Carl Franzen

Want to easily render 3D environments? Cybever and Cloud Zeta have a way

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Cybever, a startup offering a platform for creating 3D environments using generative AI, and Cloud Zeta, a separate cloud hosting service designed specifically to host memory-intensive 3D assets and said environments, have announced a major partnership to develop a web-based platform that simplifies the creation of immersive 3D scenes for entertainment and industrial use cases. Scheduled

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You can now run the most powerful open source AI models locally on Mac M4 computers, thanks to Exo Labs

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When it comes to generative AI, Apple’s efforts have seemed largely concentrated on mobile — namely Apple Intelligence running on iOS 18, the latest operating system for the iPhone. But as it turns out, the new Apple M4 computer chip — available in the new Mac Mini and Macbook Pro models announced at the end of

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xAI woos developers with $25/month worth of API credits, support for OpenAI, Anthropic SDKs

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More We’ve known it for some time, but now it’s certain: the generative AI race is as much a contest for developers as it is for end-users. Case-in-point: today, Elon Musk’s xAI, the spinoff startup of the social network X that uses its data to train new large language models (LLMs) such as the Grok family, today

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Meta makes its MobileLLM open for researchers, posting full weights

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Meta AI has announced the open-source release of MobileLLM, a set of language models optimized for mobile devices, with model checkpoints and code now accessible on Hugging Face. However, it is presently only available under a Creative Commons 4.0 non-commercial license, meaning enterprises can’t use it on commercial products. Originally described in a research paper published

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Pika 1.5 updates with three new Halloween-themed video AI Pikaffects

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Of all the AI video models out there, arguably the one to see most success among mainstream creators and viewers — those outside the pro and amateur filmmaking community — is Pika. The Palo Alto, California-based startup co-founded by two Stanford AI PhD dropouts Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng and funded to the tune of $135

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AWS launches in-line Q Developer AI coding assistant to take on Microsoft’s Github Copilot

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making its Amazon Q Developer AI assistant available as an add-on developers can access directly at any point of their coding, within their Integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Visual Studio Code and JetBrains, the company announced today in a blog post authored by Jose Yapur, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS.

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OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A pair of researchers at OpenAI has published a paper describing a new type of model — specifically, a new type of continuous-time consistency model (sCM) — that increases the speed at which multimedia including images, video, and audio can be generated by AI by 50 times compared to traditional diffusion models, generating images in nearly

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‘This is a game changer’: Runway releases new AI facial expression motion capture feature Act-One

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI video has come incredibly far in the years since the first models debuted in late 2022, increasing in realism, resolution, fidelity, prompt adherence (how well they match the text prompt or description of the video that the user typed) and number. But one area that remains a limitation to many AI video creators — myself

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