As a general purpose technology, AI has all kinds of unexpected uses. Example: this study finds blind users turn to AI to describe sensitive materials (pregnancy tests, checking appearance), realizing that it may not be 100% accurate, but it provides privacy where there was none
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Reasoning Models Will Surpass Diffusion-Based Media Generation
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Prediction: diffusion-based media models (images, video, music) are a dead end, and whoever cracks reasoning-based media models will win. We already saw a glimpse of this with OpenAI’s partially autoregressive native image generation – the level of control is far beyond what is
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Grok 4 Adds Video Generation Feature on $300 Plan
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Grok 4 peut maintenant faire des vidéos (uniquement sur le plan a 300$ pour l'instant il semblerait) https://t.co/AnbmYbRD6Q
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 3 août 2025Grok 4 peut maintenant faire des vidéos (uniquement sur le plan a 300$ pour l'instant il semblerait)
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Runway Aleph video consistency: Woman on mechanical snail pursued by police
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One of the big issues with AI videos is consistency across scenes. It isn't there, but it is getting closer. This is Runway Aleph on a woman riding a snail…
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 3 août 2025
"it is night"
"the snail is mechanical"
"show me the front"
"the snail is very fast and is being pursued by police cars" pic.twitter.com/K9l5yXeFI4One of the big issues with AI videos is consistency across scenes. It isn't there, but it is getting closer. This is Runway Aleph on a woman riding a snail…
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"the snail is mechanical"
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Podcastfy.ai: Transform Content into Multilingual Audio Conversations
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Podcastfy.ai Transform text, images, websites & videos into multilingual audio conversations. Built with LangChain, it offers local LLM deployment and multi-speaker support for complete developer control. Check out this open-source tool on GitHub -
Deep Think Outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro on Major Benchmarks
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Deep Think beats Gemini 2.5 Pro across key benchmarks: Coding (LiveCodeBench) Multimodal tasks (MMMU) Advanced math (USAMO) It’s already live for AI Ultra users in the Gemini app—$250/month if you want early access.
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100+ Free AI Agents RAG Voice Tutorials Code
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100+ free step-by-step tutorials with code covering: AI Agents RAG Systems Voice AI Agents MCP AI Agents Multi-agent Teams Autonomous Game Playing Agents P.S: Don't forget to subscribe for FREE to access future tutorials.
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Claude Sonnet 4 Visualizes Gravitational Wave Effects
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5. Claude Sonnet 4 by @AnthropicAI
— Shubham Saboo (@Saboo_Shubham_) 2 août 2025
3D grid of particles animated by a passing gravitational wave. pic.twitter.com/MN2TNwMUQh5. Claude Sonnet 4 by @AnthropicAI 3D grid of particles animated by a passing gravitational wave.
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GML-4.5 Gravitational Wave Particle Grid Visualization
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4. GML-4.5 by @Zai_org
— Shubham Saboo (@Saboo_Shubham_) 2 août 2025
3D grid of particles animated by a passing gravitational wave. pic.twitter.com/qB118mIJe34. GML-4.5 by @Zai_org 3D grid of particles animated by a passing gravitational wave.
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Weekly AI and Tech News: GLM-4.5, Runway Aleph, Luma Labs
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Here’s all the AI and tech news from the past week. Did I miss anything? – Zhipu AI launched GLM-4.5
– @runwayml unveiled Runway Aleph
– @LumaLabsAI introduced “Modify with Instructions” to edit videos
– @ideogram_ai released new Character feature
– @midjourney added start & end