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THE WEEK’S DEEP DIVE

• NEWS: OpenAI's GPT image-1 API could be your new design team member, as the company unlocks the much-anticipated image creation tool.

• THE GOLD RUSH: Open AI Bombshell Image Generation API: Why Your Laptop is Your New Money Printer

• SPOTLIGHT: Vibe Coding: The AI Phenomenon We Can Not Afford to Ignore Anymore

• ELSEWHERE: This Week In AI

• AI TOOL OF THE WEEK: The game changing Dia 1.6B

• HOW TO GET INTO AI: Generative AI for beginners by Microsoft Here

NEWS OpenAI's GPT image-1 API could be your new design team member, as the company unlocks the much-anticipated image creation tool

OpenAI's gpt-image-1 model is now available via API, enabling developers to integrate advanced image generation into their applications.​

• API Integration: OpenAI has released its gpt-image-1 model through an API, allowing developers to incorporate high-quality image generation into their platforms.​

• Industry Adoption: Major companies like Adobe, Figma, and Canva are integrating this technology to enhance their design tools.​

• Flexible Pricing: The API offers a tiered pricing model based on usage, with costs varying depending on the complexity and quality of the images.

Why it may be important to you:

If you're a founder, creator, or business owner, design is often a bottleneck. This new API helps you automate visual content generation—social ads, product mockups, branded assets—without hiring designers or buying stock photos. Faster content, fewer delays, more sales. Imagine testing 10 ad creatives in minutes, not days, or generating personalised visuals per customer, on autopilot.

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THE GOLD RUSH Open AI Bombshell Image Generation API: Why Your Laptop is Your New Money Printer.

Forget crypto and drop shipping—there’s a new gold rush in town. OpenAI just unlocked a treasure chest: their powerful new Image Generation API. Overnight, it's turned every internet connection and laptop into a potential ATM.

This isn't just hype; it's already happening. The AI image generation market is projected to hit $1.2 billion by 2028, growing at over 20% annually. Why so lucrative? AI-generated visuals dramatically reduce the cost and speed of creating high-quality, targeted content. Businesses leveraging these tools have seen ad conversion rates increase by up to 30%.

Consider this: compelling visuals increase consumer engagement by up to 94%. Now, marketers and entrepreneurs no longer need extensive design teams. Imagine instantly creating persuasive ads without designers, staging real estate virtually without physical furniture, or visualizing personalized fitness transformations without hitting the gym.

Meet Jacob Posel, an AI pioneer who flew from Australia to San Francisco, capitalizing on this very moment. Within hours of OpenAI’s latest release, he pinpointed multiple million-dollar opportunities—like personalized digital makeovers ("What would I look like 30 pounds lighter?") and highly customizable advertising solutions promising extraordinary ROI.

What sets this opportunity apart is its ease of access. All you need is your laptop and internet. No coding experience or graphic design skills required—just describe your vision, and let AI do the heavy lifting.

The wave is rising fast. The global AI market size will reach an astounding $1.8 trillion by 2030, according to a PwC report. Your laptop can be your gateway to this unprecedented wealth creation opportunity.

SPOTLIGHT Vibe Coding: The AI Phenomenon We Can Not Afford to Ignore Anymore

Imagine you have a brilliant idea for an app, but there’s one big problem – you don’t know how to code. In the past, this was a deal-breaker. You’d either have to shelve the idea, spend months learning to program, or hire an expensive developer to do it for you. Sound familiar? For many of us, building software felt out of reach if we weren’t coding wizards. Enter vibe coding. Thanks to advances in AI, you can now create software by describing what you want in plain English, instead of writing the code yourself. It might sound unbelievable, but it’s already happening. Vibe coding is a new approach that flips traditional programming on its head – making app creation accessible to anyone who can explain their idea.

What Is Vibe Coding?

Vibe coding means building software by talking about it rather than hand-coding it. In practice, you tell an AI system (Manus AI, Replit, Lovable, Firebase, Just to mention a few) what you want your program to do, and the AI writes the actual code, and ships you an MVP all within hours! (Fun fact: the term “vibe coding” was coined by an OpenAI researcher who realised he could just “describe the vibe” of an app and have the AI build it.)

Essentially, you focus on what you want, and the AI figures out how to make it happen. Think of traditional coding like writing a detailed recipe. Vibe coding is more like telling a chef, “I want a spicy curry with veggies,” and letting them handle the ingredients and steps. You set the vision, the AI handles the execution.

How Does It Work?

Here’s a simple example of vibe coding in action:

You: “I need a website that shows my travel photos and lets people leave comments.”

AI: (creates code) Generates a basic photo gallery website with a comment section.

You: “Add a user login and make the gallery two columns.”

AI: (updates code) Adds a login feature and a two-column layout for the gallery.

You: “Great! Now make the header blue.”

AI: (updates code) Changes the header colour and finalises the site.

