Daniel Nest

Hands-on with Krea 1: Does It Really Get Rid of the “AI Look”? I compare Krea 1 output to Seedream 3.0, GPT-4o, and Imagen 4.

Is Krea 1 the "Anti-AI-Look" savior we've been waiting for?

I'm not convinced, but see for yourself:

I Fed My Voice to 10 Free AI Voice Cloners—Only One Nailed It! Some got close. Most didn’t. Here’s how they stack up.

Not all voice cloning tools are created equal.

Some are more unequal than others.

AI Is Simple. Just Ask the Experts. 10 clearcut, non-contradictory truths about AI.

Stop overcomplicating AI, folks.

12 Starter Apps in Google AI Studio: Tested Which ones are cute gimmicks—and which are actually useful?

I tried all 12 Starter Apps in Google AI Studio.

What I found out will SHOCK you.

(If you’re the type who gets easily startled, that is.)

www.whytryai.com/p/starter-ap...

3 Neat GPT-4o Image Tricks To Try How to bypass ChatGPT self-censorship, use color palettes, and save Sora style presets.

I show you how to bypass some of ChatGPT self-censorship, apply color patterns to your images, and create reusable style presets on sora.com

Sunday Rundown #96: LLMs & Limbs Sunday Bonus #56: My swipe file with 45+ o3 use cases.

Catching up on the last two weeks of AI news.

(Plus a swipe file with 45+ use cases for o3.)

Oh wow, looks like they pivoted completely into Enterprise. I guess everyone's trying to find their own niche instead of competing for the same slice of the "search" pie.

5 Style Modifiers. 6 Image Models. Side-by-side look at how top text-to-image models interpret the same style cues.

One thing is clear: There are as many aesthetics out there as there are text-to-image models.

The same style modifiers can be treated quite differently by different models.

www.whytryai.com/p/5-style-mo...

I guess they see search as an integral part of the other sub-agents and the SuperAgent, rather than wanting to compete directly with e.g. Perplexity. But yeah, interesting choice for sure.

Why I Killed Our AI Search Product With 5 Million Users? Despite our AI search product reaching over five million users, we decided to sunset it. Why? Because we believe traditional AI search is already becoming obsolete. Let me share our story of building ...

That's curious to hear! Which of the tools/agents have you been using the most? The search and Deep Research options?

They actually explained the rationale behind the site redesign and absorbing the search product into the broader agent shell here: blog.genspark.ai/blog/genspar...

Sunday Rundown #95: So Much Google & So Much Waldo Sunday Bonus #55: Comparison page for 15 AI video models.

Last week in GenAI (spoiler alert: Google shows no sign of chilling.)

Plus a nice interactive page to explore 15 different AI video models.

www.whytryai.com/p/sunday-run...

Don’t Sleep On Genspark’s Super Agent Genspark is better than the much-hyped Manus, yet it has sailed under the radar.

I’m quite surprised by how relatively little attention Genspark Super Agent has gotten. It’s the first agent I tried that actually works.

Sunday Rundown #94: Agents, Video & Platypus Lets Loose Sunday Bonus #54: My swipe file with 90+ use cases for GPT-4o image generation.

Last week in GenAI

Plus a huge swipe file with 90+ use cases for GPT-4o image generation.

www.whytryai.com/p/sunday-run...

Text-to-Image Model Showdown: GPT-4o vs. Ideogram 3.0 vs. Reve 1.0 A steampunk platypus, a cyberpunk goose, and a dieselpunk duck walk into a club...

Not all image models are created equal.

But some are, like, way, way more unequal. (Ahem, Reve.)

Sunday Rundown #93: AI Image Boom & Bad Journey Sunday Bonus #53: My custom "Logo Prompter" GPT.

Last week in GenAI + making logos with GPT-4o image generation.

www.whytryai.com/p/sunday-run...

5 Best Midjourney Prompts: March 2025 (Tactile Art) Terms that mimic art made with light, foam, yarn, and more.

Another batch of Midjourney modifiers.

OpenAI Launches 4o Image Generation, Ruins Reve’s Rad Reveal. Reve AI picked the absolute worst day to announce its best-in-class image model.

OpenAI has an uncanny ability to steal the thunder.

No-Prompt Prompting? Not as Crazy as It Sounds! If the context is clear enough, you might not need a prompt.

The one where I coin the concept of “no-prompt prompting” and gain instant fame in AI philosophy circles.

Yes, Gemini 2.0 Flash Makes Mediocre Images...But It Can Hide the Elephant! Image quality is a red herring. We're finally witnessing true multimodality.

I show why true multimodality matters and showcase some fun new Gemini 2.0 Flash capabilities!

How to Master New Topics with AI Learning new things with AI tools. (Plus a bonus video guide for paid subscribers.)

Learning new things is, like, hard and all.

But AI can simplify several tedious parts of it.

Here's how:

Sunday Rundown #89: New Models & Mortal Veggies Sunday Bonus #49: Custom GPT for finding relevant Why Try AI entries.

Last week in GenAI.

Plus my custom GPT that helps you find relevant WhyTryAI entries.

5 Best Midjourney Prompts: February 2025 (Video Games) Prompts that make your images look like in-game scenes.

Even more Midjourney terms to play around with!

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Fantastic Model Held Back by Lack of Native Internet Access The new hybrid model from Anthropic could really benefit from web browsing.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet = great

Lack of Internet access = less great.

Sunday Rundown #88: Grok 3 & Knock-off Jedis Sunday Bonus #48: Get the gist of any topic with my custom GPT.

Last week in GenAI.

Plus a custom GPT to quickly get up to speed on any topic.

Comrades! Mother Russia Is Under Attack! What next? Ukraine continuing to exist peacefully? Oh, the horror!

I wrote this obvious satire almost exactly three years ago, the day Russia invaded my home country of Ukraine.

I didn't expect to see an active US president take its premise at face value three years later.

Battle of the Bands III: Riffusion vs. Suno vs. Udio AI music models can create entire songs now, but which one does it best?

The world’s a dark place right now.

Is it okay to try and lighten things up with a few music tracks, even if those are AI-generated?

Computer says “yes.”

Sunday Rundown #87: Deep Research & Mega Laptop Sunday Bonus #47: Cross-checking drafts against sources with NotebookLM

Last week in GenAI.

Plus a workflow for using NotebookLM to cross-check your in-progress work against multiple sources.

Just How Open Is "Open-Source" AI? A nuanced look at the open-source vs. closed-source claims.

What lies beyond the simple "open-source" label?

OpenAI Joins the “Deep Research” Trio A quick look at three somewhat similar agents from Google, Genspark, and OpenAI.

Should you go for Deep Research, Deep Research, or Deep Research?

That, friends, is the question.

Sunday Rundown #86: Deep Thinkers & Phantom Bovine Sunday Bonus #46: Making and sharing apps with o3-mini

Last week in GenAI.

Plus a stupid simple way to make, run, and share apps with o3-mini.