Straico Major Update: Enhanced Multimedia & Chat Interface

Huge update alert — one that marks a major step forward in how you create and interact with AI on Straico.

We’re introducing two powerful upgrades designed to streamline your workflows and open up a whole new world of multimedia creation.

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🚀 A Smarter, More Powerful Chatbar

The new chat interface brings full control right where you work, letting you:

• Instantly switch layouts and choose your preferred LLM combo
• Toggle Reasoning and Web Browsing on or off
• Effortlessly generate image, video, and audio content with intuitive selectors
• Use an optional Prompt Optimizer for richer outputs

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🎨 Expanded Multimedia Model Lineup

With this update, we’re significantly expanding our multimedia model lineup, giving you access to some of the most powerful tools out there:

From plain text to rich, customized media — it’s all now just a few clicks away.

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📱 Your Creations Gallery + Public Inspiration Feed

We’re also launching your personal Creations Gallery, where all your generated media — images, videos, and audio — is neatly organized and easy to revisit.

Looking for ideas? Dive into our new Public Inspiration Gallery, hand-curated by the Straico team to spark your imagination.

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💡 Practical Use Cases

🐸 Generating and Remixing Images Just Got Way Easier

I wanted to create a cinematic-style image of a tiny frog pilot flying through the sky — so I used the new image generation tools directly from the Chatbar.

I selected FLUX.1 [Dev], picked the Realistic style, set the 4:3 landscape format, and turned on Optimize Prompt.

Later, I thought: what if instead, the frog was in outer space?

I used Ideogram V3 – Replace Background, an image-to-image model that let me keep the character intact and swap the setting. I downloaded the original image, attached it, wrote a quick prompt describing the new background, and hit send.

That’s it — new scene, same frog.

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🏄 From Image to Cinematic Motion Seamlessly

After creating this surfing robot scene in Straico, I wanted to bring it to life through video — same character, same vibe, but full of energy and movement.

I used the Kling 2.1 Image to Video model. I downloaded and attached my original image, then set up:

Duration: 5s
Camera: Right turn forward
CFG scale: 0.7
Optimize Prompt: ON
Aspect ratio: Landscape

The result? A cinematic, high-def video that captures all the motion and energy of a sunset surf scene.

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🎭 Voices That Feel Alive

I tested text-to-speech with The Tyger by William Blake using ElevenLabs Multilingual. I picked the voice “Charlotte,” adjusted Stability and Style Exaggeration, and the result felt like a real performance.

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🗂️ Your Creations, All in One Place

Everything you’ve generated — images, videos, audio — is now neatly organized in your personal Straico Gallery.

You can filter by content type (Image, Audio, Video, All) or parameters like creation date, model, aspect ratio, and duration.

Each creation opens into a detailed view where you can check all generation properties, jump back into the original chat, or start a remix right away.

For inspiration, the Public feed showcases a curated set of creations from the Straico team.

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✨ Key Benefits

• Unified workflow: From plain text to rich multimedia content in just a few clicks
• Full control: Switch models, styles, and settings from one central location
• Smart organization: All your creations automatically saved and categorized
• Constant inspiration: Curated public feed for fresh creative ideas