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Round closes TODAY: In what some are calling the ‘biggest interruption to IP since Disney', Elf Labs has stockpiled rights to history's highest grossing characters – Cinderella, Snow White, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and more – and is bringing them to life using patented AI-driven VR and AR technology.
Sam Altman has dismissed Elon Musk's $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, stating, “We are not for sale.” This latest move escalates the ongoing power struggle between the two AI leaders.
Apple is collaborating with Alibaba to bring AI-powered features to iPhones in China, addressing market challenges and competing with Huawei's AI-integrated smartphones.
Snap introduced an AI text-to-image model that operates entirely on mobile devices, enabling high-resolution image generation in 1.4 seconds. This model aims to power Snapchat features like AI Snaps and Bitmoji Backgrounds while reducing operating costs.
Hugging Face is replicating R1 in the open. It has succeeded in running distillation on R1 itself to generate 800k reasoning traces.
Determining whether a system is “agentic” is challenging. This position paper from DeepMind proposes the idea that measuring Agency requires a set reference frame, and cannot be discussed as a global property of a system.
Diffusion model noise sampling works well for single images, but struggles when scaled up to videos that require temporal consistency. As the noise itself is independent across pixels and frames, you see a number of warping artifacts. This work aims to introduce integral noise which accounts for many of these problems.
Tiny but extremely powerful open source model on an app, running locally, by Allen AI. It is stronger than the original ChatGPT model from a few years ago.
This paper presents dynamic instance-level data reweighting techniques for LLM pretraining. By adjusting sample importance based on loss values during training, the proposed methods improve efficiency and effectiveness.
OVT-B is a large-scale benchmark for open-vocabulary multi-object tracking (OVT). It includes over 1,000 object categories, nearly 2,000 videos, and more than 600,000 bounding box annotations.
A group of 300+ AI builders including Chris Lattner (Creator of Swift/LLVM) and Amjad Masad (Founder of Replit) met in San Francisco at the Democratize Intelligence Summit (DEMI). DEMI is forming a counter-pressure to closed AI centralization by gathering ambitious builders creating alternative hardware chips, software frameworks, and economic models that make AI easier to build and use.
Google I/O will take place on May 20-21 at Shoreline Amphitheatre and online. Expect keynotes, product reveals, AI innovations, and hands-on sessions.
AI-generated voices can now precisely mimic human speech, raising concerns about distinguishing them from human conversations. A proposed solution is for AI voices to utilize a ring modulator, giving them a historically recognizable robotic sound. Implementing this across voice synthesis technologies would help users identify when they are interacting with AI.
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Over half of the respondents from CallRail's 2025 business trends survey are actively exploring ways to automate and scale marketing with AI - from generating ad copy to scheduling appointments. See the
Luma AI has released an all-new model that takes image-to-video generation to the next level, delivering unprecedented natural motion, realistic physics, and coherence.
Seattle-based Ai2 has released Tulu 3 405B, an open-source AI model that outperforms both DeepSeek V3 and OpenAI's GPT-4o in certain benchmarks.
Jared Zhao founded Athenic AI in 2022 to simplify enterprise data analytics by integrating AI that adapts to each company's specific knowledge.