Picsart, a photo-editing startup backed by SoftBank, announced on Thursday that it’s partnering with Getty Images to develop a custom model to bring AI imagery to its 150 million users.
The company says the model will bring responsible AI imagery to creators, marketers and small businesses that use its platform.
Image Credits: Picsart x Getty Images AI ImagePicsart’s AI lab, PAIR, is building the model.
The company is also integrating Getty Images video content into Picsart’s platform and making it available to Plus members.
Picsart isn’t the first startup that Getty Images has partnered with for responsible AI imagery, as it also partnered with AI image generator, Bria, and Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators.
Today, the startup emerged from stealth with the Fused platform, and $1 million in pre-seed funding.
It takes data, fed from satellites, sitting in storage repositories and runs it through its platform to make it usable.
The platform is essentially a middleware processing layer that helps turn the geospatial data into something more consumable.
It consists of several open source pieces and a serverless processing engine.
They can then transfer this data to other programs for further analysis or create data visualizations based on the data.
Stability has announced Stable Diffusion 3, the latest and most powerful version of the company’s image-generating AI model.
Sora, OpenAI’s impressive video generator, apparently works on similar principles (Will Peebles, co-author of the paper, went on to co-lead the Sora project).
(Anthropic, for its part, has not focused on image or video generation publicly, so it isn’t really part of this conversation.)
Stable Diffusion seems to want to be the white label generative AI that you can’t do without, rather than the boutique generative AI you aren’t sure you need.
Interestingly, the company has put safety front and center in its announcement, stating:We have taken and continue to take reasonable steps to prevent the misuse of Stable Diffusion 3 by bad actors.
The latest is Recraft, an AI graphic design generator aimed at professionals, which has raised a $12 million Series A round led by Khosla Ventures in Silicon Valley, together with former GitHub CEO, Nat Friedman.
Admittedly there are now myriad Generative AI design tools out there, such as Jasper, Adobe Sensei, Let’s Enhance, and many others.
And then you generate images using this style of reference.
But to date, many of the generative AI design solutions have been targeting consumers, rather than professionals that require high degrees of control.
Recraft delivers on professional workflows such as vector images, style controls and end-to-end content production, all powered by in-house built foundation models.”
Satellite imagery and machine learning offer a new, far more detailed look at the maritime industry, specifically the number and activities of fishing and transport ships at sea.
Satellite imagery offers a new perspective on this conundrum: you can’t hide from an eye in the sky.
The dark fishing industry is huge — perhaps as big again as the publicly documented one.
“Fish are an important dynamic resource that move around, so openly tracking fishing vessels is fundamental for monitoring fish stocks.
The global community only hears second-hand, and one of the study’s findings was that the Asian fishing industry is systematically under-represented.
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