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Welcome back to The Shift. Let’s get straight to what matters in AI today…

Today we have:

🧠 Introducing Model Council by Perplexity

🎨 How to Generate High-Quality Design Images for Free with Seedream 5.0 (CapCut)

🎬 ByteDance Pushes AI Video Frontier

🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss 

🧠 Introducing Model Council by Perplexity

As AI models specialize, choosing the right one matters more than ever. Perplexity’s new Model Council helps users compare multiple top models in one place. It removes guesswork from serious research and decisions.

The Shift:

Multi-model answers, instantly - Model Council runs one query across three AI models at once and returns a single synthesized answer, removing the need to manually test different models.

Shows agreement and disagreement  - A synthesizer model compares responses, resolves conflicts where possible, and clearly shows where models align or diverge, helping users judge confidence and uncertainty faster.

Reduces model blind spots - Every AI has biases or gaps. Model Council exposes these by design, helping users avoid confident but incomplete answers when accuracy really matters.

Built for high-stakes use cases - It’s ideal for investment research, complex decisions, verification, and creative work where perspective, balance, and correctness are more important than speed alone.

As AI becomes part of real decisions, trusting a single model is risky. Model Council turns model diversity into a feature, giving users clearer signals instead of louder answers.

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🎨 How to Generate High-Quality Design Images for Free with Seedream 5.0 (CapCut)

Seedream 5.0 just landed inside CapCut and quietly became one of the best value image models available. Think strong composition, clean typography logic, and solid reference control, without expensive credits.

How to use it

1. Open CapCut: On mobile go to Edit Photo → AI Edit. On desktop or mobile use Media → AI Image, or AI Design on web.
   

2. Start with a clear design intent: Describe what you want visually, like a poster, product visual, thumbnail, or social graphic. Seedream handles layout and structure better than most image models.
   

3. Add references if needed: Upload a reference image or describe the style to keep outputs consistent and on-brand.
   

4. Generate and iterate freely: Seedream is fast and cheap, so you can explore variations without worrying about credits.

✨ A surprisingly powerful alternative for design-heavy image generation, now free inside CapCut. You can try here.

🎬 ByteDance Pushes AI Video Frontier

ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 video model is making waves across tech, media, and markets, sparking stock rallies and intense industry buzz, with analysts predicting rapid adoption across AI manga, short drama, and IP-driven formats as China’s AI video competition accelerates fast. 

The Shift:

1. Seedance 2.0 pushes realism forward - The model produces highly lifelike videos with smoother motion, stronger visual consistency, synced audio, and cinematic framing, making AI-generated clips difficult to distinguish from real footage.

The model supports text, image, audio, and video inputs, adds native audio generation, delivers 2K resolution outputs up to 15 seconds long, and is currently accessible only through ByteDance’s Jimeng AI platform.

2. Seedream 5.0 expands ByteDance’s AI stack - Alongside Seedance, ByteDance is testing Seedream 5.0, a new image model previewed on third-party apps, positioning it as a direct response to Nano Banana Pro. 

The release follows Kuaishou’s Kling 3.0 launch, highlighting fierce competition as Chinese models move closer to the frontier of AI-generated video and visual media.

With stock surges, filmmaker praise, and competitive pressure rising, Seedance 2.0 shows how fast AI video is reshaping content economics, while raising parallel concerns around deepfakes, trust, and the future role of human creativity.

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🔨AI Tools for the Shift

🎭 ChatGPT Caricature – Upload a photo, choose a style, and generate a viral-ready AI caricature in one click with 50+ styles and zero prompting.

🧬 Synthetic – Build consistent, living AI personas with deep backstories, environments, and relationships, designed for creators who care about realism and authenticity.

📊 GapTrail – Monitor competitor websites continuously, track pricing and feature changes, and get AI-powered insights so you are always ahead of the market.

🎬 YTVidHub – Download videos, playlists, and channels in one click and instantly extract SRT or TXT captions, perfect for fast, bulk processing without sign-up.

💝 TunedForYou – Create a one-of-a-kind personalized song that captures emotions, memories, and love, delivered in minutes and kept forever.

🚀Quick Shifts

💬 ChatGPT is testing ads for Free and $8 Go users, showing sponsored links below answers, while paid tiers stay ad-free, with opt-outs, controls, and limits on sensitive topics.

🤖 Siemens CEO Roland Busch says AI will automate entire value chains end to end, using digital twins to optimize factories, planning, procurement, and decision-making, not just machines, reshaping work itself.

🧠 Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says SaaS survives, but AI makes interfaces invisible, shifting power to data platforms as natural language and agents replace trained users, turning software into plumbing everywhere.

💰 Anthropic is finalizing a $20B raise at a $350B valuation, doubling its target as demand surges, with Nvidia and Microsoft leading amid escalating AI compute costs.

🎧 ElevenLabs launched Audiobooks, an AI-powered production suite letting authors generate narration, edit, and distribute audiobooks end-to-end, cutting costs, time, and barriers to global audio publishing for independent and traditional creators.

🧩 Prompt of the Day

How to Create a Clean Product Photography Shot List Using One Prompt

Turn ad-hoc photoshoots into a structured shot list that ensures consistent, high-quality visuals across every channel.

Paste the prompt: Drop this into ChatGPT, then fill in your product type and where the images will be used.

Prompt to paste

Create a product photography shot list for [Product]. Include angles needed (e.g., front, side, detail, lifestyle), props and background ideas, and usage purposes (website, ads, social, packaging). Keep it concise, practical, and optimized for consistent visual branding across platforms.

🤳AI Nugget of the Day

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