DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne 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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