👁️ OpenAI releases "Sora"

This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇️

• Grapevine AI: Grow paid social campaigns — they match brands of all sizes with the right creators*

• Vecticon: Vectorize images and logos with AI (Free tool).

• Zapier: Use AI to save your team time with automatic meeting summaries (Free live webinar)*

• Ubiquitous: Unlocking influencer marketing for the world's largest brands & creators*

• Epic Easing: Quickly generate easing curves for animations (Free tool).

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TOP STORY
👁️ OpenAI releases "Sora"

This week, OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) officially launched “Sora,” its new text-to-video AI tool, as part of its "12 Days of Ship-mas" event.

• Sora is included with ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) for up to 50 videos at 720p.

• ChatGPT Pro users ($200/month) get up to 500 videos at 1080p, longer durations, and watermark-free downloads.

Although Sora is accessible in many countries, it’s not yet available in most of Europe or the UK.

Here are some examples of what you can do with Sora 👇️ 

• 💭 Remix: Replace, remove, or re-imagine elements in your video with “Remix” (e.g., “Remove the spaceship, add a jungle”).

• 🖼️ Re-cut: Find and isolate the best frames, extending them in either direction to complete a scene.

• 📹️ Storyboard: Organize and edit a unique sequence of your videos on a personal timeline.

• 🔄 Loop: Trim down and create seamless repeating videos with “Loop.”

• 📸 Style Presets: Create and share styles that capture your imagination with “Presets.”

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🤖 Upgrade meetings with AI summaries and action items

Discover how AI can save your team time with automatic meeting summaries that extract key action items and notify the right people to keep everyone aligned.

• Go from discussion to action: Transform meeting recordings into action items and reminders without manual effort.

• AI-driven transcription: Learn how to let AI tackle your meeting transcriptions and organize related action items.

• Seamless multi-tool integrations: Explore how you can connect tools you already use—like Airtable, Google, and Slack—to automate more manual tasks.

GRAPHIC DESIGN
👤 Photoshop releases “Object Selection Tool” update

This week, Adobe Photoshop (beta) updated the popular “Object Selection Tool,” now allowing users to isolate specific areas of a subject by hovering over their face or body.

You can select specific people or features like hair, eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, facial skin, and upper body skin from a list or by hovering over them.

Here’s an example of the tool in action 👇️ 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
♾️ Leonardo.Ai releases “Flow State”

Leonardo.Ai (recently acquired by Canva) released a new feature called “Flow State,” designed to unlock endless creativity.

• With just one prompt, it generates a continuous stream of visuals, helping you stay inspired and overcome creative blocks.

• Key features include rapid image streams, customizable styles, and a "More Like This" option for refining ideas.

• To use it, select Flow State, enter a prompt, scroll through results, and save your favorites.

Premium users enjoy virtually unlimited generations, making it ideal for fast-paced ideation.

Free users can generate up to 150 images daily, while premium plans offer enhanced capabilities for creativity on demand.

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Run world-class influencer marketing campaigns that drive real results

Influencer marketing campaigns have a lot of moving parts, and at Ubiquitous we run them like a well-oiled machine. With a dedicated team of experts, we run full-service campaigns. Trusted by the best brands. We handle it all—you just grow.

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📰 Other news you might’ve missed:

• Cinema 4D now supports skeletal animation, camera, and light properties.

• Rive added a new scrolling feature for “Layouts.”

• Figma is updating its pricing, seats, and billing experience starting March 11, 2025.

• Blender released version 4.3.1, addressing 95 issues in its initial release.

• Play introduced Light & Dark mode for “Color Styles” and now allows prototypes to dynamically change themes.

• Framer released “Framer Analytics,” allowing you to view real-time insights into your site’s performance.

• Riverside released “Community Hub,” a community that includes dozens of free guides, templates, and checklists created by community members.

• Maxon is offering all Max One, Redshift, and Cinema 4D users with €50 in free RENDER credits.

• Riverside released “Scenes,” giving users full control of how their video looks and moves and setting video layouts that keep your content engaging.

• Contra now allows experts to list both Webflow and Lottiefiles expertise on their profiles.

• KREA released “Krea Editor,” allowing users to make quick adjustments to their creations.

• Adobe Project Neo now supports grouping and multi-select.

• Play 2.2 introduced audio support.

• ElevenLabs now allows you to create and edit podcasts with “GenFM.”

• Runway “Act-One” now allows you to transpose your performances directly onto characters inside of existing videos.

• Webflow AI assistant content generation is now available for all paid workspace and site plans.

• Suno is now available on Android.

• Lottielab is officially launching on December 16th, 2024, after months in public beta.

• Runway released an early video keyframing prototype.