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AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley | Andreessen Horowitz https://a16z.com/ai-avatars/
“Gen-4 Turbo is now available in our API. Same price as Gen-3, 10x the results” / X https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1909976566987161785
“Introducing Mocha ✨ We’re incredibly excited to launch the absolute best way to build full-stack web apps. No code. No templates. Just describe what you want and watch it come to life. https://x.com/nichochar/status/1906748998322655529
Our vision for accelerating creativity and productivity with agentic AI | Adobe Blog https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2025/04/09/our-vision-for-accelerating-creativity-productivity-with-agentic-ai
“Krea AI just raised $83M in funding from Bain Capital Ventures and others The startup is building a unified browser-based platform that brings together tools to generate, edit, and customize AI-generated images and videos https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1909496835908960312
Krea raises $83M to be the one-stop shop for GenAI creatives | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/kreas-founders-snubbed-postgrad-grants-from-the-king-of-spain-to-build-their-ai-startup-now-its-valued-at-500m/
How Sphere’s new ‘The Wizard of Oz’ experience is coming to life with AI https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/sphere-wizard-of-oz/
Amazon Nova Reel 1.1: Featuring up to 2-minutes multi-shot videos | AWS News Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-nova-reel-1-1-featuring-up-to-2-minutes-multi-shot-videos/
“Amazon also dropped an upgraded Nova Reel 1.1 video model —Delivers improved quality, style consistency —Extends generations to 2 min via automated and manual, shot-by-shot modes —Also available on Amazon Bedrock https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1909845033877901456
Investing in Krea | Andreessen Horowitz https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-krea/
“@AgentOpsAI 9/ Train Video Foundation Models at Scale Hosted by: Ersin Yumer, Sr. Director of AI/ML Platform and Data, Adobe Deep dive into how generative AI is being used to train foundation models at scale. https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1907898363313565814
One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training https://test-time-training.github.io/video-dit/
“Runway released Gen4, its next-gen video generation model It produces 5-10 second videos at 1080p with strong consistency in characters, objects, and locations, and world understanding Also delivers better prompt adherence than Gen3 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1908913485800431653
Hugging Face and Cloudflare Partner to Make Real-Time Speech and Video Seamless with FastRTC https://huggingface.co/blog/fastrtc-cloudflare
GitHub – ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Thinking-v1.5 https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Thinking-v1.5/tree/main
“Runway released Gen-4 Turbo, a faster version of its new AI video model It can produce 10-second videos in just 30 seconds. Now rolling out across all plans, including the free ‘Basic’ tier with 125 one-time credits. https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1909496768473014408
Topaz-Video-Upscale – Poe https://poe.com/Topaz-Video-Upscale
“Today we’re introducing Gen-4 Turbo. The fastest way to generate with our most powerful video model yet. With Gen-4 Turbo it now takes just 30 seconds to generate a 10 second video, making it ideal for rapid iteration and creative exploration. Now rolling out across all plans. https://x.com/runwayml/status/1909302613192876102
“Implemented Tiktok style video in a relationship and family counseling platform I’m building with a friend. I built the entire multi-page features within 6 hours using AI without writing any single line of code. Built with @v0 https://x.com/enyosaam/status/1907387476055822351
“ByteDance is cooking Seed-Thinking-v1.5: 20B activated and 200B total parameters https://x.com/scaling01/status/1910391160394207452
“Generate videos, edit them, and add visual effects with Veo 2. ✨ In #VertexAI, you can: 🎥 Refine and enhance existing footage 🎥 Direct shot composition, camera angles, and pacing 🎥 Create connecting frames between two existing assets https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1910009257405133179
“Runway Gen 4 (below) is a big step up for the Runway models, but I think Veo 2 is still the winner for best video now. This is using the same prompt: “golden retriever running through a brutalist art gallery with modern art on the walls as a single red balloon floats overhead” https://x.com/emollick/status/1908008991357079813
“Google getting ready to ship: Veo-2 Gemini 2.0 Flash live (audio/video chat) Gemini 2.5 Flash preview” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1909904138013417878
