These days, I'm sure many people's various social media platforms are being GPT-4o The Vincentian chart case swiped the screen.
And with it. AI startupsThe anxiety of those who work in thousands of industries, such as graphic designers, was instantly triggered:
- "Is the model really the product?"
- "Big Model is turning everything AI startups have ever done on its head."
- "AI startups now just need to watch how they climb off the cake table."
...etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. fill the internet.
At the same time, there are a number of industry insiders who are expressing excitement at the moment when image editing is being transformed by AI models:
- "The emergence of technological variables will inevitably give rise to new structural opportunities.EntrepreneurshipThe potential will be revealed in the next development".
- "All applications can be made again with AI" seems to be a joke in the current era, but this "AI shell" has given rise to a large number of potential entrepreneurial directions.
Therefore, we have compiled 10 entrepreneurial directions with potential, including: interior design, comics, tattoo design, e-commerce, product rendering, academics, visual perception and understanding, cultural relics modeling, healthcare, and film and television production, and other professional fields, hoping to bring the point to the surface, and help practitioners in the rapid iteration of the AI big model and the emergence of structural entrepreneurial opportunities, to explore more deep "knowledge" and AI value.
This release of 4o means that it not only understands textual commands, but it can also read images, understand context, and generate amazing visual content. Something closer to home is that it directly simplifies interaction, so you don't need to learn any specialized software like Photoshop, Figma, Blender, etc., or master complex cue words, just use natural language to describe what you need.
Of course, every major update to the big models brings about a dramatic shakeup in the industry, and at the same time breeds a myriad of new business possibilities.
Looking at the various stunning images generated by GPT-4o, we couldn't help but start thinking: what brand new opportunities will this open up for entrepreneurs?
1. Interior design
Previously, AI interior design software has already given many people a taste. Users simply upload a photo of their room, choose a style, and see a redecorated rendering. However, such applications usually require complex background workflows and multiple models working together.
AI interior rendering platforms like RoomGPT and Homestyler are the first wave of AI dividends. Now, GPT-4o can do this in one step and disrupt the field with unprecedented command following and multi-round dialog memorization. At the same time, it opens up new entrepreneurial opportunities: GPT-4o radically lowers the barriers to entry.
- The emergence of GPT-4o will have a profoundly transformative impact on graphic design, 2D graphics processing, 3D modeling, and virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).
A friend uploaded a photo of his living room and told GPT-4o to change this room into a Scandinavian style by adding a gray fabric sofa and solid wood coffee table.
A few seconds later, a realistic rendering appeared, even the lighting and textures were handled properly.
Even professionally, designers can simply upload the initial 3D model created in SketchUp, describe the desired style in natural language (e.g. "Chinese style", "traditional textures with modern minimalist design aesthetics", "deep red tones with a blue and white color palette", etc.), and GPT-4o will instantly generate professional rendering quality renderings.
The generated image not only retains the structural layout of the original model, but also enhances the material expression, adds richer texture details (e.g., fabric texture of bedding and carpet), optimizes the light and shadow effects, and incorporates traditional Chinese elements with modern design according to the tips.
2. Cartoon caricature production
Thanks to GPT-4o's ability to parse images, the X is filled with all sorts of netizens' work, such as Ghibli-style drawings of AI's famous terriers.
There's even a new workflow: generate Ghibli-style images with GPT-4o before turning them into AI videos.
Domestic netizens have not been idle, there are GPT-4o deciphering the source of the milk dragon.
3. Tattoo design
GPT-4o can also be used in the field of tattoo design.
It used to be that when a client described the desired tattoo, a tattoo artist could spend hours sketching it by hand.
Now, generating several alternatives based on the customer's description directly with GPT-4o allows the customer to see more possibilities.
These examples show that entrepreneurs can build cleaner and more efficient AI design platforms that focus on user experience and verticals without having to spend a lot of resources building complex technical architectures.
4. E-commerce
In e-commerce, product images are key to conversion rates.
Over the past two years, we've seen a number of startups specializing in AI modeling, AI scene replacement, and AI product retouching.
Now, GPT-4o can solve these problems in one stop.
Upload a photo of the product and it generates display images in different scenarios.
Upload two pictures: a Chinese dress and a female model portrait, and it can directly generate the effect of the model's wearing through a short prompt word.
5. Product Rendering
Even textual descriptions based on short natural language can be used to generate a complete image of the product.
Generate industrial design sketches and convert them directly into finished drawings.
Just start by having GPT-4o make a rough sketch, labeling a few key features.
GPT-4o then generates a realistic rendering of the product. It is even possible to optimize the product rendering by leveraging GPT-4o's ability to memorize multiple rounds of conversations, as well as LLM's own deep understanding of the command language.
This greatly accelerates the product iteration and customer communication process.
What does this mean for e-commerce entrepreneurs? They can build more integrated solutions that help small and medium-sized sellers generate professional-grade product galleries with a single click, dramatically reducing visual merchandising costs.
6. Academic
LLM has long been widely used as a general academic assistant. However, due to the high illusion of visual and semantic understanding of previous AI big models, its assistant ability has long been mainly limited to relatively basic functions such as text translation, logic combing, and structure optimization.
- This time GPT-4o is breaking through this traditional framework with its visual and semantic understanding capabilities.
Many small red book users apply GPT-4o in the academic field. For example, generating diagrams to accompany papers. Schematic diagrams that used to take a whole day to create in Illustrator can now be done in a few sentences of description.
More specialized applications include prediction of depth maps (depth estimation) from RGB images, semantic segmentation, visualization of cross-domain generalization capabilities, and more. These tasks, which used to require specialized technical teams to accomplish, can now be achieved with simple textual commands.
