Topic: video generation
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OpenAI's Sora Video Model & iOS App Now Available
OpenAI has launched the Sora iOS app in an invite-only rollout for the U.S. and Canada, marking its first consumer app beyond ChatGPT and featuring the Sora 2 model for generating videos with synchronized audio. The app emphasizes creation over passive consumption, offering collaborative tools li...
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Animate Your Photos for Free with Google Photos' Veo 3
Google Photos now offers a free feature in the U.S. that uses Veo 3 to animate still images into four-second videos, with options for subtle movements or random effects. Veo 3 provides improved resolution and visual quality over its predecessor, enhancing Google's integration of AI video tools fo...
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AI Photo to 3D World: Explore Your Images Like Never Before
Tencent's HunyuanWorld-Voyager is an AI model that generates immersive, navigable 3D-like video sequences from a single still image, eliminating the need for traditional 3D modeling. The system produces 2D video frames with depth information to simulate camera movement, creating up to two-second ...
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Lemon Slice Raises $10.5M to Advance Digital Avatar Tech
Lemon Slice, a startup, has secured $10.5 million in seed funding to develop realistic, interactive video avatars for applications like customer service and education, moving beyond static text chatbots. The company's core technology is a proprietary 20-billion-parameter diffusion model that can ...
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Unlock More AI Videos: Sora's New Premium Plan
OpenAI has introduced a paid credit system for Sora, allowing users to purchase additional video generations beyond the free daily limits, addressing sustainability concerns. Pricing for extra credits starts at $4 for ten videos, with the cost varying by video specifications, and purchased credit...
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Google's AI Video Tool Now Available in Workspace
Google has expanded access to its AI video platform, Flow, from premium tiers to include Business, Enterprise, and Education Workspace users, integrating it into its broader productivity ecosystem. The platform uses the Veo 3.1 model to generate video clips from text or images and offers advanced...
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D-ID Acquires Simpleshow to Expand AI Video Capabilities
D-ID has acquired Simpleshow to enhance its AI video solutions and expand its market presence, particularly in enterprise avatar videos. The acquisition integrates Simpleshow's 1,500+ enterprise clients, including major names like Microsoft and Adobe, boosting D-ID's revenue and growth potential....
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OpenAI's Sora Adds Reusable Characters and Video Stitching
OpenAI's Sora update introduces reusable character avatars and enhanced video editing, enabling more personalized and complex content creation beyond simple video generation. The platform allows users to create persistent digital personas from various sources, including pets and objects, with ind...
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Runway's GWM-1 "World Models" Signal Ambitions Beyond Hollywood
Runway has launched its first "world model" suite, GWM-1, expanding beyond video generation to create interactive, simulated environments for fields like entertainment and robotics. The GWM-1 suite consists of three specialized models built on its existing video technology, with the first, GWM Wo...
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OpenAI Launches Sora: A TikTok Rival with New AI Model
OpenAI has launched Sora 2, an advanced AI model for generating audio and video, and a social media app that allows users to create and share personalized videos in a feed similar to short-form video services. Sora 2 improves upon previous models by simulating accurate physics to produce more rea...
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Google Ads Editor 2.11: Campaign Negatives & Smarter Automation
Google Ads Editor 2.11 introduces campaign-level negative keywords for Performance Max campaigns, allowing advertisers to block irrelevant search queries and reduce wasted ad spend. The update enhances transparency with a Performance Max search term report and streamlines account management throu...
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OpenAI Launches More Powerful AI Models for Developers
OpenAI introduced new AI models including GPT-5 Pro for high-accuracy sectors, Sora 2 for advanced video generation, and a cost-effective voice model to expand its developer ecosystem. The Sora 2 video model offers enhanced realism, synchronized audio, and greater creative control, allowing devel...
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Nvidia's New GPU Supercharges Long-Context AI Inference
Nvidia has introduced the Rubin CPX GPU, designed to handle AI context windows exceeding one million tokens for more advanced generative tasks like video synthesis and code generation. The GPU is part of Nvidia's Rubin platform, focusing on disaggregated inference to efficiently scale AI workload...
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My Kid's Toy Recreated Google's Gemini Ad (I Regret It)
The Google Gemini ad presents a seamless AI experience for replacing a lost toy, but in reality, the tool's shopping assistance was inefficient, producing a long, confused internal monologue and failing to definitively identify the specific plush. While Gemini's image generation can create decent...
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Hero's New SDK Automates Your AI Prompts
Many users struggle with writing effective AI prompts, leading to the emergence of specialized roles like prompt engineers and the integration of user-friendly features such as auto-generated recommendations in consumer applications. Hero, a startup founded by ex-Meta employees, has developed an ...
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Meta's New AI Tools Use Your Chats to Personalize Ads
Meta has launched a free Business AI agent to help small and medium businesses automate sales support and product recommendations across its platforms, aiming to streamline the customer purchase process. Starting December 16, Meta will use conversations with its AI chatbot to personalize ads and ...
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Google One's AI Premium Plan Launches in US for $7.99
Google has launched a new AI Premium subscription in the U.S. and over 35 countries for $7.99/month, offering AI tools and 200 GB of shared storage as a more accessible tier. The plan provides enhanced access to AI models like Gemini 3 Pro and creative tools in apps like Flow AI, plus integration...
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Schedule Meetings in Gmail with Gemini AI
Google has launched "Help Me Schedule" in Gmail, using Gemini AI to detect meeting scheduling intent in emails and suggest available time slots to recipients. The feature activates via a button in the email toolbar, scans your calendar and email context to propose suitable times, and embeds an in...
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Gemini App Now Supports Audio Files: Listen & Analyze
Google's Gemini app now supports audio file uploads, allowing users to analyze and interact with audio clips, with tier-based limits on duration and prompts. Google Search has expanded its AI Mode to five new languages, enabling more users to perform complex searches and navigate results in their...
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Google's New Transparency on Gemini App Usage Limits
Google has set specific daily usage limits for its Gemini Apps, with free users allowed five prompts per day on Gemini 2.5 Pro and paid tiers offering significantly higher allowances. The limits vary by subscription level, covering prompts, image generation, Deep Research, and context windows, wi...
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Perplexity Acquires AI Design Startup Visual Electric's Team
Perplexity has acquired the team from AI design startup Visual Electric to form a new Agent Experiences group, enhancing its AI capabilities and expanding product development. The acquisition, led by CEO Aravind Srinivas, will focus on creating innovative consumer product experiences for Perplexi...
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Gemini Nano: Enterprise Image Editing Gets a Major Boost
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is a new AI model that enables precise image edits while preserving the original subject's integrity, addressing issues of unwanted alterations in earlier tools. It offers advanced features like modifying backgrounds and adding accessories without compromising likeness, whi...
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