AI Box Launches First Beta for Its Playground
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Today on the podcast, I want to make an announcement that I have been waiting to make for over two and a half years. And that is that AI box, my software company I've been working on has officially launched its first product in beta. It's called the AI box playground and essentially allows you to try all of the top AI models in one place on one platform for $20 a month. So no longer do you have to have subscriptions to a ton of different platforms. And the cool thing is you can chat with different models in the same chat, they'll see the context of past

conversations you've had. You can switch the model mid conversation for different models that are better, different things. You can compare models side by side in the chats. You can do image, text and audio all in the same chat. It's a phenomenal product and I will be getting into it, showing you some demos and live viewing of the actual platform. So if you're listening to this, I'd recommend you check this out over on YouTube or on Spotify where we'll be

showing the actual video, but otherwise I'll explain what's going on for people that might just be listening to the podcast on Apple, which I know that's a big chunk of our

of our user base, of our listeners. Okay, so over on the platform, the AI Box Playground, what you'll notice is you have access to a ton of different models. We have one in particular that we've rolled ourself called AI Box Default. And this is a model that you essentially can give it a prompt, ask it a question, and it will pick the best model, whether that's text or image to kind of generate whatever you're going for. So

AI box default is a pretty cool concept. You can also go and create your own custom defaults. You know, if you're like, I just want this model for all of my images or this model for all my texts, you have the option to do that.

The other thing that you're able to do is scroll through all of the different models on the side. So if you go and check out an image model, for example, you can go look at Ideogram and you can go and see what the models are capable of and also kind of what the benchmarks are. So comparing this model to other models on their pricing, on their quality and everything else. So if you have a prompt that you are interested in, you can then go to the model and say, you know,

Let's just say a red cat at sunset for this ideogram one, getting it to create us an image here.

While it generates that, the thing that I love about this is that as soon as it's done its generation, whatever its image that it comes up with, you can actually go and even if you started by chatting with Ideogram, you can go and switch to a different AI model to talk to. So once it comes up, you're able to switch through different tabs and generate the same prompt

And by the way, it did generate the prompt and it's a pretty dang awesome. I don't know if you've ever tried an ideogram before, but it looks just like a photo. It doesn't look very AI generated. It's very, very impressive. So we have our red cat at sunset. But if you want to run that with a different model, you just click...

the little rerun button and, um, black forest labs, flux 1.1 pro, in my opinion, is also a really powerful tool. So we're going to run with that. Um, and you could also, you know, try the latest model out of chat GPT as well, because their new image model is pretty fantastic and it's a lot better than, um,

you know, the Dolly three or whatever. I think the new one is called, uh, open AI image one or GPT image one or something like that. So you can then go and actually see all of the different, um, outputs side by side. You do this with text as well. You could do it with audio. Um, we also have the option with, you know, some of our, some of our features with 11 labs and other tools like that, where you can do multiple voices. So you can do different voices and you can compare them all side by side. So we now have, um,

We have OpenAI, we have Flux, and we have Ideogram. And then we have a little button here where you can actually compare all of the different images side by side to get a better view of what all of these actually look like. And you can kind of tap through them to see what this actually looks like. So this is kind of one of our features we've been building. And then, of course, you have the ability to do

text and try some of the models you might not have tried before. Like let's say Quinn has an interesting model. We'll try Quinn 2.5. There's 72 billion parameter turbo model. We'll just tell it to tell us a joke.

And then you can do the same thing. You can get this to generate with not just like one or two, but you could get it to generate the same joke with like seven or eight different AI chats and just toggle between all of them. And then of course, the one that I love to do is we have text-to-speech and speech-to-text. So speech-to-text, if you upload an audio file or talk to it, then it's able to give you like a text transcript.

But if you want to do a text-to-speech, that's something that you're going to get from OpenAI or 11 Labs. I'm going to go ahead and do 11 Labs and just say, you are wonderful.

It's just going to use whatever its default voice is. Then you can actually go to the settings of the model. You are wonderful. You are wonderful. You can go to the settings of the model and go change the voice. So right now we have, you know, area voice selected, but we can see a ton of different voices in here. We can listen to examples. We got George. We got Charlie. We got Charlie.

