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Las Vegas Sphere Delivers Dazzling Displays | NVIDIA Blog

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/sphere-las-vegas

Google 

Announcing Google Vids – Google Docs Editors Community

https://support.google.com/docs/thread/285509455?hl=en

YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI radio in testing

YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI ‘conversational radio’ in testing 

OpenAI (Sora)

“OpenAI SORA new video example. Sora is far from being released to general user : As per OpenAI, they are continuing to slowly expand Sora testing to more creatives user only to help them understand the model’s capabilities and limitations, to create safe AI systems over time. 

OpenAI SORA new video example.

Sora is far from being released to general user : As per OpenAI, they are continuing to slowly expand Sora testing to more creatives user only to help them understand the model's capabilities and limitations, to create safe AI systems over time.… pic.twitter.com/UwR8eYaspD

— AshutoshShrivastava (@ai_for_success) July 16, 2024

Tammy Lovin · Sora Showcase – YouTube

Runway

Mixing AI Music (Suno) and AI video (Runway) : r/aiwars

Mixing AI Music (Suno) and AI video (Runway)
byu/Endlesstavernstiktok inaiwars

“I’ve been having a lot of fun playing around with text-to-video @runwayml. Some pretty off-the-wall things are possible. 

I've been having a lot of fun playing around with text-to-video @runwayml. Some pretty off-the-wall things are possible. pic.twitter.com/pRKXDfoXBj

— Robyn Miller (@tinselman) July 17, 2024

The Rest of Video News

“Odyssey emerged from stealth with a ‘Hollywood-grade’ AI video generation platform The startup is developing four specialized AI video models aimed at revolutionizing visual effects and storytelling capabilities 

Odyssey emerged from stealth with a ‘Hollywood-grade’ AI video generation platform

The startup is developing four specialized AI video models aimed at revolutionizing visual effects and storytelling capabilitiespic.twitter.com/oUBFfMOJwP

— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) July 15, 2024

The future belongs to the dreamers

Introducing Odyssey, Hollywood-grade visual AI

https://odyssey.systems

“I’m excited to share @odysseyml, my new thing! 🍿 We’re building Hollywood-grade visual AI, where beautiful scenery, characters, lighting, and motion can be both generated and directed. Our mission is to deliver a better way to create movies, TV shows, and video games.”
https://twitter.com/olivercameron/status/1810335663197413406 

“Another day, another new AI video generator. Haiper 1.5 can generate up to 8 seconds of high-quality video and also has an upscaler that can turn generations HD. This one is also 100% free to try (link below) 

Another day, another new AI video generator.

Haiper 1.5 can generate up to 8 seconds of high-quality video and also has an upscaler that can turn generations HD.

This one is also 100% free to try (link below) pic.twitter.com/lGCUz9Gnsd

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) July 16, 2024

Animating images of lost loved ones to give virtual hugs

“AI的魅力 复活亲人相聚 两张照片，设置好首帧和尾帧，然后使用提示词控制 AI自动帮你脑补画面… https://x.com/imxiaohu/status/1811323670398452007

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AI News #42: Week Ending 07/19/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 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

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• 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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