Impressions

User Interface/User Experience

Exactly has a simple website with a clean design and useful features only.

This is something that is missing on most AI startup sites these days. Everyone and their dog is creating a kaleidoscope of a website that’s too distracting to be usable. Leave alone a design that’s overkill, there are so many options/features that you’re overwhelmed, creating the paradox of choice and leading to decision paralysis.

So this is something that I appreciate about Exactly – their simplistic, minimalistic design philosophy and a no BS approach toward features.

Custom models

Exactly says custom models only require 5-25 images to train and take a few minutes to deploy.

I tried to create a custom model using 10 watercolor paintings of landscapes by old masters.

(They say the images should be “consistent in style and subject matter.” For example, you can’t train a custom model on a mix of paintings of botanical and animal figures (flora and fauna), even if they’re by the same artist, and expect it to understand your style. It won’t because by doing so you’re only confusing the model. That’s why I chose watercolor paintings of landscapes by old masters because they’re “consistent in style and subject matter.”)

I added appropriate descriptions for each painting (because Exactly’s AI-generated ones weren’t very accurate) and hit the “Create Model” button. They said it’d take about 10 minutes and they’d email me as soon as it’s ready.

It’s been almost an hour and my AI model isn’t ready yet. So this is one thing I’d request them to improve – training/deployment time for custom models.

The email has arrived and my custom model is finally ready after an hour and a half.

I tested it by experimenting with different prompts. The quality of the results was pretty much consistent between iterations and for different prompts, so providing one example will do.

Prompt used: a city on water and gondolas around it

The results:

Based on about an hour of testing Exactly, I think it has great potential in the future, but not yet.

But I urge all of you to try Exactly AI. It’s fun.

(You don’t need to create your own custom model to use it – you can create art from a black canvas or use others’ (publicly shared) models.)