Selfies That Sing: Lyria 3 Turns Snaps into 30-Second Hits
From zoo pics to breakfast jams, plus ad-free searches and billion-dollar world-building breakthroughs
Welcome to the Wild World of AI
Where even your selfies can rock out! Thanks to DeepMind's latest creation, now your photos and prompts can be magically transformed into catchy tunes.
Lyria 3: Transform Your Photos into Music
That's right, your snapshot from last year's zoo trip could now come complete with a jaunty little number featuring claws, roars, and more! Just use Lyria 3, Google DeepMind’s jazzy text-to-music tool stuffed inside Gemini. It whips up a whole 30-second song with lyrics and album art just from a simple prompt or a picture.
- Picture this: you could start your own chart-topping musical career by snapping your breakfast and letting the magic unfold.
Perplexity's AI Search Engine
In another corner of high-tech news, Perplexity’s AI search engine has sworn off ads. Seems they figured out nobody enjoys unsolicited commercials interrupting their intellectual chats with a virtual friend.
- I mean, who'd want their earnest inquiry about why pizza is so delicious to be rudely interrupted by a fitness ad? Not me, and certainly not Perplexity’s execs, it seems.
Big News in AI Funding
Meanwhile, there's some pretty big news – like $1 billion big. World Labs snagged this eye-popping wad of cash to keep tinkering with AI that can grasp, well, the actual universe.
- Imagine typing "build a medieval castle" and seeing a 3D version pop up right before your eyes! Okay, not quite Hogwarts, but it’s an exciting bit of sorcery nonetheless.
Other Cool Things to Know Today:
- The Pentagon got into a spat with AI company Anthropic over the use of Claude – it's a showdown involving military rules and ethics.
- Sam Altman's OpenAI Codex saw its weekly users triple, pushing from 1 million to 3 million, probably because it's the Clark Kent of AI tools!
- Alibaba rolled out Qwen 3.5, aiming to take the AI cake from its rivals, Claude and GPT.
Cool AI Tools You Should Try:
- Granola: Not the breakfast kind! This AI is your personal assistant for turning meeting notes into actionable to-dos without the calorie intake.
- Moda: Be the Picasso of digital design with this tool, creating snazzy visual assets that scream personality.
Lastly, a nod to the AI geniuses busy constructing a new internet more bustling with virtual bots than actual people! But let’s not worry about that for now. Instead, why not stick with creating music from your selfies?
Just a friendly reminder: no photos of broccoli, unless you fancy a symphony of sadness.
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