After a few rounds of back-and-forth like this, you have a working website – and you didn’t write a single line of code yourself. You just described what you wanted, and the AI did the heavy lifting.

Why This Is Probably One Of The Best Tech Skills You Need at the Moment

No Coding Needed: You don’t have to learn Python, Java or any programming language. If you can explain your idea in words, you can start building it. This opens the door for people who’ve never written code to create software.

Faster Results: What might take months (or a hefty development fee) can be done in days or hours. AI can churn out code much faster than a human, so you can quickly go from idea to prototype.

Lower Costs: Hiring developers or taking coding courses can be pricey. Vibe coding tools are often affordable or even free to try, so turning your idea into a real app doesn’t have to break the bank.

Focus on Ideas: Because the AI handles the syntax and technical details, you get to spend more time refining your concept and user experience. It’s all about what you want to achieve, not the curly brackets and semicolons.

And it’s not just theory – people are already finding success with vibe coding. For example, one entrepreneur with no technical background built a prototype of her startup idea in just 2 days using vibe coding tools, and even secured a six-figure investment to launch it. (Investors were stunned that she achieved it without a traditional developer!) Real stories like this show that you can go from “I have an idea” to “I have a product” faster than ever before. The bottom line? Vibe coding is making software development more accessible than ever.

Of course, it’s not a magic wand – you still need a clear vision and you might iterate with the AI to get things just right. One of the best practices in my experience, is to put a simple prompt into any of your favourite GPT tool, explain your context and then ask the tool to provide a prompt for you to use in the Vibe coding IDE environment (ensure to mention the name of the specific tool) for example if you want to build a simple appointment scheduler app, all you need to do is for example go over to ChatGPT and ask:

‘‘Hey Chat, can you get me a comprehensive prompt to be used within (Your favourite Vibe coding IDE) to ship an app that schedules my appointment in Google calendar’’

I like to give my prompting, a shot in the arm hence I follow up with this: ‘Do not be opinionated about any particular tech stack in your approach’’ This will allow the Vibe coding AI to be versatile in choosing the best tech stack for your job rather than relying on its inherent biases.

Copy and paste the prompt above to your Vibe coding tool and ask it to ship your product.

Compared to the old days of needing to code everything by hand, it’s a breath of fresh air for beginners. So if you’ve been dreaming of an app or digital project but felt held back by a lack of coding skills, now is the perfect time to dive in. Experiment with a vibe coding tool, talk out your ideas, and watch the AI bring them to life. The future of software development isn’t reserved for engineers in lab coats – it’s for everyone with a vision. Your idea might be just a few “vibes” away from reality!
PS: Which one of them have you tried out? Let me get your thoughts.

ELSEWHERE This Week In AI

• Adobe adds OpenAI and Google AI models to its Firefly mobile app
  👉 Read on Reuters

• Anthropic just showed how their AI, Claude, learns real-world values by studying thousands of real conversations.
  👉 Read on Anthropic Blog

• IMF says AI could boost global GDP 0.5% annually, but warns about emissions
  👉 Read on Reuters

• Microsoft’s Copilot is becoming your personal AI — learning your life, your habits, and making tech feel way more human.
  👉 Read on Microsoft Blog

• Trump signs executive order to bring AI into K-12 schools across the U.S.
  👉 Read on WhiteHouse.gov

• AI boom under threat as tariffs and instability disrupt data centre expansion
  👉 Read on Reuters

AI TOOL OF THE WEEK-Dia 1.6B

Dia 1.6B is an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model developed by Nari Labs. It specialises in generating highly realistic, emotionally nuanced dialogues directly from text, making it a powerful tool for creators, developers, and businesses aiming to produce lifelike conversational audio.

💡 Specific Use Cases

1. Podcast & Audiobook Production: Dia's ability to generate expressive, multi-speaker dialogues with emotional depth allows creators to produce engaging podcasts and audiobooks without the need for voice actors.​

2. Customer Service Automation: Businesses can deploy Dia to create dynamic, emotionally responsive virtual assistants, enhancing customer interactions and satisfaction.​

3. Educational Content Creation: Educators and e-learning platforms can utilise Dia to develop interactive lessons with varied tones and voices, catering to diverse learning styles.​

⚙️ Quick Implementation Guide

Installation: Install Dia directly from GitHub:

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pip install git+https://github.com/nari-labs/dia.git

Generating Speech: Use simple tags to define speakers and emotions:

🚀 Key Features

• Voice Cloning: Provide an audio sample to clone a specific voice, allowing for consistent character voices across different projects.

• Emotion & Tone Control: Adjust the emotional delivery of speech outputs.

• Nonverbal Sound Generation: Incorporate sounds like laughter or coughing directly from text cues.

• Multi-Speaker Dialogue: Easily script conversations between multiple speakers using simple tags.

• Open Source: Fully accessible under the Apache 2.0 licence, encouraging customisation and integration.

• Local Deployment: Run Dia on local machines, ensuring data privacy and reducing reliance on external services

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