Hey all, was away for a week and so much happened. Veo3, Flow, Jony Ive at OpenAi. Lots to talk about
Hector & AIxC team
01 / NEWS
Jony Ive Joins OpenAi
OpenAi has joined forces with Jony Ive and team to bring their design expertise to every facet of OpenAi’s products.
To make this happen, OpenAi set aside $6.5B (in stock). I’m pumped to see the value being put on great design.
Here’s a link to full write-up at Fast Company.
02 / NEWS
State of Ai in Design Report
This report was recently released and it’s well worth a download.
Some highlights:
Ai is making most of its impact in ideation work
Research is speeding up
96.3% of Ai learning is self-directed
Ai adoption is heaviest in early stage companies at 52%
“Be a hybrid, not a purist”
03 / FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS
Veo3 and Flow First Tests
This week marked the launch of Veo3 and it’s video workflow tools, Flow. You can ream more about it here, but initial thoughts...
Pros:
+ Quality / realism is impressive
+ Ability to do sound is impressive
+ Lipsync has come a long way
+ Using flow to seamlessly extend scenes is really useful
+ New text-to-image gave great product visual results
+ Physics, while not perfect, are impressive
Cons:
+ No reference imagery / keyframes yet, start or finish
+ No image editing capability
+ Finding the UI to be frustrating, ie took me a while to figure out how to find my image generations
+ Struggled with initial setup with our workspace account
+ It's pricey
For R&D Lab folks, we have a full breakdown of how we made the video above, prompts, settings, etc.
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