Perplexity just partnered with Indian telecom company Airtel to offer its Pro subscription for free The move gives 360M Indians instant access to Perplexity Pro for a year It will be a big boost for Perplexity's user base
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Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Search Updates
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Google dropped new updates for AI Mode in Search:
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 17 juillet 2025
—Gemini 2.5 Pro support to help with complex questions
—Deep Search to save hours of research
—AI-powered calling to local businesses for pricing and availability details, currently in the U.S.pic.twitter.com/dcEQK9erGFGoogle dropped new updates for AI Mode in Search: —Gemini 2.5 Pro support to help with complex questions
—Deep Search to save hours of research
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Lightricks LTXV Model Now Supports 60-Second Video Generation
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Lightricks just updated its image-to-video LTXV model to support 60s generations
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 17 juillet 2025
It streams video live, returning the first second instantly while building scenes continuously
Also includes controls to adjust poses, depth, and style for scene evolutionpic.twitter.com/arLipY41BELightricks just updated its image-to-video LTXV model to support 60s generations It streams video live, returning the first second instantly while building scenes continuously Also includes controls to adjust poses, depth, and style for scene evolution
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Lightricks AI generates full 60-second videos, latest tech news
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AI NEWS: Lightricks just dropped an AI that generates FULL 60-second videos, streaming content second-by-second Plus, more news from Google, Perplexity, Microsoft, AWS, and MiniMax Here's everything you need to know:
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AI Product Launches, Tools, and Job Opportunities This Week
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Top stories in AI today: – Thinking Machine Labs nears product launch
– Runway's Act-Two for AI motion capture
– Automate personalized sales outreach at scale
– AI leaders unite on reasoning transparency
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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Orchids AI Platform Raises $2M for Website Creation
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AI website/app maker orchids announced $2M in seed funding The startup's product can not only create and deploy a design agency-quality website but also clone existing websites with high accuracy https://
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Willow Secures $4.2M Seed Funding for Voice-First AI Interface
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Willow announced $4.2M in a seed round, led by Box Group and others
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 16 juillet 2025
The company is building an AI-powered voice-first interface to enable computing devices to understand user intent, tone, and context, and take relevant actionspic.twitter.com/iXxDl8H76VWillow announced $4.2M in a seed round, led by Box Group and others The company is building an AI-powered voice-first interface to enable computing devices to understand user intent, tone, and context, and take relevant actions
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Runway Launches Act-Two Motion Capture Animation Model
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Runway introduced Act-Two, its next-gen motion capture model
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 16 juillet 2025
It translates single performance videos into fully animated characters with head, face, body, and hand tracking across artistic styles and outputspic.twitter.com/Zn3tzlCbk2Runway introduced Act-Two, its next-gen motion capture model It translates single performance videos into fully animated characters with head, face, body, and hand tracking across artistic styles and outputs
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Mistral Launches Voxtral 24B and 3B Speech Models
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Mistral dropped Voxtral 24B and 3B speech understanding models The low-cost, open-source model family combines transcription with native Q&A capabilities and matches or outperforms models from ElevenLabs, Google, and OpenAI Available under Apache 2.0
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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2B for Multimodal AI
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Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab just announced a $2B raise with plans to share its first product in a “couple of months.” She said the co is building multimodal AI with a major open source component for teams developing custom models