Machine Learning Research
Better Images Through Reasoning: HunyuanImage-3.0 uses reinforcement learning and thinking tokens to better understand prompts
A new image generator reasons over prompts to produce outstanding pictures.
Generative AI
Business
AI Music With Major-Label Support: Universal Music Group and music generator Udio struck a deal to settle a lawsuit and build a new platform to remix copyrighted music
Music-generation service Udio will build an AI streaming platform in collaboration with the world’s biggest record label.
Business
OpenAI, Meta Diversify AI Product Lines: OpenAI and Meta launch social video apps while ChatGPT adds Pulse and Instant Checkout
OpenAI and Meta, which have been content to offer standalone chatbots or tuck them into existing products, introduced dueling social video networks and other initiatives designed to boost revenue and engagement.
Business
Generating Music, Paying Musicians: Sweden’s STIM built an ecosystem for training AI models on copyrighted music and compensating original artists
A Swedish organization that collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and record companies has formed a technology-legal-business ecosystem designed to allow AI developers to use music legally while compensating publishers of recordings and compositions.
Machine Learning Research
AI Generates Viral Genomes: Researchers use genomic language models to create custom viruses
Researchers used AI models to create novel viruses from scratch.
Machine Learning Research
Mixture of Video Experts: Alibaba’s Wan 2.2 video models adopt a new architecture to sort noisy from less-noisy inputs
The mixture-of-experts approach that has boosted the performance of large language models may do the same for video generation.
Business
AI Video Goes Mainstream: Meta, Google, and other giants slice up text-to-video
Generated video clips are capturing eyeballs in viral videos, ad campaigns, and a Netflix show.
Machine Learning Research
Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile: Apple updates its on-device and cloud AI models, introduces a new developer API
Apple revamped two vision-language models in a bid to catch up with fast-moving competitors.
Business
Hollywood Joins AI Copyright Fight: Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging the image generator violates their intellectual property rights
Hollywood studios joined the record companies, publishers, and artists in the fight against companies that have trained AI models on their copyrighted works.
Machine Learning Research
More Consistent Characters and Styles: Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX.1 Kontext for Generating and Alterating Images with Consistent Details
Same character, new background, new action. That’s the focus of the latest text-to-image models from Germany’s Black Forest Labs.
Business
Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages
AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.
Machine Learning Research
Music Generation for Pros: Google upgrades its AI music tools for professional use
Google refreshed its experimental tools for composers and producers.