Hi folks! ✌🏼  Today, I'd like to feature a great opportunity for makers/founders who are building with AI.

Ben's Bites hackathon is coming to town, and it's time to put your AI skills to the test.

With up to $25k on the line for the best makers, this is your chance to build something amazing and get a lot of promotion for your apps. I'll definitely apply - will you?

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming 👇🏻

ChatGPT + Microsoft Bing search 🔎

Perplexity.ai is a new search interface (still in beta) that uses ChatGPT 3.5 and the Microsoft Bing search engine to answer any questions you have.

Instead of displaying links, they summarize the results - something that we all loved with ChatGPT. 

No more sifting through pages of irrelevant information? Yes, please.

Lensa AI doing $1M in revenue per day 🤑

Who said the AI avatar craze was over?

Clearly, we were all mistaken.

Lensa AI just hit 1 million users and brought in a whopping ~22 million in total revenue.

Impressive, right?

OG AI-avatar makers Danny and Peter had their own thoughts about why Lensa AI achieved this success. 

Peter said that the biggest constraint for growth for him was that he relied on APIs, and didn't work with influencers or ads. Danny said that Lensa AI actually helped raise awareness and brought more business.

And also, mobile apps may be a better platform for creating AI avatars because most people already have access to their photos on their phones, rather than on their computers.

Keep an eye on this space, and don't forget to take some notes

🛼 Makers corner

• Canary AI - get daily Linkedin post ideas, personalized to your skills/target audience

• AnimeAI - become an anime character with AI

• Stable Diffusion 2.1 - new modified model with more training data, and less restrictive filtering on the dataset (Seems like they took into account what the community needed and combined what was good from both the 1.5 and 2.0 models)

📚 Educational corner

• ShowGPT - Collect and curate the best prompts for ChatGPT

• Learn to write AI art prompts - it's like Grammarly, but for AI Generated Art

• Create Simpsons characters with this new Dreamooth model

🤓 Tech corner

• VideoDex - teaching robots skills by watching internet videos of humans using their hands

• Mime - generate 3D indoor scenes given 3D human motion

• Lavila - automatic video narator

🎨 Creativity corner

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