📦 Alibaba's Qwen - a new frontier

Hi everyone,

Cool models on your way. In this issue, we summarize Apple’s iOS 18 features, and talk about Alibaba’s crazy launch of OPEN-SOURCED LLMs.

Let’s get right into it.

In this issue:

• 🤝In Partnership:  Hautech.ai transforming content strategy

• 🤿Deep Dive: Apple’s iOS 18 features

• 🖼️AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art

• 🤿Deep Dive: Qwen launches Qwen2.5

• ⚒️Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity

• 📰Top News: News on AI, no-code, and productivity

🤝IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HAUTECH.AI

Transform one product photo into a professional photoshoot: save time and money in just a few clicks!

Attention entrepreneurs, designers, creative professionals, and photographers! Are you ready to supercharge your workflow and leave your competition in the dust?

Experience the power of Hautech.ai which generates hyper-realistic human models and flawlessly integrates your real products into stunning, generated environments. This neural network outperforms competitors by creating the most lifelike digital humans and accurately transferring every detail of your merchandise, revolutionizing product photography without the need for expensive photoshoots.

Discover how Hautech.ai can transform your visual content strategy:

✨ Generate professional-grade product photos with any model and background in minutes, designed to boost conversions and sales. Easily adapt your product's visuals to diverse cultural preferences by utilizing AI-generated local models for specific markets.

🎯 Streamline social media content creation by effortlessly producing eye-catching images without the need for traditional photoshoots, saving time and resources.

🚀 Enhance your advertising campaigns by quickly generating diverse visuals, enabling you to test market hypotheses and optimize ad performance with greater precision.

👗 Visualize fashion designs on various models. Designers can instantly see their creations on models of different body types, ethnicities, and genders, helping to bring concepts to life before production.

Ready to simplify your workflow? Reach Hautech.ai - start your free generations right now!

🤿 DEEP DIVE

Apple's AI-Powered iOS 18 Features and Their Release Timeline

Intelligence: Apple has introduced AI-powered features in its iOS 18, but they are only available to users on the developer and public beta versions of the software so far with the full release for all consumers expected in the coming months.

• The AI-powered features include writing tools, a revamped Siri, image cleanup in Photos, new Photos app features, notification summaries, Mail summaries, and updates to the Phone and Notes apps.

  • Writing tools can proofread text, summarize it, or change its tone, but struggle with controversial topics and swear words.

  • Siri has been upgraded to understand requests better, including mid-command changes, and can now provide instructions on using Apple products.

  • The Photos app will now offer image cleanup for removing unwanted objects and people and can create new Memories through prompts.

  • Notification summaries will be available for apps like Mail, Messages, and third-party apps like WhatsApp.

Significance: Apple's focus on AI integration improves user experience and sets a trend for wider AI adoption in consumer tech.

🖼️ AI ART

Examples of great and trending AI art

🤿 DEEP DIVE

Alibaba's Qwen Team Launches Qwen2.5, a Revolutionary AI Language Model

Intelligence: Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen2.5, an upgraded version of their open-source large language model, trained on a massive dataset of 18 trillion tokens, alongside specialized models for coding and mathematics.

• Qwen2.5 improves in various areas such as general knowledge, instruction following, long-text generation, coding, and structured data handling.

• The model supports up to 128K tokens and can generate up to 8K tokens, making it highly flexible for diverse tasks.

• It is multilingual, supporting 29 languages, which widens its global applications.

• Qwen2.5-Coder and Qwen2.5-Math are specialized models refined for programming and mathematics tasks, respectively.

• Qwen2.5-72B, the flagship model, competes well against top-tier open-source models in multiple benchmarks.

• Smaller models in the Qwen family, like Qwen2.5-3B, are closing the gap with their larger counterparts, delivering highly competitive results.

• Developers can easily deploy these models via API or run them locally with frameworks like vLLM, thanks to its integration with Hugging Face’s transformers library.

Significance: The release signifies a noteworthy stride in the AI industry, establishing that even smaller models can deliver highly competitive results. This advancement could have far-reaching implications for several fields, including programming and mathematics, and could fundamentally change our approach toward technological innovation.

⚒️ TOOL SNAPSHOTS

Futuristic tools within AI, no-code, and productivity

• 🕹️ Tomo Cafe - Enhance productivity through anime-inspired storytelling and gaming. Free to try.

• 🗣️ Tempo - Real-time aid for articulate, engaging speech. Free to try.

• 🤖 Coursezy - Custom AI-curated courses with videos, quizzes, and learning assistance. Free to try.

• 🎙️ Voz AI Voice Note Taker - Efficient recording & transcript generation. Free option available.

• 🖼️ Lazyva - Craft posters, merge PDFs, and batch create images effortlessly. Free to try.

📰 TOP NEWS

News on AI, no-code, automation, and productivity

🎓 Google CEO Pledges $120M for Global AI Education to Bridge 'AI Divide'

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, has announced a generous $120 million Global AI Opportunity Fund at the UN Future Summit to facilitate worldwide AI education and training in a bid to avoid a global AI divide and maximize AI's benefits in sustainable development.

👁️ LinkedIn Secretly Training AI Models with Your Data

LinkedIn has quietly set user accounts to auto-opt-in for training its generative AI models without prior consent, but users can turn this off via the "Data for Generative AI Improvement" settings, although data already used will not be affected.

🛍️ Amazon Overhauls Shopping Experience with AI

Amazon is upgrading its shopping experience by integrating various generative AI tools to offer personalized product recommendations based on user preferences and shopping history, along with AI-generated videos for marketers, and a chatbot, Project Amelia, to assist third-party sellers with business insights and troubleshooting.

💫 The Revolutionary Impact of No-Code Platforms

Vinay Agrrawal, founder of no-code platform Hubler, is busting myths about the limitations of no-code technology, asserting that it is adequate for most business needs, and can streamline complex processes, automate workflows, and handle large-scale data - all without the need for custom development. With successful applications like GIVA Jewellery's store management system, Hubler is continuously proving the power of no-code solutions.

ℹ️ ABOUT US

The Intelligent Worker helps you to be more productive at work with AI, automation, no-code, and other technologies.

We like real, practical, and tangible use-cases and hate hand-wavy, theoretical, and abstract concepts that don’t drive real-world outcomes.

Our mission is to empower individuals, boost their productivity, and future-proof their careers.

We read all your comments - please provide your feedback!