Latest articles by Nigel Powell
Meta takes on Google’s NotebookLM with new NotebookLlama— and its totally free
Google has a rival in the text-to-podcast space with Meta dropping its own NotebookLlama to rival NotebookLM.
Open source is crucial for the future of AI — here's why
Open source models are starting to catch up with those from companies like Midjourney and OpenAI. This is the true powerhouse of the AI scene.
OpenAI tipped to launch its next-gen AI model in December — but Sam Altman calls this 'fake news'
OpenAI is rumored to be close to releasing GPT-5, or maybe not...
Ollama just made it easier to use AI on your laptop — with no internet required
Ollama makes it easy to run AI models on your laptop and the latest update allows you to pull them from HuggingFace.
Anthropic just gave Claude AI access to your computer — here’s why this is a big deal
Anthropic has given Claude the ability to control aspects of a computer, allowing you to interact with a machine through simple text prompts.
Creating AI artwork on your laptop just got easier — ComfyUI launching apps for Mac and Windows
ComfyUI is launching a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that will make creating AI locally easier than ever.
I write about AI for a living — here's how to become a true power user
Using AI wrappers can help you get much more out of artificial intelligence than just visiting ChatGPT.
Illuminate is a new AI podcasting tool from Google — here's how it works
Google Illuminate is an AI experiment that lets you create an instant, one-click podcast from a science topic of your choice.
OpenAI reveals Swarm — a breakthrough new method for getting AI to do things on your behalf
Swarm is a new framework from OpenAI that is designed to demonstrate how AI could act independently on set tasks.
Will digital watermarking save the world from fake news?
Companies are actively looking for a way to watermark AI-generated content, but is it necessary?
Suno just got a major upgrade — now you can replace a verse or chorus
Suno's new 'replace section' feature is an innovative game-changer, which lets users tweak the lyrics at any time without needing a do-over.
I just tried Flux on my Windows PC — and it's absolutely mind blowing
The Flux AI image generator finally runs on your PC, and it's magnificent. One click install using Forge, superb images with text, and decently fast on a standard GPU. What's not to love?
I write about AI for a living — and NotebookLM is the most exciting tech to arrive since ChatGPT
Google's new NotebookLM is the start of a revolution in how we interact with information. We'd better get used to it.
I tried Udio's new lyric generator — it’s a game changer for writer’s block
The new Lyric Writer tool from Udio helps songwriters craft the perfect words for their tracks. It's fast, flexible and lets you add song structure tags too.
A company gave 1,000 AI agents access to Minecraft — and they built a society
AI agents can be given a large language model brain and left to their own devices. In a recent test researchers left 1,000 of them to run free on a Minecraft server.
I gave four AI image generators a 'realism test' — and the winner surprised me
Testing AI image generators can be a challenge as they all behave and follow prompts in different ways. Here we've tried it with four random models on realistic prompts.
Hotshot is a new free text-to-video platform — and it’s very good indeed
Hotshot offers short-form AI video with a degree of photorealism and impressive movement.
I'm a serial entrepreneur — here's why AI is bringing about a golden age for side hustles
Artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to get a side hustle off the ground.
Meet LoudMe — a free AI music generator that can make you a whole song in seconds
LoudMe joins Suno and Udio in the AI text-to-song space with tracks up to three minutes long from a simple prompt.
Leonardo review
Leonardo is a powerful AI image generator capable of creating graphics, textures and photorealistic pictures from text.
Runway review: One impressive AI video generator
Runway is the leading AI video generator, offering lip-synching, image-to-video, text-to-video and realistic human motion.
Claude AI review
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is one of the most impressive AI language models and Claude is a powerful chatbot platform.
AI glossary: all the key terms explained including LLM, models, tokens and chatbots
Artificial intelligence is a rapidly evolving area of technology and with it comes some confusing terms. We've tried to make sense of everything from LLM to tokens.
