Author: Melanie Stuetz

Exciting news for innovators and AI productivity enthusiasts: Pika Labs Unleashes Pika 1.0 – A Game-Changing AI Video Platform Ready to Rival Runway! Innovation meets AI power!

Pika Labs, the six-month-old disruptor in video AI, is making waves with the launch of Pika 1.0. What makes Pika different?

🤖 Unleash your creativity: Pika 1.0 lets you create and modify videos in styles ranging from 3D animation to anime and cinematic masterpieces, all with just text prompts!

💸 Funding milestone: Securing a whopping $55 million in total funding, Pika Labs recently closed a successful $35 million Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, adding to its previous triumphs in funding rounds.

Pika vs. Runway: The stage is set for a showdown as Pika Labs challenges the status quo with its cutting-edge technology. Are you ready to see the future of AI video creation?

📽️ Dive deeper: Enjoy the video and just imagine what you could do with it.

Like, share, and tag fellow innovators here who are ready to redefine the boundaries of AI creativity!

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In a comparatively short announcement, the AI company OpenAI, which has been plagued by management chaos, has announced that ChatGPT Voice is now freely available to all users:

ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users. Download the app on your phone and tap the headphones icon to start a conversation.

Sound on 🔊

The company first introduced voice control about two months ago, but initially as a feature for Plus and Enterprise subscription customers. Now a subscription is no longer required to use it.

Have fun trying it out! Stay up to date on the latest AI developments that make everyday work easier and follow us on LinkedIn to think smarter with AI.

Insane! Ex-Apple designer just released an Ai Pin powered by ChatGPT, to redefine the way we interact with technology, potentially heralding a new era in personal devices.

👉 Key features of this revolutionary device include:

1. A unique projection system that displays visuals directly onto the user’s hands, eliminating the need for a traditional screen.
2. Advanced gesture control capabilities, allow users to operate the device with simple hand movements, such as pinching.
3. Voice-activated functionality, offering a hands-free experience and direct communication with the device.
4. A suite of versatile features, including real-time voice translation, music playback, and the ability to respond to calls and texts, as well as answering queries.
5. It operates on Humane’s Cosmos OS, incorporating AI models from OpenAI, showcasing its technical prowess.

The device operates independently of a smartphone, suggesting a strategic move towards replacing traditional phones entirely.

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“Anyone can easily build their own GPT—no coding is required. You can make them for yourself, just for your company’s internal use, or for everyone. Creating one is as easy as starting a conversation, giving it instructions and extra knowledge, and picking what it can do, like searching the web, making images or analyzing data. Try it out.

Example GPTs are available today for ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users to try out including Canva and Zapier AI Actions.”

We have even more news from OpenAI to share with:

“Finally, ChatGPT Plus now includes fresh information up to April 2023. We’ve also heard your feedback about how the model picker is a pain. Starting today, no more hopping between models; everything you need is in one place. You can access DALL·E, browsing, and data analysis all without switching. You can also attach files to let ChatGPT search PDFs and other document types. Find us at chatgpt.com.”

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The Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is co-founded by the Kauffman Foundation and has helped millions of people turn their ideas into reality and scale new businesses.

IDEASCANNER is once again partner of the GEW in the USA & Germany, this time with 2 free online sessions on Thursday, 11/16/2023:

1. 11-11:30 am PST: TOP AI Tools for Entrepreneurs and Innovators
2. 14-14:30 Uhr CET: TOP KI-Tools für Gründer:innen, Unternehmer:innen und alle die Innovation vorantreiben

Stay ahead & join us! Cannot make it that day? Simply contact us here for a separate session with your team.

We like the animated cover of this year’s TIME’s Best Inventions, which shows the new area of entertainment with the Sphere in Las Vegas.

Check out the full list including the best inventions based on artificial intelligence (AI), such as:

1. Audio Stability – Use a simple prompt to create sounds and songs for both personal and commercial use.
2. Gen-2 Runway – Produce complete videos using only a text prompt.
3. Generative Fill and Expand in Adobe Photoshop – Easily edit photos without the need for technical expertise.
4. Dall-E 3 by OpenAI – Create amazingly realistic images using simple text prompts.
5. GPT-4 OpenAI – Robust AI model enables you to perform a wide range of tasks, including analysing Excel files and writing blog posts.

At IDEASCANNER, we love turning inventions and ideas into scalable and sustainable innovations by 10x with AI. Not sure about your USP in relation to the market trends of your industry? Take advantage of our free Pre-SCAN and scan your business or idea now.

The news about AI and its latest tools is coming thick and fast. At IDEASCANNER, we keep track of it all for you.

That’s why today we’re also sharing the latest announcement from OpenAI:

DALL·E 3 is now available to all ChatGPT Plus & Enterprise users, allowing you to create unique images through conversation.

Describe your vision, let ChatGPT generate multiple variants and then request edits — all in real time, as you can see here:

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“I’m teaching a new course: Generative AI for Everyone, which is coming soon,” says Andrew Ng, an AI industry pioneer, co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera, who led AI at Baidu and has reached and impacted millions of learners with his machine learning courses.

At IDEASCANNER, we help you increase business value and think smarter with AI.

We enable you to use the latest tools and proven methodologies, and that’s why we’re sharing this fantastic opportunity with you today with the latest course on:

1. learn how Generative AI works,
2. how to use it in professional or personal settings, and
3. how it will affect jobs, businesses and society.

This course is open to everyone and requires no prior programming or AI experience. Simply join the waiting list to be among the first to know when it goes live!

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At IDEASCANNER we work remotely first. This not only saves time and money for us, our partners and clients, but is also good for the environment. For face-to-face meetings, our Walk & Talk format has proven itself. So if you are on your way to Munich anyway, just give us a call and we look forward to meeting you in person.

This is what happened with Sabine Lauffer. She is the CEO of the Economic Development Center Mecklenburg Lake District. We were really impressed by her extensive European experience and her approach to making the Mecklenburg Lake District attractive for business. Her focus on an H2 economy, energy supply security, land availability, favorable investment conditions and a high quality of life as key strengths of the region is commendable. These are factors that companies should seriously consider when making location decisions. She asked if she could take a photo with us for LinkedIn and here it is, including a summary of our personal exchange. Let’s join forces to drive your regional economic development.

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“The AI Hype Cycle has many innovations that deserve particular attention within the two-to-five-year period to mainstream adoption that include generative AI and decision intelligence,” says Gartner Director Analyst Afraz Jaffri. “Early adoption of these innovations will lead to significant competitive advantage and ease the problems associated with utilizing AI models within business processes.”

This is good news for IDEASCANNER, an early adopter in the field of decision intelligence. To investigate the secret of startup success, we launched IDEASCANNER, Europe’s largest privately funded research project on business success factors. IDEASCANNER uses these factors and large language models (LLMs). This decision intelligence tool helps startup and SME entrepreneurs to outperform their competition by creating and implementing clear unique selling propositions (USPs). One of our customers even called our identified success factors the “Periodic Table of Business Strategy“. With IDEASCANNER, we’ve already unlocked €1.08 billion in revenue potential for our most recent clients.

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to test your current business model. Take advantage of IDEASCANNER’s free pre-scan, click SCAN YOUR BUSINESS NOW and get the latest insights on innovation trends in your industry. Discover potential USPs to ensure your business is ready for the future.

This year, IDEASCANNER’s management team, Melanie Stütz and Andreas G. Stütz, were already invited by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics to speak live on the Innovation Stage at the Digital Summit in the Porsche Arena Stuttgart on the topic of “Tools for Decision Intelligence“.