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It looks like Microsoft wants to compete with Apple Intelligence, going as far as even giving Copilot for free to certain users. 

GenAI is bleeding into the gaming world as well, with full gameplay being generated by AI models!

Let’s get right into it.

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• 🤝In Partnership: Mammouth, a one-stop hub for the best LLMs, image generators, and recent sources

• 🤿Deep Dive: Microsoft trials 'Copilot' in non-US plans

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

• 🤿Deep Dive: Oasis uses GenAI to generate gameplay

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

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

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Microsoft Trials AI Assistant 'Copilot' in Non-US Consumer Plans

Intelligence: Microsoft has begun offering its Copilot generative AI assistant as part of its Microsoft 365 subscriptions in several non-US countries, perhaps signaling a trial run before broader implementation.

• Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant is now included in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand.

• The addition of Copilot features to these subscriptions will come with a cost increase but will still be cheaper than purchasing a separate Copilot Pro subscription.

• Users will have limited access to Copilot features in apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint through a credit system. Unrestricted access will require a Copilot Pro subscription.

• Microsoft has not confirmed whether this change will be extended to other regions, but analysts suggest this could be a trial before a wider rollout.

• Despite interest in the Copilot AI, businesses have been slow to adopt it due to high costs and a perceived lack of value. Analysts predict generative AI features will be included in office software subscriptions without additional cost by 2028.

🖼️ AI ART

Examples of great and trending AI art

🤿 DEEP DIVE

Decart and Etched Unveil 'Oasis', an AI Model Revolutionizing Gaming Worlds

Intelligence: Decart.ai and Etched.ai have launched Oasis, an AI model that creates a dynamic, real-time open-world gaming experience, with its design inspired by Minecraft.

• Oasis allows player interactions similar to Minecraft, such as moving, chopping trees, and placing blocks, but with unexpected changes due to its AI-driven, rather than hard-coded, nature.

• Oasis was trained on millions of hours of Minecraft gameplay, learning physics, environment behaviors, and controls solely from data.

• Using next-frame prediction, Oasis generates gameplay frame-by-frame in real-time, creating a dynamic world in response to user inputs.

• Despite its quirks, such as occasional "hallucinations," low resolution, and short gameplay sessions, Oasis is seen as a promising proof of concept for real-time AI-generated environments.

• The current model runs on NVIDIA H100 GPUs and supports a resolution of 460p at 20 frames per second, with gameplay limited to a few minutes at a time. The developers plan to transition to a new chip called Sohu to overcome these hardware limitations.

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📰 TOP NEWS

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

🍦 Wendy's Turns to AI to Keep the $1 Frosty Flowing 

Wendy's is using AI, supported by Palantir Technologies, to manage supply chains and predict potential ingredient shortages, ensuring uninterrupted $1 frosty offers and outsmarting malfunctioning rival ice cream machines.

📸 Flux AI Unveils 'Raw Mode' for More Authentic, Less Synthetic Photos

Flux, the AI image generator created by Black Forest Labs, has introduced a "raw mode," designed to capture a more natural aesthetic, increase diversity in human subjects, and enhance the realism of nature photography, challenging perceptions of AI-generated imagery.

🏛️ OpenAI Wins Initial Battle in Copyright Lawsuit, Judge Remains 'Skeptical' 

The lawsuit lodged against OpenAI by news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet, alleging the misuse of articles to train AI models without permission, has been dismissed, with the judge stating an insufficient demonstration of harm but leaving room for an amended complaint.

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