So, you know, you can pick whatever one you want. You can change it. And then we're going to rerun this again. And we're going to do text to speech. And we're going to do 11 labs. And now it's going to do the new voice. So you actually have. You are wonderful.

I think that was George's voice. You are wonderful. And that was Aria's voice. So we have both the different voice options. So this is really cool. I love this because if you're doing a script or you want to test a voiceover and you want to test a bunch of different voices and listen to things side by side comparison, you can compare them side by side. You can get a ton of these things going. And for me, this is just...

So much fun. So I'm thrilled with this. Okay. The other thing that I'm really excited about with the playground, because of course the audio image text all in one place for $20 a month is great, but something that has plagued me honestly for ever really with these AI models is the

When I use something like OpenAI, for example, ChatGPT, and I get it to generate images for a lot of different projects, I use them for thumbnails on YouTube and for podcast covers and all sorts of stuff and projects I'm using ChatGPT for.

I forget where the image was. And so we've created something called media storage, which will show you all of the content, all of the media you've created, whether that's audio files, whether that's images. And if you go back and click on that image or file, it'll show you the exact prompt that was used to generate it. It will show you the model. It will show you how many tokens you use to generate that, what the date was. You could go download it or delete it or click view chat and it will take you back to the actual chat.

that was used to generate the image. And you can see, you know, what the context of your chat was before. So for me, this is pretty cool. And I am a huge fan. And again, if you want to delete it, if you go delete that image out of your media storage, it's going to disappear from this chat thread, but it won't necessarily delete the whole chat thread. So you can still keep some of your content by deleting that. However, if you do want to delete the whole chat thread, you can do that. And it will also delete all of the media files that are in the chat thread. So just a couple of cool things you can do there.

All right. One thing that we have added to all of the different AI models, if you're interested and you're kind of curious and you want to see like what they're all capable of, you can go to any company and click on any AI model and we have all of the models capabilities. So Lama 3.1 is only able to do text. We'll show you the benchmarks of how it compares to other models. If you're interested in Mistral AI and you want to try their CodeStroll developer, you can see what it's able to do. If you want to go and try something like

opening eyes 4.1 you can see that it also has image vision in addition so you know we'll show you all the different features and you can you can upload images by adding media here you can upload images and ask it questions about that so for any of the um for any of the models that have image vision it's able to it's able to you know understand what's going on there so some really cool stuff

that we've been packing into this. We're adding new features all the time, adding new AI models, really, really excited to see what people are able to do with this. And of course, my goal is just that you'll be able to save money, having all of your AI models in one place, not needing to have subscriptions on a dozen different platforms. $20 a month, you get access to everything. And if you need more usage, you can get more tokens, but we give you a pretty generous token package. So you get 20,000 tokens. And for a lot of people, this is going to be

This is going to be what you need to get you through the month using all of the AI tools you could ever imagine, which is a ton of fun. And we hope that all the models that we add will help you learn more and be able to explore a lot of AI models and companies that you probably didn't try before and that you maybe didn't want to pay for their subscription for their premium products. You get it all on here. So this is pretty exciting.

In any case, we are so excited. We finally launched. If you want to try this out, it's AIbox.ai. Two and a half years in, this is our first product. It's in beta. So if you're testing it and you think like, man, it would be really awesome if it could do X, Y, and Z, send me a message over on LinkedIn. Send me a DM on LinkedIn or on X, and we'll be adding new features very actively. Our roadmap is evolving. And in the meantime,

Play around with this. We'll be launching our marketplace and our builder platform very soon. And so if you have your account here, you'll be able to get access to that as soon as it rolls out as well. In any case, thank you so much for tuning into the podcast today for checking out what we're working on over here.

at AI Box. This is something I'm so excited about. I'm so excited to have you guys on the journey. It means the world to me. I appreciate all of the support we've received throughout the years from everybody. Hope you have a fantastic rest of your day and I will catch you next time.