Sora

Beyond Our Reality · Made by Don Allen Stevenson with Sora – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObUBUKOn-bo 

Sora: first impressions – https://openai.com/blog/sora-first-impressions 

“‘air head’ is one of the first short films made using #Sora by @OpenAI. the response so far has left us floating.🎈  https://twitter.com/shykids/status/1772347121296883981

“Sora compute estimates from Factorial Funds: Large-scale deployment: 720K H100s Training: 4.2K – 10.5K H100s for 1 month Inference: on a single H100, it would take 12 mins to generate a 1 min video. Comment for link to the detailed breakdown  https://twitter.com/chiefaioffice/status/1772346544336822485

HeyGen

“[NEW] — Avatar in Motion 1.0🏃‍♂️✨ Move your hands, make gestures, use unique tones of voice, and HeyGen will flawlessly track, translate, and lip-sync your video with any input text. Can’t believe it? 👇Comment a script for what we should make Nik say & we’ll post the video!  https://twitter.com/HeyGen_Official/status/1773119891068883240

Pika

The Rest of Video News

Arcads – Create engaging video ads using AI – https://www.arcads.ai/ 
“”This is the deepfake version of Zuck! Some people say my AI version is less robotic than the real me, but I’m not ok with that!” The deepfake version says the original is less robotic than the original one. This is “meta” 🤣  https://twitter.com/BrivaelLp/status/1772675476818993194

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Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #25: Week Ending 03/22/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 55 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/

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