MICROSOFT 🎨 Microsoft AI’s image model climbs leaderboards Image source: Microsoft The Rundown: Microsoft's AI Superintelligence team just released MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image model that landed at No. 5 on the Arena AI leaderboard — marking the strongest release yet for Mustafa Suleyman’s lab. The details: - Arena.ai ranked MAI-Image-2 at No. 5 overall, trailing just Gemini (several variants) and GPT Image-1.5 with strong upgrades in photorealism, 3D, and art. - The biggest jump from its predecessor came in text rendering, up 115 points, with drastically improved performance on posters, slides, and infographics. - MAI-Image-2 is free to try in Microsoft's MAI Playground for U.S. users, with Copilot, Bing, and API access on its Foundry platform rolling out soon. - The release comes amid Microsoft’s AI leadership shuffle, with Suleyman shifting away from Copilot to focus solely on frontier model work.

AI TRAINING 🎨 Use Google Stitch to redesign your entire website The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to use Google Stitch to redesign an existing web page by uploading screenshots. This is a very fast way to fix weak layouts, generate better variations, and create something you can hand off to a developer. Step-by-step: 1. Pick a single page on your website that needs improvement. Take a screenshot and think about the specifics of what needs to be changed 2. Go to Google Stitch, add the screenshot in chat, and prompt: “Improve the layout of this page so the user sees more content and perceives more value. Make the content more accessible and reduce the dead space” 3. Select the generated page > Generate > Variations > Generate Variations to have four new page concepts. Choose the best one, and go to More > Export 4. Once you export the design to Figma or download the new code, you can rinse and repeat this process with as many pages as you like in the same canvas

AI TRAINING 🔎 How to use Grok for free automated research The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to use Grok's Tasks feature. If you have a free X.comaccount, you get 2 automated tasks each day — use them to build automated daily research briefings pulled from live X data. Step-by-step: 1. Go to Grok and sign in with your X account. Click on your profile picture in the bottom left, then click Tasks in the pop-up 2. Click New Task, give it a name, set your schedule (daily, weekly, or specific days), and prompt: “Search X for the top trends in [your niche] from the last 24 hours. Summarize the top 3 and flag anything gaining traction” 3. Once you save the task, Grok will run the search on schedule and send you the results via email and as a push notification in the mobile app 4. To view run results on desktop, navigate back to grok.com/tasks and click on the task.

AI TRAINING 🎥 Create an intro animation for your brand The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to use Manus to generate branded intro, transition, and outro bumper videos for your brand with no motion designer or video editor required. Step-by-step: 1. Open a Manus task, upload logo/wordmark, and prompt: “I want a branded intro bumper, transition, and outro bumper video based on these logos. Ask 3-5 MCQs about style and vibe before starting. Use the video generator skill.” 2. Answer the questions Manus asks about vibe, animation style, and colors. When it shows options, ask it to visualize them so you can pick the best one. 3. Type “/video-generator” and tell it to generate the chosen concept — Manus will generate keyframes using Nano Banana and then animate them with Veo 3. 4. Use the default mode to save on tokens. Once it’s done, you can download the finished clips and drop them into your video editor. Pro tip: Manus will try to find and add royalty-free audio to your clips. We recommend you tell it to skip this. It doesn’t usually find the best audio and ends up eating tokens.

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