How To Animate Midjourney Photos with Pika Labs

Today on 🥯 Bagel Bots, we’re discussing:

• 🍎 Apple is upgrading their AI tools

• 📽️ Fresh tech of the day - Pika Labs

• 📰 The latest AI and tech news

• 🤖 Cool new apps for you to check out

• 🪄 How to turn your Midjourney photos into videos with Pika Labs

• 🔮 Everything you do today is for future you

(Read time: five minutes)

Happy Apple iPhone release day! Apple release days are a holiday for those in tech, and it’s exciting if you love gadgets.

Recently, Apple has gotten a ton of press around for a lack of AI products and services, but they are investing heavily in AI.

Is Siri finally going to be a usable AI tool? Are you excited for the new iPhone?

🔗 Apple Spending Millions of Dollars a Day on Conversational AI

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💰 If you’re looking for investors or advisors for your AI product. I’m interested.

📽️ Fresh tech of the day - Pika Labs

Pika Labs is a powerful Text-to-Video platform that can unleash your creativity simply by typing. I first found it by scrolling X (Twitter) and seeing a ton of beautiful three-second videos that were

You can take any photo and animate it with a prompt, just like Midjourney. I will post a video I made as a GIF and show you how I created it later in this post. So keep reading!

🔗 Click here to try it for yourself. Let me know what you think!

💡 Fresh AI and tech news to consume.

🔗 HubSpot unveils HubSpot AI and new Sales Hub at INBOUND 2023

My take: We use Hubspot as our marketing automation tool and connect it with Salesforce. I LOVE HubSpot and am so excited to see all of the new AI features they dropped last week.

🔗 Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates

My take: The AI race is on and will only continue heating up from here. Meta has the users and distribution, but do people trust Meta with their data and AI writing? I don’t know about that.

🔗 Generative AI Will Reshape Far More Jobs Than It Eliminates

My take: As I’ve said before and as you’ve probably read before—people who use AI will be in much better shape than those who do not in the future.

🔗 Everybody will have their own AI-powered 'chief of staff' over the next five years

My take: Alright, let’s hurry this up because I could use this literally yesterday. How exciting is this going to be, though?!

🔗 Slack’s AI tool that can recap channels and threads starts testing this winter

My take: I already use a tool that does this, but it’s nice to see software building their own AI right into the UI. Slack is a nightmare at a company with over 300 people, so this will be nice for those of us in large enterprises.

🤖 New apps for you to check out this week

Every one of these apps can help you with your company, career, side hustle, or personal project. I recommend diving deep into them all.

• 🔗 Moviebot - Make hilarious 3D animation with AI

• 🔗 Beatoven - Create royalty-free music that elevates your story

• 🔗 Graphy HQ - Graphy HQ is a powerful platform that aids in data analysis, charting, and graphing

• 🔗 FlowGPT - Find and use the best AI prompts

• 🔗 My AskAI - Create your own AI assistant, add your content, and launch it anywhere

Check these fantastic platforms out, and let me know what you think. Reply to this email or tweet me directly.

🪄 How to turn your Midjourney photos into videos with Pika Labs.

As you saw above, I created a magical video from a photo I made in Midjourney. From a single prompt to an image to a video. This is how it’s done:

First, I created the images in Midjourney. Here is the prompt and image:

/imagine Street photography, shot on Fujifilm 35mm, beautiful humanoid wearing psychedelic x - ray layers, spacetime anomaly, los angeles --ar 16:9 --s 750

Here is the photo:

Then, we open Pika Labs and join the discord. Like Midjourney, you can create prompts to do more than animate the image.

I just animated the photo with the prompt /animate (and uploaded the image).

This is what I got:

I plan to test many different image styles and prompts with Pika Labs in the future, so stay tuned for more on that.

🔮 Everything you do today is for future you.

I am writing this post on Sunday night (it goes out Tuesday morning). I’m tired, but I want this to have my attention and for it to be something you want to read. I am doing this now instead of Monday to ensure it’s full of quality.

I have spent my life saving, investing, and being smart with money to have a fantastic life. It took sacrifice at the time, but I am so happy that Adam did that.

The things you do today set up your future you for success.