Sora was cool, but the Holodeck that comes next will be 100x cooler. Can't wait to see what you do next.
MULTIMODAL AI
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ELT: Elastic Looped Transformers for Visual Generation
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“ELT: Elastic Looped Transformers for Visual Generation” ELT makes visual generation recurrent by looping a shared transformer block instead of stacking unique layers. Its core idea, Intra-Loop Self-Distillation, trains intermediate loop states to match the full-depth
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LifeSim: Evaluating AI Assistants Through Realistic User Simulation
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How do we truly evaluate AI assistants for long-term, real-world personalization? Researchers from Fudan University present LifeSim. It's a groundbreaking user simulator that models human cognition (Belief-Desire-Intention) in virtual environments to generate realistic,
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AI Democratization Flattening Digital Economy Skills Floor
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Today I'm finding myself a victim of AI psychosis, watching as we're all witnessing a flattening of the digital economy. We're all starting to be able to do everything: websites, apps, animations, designs, images, videos, music… The floor is rising, and one might think that
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Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and Robotics Updates
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What a week! Here’s everything we shipped: — Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, our latest text-to-speech model, featuring native multi-speaker dialogue and improved controllability and audio tags for more natural, expressive voices in 70+ languages — Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 by
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Opus 4.7 Fails at Computer Vision Tasks: Performance Issues Revealed
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Don't use Opus 4.7 for computer vision. It's the wrong tool. I ran a simple pointing task on both Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.4: find the cars in an aerial image. Both took several minutes. That alone should tell you these multimodal models aren't built for this job. Opus 4.7
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UniDoc-RL: Hierarchical Visual RAG with Dense Rewards
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UniDoc-RL Coarse-to-Fine Visual RAG with Hierarchical Actions and Dense Rewards paper:
https://huggingface.co/papers/2604.14967
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HY-World 2.0: Multi-Modal 3D World Model
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HY-World 2.0
— AK (@_akhaliq) 17 avril 2026
A Multi-Modal World Model for Reconstructing, Generating, and Simulating 3D Worlds
paper: https://t.co/oh97OtTp8q pic.twitter.com/gH73Cd7cDVHY-World 2.0 A Multi-Modal World Model for Reconstructing, Generating, and Simulating 3D Worlds paper: https://
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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.7 Advanced Model
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Claude Opus 4.7 might be the new default ‘serious work’ model for builders. Anthropic just shipped Opus 4.7:
Stronger advanced coding & agentic workflows
High‑res vision (2,576px / ~3.75MP) for dense UIs & diagrams
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Bytedance Releases Seedream 5 Lite and Seedance 2.0 Models
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Seedream 5 (Lite): https://
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… Seedance 2.0: https://
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… Seedance 2.0 (Fast):