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How to Get the Most Out of Google’s Free AI Studio

 How to Get the Most Out of Google’s Free AI Studio

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Google’s AI Studio and Labs let you experiment with new AI tools for free. I love how these digital sandboxes — like the one from Hugging Face — let you try out creative new uses for AI. You can play around, and then download and share what you create without having to master a complicated new platform. Read on for a few Google AI experiments to try. All are free, fast, and easy to use.

1. Transform an image

Upload a photo and use Gemini’s AI Studio image generation to transform it with prompts. Iterate over your original image until you get a version you like. The model understands natural language, so you don’t have to master the prompt language.

2. Generate AI Voice Conversations

AI-generated voices are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from human voices. If you’re stumped, try Generate Speech in AI Studio or Google’s NotebookLM.

How to use Generate Speech in Google’s AI Studio

Paste into text for narration or for a conversation between two people

Open the Settings tab to choose from 30 AI voices. Each is labeled with a characteristic—e.g., excited, gravelly, or mature.

Click Run to generate the conversation. Optionally adjust the playback speed.

If you want to keep it, download the file, or paste it into a separate text to try again.

Example: A silly 90-second chat between two violinists that I scripted with Gemini and quickly rendered with this Generate Speech tool.

Use case: Create a narration track for an instructional video. ElevenLabs has a better business model for this, but AI Studio is free, easy, and fast.

Alternatives

If you’re on a paid plan, Google’s Gemini AI app can now also generate audio overviews from files you upload.

Google’s free NotebookLM has a new mobile app, and now lets you generate audio conversations in any of 50 languages. Unlike Generate Speech in AI Studio, NotebookLM audio overviews summarize your content, not the words as they’re written. Here’s why NotebookLM is so useful.

Google’s Illuminate lets you generate, listen to, share, and download AI conversations about research papers and famous books. For example, here’s an audio chat about David Copperfield. A little dry to listen to, but still useful.

3. Create a GIF

Try Magical Gif Maker, one of the 20 showcase apps in AI Studio’s Build section. Try creating a moving visual that represents the name of your publication, group, or event. I experimented with kinetic text and word art. Also worth trying in Build AI Studio: Flashcard Maker, Video to Learning App, and Map Planner.

Optional: You can also create a static image with Google’s Imagen 3 or the new Imagen 4. Write a short prompt and choose your preferred aspect ratio. So far, I’ve been loving Ideogram (why I like it) and ChatGPT’s new image engine.

4. Generate a short video

Google’s Veo 2 and Flow let you generate short video clips for free almost instantly with a prompt. Create a clip to add liveliness or humor to a presentation, or create a visual metaphor to help explain something. Here are 25 other quick ideas for how you can use short AI-generated video scenes.

How to Create a Video Clip with Veo 2

Choose a length (5 to 8 seconds) and choose horizontal or vertical orientation

Write a prompt and optionally upload a photo to indicate the visual direction

Example: Take a look at the 5-second video I generated from the parakeet photo I started with and the photo with Veo 2.

Tip: Convert short video clips to gifs for free with Ezgif or Giphy. Unlike video files, gifs are easy to share and auto-play in emails or presentations.

What's next: Remarkably lively clips made with Google's new Veo 3 model went viral this week. These AI-generated visuals - with sound - are available for now on the $250/month(!) plan, so try Veo 2 for free.

5. Explain things with lots of little cats

This playful mini app uses adorable cat illustrations to create short, step-by-step visual guides to explain any concept, from how a violin works to the concept behind the matrix.

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A cut-throat competition among the world's top ten companies to dominate AI.

 A cut-throat competition among the world's top ten companies to dominate AI.

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"AI" stands for Artificial Intelligence. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? It is important to understand it.

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In simple terms, artificial intelligence means training machines to think and act like humans.

Just as we humans learn, think, make decisions and solve problems, AI also gives machines the ability to do all this.

How does AI work? It is a surprise to everyone, but here AI machines are given a lot of data i.e. information. By studying this data, machines learn what patterns there are, what rules apply and what can happen in the future. This learning process is called machine learning, which is an important part of AI.

For example:

Face recognition: You show your face to your phone and it unlocks. AI has learned from millions of pictures of faces which face belongs to whom.

