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AI Video Reimagines Iconic Indian Brand Mascots In Real Life, Internet Gets Nostalgic
The project reimagines beloved characters like the Amul Girl, Air India's Maharaja, and Parle-G's biscuit child, bringing them to life in stunning detail using generative AI tools.
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Runway Gen-4 AI Video Generation Model With Improved Character Consistency and Real-World Physics Released
Runway, the video-focused artificial intelligence (AI) firm, introduced a new video generation model on Monday. Dubbed Gen-4, it is an image-to-video generation model which succeeds the company’s Gen-3 Alpha AI model. It comes with several improvements, including consistency in characters, locations, and objects across scenes, as well as controll...
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OpenAI Adds Image Generation Capability to GPT-4o, Can Render Text and Offers Prompt-Based Editing
OpenAI added image generation capability to its existing GPT-4o artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based AI firm released the 4o Image Generation model and integrated it into the GPT-4o. The company said that the focus of this image generator is on usefulness instead of decorativeness. It comes with accurate text rende...
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Character AI Introduces Parental Insights Feature, Provides Information About Teenagers’ In-App Activities
Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, introduced a new safety feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Parental Insights, the feature is aimed at the platform’s users under the age of 18. These users can add a parent or guardian’s email address, and the platform will send them a summary of their teen’s activity.
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Nothing Phone 3a Series' Essential Space Hub Updated With Camera Capture Feature
Nothing is rolling out an update to its AI-powered hub, Essential Space, featured in the newly launched Phone 3a and 3a Pro. The update introduces a Camera Capture feature that allows users to snap photos and extract key details using optical character recognition. Nothing says it plans to roll out more features for Essential Space in the coming mo...
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Mistral Introduces New OCR API That Can Convert PDF Documents Into AI-Ready Format
Mistral introduced the Mistral Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application programming interface (API) on Thursday. The artificial intelligence (AI) model is capable of analysing and processing PDF documents and converting it into an AI-ready text format such as Markdown or raw text file. The tool is capable of extracting data from PDFs to make...
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Character AI Reportedly Testing a New Games Feature, Adds Two Word-Based Games
Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, is reportedly testing a new ‘games’ feature. As per the report, the company has released two word-based games to the paid users of the platform. While users can create game-focused AI characters and play a wide range of story-driven games, these are said to be the first g...
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WhatsApp for Android Could Soon Get an AI Character Creation Feature
WhatsApp for Android is working on an artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users create personalised AI characters within the app, as per a claim by a feature tracker. The new feature is said to be similar to the AI character creation feature available on Instagram and Messenger. The feature tracker claimed that users will be able to ...
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Meta Reportedly Planning to Add ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of AI Users to Facebook, Instagram
Meta reportedly plans to flood its social media platforms with artificial intelligence (AI) bots that will act as regular accounts. As per the report, the tech giant is working on introducing AI-powered characters that can post, share, like, and perform other activities that human users can do. These AI bots are said to be added to both Facebook an...
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Genesis Open-Source AI Physics Engine Introduced, Can Generate 4D Dynamic Worlds to Train Robots
Genesis, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) physics model that can simulate four-dimensional (4D) worlds, was unveiled on Thursday. This is a unique AI model, as it combines several different capabilities to simulate scenarios for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications. The researchers behind the project claimed that Genesis e...
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Girl Murdered In 2006 Was Revived As AI Character, Leaving Family Horrified
The profile featured Jennifer's full name and a yearbook photo, accompanied by a fabricated biography.
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US Teen Fell In Love With "Game Of Thrones" Chatbot, Killed Self: Mother
14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, a Florida boy, would chat with his online friend, Daenerys Targaryen, a lifelike AI chatbot named after a character from Game of Thrones.
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Runway Act-One With AI-Powered Facial Expression Capture Capability Added to Gen-3 Alpha Model
Runway AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm focusing on video generation models, announced a new feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Act-One, the new capability is available within the company’s latest Gen-3 Alpha large language model (LLM) and is said to accurately capture facial expressions from a source video and then reproduce them on an AI-genera...
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Google Paid $2.7 Billion To Rehire AI Genius To Co-Lead Gemini: Report
Google re-hired its long-time researcher, Naom Shazeer, to co-lead its AI models in a $2.7 billion deal, the Wall Street Journal reported. Mr Shazeer quit Google in 2021 after being a part of the company for 21 years.
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AI Chatbot Startup Character.AI Lays Off At Least 5% Of Its Staff: Report
Chatbot startup Character.AI laid off at least 5% of its staff, The Information reported on Thursday, citing a person briefed by company leaders.
