to show off the language capabilities 😃

Under the hood, Suno uses OpenAI's GPT model to create the lyrics. These are then seamlessly interwoven with vocals and instruments. However, the company remains silent on how exactly the model was trained.

The Custom Mode offers an intuitive user interface where you can enter your own lyrics and tune more details. Songs can be created in many languages, styles and genres.

Suno is already working on version 4 and has also introduced a proprietary watermarking technology to prevent misuse.

And by the way, if you are a teacher, you can sign up for a free account here to use the tool in your classroom. And if you want to dive deeper, click here (or go wild on Discord).

Our take:

Anyone can theoretically produce the next hit without any prior musical knowledge. Of course, companies such as Google and Meta are also experimenting in this area.

But Suno stands out by creating not just sounds, but real pieces of music with feeling and depth that are in no way inferior to those of humans.

These developments will have far-reaching consequences for the music industry and open up new opportunities for creatives of all kinds. We can't wait to see when the first AI hits conquer the charts!

🌐 These are the top 50 AI tools, on the web and mobile - with 22 new additions in the last 6 months!

Suno has also earned its place in the ranking of top tools. And it sometimes feels like we've experienced a digital revolution virtually overnight!

Gen AI apps are springing up like mushrooms, and their variety is impressive. But do you ever wonder which tools are really being used?

We have an answer for you today - and probably also a number of tool recommendations that you don't know yet.

Six months after the first analysis, a16z has once again ranked the 50 most popular generative AI products for web and mobile according to monthly user numbers - and recorded 22 new entries.

In other words: over 40% of the companies on the Top 50 list are new additions!

In contrast to the first analysis, where the companies were first sorted by web traffic and then app data was added, this time there was a separation of web and mobile AI products into two separate lists.

Unsurprisingly, ChatGPT leads the web products, followed by Google Bard (now Gemini) and the up-and-comers Anthropic Claude and Character.AI. Character.AI is impressive, and gets its users to spend 2 hours a day with them!

Uncensored chatbots are also popular - with their very own appeal and conversations that are not restricted by any algorithms.

These digital buddies are redefining the concept of AI-friendships relationships. They are growing beyond digital partners and expanding into areas such as friendship, mentoring, entertainment and health.

The growth in the categories of music with Suno (see above) and productivity with tools such as Liner and Phind is also exciting. Liner and Phind? Yeah, those names don't ring a bell with us either ... there's always something new to discover in the AI landscape.

ChatGPT also leads the field in the area of mobile apps, albeit by a narrower margin. There are numerous ChatGPT-like applications in this segment, alongside powerful image editing programs such as photomath and Remini.

But it is always important to place such lists in a larger context. Because if this current survey is to be believed, there is still a lot of potential to expand usage - a large proportion of Americans have never even communicated with ChatGPT!

Our take:

The era of generative AI is producing new tools in record time that are turning our lives upside down. We only know a fraction of the list and are excited to see what it will look like in six months' time!

Links: Top 50 Gen AI Consumer Web Product (alphabetical)

Links: Top 50 Gen AI Consumer Mobile Apps (alphabetical)

📰 AI-News-Quickie: The HAI-lights

Ok, that was a lot of facts and links. So to round things off, here are a few more easily digestible news snacks from all areas of the AI universe. Have fun exploring!

Robotics

• Why all the hype about robots? This video gives a good overview of what the current state of development is (and why certain robots are not allowed to talk about sex) - the race of nations is on!

• The most important updates from the past week, curated by Figure.ai founder Brett Adcock.

Deepfakes and such ...

• BBC article: "Even experts can no longer distinguish deepfakes from reality - and that's a dilemma ..."

• Also BBC: "We have permission to use AI and no longer need the real voice". (Details here)

• Creators raise concerns, while media agencies are experimenting with AI ... what is AI, what is not (see the case of Princess Catherine)? How do we deal with explicit deepfakes?

• The shrimp Jesus definitely makes the cash register ring for fraudsters.