Another important job of its is translation To do. In Google Translate, you write in one language and it translates it into another language. AI has learned from millions of sentences how the meaning of words changes. AI uses search engines like Google

Search engines When you search for something on Google, AI decides which information is most useful to you. The important thing here is

It is important to know where AI is used.

AI is used in many places in our daily lives

To make photos on smartphones better, to give voice commands (like Siri or Google Assistant).

Navigation apps also use AI, such as Google Maps, which gives you information about traffic and roads.

The posts you see on social media, the ads that appear, are determined by AI.

Online shopping is also an important task. If you buy one thing, AI suggests other similar things to you.

Autonomous vehicles, i.e. driverless vehicles, are powered by AI. Cars that run without a driver (although they are not yet fully ready).

AI in the health sector It also provides important information. It helps in diagnosing diseases and developing medicines.

Why is AI important?

AI enables machines to perform tasks that are difficult, time-consuming or impossible for humans. It can increase efficiency, reduce errors and find new solutions.

In short, AI is a technology that makes machines "smart" like humans, so that they can think, learn and solve problems.

The field of artificial intelligence is developing rapidly and is being developed among the top ten companies in the world. As AI's dominance is increasing at an incredible rate, questions have been raised about the existence of humans.

Artificial intelligence is developing rapidly and the world is going through a phase of increasing head-to-head confrontation between giants. From the world's largest companies like Apple and Microsoft to the world's richest people like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, everyone is trying to increase their dominance in the world of AI. Apple has launched an aggressive campaign to stay ahead in this race.

Apple has spent the most on AI.

A recent study by Statista shows that Apple has increased its spending on AI more than any other competitor. Apple has spent most of this on acquiring new companies working in AI. According to the study, Apple acquired more than 30 startup companies in 2023 alone. This is a very aggressive strategy compared to other giants in the AI sector like Microsoft, Google, Meta, OpenAI, etc.

Thus the war on AI is going on.

OpenAI's product ChatGPT is currently dominating the AI world. A study published last month found that ChatGPT alone is getting more than 50 percent of AI traffic. Several big tech efforts are being made to counter this. The world's richest person, Elon Musk, is working on his AI. Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is not far behind. Google recently gave its AI bard a new avatar called Gemini and launched new subscription plans to compete with ChatGPT. Microsoft has introduced the Co-Pilot AI app.

Apple is working on this strategy

Initially, Apple lagged behind other competitors in the race for artificial intelligence. To compensate for this, Apple increased its work on in-house R&D and also adopted a strategy of aggres

It is being said in various media reports that tech company Apple, which sells many great products like iPhone and iPad, has now developed its own generative AI like ChatGPT. According to reports, Apple has already created an internal service similar to ChatGPT, with the help of which its employees are testing new features, preparing text summaries and answering questions based on the data learned so far.

Such news was also reported in July

This is not the first time that news of Apple creating generative AI is making headlines. Similar news was reported in July this year too. Then it was said that Apple is working on its AI model. According to the news, Apple's Large Language Model (LLM) has been developed on a new framework called Ajax.

Now Apple has filed a research paper about the LLM running on its iPhones and iPads. This research paper explains how a large language model can be run on a device with limited DRAM capacity. In fact, it is not possible to run LLM with limited DRAM capacity. For this, Apple has found a way to store LLM on flash memory, which can be attached to the device when needed.

Meanwhile, some other reports are claiming that Apple has started talks with several large news and content companies to train its generative AI. For this, the company can enter into multi-year contracts and is ready to pay more than $50 million. Apple also wants the news company it deals with to give it access to the archives of its news articles.

Suresh Bhattsively acquiring AI startups, under which more than 30 AI startups were acquired in just 12 months. Apple is also recruiting to expand its AI capabilities.

Other big companies are not far behind

Earlier, it was said that Apple is working on its own AI app like ChatGPT. However, no concrete update has come out regarding this yet. According to a study by Statista, Apple is trying to strengthen its hold through acquisitions.

Under which 32 Startups were bought. Other tech giants are not far behind. Last year, Google acquired 21 startups. While Meta acquired 18 and Microsoft acquired 17 startups.

The competition in artificial intelligence is getting fiercer. After OpenAI's generative AI ChatGPT, even big companies don't want to be left behind in the AI race. After tech giants like Google and Microsoft, the world's largest listed company Apple has also joined the AI race.

Apple employees are using it