Google DeepMind researchers published new research introducing JEST.

It's a new method that accelerates AI model training while significantly reducing computing requirements.

Faster training capabilities = the acceleration of advanced model releases is just getting started

The OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive just announced a new venture developing a hyper-personalized AI-powered health coach

The coach will be trained in scientific research, biometric data, and individual preferences to offer tailored recommendations

Odyssey just emerged from stealth with a ‘Hollywood-grade’ AI video generation platform.

The startup is developing four specialized AI video models aimed at revolutionizing visual effects and storytelling capabilities,

AI is coming to Hollywood

Poe launched ‘Previews’, a new feature allowing users to generate and interact with web apps directly in chats

(Basically Claude Artifacts, but you can do it with any model)

According to the startup, Previews works best using LLMs that excel in coding

Luma Labs chief scientist Jiaming Song said in an interview that real-time AI video generation is less than a year away.

He also showed evidence that Luma's Dream Machine model can reason and predict world models in some capacity.

Absolutely wild.

Researchers in China recently released LivePortrait, a framework that can animate images from a video reference.

The code is available freely on GitHub, but you can also now try it on Hugging Face

Nvidia launched a new competition with RTC 4080 GPUs + cash as a prize.

The ICCAD contest is to create an open-source code dataset for training LLMs on hardware design, with the aim to eventually automate the development of future GPUs.

Japan's Defense Ministry just released its inaugural basic policy on the use of AI in military.

TL;DR: The policy emphasizes human control over AI systems, and fully ruled out Japan's use of autonomous lethal weapons.

Microsoft just withdrew its role on OpenAI's Board, while Apple also reportedly scrapped plans

These drop-offs come right on the heels of the EU/US investigations around big co antitrust violations

OpenAI also announced a partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The partnership will evaluate the safe use of GPT-4o in bioscience and how AI models can assist in laboratory tasks.

Wondering how/if GPT-4o voice will play a crucial big here

Elon Musk and Neuralink went live and shared the insane potential of Neuralink <> Tesla Optimus

1. People who can't speak can communicate with Optimus
2. People who've lost limbs could possibly use a robotic Optimus limb and control it with their brains

Samsung just unveiled its latest AI-infused foldable smartphones:

Some new features include:
- Sketch-to-image
- Note Assist
- Interpreter and Live Translate
- Built-in integration for the Google Gemini app
- A new AI-powered ProVisual Engine
- & More

Samsung also announced the Galaxy Watch7 and the new Galaxy Ring.

Both products feature AI health monitoring, including FDA-approved sleep apnea detection and diabetes tracking.

We're headed into a new age of AI health wearables.

OpenAI reportedly internally introduced a new five-tier system to track its progress toward AGI.

The classification system ranges from Level 1 (current conversational AI) to Level 5 (AI capable of running entire organizations).

Google DeepMind just published new research on robot navigation.

The research leverages the large context window of Gemini 1.5 Pro to enable robots to understand and navigate complex environments from human instructions.

In tests, Google DeepMinds robots responded to multimodal instructions, including map sketches, audio requests, and visual cues like a box of toys.

The system also allows for natural language commands like "take me somewhere to draw things"

Chinese startup BXI Robotics’ Elf is now available for purchase for $25,000.

The 4’3, 57-pound bipedal robot is capable of carrying up to 44 pounds, but has pretty liomited capacity other than that

Fanvue’s first-ever 'Miss AI' competition crowned Kenza Layli, an AI-created Moroccan lifestyle influencer, as its first winner.

The AI influencer won against a whopping 1,500 contestants in categories like looks, use of AI tools, and social media presence.

Per Reuters, OpenAI is developing a secretive new AI model codenamed ‘Strawberry’ (formerly known as Q*).

The model is reportedly designed to dramatically improve AI reasoning capabilities and enable autonomous internet 'deep research'

Amazon announced expanded access to its Rufus AI-powered shopping assistant for all U.S. customers.

The AI assistant offers personalized product recommendations and enhanced responses to shopping queries