AI News For Mar 7
Grok will now give you a response straight from an X post. Character 3 simplifies character creation, Microsoft looks to dump OpenAI and Muse is looking to make AI fiction great again. Here’s today’s AI news. X has added a new Grok integration directly into posts.
Now you can reply to any post and start it with @Grok and you’ll get an AI reply from Grok to whatever you’ve asked. It’s certainly a novel way of integrating Grok use into the timeline, but many users are concerned that it will just flood the replies with Grok slop. Time will tell.
Hedra has launched a new character focused generative video model called ‘Character 3’. This model allows you to easily create natural looking animated characters from a single image and some audio. Many people have been showing off some really cool results with it and it seems to be a big hit.
You can get 400 credits for free from the Hedra website. It seems that the relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft is really turning sour and may be coming to an end. Today it was revealed that Microsoft are exploring partnerships for an alternative AI provider including XAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Anthropic.
If the relationship is over, the question will be “who needed who more?” Finally, there’s something for all the authors out there. Sudowrite has launched a new model that is designed specifically for fiction writing called ‘Muse’. They claim that all the current AI models suck at fiction writing and they’re going to remove all the typical AI-isms from their outputs.
They say their model combines narrative engineering and storytelling intelligence to deliver a higher quality output. Let’s see what storytelling masterpieces it can produce.