This provides a new direction for academic service startups to develop professional image generation tools for researchers, dramatically lowering the technical threshold for research visualization and making it easy for researchers who do not have a background in design to transform complex data and abstract concepts into clear and beautiful visual presentations.
7. Visual perception and understanding
GPT-4o also analyzes photos uploaded by users based on them, demonstrating image recognition capabilities, feature extraction, and the ability to imagine and generate across time.
For example, a user uploaded three photos of his child under the age of 1 to GPT-4o and asked LLM to generate predictive portraits of the future at the ages of 6, 12, and 18.
Although the 'accuracy' of this prediction is more subjective, as future looks are affected by a variety of factors, LLM is more speculative based on existing data and algorithms. However, it already exemplifies the potential of GPT-4o in combining visual perception, image understanding and generation.
8. Artifact Modeling
The documentary "I Repair Relics in the Forbidden City" has vividly shown the daily work of the restorers in the Palace Museum, facing the historical artifacts, the restorers often have to pay a lot of energy. At the same time, the reconstruction of cultural relics based on historical materials is also a professional extension of this field, but due to the shortcomings of the traditional technology, the historical materials themselves are difficult to be directly converted into cultural relics modeling. the emergence of the GPT-4o is reshaping this field.
By uploading photos of the mutilated artifacts, the GPT-4o can generate possible intact forms based on historical information and stylistic features to inform restoration efforts.
The same can be applied to the study of folklore and local culture.
When you want to visualize a historical scene such as 'Ritual Scene at the Temple of the Dragon King in Ancient China', in the past, you could only rely on professional illustrators to create imaginatively based on literature. Now with GPT-4o, multiple possible scene reconstruction diagrams are quickly generated, which greatly enriches the presentation of research results.
With archaeologists recovering crumbling artifacts, historians recreating lost ancient scenes, and museum curators creating immersive digital exhibitions, this wave of technology is giving rise to a number of start-ups focused on digital cultural heritage.
9. Medical
In the medical field, GPT-4o shows surprising potential. Although it can't replace physicians in autonomous diagnosis at this stage, it can transform medical images such as X-rays into more comprehensible visualizations. This confirms the judgment that LLM, with its excellent reasoning ability, image parsing ability and semantic understanding ability, will almost certainly enter the medical field.
China has also seen a large number of hospitals within the country begin to deploy AI systems, for example, the Shanxi Hospital of Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (Shanxi Cancer Hospital) has successfully deployed DeepSeek large models to participate in the optimization of the diagnosis and treatment process.
- LLMs of the magnitude of GPT-4o already have a high potential for professional applications.
For example, use it to generate a comparison chart of fracture types.
When doctors tried to explain their fractures to patients, they could only point to blurry gray lines on black-and-white X-rays, and patients often looked confused.
Instead, upload the X-rays to the GPT-4o and let it generate a set of comparison images: the original X-rays on one side, and a colorful 3D model on the other, with the location, type and severity of the fracture clearly labeled. The patient immediately understands their situation.
Or convert an MRI into a more intuitive 3D model schematic with different colors to distinguish tissue structures.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
10. Film and Television
Green screen keying is a fundamental part of movie and television production, and is now simplified by GPT-4o.
When you're a content creator with a team photo on hand, but only need a single photo of one of the members for promotional materials. The traditional approach involves using Photoshop and spending a lot of time accurately keying the photo, removing other people, and then replacing or cleaning up the background-a tedious task that requires specialized skills.
Now, it's made incredibly easy.
If you upload a picture of a group of four people to GPT-4o, simply describe it: 'Keep only the man in the white sweater, delete everyone else, and change the background to a green screen'.
After a few seconds, the model performed this complex task perfectly: automatically recognizing the target person and accurately removing the other three, while replacing the entire complex background (including the sofa, windows and bookshelves) with a professional green backdrop.
Still, keying jobs that used to require specialized software and skills are now done by uploading a green screen photo and a one-sentence command.
And the edges are handled naturally.
New opportunities for the proactive
These specialized areas of application provide new opportunities for AI entrepreneurs.
- In retrospect, every technological revolution has triggered industry reconfiguration, but rarely has it completely wiped out a particularcareers.
During the first industrial revolution, machines did replace a lot of manual labor, but they also created more new types of jobs.
GPT-4o's text-to-graph capability is like the steam engine of its day; it makes creation more efficient and lowers the barrier to entry, but it doesn't mean that creative workers will be completely replaced.
Instead, it may unleash more creativity and allow people to focus on the parts that really require human ingenuity.
What entrepreneurs and practitioners need to do with such a new crop of 'AI in a shell' opportunities should not be to resist the trend, but to think about how to go with it.
In the midst of this change, we can choose to be followers of the wave or promoters of the wave. But the only thing we should not do is to be like a reef sinking to the bottom of the sea, stubbornly resisting the tide of change.
Because history has proven time and time again that real opportunities always belong to those who can embrace change and act proactively in response to the situation.
- AI shell is not a simple copy, it can quickly adapt to market demand, reduce development costs, while retaining the stability of the core functionality. More importantly: it is backed by LLM's stable technology iteration cornerstone.
In the consumer and SMB markets, GPT-4o will indeed destroy the market, replacing a large number of low-end or repetitive tasks. And in the professional space, tools such as ComfyUI and Professional Imaging Workflow will continue to evolve, with their fine-grained, controllable and locally deployable features, to provide more professional services to high-end clients.
This relationship is like the coexistence of cloud office and local office software, or the difference between a family car and a professional racing car, each serving a different user group and not completely conflicting.
GPT-4o will continue to evolve and expand its boundaries, and competition will drive the entire industry forward, ultimately benefiting all users.
Image creation under the wave of AI is ushering in a new golden age. The protagonists of this era will be those who understand both technology and the essence of creativity.
