… The current thing in tech no longer involves crypto. Suddenly, all the hype is filtering toward generative AI, broadly defined as artificial intelligence that doesn’t just process preexisting data sets, but creates wholly original text, images, audio, videos and code. In this week’s cover story, Margaux assessed the emerging leaders of the text- image-, video-, audio- and data-generating pack, some of which are already worth billions.

We’re living through the palace revolution of artificial intelligence. Creatives, once thought immune to the looming threat of AI, are suddenly competing with software like Open AI’s Dall-E and Jasper’s text-generation platform, which use neural networks to generate original images and text. Annie and Arielle identified 14 creators who are among the first to experiment with the new generative AI tools—often with dazzling results. Read More