• The popular online gameplay will also soon be 100% AI-generated and present livestreaming platforms Twitch, YouTube, etc. with new challenges.

• Speaking of deepfakes - HeyGen 5.0 is next level, see for yourself!

Chatbots and language models

• Oh! 4 out of 5 AIs have passed the mirror test of self-awareness ... so far only 8 species have recognized themselves in the mirror!

• Which is not to say that you can rely on moving to ChatGPT and Co. ... apparently ChatGPT is lazy again, and in the practical use chatbots often fail.

• And which chatbot is "the best"? It depends ...

• OpenAI launches pilot program for GPT monetization (initially only in the US, and only with selected users - FAQ here). In practice, however, the GPTs do not seem to be used very often.

• And there is also news in the field of speech: OpenAI is providing some companies with a realistic model for testing. This allows voices to be simulated with 15 seconds of input (similar to what is already possible today with ElevenLabs and co.)!

• And by the way: GPT-4 could also apply for a co-pilot position and fly an airplane, as a new study shows.

• "The king is dead!" Our favorite chatbot Claude 3 has toppled GPT-4 from the throne, and is now officially the best chatbot.

• Elon has announced that all X-Premium subscribers will get access to Grok 1. Grok 1.5 is currently being tested and is already right at the top in many benchmarks!

• Google AI helps with travel planning, has launched a new music AI called "Instrument Playground" presented, invests $20 million in a GenAI Fund and brings Gemini Nano to the Pixel 8 Phone.

• There is also news from Google at model level: the new open source model Meridian for marketing purposes was presented, as well as AutoBNN for research purposes. Big G must apparently not be afraid for the search engine business.

• Microsoft customers are not entirely happy with Copilot, internally there is unrest, and the US Congress bans Microsoft's AI Copilot ... so is $20/month for the Pro version worth it?

• ChatGPT displays web sources more prominently - and there should be more updates soon.

Graphics, audio and video

• ChatGPT brings more control to image generation with DALL-E 3 (by the way, OpenAI has an "artist in residence").

• Canva has bought Affinity - inviting design professionals and not just amateurs, which brings challenges for Adobe.

• At the Adobe Summit, new AI tools (for example, "Structured Reference", which is celebrated on X), about 20 APIs and a Microsoft partnership - but no updates in the area of video. This is surprising, as we would have liked to see a serious counterbalance to OpenAI's Sora.

• The AI video generator LTX-Studio is slowly opening its doors - here is the video of the launch event.

  

Society and politics

• Every US federal agency will soon need to hire a senior AI officer who has the appropriate expertise.

• What if AI could bring the deceased back to life? A field report ... Black Mirror style!

• Chinese women are now apparently turning directly to AI boyfriends because they are "better than a real man".

• AI is being used in California to track homeless people ...

• "AI-generated text garbage pollutes our culture!" ... that has something.

• An interesting portrait of Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus and now CEO of Anduril Industries. He deals in AI weapons and infiltrates the US government's war machine.

Economy and personalities

• Is AI a bubble after all? Apparently no one is really making a profit apart from chip manufacturer NVIDIA ("Sell shovels during the gold rush!").

• Whole teams are "bought" at insane prices, and the rapid availability of money leads to hype and rip-offs (and FOMO makes company valuations explode in no time).

• Even in Germany, AI talents can claim 100k euro salaries!

• But the takeover of Inflection by Microsoft is a warning that there may be something to the AI bubble after all ...

• Also about Emad Mostaque, the Stability AI founder, is currently being written about after he had to leave his start-up - and not only positive things ...

• Former Google China Chairman, Kai-Fu Lee (his AI books here on Amazon), believes that OpenAI is the first "Trillion Dollar Company".

• Ultimately, according to Larry Summers, "AI will be able to do practically all the work".

• Sir Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google Deepmind, has been knighted.

• AI, grass and nuclear reactors make for an interesting story -especially in the context that Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a $100 billion US dollar data center!

We'll be back soon with new updates for you.

See you soon, your AInauts - Reto & Fabian

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