Today's AI isn't just a technological revolution. It's an UX one.
Today’s AI isn't just a technological revolution — it's a UX one. And that's where the real magic happens. I’m glad this insight is being shared by other AI visionaries like Cassie Kozyrkov, Google's chief Decision Scientist.
Consider this: GPT was first introduced back in 2018. The ideas introduced were revolutionary, but didn’t spread to a wider audience beyond AI practitioners. Fast forward through GPT-2 and GPT-3, each pushing the envelope of what's possible in natural language processing. But here's the kicker — it wasn't until ChatGPT launched in late 2022 that we saw this tech truly explode into the mainstream.
ChatGPT hit 100 million users in just two months.
For perspective, it took TikTok about nine months and Instagram 2.5 years to reach that milestone. What changed? The user interface. A simple chat window made this powerful tech accessible to everyone.
In the coming decade, UX will be the defining factor for transformative companies. And I'm convinced that business leaders need to double down on UX if they want to stay ahead. The companies that truly get their customers — and design for them — will win by a mile.
Now, more than ever, is the time to double down on design. We need design leaders driving executive conversations. More designers as founders. More designers on cap tables.
It's a C-level priority. If you're an enterprise leader or a founder who sees this opportunity and wants to harness the power of design, reach out.
Apologies for the slight delay this issue. We kicked off our Summer Design Fellowship program which I am excited to share more about in the near future.
The Latest in AI and Creativity
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Microsoft’s Designer app Arrives on iOS and Android with AI editing and creation: Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer app is coming out of preview for both iOS and Android users. Microsoft Designer lets you use templates to create custom images, stickers, greeting cards, invitations, and more. Designer can also use AI to edit images and restyle them or create collages of images.Designer also includes the ability to edit and remove backgrounds, remove people or objects from images, and features like adding text and branding to images
Hugging Face’s SmolLM models bring powerful AI to your phone, no cloud required: Hugging Face unveiled SmolLM, a new family of compact language models that surpass similar offerings from Microsoft, Meta, and Alibaba’s Qwen in performance. These models bring advanced AI capabilities to personal devices without sacrificing performance or privacy. The SmolLM lineup features three sizes — 135 million, 360 million, and 1.7 billion parameters — designed to accommodate various computational resources. Despite their small footprint, these models have demonstrated superior results on benchmarks testing common sense reasoning and world knowledge.
Meet Haiper 1.5, the new AI video generation model challenging Sora, Runway: London-based Haiper, the AI video startup founded by former Google Deepmind researchers Yishu Miao and Ziyu Wang, is launching a new visual foundation model: Haiper 1.5. Available on the company’s web and mobile platform, Haiper 1.5 is an incremental update and allows users to generate 8-second-long clips from text, image and video prompts – twice as long as Haiper’s initial model.
The ‘godmother of AI’ has a new startup already worth $1 billion: Fei-Fei Li, the renowned computer scientist known as the “godmother of AI,” has created a startup dubbed World Labs. In just four months, it's already valued at more than $1 billion, the Financial Times reported. World Labs hopes to use human-like processing of visual data to make AI capable of advanced reasoning, Reuters reported in May. The research to make it human-like, much like what ChatGPT is trying to do with generative AI, is still ongoing. Li is best known for her contributions to computer vision, a branch of AI dedicated to helping machines interpret and comprehend visual information. She also spearheaded the development of ImageNet, an extensive visual database used for visual object recognition research.
YouTube Music is testing an AI-generated radio feature and adding a song recognition tool: YouTube Music is introducing two new ways to boost song discovery on its platform. YouTube announced that it’s experimenting with an AI-generated conversational radio feature, and rolling out a new Shazam-like tool to help users discover the name of a song by singing, humming or playing parts of it. YouTube Music users can now search the app’s catalog of songs by sound. Now, when you tap “search” in the app, you will see a waveform icon that will notify you that you can find the name of a song by singing, humming or playing it.
OpenAI is developing a secretive new AI model codenamed ‘Strawberry’: The model is reportedly designed to dramatically improve AI reasoning capabilities and enable autonomous internet 'deep research'. Strawberry is an evolution of OpenAI's previously rumored Q* project.