Tinder dropped "The Game Game," a speech-to-speech experience to help people practice flirting skills Users talk to OpenAI-powered personas, which offer immediate feedback on charm, engagement, and social awareness Only limited to 5 sessions daily!
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Meta’s MoCha generates movie-grade character animations from speech text
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Meta just announced MoCha, an AI model that produces movie-grade talking/singing character animations from speech and text
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 2 avril 2025
It even enables multi-character conversations with turn-based dialogue generationpic.twitter.com/roKR16uxI5Meta just announced MoCha, an AI model that produces movie-grade talking/singing character animations from speech and text It even enables multi-character conversations with turn-based dialogue generation
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OpenAI Reaches 20M Paid Users, $5B Annual Revenue
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OpenAI has just hit 20M paid users and is clocking $415M in monthly revenue—with an ARR of $5B
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 2 avril 2025
This comes on the back of $40B funding and the booming demand for ChatGPT and its viral image generation capabilities (now accessible to all free users)!pic.twitter.com/lP7oocU6IwOpenAI has just hit 20M paid users and is clocking $415M in monthly revenue—with an ARR of $5B This comes on the back of $40B funding and the booming demand for ChatGPT and its viral image generation capabilities (now accessible to all free users)!
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AI Therapy Chatbot Matches Human Mental Health Professionals
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Dartmouth researchers developed an AI therapy chatbot and found it matches actual mental health professionals! The bot achieved a 51% and 31% reduction in depression and anxiety, taking less time than human therapists Many also formed bonds with it!
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AI Achieves Gold-Standard Therapy Results Like Professionals
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TODAY'S AI NEWS: AI is now providing ‘gold-standard’ therapy, much like professionals Plus, more news from OpenAI, Meta, Tinder, and MiniMax. Here's everything you need to know:
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Agility Raises $400M for Humanoid Robot Digit Development
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Oregon-based robotics company Agility is said to be raising $400M at a pre-money valuation of $1.75B
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 1 avril 2025
The company is building Digit, a humanoid for commercial operations, much like Figure.
And it's led by former Microsoft executive Peggy Johnsonpic.twitter.com/XJDDfIbwIAOregon-based robotics company Agility is said to be raising $400M at a pre-money valuation of $1.75B The company is building Digit, a humanoid for commercial operations, much like Figure. And it's led by former Microsoft executive Peggy Johnson
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Isomorphic Labs raises $600M for AI drug design
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Alphabet's spinoff Isomorphic Labs, which is behind AlphaFold, raised $600M
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 1 avril 2025
OpenAI investor Thrive Capital led the investment, with Alphabet and its venture arm, GV, in participation
The funding will help the startup develop its AI drug design engine!pic.twitter.com/Ety2uzkNXwAlphabet's spinoff Isomorphic Labs, which is behind AlphaFold, raised $600M OpenAI investor Thrive Capital led the investment, with Alphabet and its venture arm, GV, in participation The funding will help the startup develop its AI drug design engine!
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Amazon Nova Act AI Agent Beats Claude Sonnet OpenAI
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Amazon AGI Labs unveiled Nova Act, an AI agent system that can control browsers to perform tasks
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 1 avril 2025
— Beats Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s CUA on reliability
—Will power Amazon's next-gen Alexa+
— Also includes an SDK to build custom browser agentspic.twitter.com/a6xK6N7ExbAmazon AGI Labs unveiled Nova Act, an AI agent system that can control browsers to perform tasks — Beats Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s CUA on reliability
—Will power Amazon's next-gen Alexa+
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OpenAI to Release First Open-Weights Model Since GPT-2
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also shared that they will release a new open-weights model in the coming months It will be the first since GPT-2 and made "maximally useful" in line with developer inputs from upcoming events A big move!
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OpenAI raises $40B at $300B valuation in historic funding round
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OpenAI raised $40B at a post-money valuation of $300B—the largest private tech deal in history SoftBank led the round, with Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive in participation The capital will help OAI scale compute and further push AI research