Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

See more of my AI co-creations With just a prompt, Grok was able to take a  repurposed   hand-drawn cartoon from 2004  and generate an image of it doing a 'namaste'.  I’ve been getting by with free Windows-native tools like Paint, Paint 3D , and the Generative Erase feature in Photos . Grok's image editing feature, which can be activated simply by prompting, is a fantastic resource for amateur cartoonists. 

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This Week I Learned -  *  Teachable Machine is a web-based tool from Google that makes creating machine learning models fast, easy, and accessible to everyone. *  Model Context Protocol (MCP) introduces a standardized, open-source way for AI applications to fetch real-time data, interact with external systems, and execute actions—without endless custom coding. It is an open standard released publicly as open-source by Anthropic in November 2024.  *  Kokoro TTS is a cutting-edge text-to-speech model with just 82 million parameters, delivering high-quality, natural-sounding speech. Kokoro Text to Speech (TTS) model is open-source and licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, making it free for both commercial and personal use. Developers can integrate it into their applications without any licensing restrictions. * Phi-4-multimodal, an open weights model that processes text, images, and speech simultaneously is Microsoft's first official large language model ...