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Figure AI Partners with UPS to Deploy Humanoid Robots in Logistics
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Figure AI is said to be partnering with the United Parcel Service to deploy its humanoids in shipping and logistics
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 29 avril 2025
This comes as CEO Brett Adcock takes legal action against Fortune over an article that alleges Figure overstated its robots' capabilitiespic.twitter.com/qY8VVhmuJ4Figure AI is said to be partnering with the United Parcel Service to deploy its humanoids in shipping and logistics This comes as CEO Brett Adcock takes legal action against Fortune over an article that alleges Figure overstated its robots' capabilities
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P-1 AI Launches Archie Engineering Agent with $23M Seed
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San Francisco-based P-1 AI emerged from stealth with $23M in seed funding
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 29 avril 2025
The company is building "Archie," an engineering-focused AI agent aimed at automating cognitive engineering taskspic.twitter.com/BOEVc6fmjgSan Francisco-based P-1 AI emerged from stealth with $23M in seed funding The company is building "Archie," an engineering-focused AI agent aimed at automating cognitive engineering tasks
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Higgsfield AI Launches Iconic Scenes Feature for Movie Recreation
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Higgsfield AI introduced Iconic Scenes! The feature re-creates famous movie scenes with a different subject using just a single selfie from the user Available to try on the Higgsfield AI website https://
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Luma Labs Releases Ray2 Camera Concepts API for Developers
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Luma Labs released Ray2 Camera Concepts in the API
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 29 avril 2025
The move allows developers to integrate the model’s advanced video controls (for cinematic framing and dynamic movement) into their applicationspic.twitter.com/1Ul8z0WmOaLuma Labs released Ray2 Camera Concepts in the API The move allows developers to integrate the model’s advanced video controls (for cinematic framing and dynamic movement) into their applications
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OpenAI Improves ChatGPT Search with Shopping and Citation Features
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OpenAI enhanced ChatGPT Search with new features, including:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 29 avril 2025
—An improved shopping UX with better product suggestions, reviews, and pricing comparisons
—Better citations with highlights
—Trending & autocomplete searches
—Searches via ChatGPT on WhatsApppic.twitter.com/oMWigWedFcOpenAI enhanced ChatGPT Search with new features, including: —An improved shopping UX with better product suggestions, reviews, and pricing comparisons
—Better citations with highlights
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Alibaba Qwen3: Eight Open Models with Advanced Thinking Capabilities
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Alibaba’s Qwen just unveiled Qwen3: a family of eight open models ranging from 600M to 235B params.
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 29 avril 2025
— Flagship version rivals OpenAI o1 & DeepSeek-R1
— Hybrid “thinking” mode in all models
— Boosted coding + agent performance
— Supports 119 languagespic.twitter.com/eM5mw2TjIPAlibaba’s Qwen just unveiled Qwen3: a family of eight open models ranging from 600M to 235B params. — Flagship version rivals OpenAI o1 & DeepSeek-R1
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Alibaba Releases Eight Qwen3 Models Competing with OpenAI
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AI NEWS: Alibaba just dropped eight open-weight Qwen3 models—and they're going head-to-head with the best from OpenAI and DeepSeek. Plus, more news from OpenAI, Luma Labs, Higgsfield AI, P-1 AI, and Figure. Here's everything you need to know:
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Moonshot AI Launches Kimi-Audio Open-Source Universal Audio Model
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Moonshot AI launched Kimi-Audio, a new open-source universal audio model —Supports speech recognition, audio-to-text, and speech-to-speech
—Pre-trained on >13M hrs of audio data
—Exels in 10+ audio benchmarks, including MMAU, VoiceBench, and LibriSpeech