DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Edward Kane, Journalist

  DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

                                                                      

                 By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane


AI TURNING SKETCH OR PHOTO INTO ART



                                        Source:  Qualcomm


  • Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm has unveiled a new AI tool that can turn a sketch or photo with text into a work of art
  • The generative AI artwork is produced by Qualcomm's new product ControlNet that doesn't need the internet & doesn't upload the data to the Cloud, thereby keeping it private
  • It creates the artwork in 12 seconds
  • ControlNet is a 1.5 billion parameter image-to-image model that runs on an average smartphone
  • Can generate artwork from text prompts, images or both simultaneously
  • Delivers precise control over image generation by "conditioning" input image with input text directions on how it should be edited
  • ControlNet is a class of generative AI algorithm known as language vision model
  • Hasn't been released yet but it's expected to be offered as a major mobile phone app
  • Has all the indications of an exciting new use of AI.

NASA'S NEW ECO-FRIENDLY COMMERCIAL JET


                                      Source:  NASA & Boeing


  • NASA & Boeing have unveiled a revolutionary commercial jet that cuts emissions 30%
  • An experimental X-plane, the Boeing-NASA X-66A is designed to test new innovative technologies and to help aviation fly toward Net-Zero travel
  • It's a Boeing jet that can carry up to 210 passengers but with a huge structural and aerodynamic difference - the wings
  • Called Transonic truss-braced wings, the wings are longer, thinner, much more efficient, make more use of gliding and use less fuel
  • This is the 1st X-plane created with the goal to help the US achieve carbon-free aviation by 2050
  • NASA is investing $425,000,000., Boeing $725,000,000. and the USAF will be test flying it
  • NASA expects this plane to usher in a "new era" of aircraft
  • Expected to fly in 2028 & Boeing expects to have a fleet of them by 2035.

CATERHAM'S EXCITING NEW CAR CONCEPT

                                        Source:  Caterham V

  • British luxury automaker Caterham has the automotive world buzzing about the mid-July unveiling of an all-electric new sedan concept currently called Project V
  • This, just a month after it unveiled its critically acclaimed EV7 very retro, roadster development project
  • V promises a radically new design, being innovated by Italdesign, which will custom build the EVs at its Turin, Italy headquarters
  • Caterham says the new V will remain true to the automaker's core values of simplicity, lightness and a driver centric experience.
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