Introducing SimplyAI: Voice & Vision!

Hey AI Enthusiasts,

I’m excited to share some big changes happening with this newsletter. As you know, we've been exploring AI’s potential in marketing and creativity through our newsletter "AI for Marketing." Over time, I’ve noticed a shift in the landscape—AI for marketing has become a crowded space, with countless resources already available. While I will continue to cover marketing, I realized it’s time to focus on an emerging and transformative area of AI—multimodal AI, where voice, video, and text converge to create powerful, real-time interactions.

Why the Change?

The decision to rebrand the newsletter to SimplyAI: Voice & Vision stems from a desire to focus on what's next in AI: voice and video-powered models that can enhance business operations, communication, and customer experiences. Multimodal AI isn’t just a future concept—it's becoming integral to how businesses operate, from customer service automation to content creation, to personalized interactions in real time.

By shifting our focus to this new frontier, I aim to help you stay ahead of the curve, leveraging the most advanced AI tools that combine voice, visual, and text-based processing for real-world applications.

What’s in It for You?

The new format will dive deeper into:

1. Multimodal AI Trends and Business Applications: I’ll continue to bring you insights on how AI is impacting marketing—but now in the context of voice, video, and multimodal tools. We’ll cover how these tools are shaping industries like customer service, healthcare, e-commerce, and product development.
2. Vision and Voice AI Breakthroughs: Expect regular updates on innovations in visual and voice-based AI. Whether it's AI transforming customer interactions or automating workflows, you’ll get the latest insights on what’s happening in this space.
3. Startup Spotlights: I’ll highlight cutting-edge startups that are pushing the boundaries of multimodal AI. You’ll learn how these emerging players are creating opportunities in industries from automotive to manufacturing.
4. Video Tutorials: The icing on the cake! Regularly I’ll release a video tutorial showing you how to build with voice and vision models. I’ll also cover how to automate processes with these tools, ensuring you can apply these insights in your business.

New Structure: What to Expect in SimplyAI: Voice & Vision

• Multimodal AI Highlights: Get the latest news on voice and vision AI models, industry trends, and updates on breakthroughs that can impact your business.
• Vision AI Breakthroughs: Discover how vision-based AI is transforming industries like healthcare, accessibility, and customer experiences.
• Voice AI Innovations: Stay up to date with the latest in voice AI technology and how it’s being applied in areas like automotive, retail, and customer support.
• Startup Corner: Spotlighting multimodal AI startups doing exciting work—helping you understand where the next big AI innovations are coming from.
• From the Lab: Deep dives into the most promising research coming out of the multimodal AI space, giving you a glimpse into tomorrow’s world of AI.
• Real-World Use Cases: Practical examples of how businesses are using multimodal AI to transform their workflows, automate complex tasks, and improve customer engagement.
• Video Tutorials: Every week, I’ll include a hands-on video tutorial where I’ll walk you through building with multimodal models—whether it’s generating content, automating customer service, or applying AI to creative workflows.

What’s Next?

Here is our first edition !

Subject: ?? SimplyAI: Voice & Vision - The Coolest Multimodal AI News You Need to Know

Hey there, AI enthusiast!

Vincent checking in with your weekly fix of cutting-edge multimodal AI awesomeness. Buckle up!

?? This Week's Multimodal AI Highlights

Adobe is upping the ante in the AI video space with its new text-to-video AI model. Unlike its predecessors, this model navigates licensing issues gracefully, allowing it to potentially integrate seamlessly into marketers' toolkit without any legal hiccups. As we see AI getting increasingly woven into creative workflows, this development could signal a major shift. [Read more here](https://www.thedrum.com/news/2024/09/12/adobe-s-new-text-video-ai-model-avoids-licensing-pitfalls-upping-marketers).

Bottom line: Adobe's savvy move could soon make AI-powered video content a staple in marketing strategies, freeing creatives to focus on storytelling with fewer legal niggles.

??? Vision AI Breakthroughs

1. VirtualMultiplexer Tool for Enhanced Cancer Diagnosis: A new AI-driven tool, VirtualMultiplexer, is transforming regular tissue images into detailed immunohistochemistry pictures, offering vital insights for cancer diagnostics. [Learn more](https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240912/AI-tool-enhances-cancer-diagnosis-by-transforming-standard-tissue-images.aspx).

2. AI Accessibility Tools on the Rise: AI tools like those from Apple and Google are becoming invaluable for accessibility, empowering individuals with visual impairments to understand their surroundings better. [Explore more](https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/ai-is-turning-phones-into-smarter-accessibility-tools-and-its-just-getting-started/).

