Author: Melanie Stuetz

First text, then images, now the creators of ChatGPT and DALL-E have announced Sora, a text-to-video model. Sora is available to red teamers and experts who will adversarially test the model. According to the announcement, it is also available to a select group of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers “to get feedback on how to evolve the model to be most helpful to creative professionals.”

OpenAI’s API has also had an exponential impact on the AI industry, allowing companies and developers to build their own generative AI tools.

Now, OpenAI is taking an important next step in advancing AI capabilities with video generation .

With Sora, users can generate videos up to one minute in length, with detailed scenes and multiple characters, just like with the Prompt: A Chinese Lunar New Year celebration video with Chinese Dragon.

But Sora can do more than “just” text-to-video. Additional functions are for example:

1. image to video,
2. extend videos,
3. edit videos, not only the style, but also the content of the video with text,
4. combine different videos, even real videos with AI videos,
5. simulate digital worlds, including artificial processes like video games.

On the website OpenAI says: “We’re teaching AI to understand and simulate the physical world in motion, with the goal of training models that help people solve problems that require real-world interaction”.

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Proper utilization of AI tools during company setup can result in significant time and cost savings. Various tools are accessible for different stages of a company. Gain insight into these tools and their optimal usage through the online seminar by Melanie Stütz, CEO of IDEASCANNER, on February 22. Melanie Stütz, a TOP 50 thought leader in AI, possesses comprehensive knowledge of the best practices.

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Do you know a woman who has successfully taken over a company and made a lasting impression on you?

Or former owners who have paved the way for women as successor entrepreneurs?

Nominate these role models now until February 23, 2024!

The Association of German Women Entrepreneurs (VdU) deserves praise for launching the She Succeeds Award. This is the first and only prize in Germany that recognizes successful company successions and handovers.

The award is under the patronage of Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

Thanks also to all the jury members who, in their roles, are always committed to encouraging more female founders and successors:

• Jasmin Arbabian-Vogel, VdU President
• Dr. Marc Evers, Head of the SME Division DIHK
• Prof. Dr. Birgit Felden, Head of “Business Start-up and Business Succession” at HWR Berlin
• Dr. Daniela Jäkel-Wurzer, founding member of the “generation töchter” initiative
• Iris Kronenbitter, Head of the nationwide agency for female founders (bga)
• Anja Müller, Family Business Correspondent at Handelsblatt
• Dr. Anette Rückert, Head of the Business Start-up Division of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

The 2023 winners, Jeanette Spanier-Stark of Gerüstbau Spanier & Bichler GmbH (internal succession), Katharina Hupfer of Waschbär (external succession), and the married couple Brigitta Sui Dschen and Hans-Paul Mattke of MOIN Bio Backwaren (trailblazers), will also serve on the jury.

Who do you think will be the successor (internal/external) or trailblazer of 2024? Follow us on LinkedIn and comment on this post!

Many companies are often asked how many employees they have. But in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), the number of employees is not an indicator of a company’s success.

This goes hand in hand with Sam Altman’s latest interview: “The thing is, in my little chat group with my tech CEO friends, there’s this betting pool for the first year that there’s a one-person billion-dollar company that would have been unimaginable without AI, and now it’s going to happen.”

Here’s a list of the latest AI tools that you can use as a team of AI assistants to accelerate your business, productivity, sales, and more.

Follow us on LinkedIn to watch the interview with the OpenAI’s CEO and get direct links to the latest AI tools for entrepreneurs. For a keynote or virtual session on “TOP AI Tools for Entrepreneurs” to boost your innovation or how you can increase your company value with AI, just contact us here.

The Google AI research paper introduces a new text-to-video diffusion model called ‘Lumiere.’ The purpose of this model is to generate realistic, diverse, and coherent motion in videos, which has historically been a challenging task in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision.

Lumiere utilizes a novel Space-Time U-Net architecture, which departs from traditional video models. Traditional models generate spatially distant keyframes followed by temporal super-resolution, which often struggles to maintain global temporal consistency. Lumiere’s architecture generates an entire video’s temporal duration in a single pass, improving coherence and fluidity of motion.

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R. Buckminster Fuller’s words still ring true today: ‘If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.’

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AI is a popular topic. It has the potential to change many aspects of our daily lives and the economy. The hype surrounding AI is often fuelled by expectations of its transformative nature. Some are still discussing how to use AI tools meaningfully in their day-to-day business, while others are already searching for the best instruments.

Join us with jumpp for a peer learning session on the top AI tools and how these tools can drive innovation for founders & entrepreneurs.

This session is ideal for those looking to improve their innovation capabilities. Our expert, Melanie Stütz, CEO of IDEASCANNER, will cover the following topics:

1. What are the essential AI tools you need to know?
2. When should you use AI as an entrepreneur, start-up consultant or innovator?
3. How can you use AI to achieve a 10-fold leap in digital transformation and sustainable innovation?

The session will take place on Thursday, 18th January 2024 from 9:30 to 10:00 am via Zoom. Please register by 16th January 2024 here.

The ‘Digital-FEM-Lab Hessen’ project offers female founders and entrepreneurs a peer learning format. This format allows for the exchange of ideas and guidance on digital topics. It provides an opportunity to work on and deepen individual topics. The Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Housing funds Digital-FEM-Lab Hessen, a project of the Coordination Centre Women & Business.

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Say hello to WALL-E 😉 Samsung has upgraded Ballie with advanced intelligence and released it as your yellow AI robot companion.

Introducing Ballie, the rolling AI bot that can now project onto the floor, wall, or ceiling while following you around the home. Ballie, showcased at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, is the world’s first projector capable of detecting people’s posture and facial angle and adjusting the projection angle accordingly.

What do you think? Is it useful in the real world or is it just a gimmick? You decide.

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Wow, what a year! This year has been the year of the chatbot. Perplexity is difficult to discern on the chart, but it also seems to be even more than just a chatbot. It combines Google search with ChatGPT and displays sources.

We are curious to see how this chart will look by the end of next year.

It is recommended to try out different chatbots to determine which one works best for you. By the way, you can try Perplexity without logging in, just like you used to with Google search.

What do you think? Is this the future of search engines?

The AI era has never been more thrilling! Keep yourself updated on the most recent AI advancements that simplify daily work and follow us on LinkedIn to think smarter with AI.

This AI-powered machine is designed in the form factor of a human. It can walk around areas accessible to humans and perform tasks that humans do not want to do.

The new bot is capable of performing tasks that are unsafe, repetitive, or boring. According to the official profile on X, the bot is a general-purpose, bipedal, humanoid robot. The Tesla bot’s early prototypes faced skepticism. However, new tactile and torque sensors, a 1KG weight reduction, and upgrades to precise movements in tasks involving delicate objects are changing opinions.

During Tesla AI Day 2022, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, confirmed that the upcoming Tesla Optimus Gen-2 bot will be priced at $20,000 or less, which is significantly less than the cost of a car. However, the release date for the bot is not until between 2025 and 2027.

Stay up to date on the latest AI developments that make everyday work easier and follow us on LinkedIn to think smarter with AI.