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👨‍💼 OpenAI Sora project lead Tim Brooks announces departure, joining Google DeepMind team.

🖼️ OpenAI launches new Canvas feature, similar to Claude's Artifacts, providing a separate window for writing and coding assistance.

🎨 Flux 1.1 Pro version released, performance improved by 6 times, and BFL API beta launched.

🎧 ebook2audiobookXTTS: Open-source AI tool converting e-books to high-quality audiobooks, supporting multiple languages and formats.

🌐 materialYouNewTab: Visually appealing browser homepage plugin, adopting Google Material You design style, supporting various customization features.

Cutting-edge News ​

1. OpenAI Sora project lead resigns.

Tim Brooks, the project lead for OpenAI's Sora, announced his resignation on X today, moving to the Google DeepMind team to focus on video generation.

Original post: https://x.com/_tim_brooks/status/1841982327431561528

With Sora's delayed release, and now the project lead's departure... there might be some internal issues within the team.

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2. OpenAI launches new Canvas feature.

Similar to Claude's Artifacts function, it adds a new interactive interface as a separate window on the side, intuitively assisting us with writing, coding, and other tasks.

Official announcement: https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/

Currently in Beta testing, gradually rolling out to Plus and Team users, and will be available to free users after the Beta test ends.

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AI Art ​

1. Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro version.

Compared to the previous version, performance has improved six-fold, while also enhancing image quality, prompt adherence, and diversity.

Official introduction: https://blackforestlabs.ai/announcing-flux-1-1-pro-and-the-bfl-api/

Additionally, they've launched a beta version of the official BFL API, offering highly customizable options, scalability, and competitive pricing.

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Open Source Projects ​

1. An open-source AI tool for converting e-books to audiobooks: ebook2audiobookXTTS.

Utilizes Calibre and Coqui TTS to convert e-books into high-quality audiobooks, supporting multiple languages and offering optional voice cloning functionality.

GitHub: https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobookXTTS

Features include:

  1. Multi-format support: Supports 20 common e-book formats including epub, pdf, mobi, covering almost all mainstream types.
  2. Voice customization: Supports voice cloning, allowing optional custom TTS voices.
  3. High-quality output: Uses Coqui XTTS for high-quality text-to-speech conversion.
  4. Multi-language support: Supports 16 languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, and other major languages, with English as default.
  5. Easy to use: Provides detailed installation guides and multiple usage methods, including command line, web interface, and Docker container.
  6. Lightweight operation: Requires only 4GB of memory to run smoothly, with low hardware requirements.
  7. Output format: Converted audiobooks are output in .m4b format, including metadata and chapter information.

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2. Sharing a visually appealing browser homepage plugin: materialYouNewTab.

Adopts Google Material You design style, offering various features such as custom search engines, custom website icon shortcuts, theme switching, etc.

GitHub: https://github.com/XengShi/materialYouNewTab

Requires no permissions, ensuring user privacy and security. Interested users can install and experience it.

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