Bottom line: Vision AI isn't just evolving; it's revolutionizing healthcare diagnostics and accessibility, offering benefits that touch diverse aspects of life.

??? Voice AI Innovations

This week, it's all about the Voice Mode feature in OpenAI's GPT-4o model, slated to redefine speech assistance in automobiles like the 2025 Jetta models. Merging Cerence's chat tech with OpenAI’s models showcases how voice integration is steering its way into mainstream vehicles. "Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment to vehicles in the United States. Its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant is an AI chatbot based on Cerence’s Chat Pro product and a LLM from OpenAI and will begin rolling out on September 6 with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI models." [Dive deeper](https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/chatgpt-everything-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot/).

Bottom line: Look out, Alexa and Siri—OpenAI's entry into automotive voice AI is here, signaling a transformative era for in-vehicle voice assistants.

??? Cool Multimodal AI Tools & Models Spotlight

1. 'Strawberry' Series by OpenAI: A new series, including o1 and o1-mini models, is breaking new ground with human-like reasoning abilities across challenging tasks. [Find out more](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-o1-strawberry-problem-reasoning/).

2. Meta's AI Label Revisions: Meta is tweaking visibility for its AI-edited content labels on social platforms, balancing user clarity with tech integration. [Read on here](https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/meta-is-making-its-ai-info-label-less-visible-on-content-edited-or-modified-by-ai-tools/).

Bottom line: Better and Clearer!

?? Multimodal AI Startup Corner

1. Cavela: They're harnessing generative AI to streamline manufacturing processes, saving companies significant time and resources in sourcing custom products. [Learn more](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-manufacturing-startup-cavela-raised-2-million-without-pitch-deck-2024-9).

2. OffDeal's AI Agents: This startup is shaking up mergers and acquisitions by automating traditional tasks and connecting buyers to potential business exits. [Discover more](https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/offdeal-wants-to-help-small-businesses-find-big-exits-with-ai-agents/).

Bottom line: Startups are showing us just how versatile and impactful AI can be, creating efficiencies and opportunities in manufacturing and business sales.

?? From the Multimodal AI Lab

Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale: "Large language models (LLMs) show remarkable potential to act as computer agents, enhancing human productivity and software accessibility in multi-modal tasks that require planning and reasoning. However, measuring agent performance in realistic environments remains a challenge since: (i) most benchmarks are limited to specific modalities or domains (e.g. text-only, web navigation, Q&A, coding) and (ii) full benchmark evaluations are slow (on order of magnitude of days) given the multi-step sequential nature of tasks. To address these challenges, we introduce the Windows Agent Arena: a reproducible, general environment focusing exclusively on the Windows operating system (OS) where agents can operate freely within a real Windows OS and use the same wide range of applications, tools, and web browsers available to human users when solving tasks. We adapt the OSWorld framework (Xie et al., 2024) to create 150+ diverse Windows tasks across representative domains that require agent abilities in planning, screen understanding, and tool usage. Our benchmark is scalable and can be seamlessly parallelized in Azure for a full benchmark evaluation in as little as 20 minutes. To demonstrate Windows Agent Arena's capabilities, we also introduce a new multi-modal agent, Navi. Our agent achieves a success rate of 19.5% in the Windows domain, compared to 74.5% performance of an unassisted human" [Detailed insights](https://huggingface.co/papers/2409.08264).

?? Real-World Multimodal AI in Action

1. Airlines Eye AI for Enhanced Safety: Companies are amplifying AI's role in aerospace with visual awareness systems that promise safer skies. [Find out more](https://aviationweek.com/defense/sensors-electronic-warfare/companies-aim-expand-uses-ai-based-visual-awareness-system).

Bottom line: From the skies, AI's practical applications are profound, reshaping industries by enhancing safety and care accessibility.

??? Multimodal AI Industry Temperature Check:

This week, AI models that mimic human reasoning are trending, with OpenAI leading the charge. Meanwhile, accessibility and healthcare continue to benefit from AI enhancements. The market awaits more integrated AI systems in everyday tech.

?? Wrapping Up:

Adobe's bold move in AI-driven marketing tools and OpenAI's anticipated 'o1' unleashing illuminate the week's highlights.

And that's a wrap! Stay curious, keep experimenting, and remember: in the world of multimodal AI, today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality.

Catch you on the flip side,

Vincent

Enthusiast, SimplyAI: Voice & Vision

P.S. Got any cool multimodal AI projects cooking? Hit reply and let me know – your awesome work might just feature in our next edition!

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