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HeyGen

HeyGen Raises $60M Series A to Scale Visual Storytelling for Businesses | HeyGen Blog

https://www.heygen.com/article/announcing-our-series-a

Luma

“Kung Fu Cats @LumaLabsAI 

Kung Fu Cats @LumaLabsAI pic.twitter.com/gbtWukb9qs

— Eclectic Method ♻️ (@EclecticMethod) June 16, 2024

“Luma Dream machine generations showreel, many clips from my midjourney project folders animated by Luma along with some of its text to video gens, Music made in Udio by me, Track name: Urban Echos. Sound effects from Capcut. Thanks to @Kyrannio for running some of the images 

Luma Dream machine generations showreel, many clips from my midjourney project folders animated by Luma along with some of its text to video gens, Music made in Udio by me, Track name: Urban Echos.
Sound effects from Capcut.
Thanks to @Kyrannio for running some of the images… pic.twitter.com/P2e5uzdSmB

— Stevie Mac (@StevieMac03) June 23, 2024

Runway

“Thank you @runwayml for early access to Gen-3! I’ve only had it for an hour and it’s amazing! Here’s a test… 

Thank you @runwayml for early access to Gen-3! I've only had it for an hour and it's amazing! Here's a test… pic.twitter.com/xoA3eXxKm3

— AiMacaroni (@AiMacaroni) June 28, 2024

“Scientist unknowingly destroys the fabric of time. @runwayml GEN-3 

Scientist unknowingly destroys the fabric of time.@runwayml GEN-3 pic.twitter.com/DcMPxq2sU6

— Aze Λlter (@AzeAlter) June 28, 2024

“Runway Gen-3 has serious range. Pretty wild what you can do with text-to-video. I usually prefer image-to-video and video-to-video AI to exert greater control, but this has me stoked. 

Runway Gen-3 has serious range.

Pretty wild what you can do with text-to-video.

I usually prefer image-to-video and video-to-video AI to exert greater control, but this has me stoked. pic.twitter.com/6ZdFjGtTQx

— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) June 29, 2024

“Yep, gen-3 is dope. Spent time with access to Runway’s alpha. A few of my fave generations + observations 🧵 

Yep, gen-3 is dope.

Spent time with access to Runway's alpha.

A few of my fave generations + observations 🧵 pic.twitter.com/zHYF4LUDIS

— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) June 29, 2024

“More than 15 hours since Runway Gen-3 model is out. Creators are dropping wild videos like ripe pears. Check 11 of them:” / X

More than 15 hours since Runway Gen-3 model is out.

Creators are dropping wild videos like ripe pears.

Check 11 of them:

— Borriss (@_Borriss_) June 29, 2024

The Rest of Video News

Toys “R” Us riles critics with “first-ever” AI-generated commercial using Sora | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/toys-r-us-riles-critics-with-first-ever-ai-generated-commercial-using-sora

“Creative Style Transfer by @GoEnhance AI  https://x.com/Nanxi0914/status/1806236346027327727

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

AI News #39: Week Ending 06/28/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 67 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
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Safe Intelligence, Inc.
• 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/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
• Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
• Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
• Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
• Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
• Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
• Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett

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