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Diagram shows Minimax H3's process from text prompt input to audiovisual output via a transformer.

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Minimax’s State-of-the-Art Video Model Is Only Minimally Open: Minimax H3's weights are free, but carry unusual restrictions

A free-to-download model sets a new standard for video generation and editing, but its license comes with unexpected restrictions.

Charts show Muse Spark 1.2 scoring lower but more cost-effective, supporting Meta’s low-cost coding model.

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Muse Code Wants Your Data: Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code approach the intelligence frontier at a discount

Meta will cut coding bills from dollars to pennies for developers who let the company learn from their work.

The image depicts a chart of token increases in The Stack v3, emphasizing C++ and HTML's significant growth.

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Fresh Data for Coding Models: Hugging Face updated The Stack, the largest crawl of public GitHub repositories

The biggest open dataset of source code went years without an update.

Graph compares image generation, editing, latency, and price for Nano Banana models against competitors.

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Google Pairs Nano Banana Update With Video API: Gemini's image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) and video (Gemini Omni Flash) models, built to work together

Google built a low-cost, high-throughput pipeline for developers working with media, combining Gemini’s fastest image model yet with a similarly speedy multimodal model that can turn images into video with synchronized sound.

Diagram showing step-by-step image creation process, featuring bears, cats, and birds as examples.

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Planning Generated Images In Stages: Meta improves image models by plotting and revising generations step-by-step

Text-to-image generators that use diffusion or flow-matching typically compose a whole image at once (although they refine the whole image in steps).

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ByteDance Bids for Video Leadership: ByteDance adds state-of-the-art Seedance 2.0 video to Capcut, while OpenAI retreats

As OpenAI prepares to shut down Sora, ByteDance made its own video generation model available to hundreds of millions of users.

Image depicts persona generator creating synthetic personas, with outputs analyzed for diversity metrics.

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Simulating Diverse Human Cohorts: Persona generation simulates human characters across a controllable range of points of view

If you want to understand how the public will respond to your offerings, large language models can simulate users who answer questions about capabilities, features, promotions, or prices.

Diagram showing AI-driven drug discovery process, from lung fibrosis data to molecule generation.

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Big Pharma Bets Big on AI: Pharmaceutical kingpin Eli Lilly gave Insilico $2.75 billion for AI-driven drug development

Generative AI has proven that it can produce text, images, audio, video, and code. The world’s most valuable pharmaceutical company is betting billions that it can produce drugs as well.

GIF showing fluid simulation with patch jittering, followed by predicted vs. actual flows across time steps 0–38.

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How Liquids and Gases Behave: A dynamic fluids model appears to solve transformers’ pixellation problem

Simulating complex physical systems through traditional numerical methods is slow and expensive, and simulations based on machine learning are usually specialized for a specific type of system, such as water in a pipe or atmosphere surrounding a planet.

Text input in Google's Gemini app creates a comical R&B song, showcasing music generation capabilities.

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Gemini’s Music Generator: Google debuted Lyria 3, an app that turns text or images into 30-second songs

Google added a music generator to Gemini and YouTube, putting a model that produces synthetic songs in front of hundreds of millions of users.

A dimly lit studio with an idle camera and an illuminated exit door signaling OpenAI's retreat from video.

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OpenAI Exits Video Generation: OpenAI will shut down Sora, its once state-of-the-art video model

OpenAI plans to shut down its video generator Sora in a sudden retreat from the video market.

A dancing woman morphs into a black cat, then a monkey, and finally a pig under neon hexagon lights, illustrating xAI’s video generator capabilities.

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xAI’s Cost-Effective Video Generator: Grok Imagine 1.0 sharply cuts costs for high-quality video generation

xAI launched a video generator that topped an independent quality ranking at a fraction of competitors’ prices.