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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Orchids AI Platform Raises $2M for Website Creation
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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
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Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s AI Startup Unveils First Product
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AI NEWS: Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s secretive AI startup is FINALLY set to unveil its first product Plus, more news from Mistral, Runway, Willow, and orchids. Here's everything you need to know:
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Google Offers Free Gemini Pro Plan for Indian Students
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Exciting news for students in India🇮🇳: get your free @GeminiApp Pro plan for 1 year! This gives you higher rate access to all our best models: 2.5 Pro, Veo 3, Deep Research, NotebookLM, and 2TB storage.
— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) 16 juillet 2025
Claim it at https://t.co/m13pTpxOu7 – enjoy! https://t.co/BZJWkBGNgTExciting news for students in India: get your free @GeminiApp Pro plan for 1 year! This gives you higher rate access to all our best models: 2.5 Pro, Veo 3, Deep Research, NotebookLM, and 2TB storage. Claim it at http://
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Celebrating OpenAI API’s 5th Anniversary and the Future of AI Agents
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A little something for my French-speaking followers this Bastille Day week Loved talking with @SebCouasnon on his podcast Tech 45’ about the 5th anniversary of the @OpenAI API, the quiet engine behind the AI startup boom, and where we’re headed with agents.
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Codex Demo: Voice-Controlled Coding Agent Live Demo
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I even did a short live demo of Codex, using just my voice to assign a task to our coding agent and watch it prepare code changes on its own! The episode (in French) is out now:
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OpenAI Office agents target Excel and PowerPoint, eliminating tools layer
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According to The Information, OpenAI is working on Office agents to cover more of Excel and PowerPoint use cases. Imo, tools layer can be eliminated entirely, database connector with AI agent should be able to do the work eventually.