The Race To An 'All-In-One' Generative AI Creative Tool 🎨🤖

LumaLabs' new DreamMachine update joins a crowded field of tools vying for your subscription dollars

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AI 4Humans
26 Nov

Today on AI For Humans The Newsletter!
One creative tool to rule them all?
A juicy week of updates for Runway
And our favorite music generation feature of the year
Plus, our can’t-miss AI feature of the week!

Welcome back to the AI For Humans Newsletter!

This week, LumaLabs launched a revamped version of its DreamMachine platform to include a full suite of tools including Luma Photon, a brand new AI image model. When combined with their very-good-but-not-top-of-class AI video model it’s a compelling all-in-one package that, of course, comes at a price.

LumaLabs is going for it

It’s geared towards the mainstream user with specific call-outs for not having to ‘prompt’ and launches with an iOS app. Luma is looking to broaden the market for AI creative tools and get the mainstream to shell out $10 to $30 bucks a month for the subscription plan.

Overall, it’s very cool but the issue right now is that there are a LOT of these all-in-one tools and seemingly more everyday. Between Krea, Pika, Leonardo, Minimax, Midjourney (video model incoming) and so many more, they’re all looking for your subscription dollar and there’s only so many dollars to go around.

Of course, you can piece together your own version with open-source tools (check out show favorite Pinokio.Computer for more) but normal people (including Gavin) are often more than happy to pay for great UX and simplicity.

The big question to us about these all-in-one tools is exactly how many of these need to exist? And exactly which ones will matter in three months, six months or a year from now. We’ll spend sometime with the new DreamMachine this weekend and let you know what we think next week!

Have a wonderful holiday weekend y’all!

-Kevin & Gavin

3 Things To Know

Two Big Updates from Runway
A brand new image generation model, Frames, and if examples are anything to go by it’s capable of producing some wild aesthetics. But the the second update’s just incredibly useful: Expand Video. Basically outpainting for video. Reimagine what happened just outside of frame, or reformat a video into a different aspect ratio. In our initial tests it’s working pretty well.

This Was Just a Busy Week, Okay?
A new Chinese reasoning model is arguably every bit as good as OpenAI’s o1, Luma’s Dream Machine toolset got a big update, Amazon just slipped Anthropic a cool $4B, GPT-4o got more creative and we’re now on Bluesky.

How To Put Anything on Anything
We haven’t been shy about our love for Glif, an easy way to create silly things with AI (and get a peek into advanced image gen workflows). But their browser extension makes it incredibly easy to put any image you find online, onto anything else you can imagine.

We 💛 This - Suno Covers

Suno wants you to know about the release of v4 of their music generation model, but don’t be fooled: Covers has to be our favorite music-gen feature of 2024.

Take an audio file of any kind and spin it into an entirely new song. It’s the feature we used to turn a voice memo into our hot dog city anthem. If you have a degree in song you can even separate the stems and spin it into an entirely new generation.

Not a week goes by that we don’t see a cool use of Covers, like this guy wailing on his bass and Suno generating a funky song around it.

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