OpenAI Image Gen Zenith

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makes it easier our industry built erp and ai tools help you increase throughput reduce downtime and improve cash flow without adding complexity if you're ready to run a smarter more efficient factory visit epicor.com openai has just dropped a brand new image model i've been testing out and playing with it today i'm quite uh impressed with what they've been able to accomplish uh techcrunch said that they are continuing their code red war path by putting out this model i don't know if it's a code red war path but i do think this is a really impressive model um and i also think i mean i think it's just time for them to update it but perhaps it is because um prior to them releasing this model the last image model update i was begging them to make for over a year the old version of dolly so like two generations ago was absolute garbage they're getting smoked by literally everybody uh including mid journey and everyone and so when they made their their previous update to the image model it was a huge upgrade playing with this newest model is really cool there's a bunch of cool features but there's still some places that it failed when i was testing it so i'll give you the pros and cons on this episode and break down what i think it is capable of doing what it isn't capable of doing the areas i think there are for improvement and some of the shockingly impressive things i was able to get it to do so we're going to get into all of that on the podcast today but if you want to test out all of the models i talk about on the show go check out my own startup which is called aibox.ai you get access to over 40 of the top ai models a whole bunch of image models that are really cool a whole bunch of audio models like 11 labs openai's audio model for techs you have anthropic google openai meta tons of cool open source models all on there for $20 a month so you can save money and have them all consolidated into one place so if you want to go check that out it's aibox.ai i'll leave a link in the description all right let's get into openai's latest model so they just rolled out this new image model apparently it's a lot better at following instructions i've tested it out i have found that it is more precise at editing and it's four times faster at generating images which let's be honest is the biggest thing that would drive me crazy with openai and the reason why i was using uh gemini's nano banana because it was just so much faster at creating images so i actually think this is a big moment for openai they obviously didn't want their image model to get lapped people everyone was switching to nano banana for image generation um and so i think that they are they're really trying to push to make sure that they're not falling behind in this i think this model catches them up and possibly surpasses nano banana in some ways so what's gonna be what's cool about this is they made the announcement um they're calling it image 1.5 is a bad sign for them they lose market share so they're trying to be faster so on that note apparently openai had been planning on releasing this new image generator in early january next year but because of the benchmark because of the code red because everything going on they decided to just accelerate those plans and push it out as fast as they could and so they got this model out the last time they had a model update was in april this was quite a while ago and i think it was definitely due so now that they're doing this new 1.5 image model and the image model updates you have to also imagine that the video generator uh in sora is going to um get a good upgrade soon because all the video generators are based off of uh image generators so just like nano banana pro chat gpt image has post-production features which give you a lot more granular editing control when you're making um some of these uh images so there's like facial likeness there's lighting there's competition there's color tone across different edits there's multiple things you can do with it when i was playing with this earlier today i was making a thumbnail this is like the number one way i test image models because i'm like asking it to do text i'm asking it to do images i'm asking it to take a picture of me and put it in there and other people and logos of companies like all this kind of stuff and i was actually impressed by a couple things but i think there's room to grow in a couple other areas so the first thing that i was impressed by was right off the bat i gave a picture of myself and i said generate a youtube thumbnail of me looking shocked and staring at a giant cloud um with letters in the sky written by an airplane that say new ai image airplane has an open high logo and is being flown by sam altman okay i gave a lot of things and i also gave some concepts where the the reasoning model had to think about what was going on like how is it going to display the cloud letters how is it going to make you be also able to see the airplane and the person driving the airplane um like there's a bunch of things i was curious how it was going to do it did this like 100 percent better than the old model ever could have it did a really impressive image for me the one thing that i will say in its first uh in its first go is that the opening eye logo was not the opening eye logo i've had it accurately find it on the web before and put it on there um it did put all of the cloud letters really good it had the airplane at a really great place that all made sense the person flying it didn't really look like sam altman was my biggest um was my biggest complaint about this and they have a really cool feature now where if you click on an ai generated image you have this feature called select area and you can select a part of the image and have it regenerate that bit of the image only so you don't have to get the whole image regenerated just the part that you're talking about now one thing i will say that i i feel like it didn't do a great job of was i selected just the head of the person flying the airplane this like random person um that was apparently sam altman didn't really look like him and it literally i just like put a circle around his head and had it regenerate and when it regenerated his head it put like a better looking head on but all of the space around his head didn't match the sky beside it so like you could tell it looked like i was in photoshop and i like cut and pasted a little piece of an image on top so it kind of looked bad um i'm assuming what i probably should have done was selected the entire like maybe the whole airplane or something and had to regenerate the whole airplane maybe really granular small bits it's not as good at um generating so in any case um i think it definitely has some room for improvement there but um afterwards i literally without using that like selection tool i just uploaded a picture of sam altman's head and uploaded a picture of the opening eye logo and i was like update the logo to use this one and the image of sam altman to be um this one and once i did that it got the correct the correct logo and sam altman's head and actually everything looked great so if i had done that from the beginning where i provided you know the pictures all the people i wanted to be used and the pictures of the logo that i wanted to be used like i could have done it right off the bat probably the image looks a hundred times better than its last model so i'm really really impressed and um beyond just making better images it's also able to make them a lot higher quality you can do 4k images i think uh something that a lot of people have been talking about is just that most of the generative ai image tools are really bad at iteration like if you're trying to change it's like this whole process i just walked through where i was like editing the image live um so you know in the past if you said like adjust the facial expression or make the lighting colder it would just like regenerate the entire image and maybe the next one wouldn't look like how you wanted this update that they've added you can tell it to make small updates like that and it will make a small update across the entire image so it's more like they're saying like opening eye ceo of applications he made a blog post about it and he said that it's quote more like a creative studio i actually think it is um someone else was saying that you know the new image viewing and editing screens make it easier to create images and match your vision with inspiration from trending prompts and preset filters that's another thing that i should mention is that um on the left hand side you will see that there is an images tab and inside the images tab if you're just trying to create an image you don't have to trying to create some trends or something but i do think it's nice if it saves you a couple seconds instead of having to go and um you know add it to your prompt you just click on the image generation button and it knows that you're doing that it also has a button for adding images and it knows that you're going to ask it to manipulate images of yourself or things that you're working on which i find makes it really really useful so overall i'm really impressed with it if you learned anything or appreciated the podcast i would really appreciate it if you could leave a rating and review wherever you get your podcast i hope to show out a ton to get found by more amazing people like yourself and as always make sure you go check out aibox.ai to get access to 40 of the top ai models for 20 bucks a month thanks so much for tuning in i'll link in the description to aibox and i hope you have a great rest of your day manufacturers today are under pressure tight markets labor shortages supply chain surprises visit epicor.com to learn how epicor makes it easier to stay ahead our industry specific erp and built-in ai give you real-time production disability smarter inventory planning automated 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