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AI Demonstrates Creative Capabilities Challenging Previous Assumptions
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And they said AI can’t be creative
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Recraft Launches Advanced Style Controls for AI Design Platform
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AI design startup Recraft added Advanced Style Controls to its platform
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
The offering allows users to mix the look and feel of ready-to-use styles with their own images
It saves the hassle of reworking images time and again to ensure style consistencypic.twitter.com/T2g6b09cr7AI design startup Recraft added Advanced Style Controls to its platform The offering allows users to mix the look and feel of ready-to-use styles with their own images It saves the hassle of reworking images time and again to ensure style consistency
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Ace Studio Launches ACE-Step v1: Ultra-Fast Open-Source Music Generation
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Ace Studio dropped ACE-Step v1-3.5B, an ultra-fast, open-source music generation model
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
It can generate 4 minutes of music in 20s (15× faster than LLMs) with support for several genres and structure controlpic.twitter.com/NCrDtOlubFAce Studio dropped ACE-Step v1-3.5B, an ultra-fast, open-source music generation model It can generate 4 minutes of music in 20s (15× faster than LLMs) with support for several genres and structure control
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FutureHouse Launches Finch, AI Agent for Biology Discovery
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt-backed FutureHouse released Finch, an AI agent for discovery in biology
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
Currently in beta, Finch can do open-ended and directed data analysis
It joins FutureHouse's four previously announced 'superintelligent' AI agentspic.twitter.com/8sr62iRxWUFormer Google CEO Eric Schmidt-backed FutureHouse released Finch, an AI agent for discovery in biology Currently in beta, Finch can do open-ended and directed data analysis It joins FutureHouse's four previously announced 'superintelligent' AI agents
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Windsurf Wave 8 Update: Enterprise Features for Teams
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AI coding platform Windsurf launched its Wave 8 update, focusing on enterprise and teams with:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
—GitHub app to review PRs and edit titles
—Docs-connected context awareness engine
—Cascade conversation sharing
—Team deploys
—Refreshed analyticspic.twitter.com/xnyPzt1ifVAI coding platform Windsurf launched its Wave 8 update, focusing on enterprise and teams with: —GitHub app to review PRs and edit titles
—Docs-connected context awareness engine
—Cascade conversation sharing
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Lighttricks Releases LTXV-13B Open-Source Video Generation AI
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Lighttricks released LTXV-13B, an open-source AI for video generation
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
—Multiscale rendering for creating smoother content, 30x faster
—Can run on consumer GPUs
—Includes camera motion control, keyframe editing, and multi-shot sequencingpic.twitter.com/2AhuRIlBUZLighttricks released LTXV-13B, an open-source AI for video generation —Multiscale rendering for creating smoother content, 30x faster
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HeyGen Launches Avatar IV for Expressive AI Animations
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HeyGen dropped Avatar IV, an AI for expressive animations
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
With one photo and voice script, its audio to expression engine captures tone, rhythm, and emotion to generate facial motion
Also supports different subjects, camera shots, and formatspic.twitter.com/IyLo5uhcGDHeyGen dropped Avatar IV, an AI for expressive animations With one photo and voice script, its audio to expression engine captures tone, rhythm, and emotion to generate facial motion Also supports different subjects, camera shots, and formats