Mystery AI image leader revealed

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The AI image leaderboards were shaken up earlier this week by a mystery ‘Red_Panda’ model, and the perpetrator was just revealed.

Did Recraft’s impressive recent V3 model just give AI image generation its next graphic design leap? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Mystery AI image leader reveals its identity

• Atlas robot shows off autonomous sorting skills

• Turn sales data into actionable insights

• Osmo gives computers a way of smell with AI

• 6 recent AI tools & 4 recent AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

RECRAFT

🎨 Mystery AI image leader reveals its identity

The Rundown: Design startup Recraft just announced its recent V3 AI model, which features precise graphic design skills, text generation, and vector capabilities — and likewise revealed it was the mysterious ‘Red_Panda’ AI that surged to the highest of the image generation leaderboards in testing earlier this week.

The main points:

• The model achieved a 72% win rate and 1172 ELO rating on the Artificial Evaluation leaderboard, outperforming established players like Midjourney and FLUX.

• Recraft V3 introduces state-of-the-art text generation abilities, allowing designers to create images with accurate text of any size and length.

• The model also shows improved human anatomy realism, positioning and spacing inside a scene, and prompt adherence.

• The platform emphasizes designer control with features like custom brand colours, positioning tools, and collaborative workflows.

Why it matters: This Red Panda reveal is a little bit of a shocker, with the corporate ascending to the highest tier of image generators seemingly out of nowhere. But with an emphasis on designer control alongside a top-tier model, Recraft may unlock recent creative precision that marks the following leap in AI-assisted design.

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🤝 Elevate your hiring process with AI

The Rundown: Metaview just launched Hiring Studio — a free suite of AI copilots to assist 10x the productivity of recruiting teams.

With Hiring Studio, Metaview has fine-tuned an LLM to:

• Collaborate with AI to design interview questions tailored to your recruiting

• Mechanically create rubrics for what to search for in candidate answers

• Take heed to sample candidate responses in formats like STAR

• Export or share the questions with the remaining of your team

Give it a try without cost and begin revolutionizing your hiring process today.

BOSTON DYNAMICS

🤖 Atlas robot shows off autonomous sorting skills

The Rundown: Boston Dynamics just unveiled recent footage of its electric Atlas humanoid robot sorting automotive parts, showing off recent autonomous and real-time adaption capabilities.

The main points:

• The all-electric Atlas showcases fully autonomous navigation and manipulation, moving engine covers between bins without human input or pre-programming.

• Atlas uses machine learning and an array of sensors to adapt to the environment in real-time, including detecting bin locations and adjusting to failed insertions.

• The demo arrived shortly after Boston Dynamics’ partnership announcement with Toyota Research Institute earlier this month.

• Boston Dynamics previously showed off Atlas’ strength in a demo video of the humanoid robot performing pushups.

Why it matters: Robotics and auto manufacturing appear to be an ideal match, with deployments from industry leaders in factories nationwide. Elon Musk just predicted that there can be 10B humanoids by 2040 — and with Boston Dynamics, Figure, Optimus, and others, the race for business humanoids is accelerating fast.

AI TRAINING

📊 Turn your sales data into actionable insights

The Rundown: Claude’s recent Evaluation Tool can analyze your sales funnel progression and create interactive visualizations to discover conversion bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Claude AI, go to Feature Preview in settings, and enable the Evaluation Tool.

2. Upload your sales funnel CSV and use the evaluation prompt: “Please analyze this sales funnel data and supply conversion rates, drop-off points, and optimization areas.“

3. Create visualizations with: “Create an interactive funnel visualization showing user numbers, conversion percentages, and stage metrics.”

4. Generate recommendations: “Based on the evaluation, provide top 3 optimization opportunities with specific actions.”

Pro tip: Clean your CSV data before uploading for more accurate insights.

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This system offers:

• Tools and framework to search out clients and deliver top-notch services

• A 6-month roadmap to construct a 6-figure AI consulting business

• Student landing their first AI client in as little as 3 days

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OSMO AI

👃 Osmo gives computers a way of smell with AI

The Rundown: Osmo just announced the successful achievement of ‘scent teleportation,’ showcasing a demo by which an AI analyzes, digitizes, and reproduces the smell of a plum.

The main points:

• The corporate demonstrated full scent digitization using a plum as a test subject, creating an actual replica of its smell without human intervention.

• The method combines gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, and AI-driven evaluation to create a digital ‘scent fingerprint.’

• Osmo’s proprietary AI system uses the world’s largest scent database to map and recreate molecular compositions.

• The corporate is planning public demos of the tech and is considering releasing a limited-edition fragrance of their first teleported scent.

Why it matters: While photos, videos, and audio have been digital for a long time, smell has never joined in on the fun — until now. Osmo’s breakthrough could transform all the things from entertainment and communication to distant experiences and illustrates that seemingly anything will be digitized with the precise combination of AI and engineering.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• ⚡️ Bolt.recent – Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps

• ⚙️ Langtail – Low-code platform for testing AI apps with real-world data

• 🎥 AI Studios – AI video generator with realistic AI avatars, natural text-to-speech, and powerful AI video editing capabilities

• 🪄 Wand – Draw and edit anything with AI

• 📸 Renamify – AI-powered photo renaming & organization tool

Latest AI Job Opportunities

• 🏗️ Databricks – Solutions Architect

• 📱 DeepL – Senior Social Media Manager

• 📊 Captions – Performance Marketer

• 🧩 Siena – Solutions Consultant

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OpenAI rolled out Advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT on desktop platforms, bringing conversational AI to PC and Mac users after its successful mobile launch.

CEO Sundar Pichai revealed during Google’s Q3 earnings call that the corporate is now using AI to put in writing and produce over 25% of its code, with human engineers reviewing and approving it.

Time Magazine released its ‘Best Inventions of 2024’ list, featuring an AI category that features Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 3, Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha, Google’s NotebookLM, and more.

OpenAI introduced SimpleQA, a brand new factuality benchmark, and a study showing even GPT-4o struggles with accuracy, scoring below 40% on fastidiously curated fact-based questions.

Waymo published recent data on the autonomous driving company’s usage, with the Alphabet-owned startup now providing over 150k paid trips and driving 1M+ miles each week.

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See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team