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Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief.

Image generation models are kind of an interesting phenomenon in AI.

They are in many ways the simplest, quickest way to understand the power of this new generative medium.

In fact, I think for many of us, it was in fact image generation that was kind of our gateway into the space.

As impressive as the initial chat GPT was, what really caught my attention all the way back at the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 was the absolute feeling of being a wizard when I was creating images of Hemingway in Paris in the 1920s with the mid-journey model at the time, which is about 100 iterations ago at this point.

And yet, to some extent, there's always been a little bit of a gap between how cool AI image generation was and how useful it was, at least for many people in many use cases.

Which is not at all to say that AI image generation models have just been novel rather than useful.

I personally have, I don't know, a half dozen use cases that I use them for literally every single day.

But if you think back at the sequence of model releases, the big moments have been general consumer viral moments like OpenAI's Studio Ghibli moment last year.

Now, when it comes to this new OpenAI model,

What I want to argue with today's show is not only that we are getting to a capability set that unlocks more use cases, but also that increasingly it is clear that the power of the image generation models is going to be in their integration with other systems, not just what they can do standalone.

Now when it comes to this new ChatGPT image model, there has been speculation for a couple of weeks now that this model was live in the world being tested on Arena.