Javi López & Emilio Nicolás Riquelme launch Magnific AI, the first popular 'creative' image upscaler — a tool that doesn't just add resolution but reimagines and hallucinates new details into images. With sliders for 'creativity,' 'HDR,' and 'resemblance,' creators can control how much the AI invents, turning rough Midjourney or Stable Diffusion outputs at the time, into images with stunning detail and texture. Over 30,000 people sign up within the first 24 hours. For the AI filmmaking community, where image-to-video workflows with models like Gen-2 depend highly on the quality of the input image, Magnific feels like magic. It fills in the details that early image models miss — skin pores, fabric texture, environmental detail — transforming good images into extraordinary ones. The impact is immediate and the approach is quickly emulated by competitors. Magnific is later acquired by Freepik in May 2024.