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AI Video Reimagines Iconic Indian Brand Mascots In Real Life, Internet Gets Nostalgic
The project reimagines beloved characters like the Amul Girl, Air India's Maharaja, and Parle-G's biscuit child, bringing them to life in stunning detail using generative AI tools.
-
Runway Gen-4 AI Video Generation Model With Improved Character Consistency and Real-World Physics Released
Runway, the video-focused artificial intelligence (AI) firm, introduced a new video generation model on Monday. Dubbed Gen-4, it is an image-to-video generation model which succeeds the company’s Gen-3 Alpha AI model. It comes with several improvements, including consistency in characters, locations, and objects across scenes, as well as controll...
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OpenAI Adds Image Generation Capability to GPT-4o, Can Render Text and Offers Prompt-Based Editing
OpenAI added image generation capability to its existing GPT-4o artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based AI firm released the 4o Image Generation model and integrated it into the GPT-4o. The company said that the focus of this image generator is on usefulness instead of decorativeness. It comes with accurate text rende...
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Character AI Introduces Parental Insights Feature, Provides Information About Teenagers’ In-App Activities
Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, introduced a new safety feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Parental Insights, the feature is aimed at the platform’s users under the age of 18. These users can add a parent or guardian’s email address, and the platform will send them a summary of their teen’s activity.
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Nothing Phone 3a Series' Essential Space Hub Updated With Camera Capture Feature
Nothing is rolling out an update to its AI-powered hub, Essential Space, featured in the newly launched Phone 3a and 3a Pro. The update introduces a Camera Capture feature that allows users to snap photos and extract key details using optical character recognition. Nothing says it plans to roll out more features for Essential Space in the coming mo...
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Mistral Introduces New OCR API That Can Convert PDF Documents Into AI-Ready Format
Mistral introduced the Mistral Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application programming interface (API) on Thursday. The artificial intelligence (AI) model is capable of analysing and processing PDF documents and converting it into an AI-ready text format such as Markdown or raw text file. The tool is capable of extracting data from PDFs to make...
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Character AI Reportedly Testing a New Games Feature, Adds Two Word-Based Games
Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, is reportedly testing a new ‘games’ feature. As per the report, the company has released two word-based games to the paid users of the platform. While users can create game-focused AI characters and play a wide range of story-driven games, these are said to be the first g...
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WhatsApp for Android Could Soon Get an AI Character Creation Feature
WhatsApp for Android is working on an artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users create personalised AI characters within the app, as per a claim by a feature tracker. The new feature is said to be similar to the AI character creation feature available on Instagram and Messenger. The feature tracker claimed that users will be able to ...
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Meta Reportedly Planning to Add ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of AI Users to Facebook, Instagram
Meta reportedly plans to flood its social media platforms with artificial intelligence (AI) bots that will act as regular accounts. As per the report, the tech giant is working on introducing AI-powered characters that can post, share, like, and perform other activities that human users can do. These AI bots are said to be added to both Facebook an...
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Genesis Open-Source AI Physics Engine Introduced, Can Generate 4D Dynamic Worlds to Train Robots
Genesis, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) physics model that can simulate four-dimensional (4D) worlds, was unveiled on Thursday. This is a unique AI model, as it combines several different capabilities to simulate scenarios for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications. The researchers behind the project claimed that Genesis e...
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Girl Murdered In 2006 Was Revived As AI Character, Leaving Family Horrified
The profile featured Jennifer's full name and a yearbook photo, accompanied by a fabricated biography.
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US Teen Fell In Love With "Game Of Thrones" Chatbot, Killed Self: Mother
14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, a Florida boy, would chat with his online friend, Daenerys Targaryen, a lifelike AI chatbot named after a character from Game of Thrones.
-
Runway Act-One With AI-Powered Facial Expression Capture Capability Added to Gen-3 Alpha Model
Runway AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm focusing on video generation models, announced a new feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Act-One, the new capability is available within the company’s latest Gen-3 Alpha large language model (LLM) and is said to accurately capture facial expressions from a source video and then reproduce them on an AI-genera...
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Google Paid $2.7 Billion To Rehire AI Genius To Co-Lead Gemini: Report
Google re-hired its long-time researcher, Naom Shazeer, to co-lead its AI models in a $2.7 billion deal, the Wall Street Journal reported. Mr Shazeer quit Google in 2021 after being a part of the company for 21 years.
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AI Chatbot Startup Character.AI Lays Off At Least 5% Of Its Staff: Report
Chatbot startup Character.AI laid off at least 5% of its staff, The Information reported on Thursday, citing a person briefed by company leaders.
