when Speed is a fundamental and not an afterthought. that synch engine sure working wonders. I would love to see some image heavy apps perform this will with real-time data. only thing close is Midjourney web app, blazing fast.
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Baidu releases ERNIE 4.5 and X1 models at aggressive prices
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Chinese giant Baidu released two aggressively priced multimodal AI models
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 mars 2025
— ERNIE 4.5 with enhanced EQ outperforms GPT-4.5 at just 1% of its price
—ERNIE X1 deep thinking model matches DeepSeek's R1 at half the price
China continues to cook!pic.twitter.com/FSrmEgiF8rChinese giant Baidu released two aggressively priced multimodal AI models — ERNIE 4.5 with enhanced EQ outperforms GPT-4.5 at just 1% of its price
—ERNIE X1 deep thinking model matches DeepSeek's R1 at half the price China continues to cook! -
Tencent Releases Hunyuan 3D 2.0 for Multiview Shape Generation
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Tencent dropped two new versions of its Hunyuan 3D generation AI
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 mars 2025
—3D 2.0 MV fine-tuned from Hunyuan3D-2 to support multiview shape generation.
— 3D 2.0 Mini contains a 0.6B shape generator, which is smaller and faster than the previous 1.1B onepic.twitter.com/8cYsUIh9svTencent dropped two new versions of its Hunyuan 3D generation AI —3D 2.0 MV fine-tuned from Hunyuan3D-2 to support multiview shape generation.
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xAI Acquires Hotshot for Advanced Video Generation Capabilities
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xAI acquired Hotshot, a startup developing AI for generating videos in various styles
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 mars 2025
Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although founder Aakash says they'll continue training on xAI's Colossus cluster
Expect strong video generation from Grok soon!pic.twitter.com/epEc60n46dxAI acquired Hotshot, a startup developing AI for generating videos in various styles Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although founder Aakash says they'll continue training on xAI's Colossus cluster Expect strong video generation from Grok soon!
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Mistral AI Releases Small 3.1 Multilingual Multimodal LLM
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Mistral AI released Small 3.1, a SOTA multilingual and multimodal LLM —24B (can run on a laptop)
—128k token context window —Outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini on most benchmarks
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Roblox Launches Cube 3D: AI-Powered Text-to-3D Generation Tool
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Roblox announced Cube 3D, an open-source AI for generating 3D objects and scenes from text prompts
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 mars 2025
Trained on native 3D data, Cube uses 3D tokenization to create functional 3D outputs in seconds
Support for image inputs is also on the way!pic.twitter.com/dxl5jNumPvRoblox announced Cube 3D, an open-source AI for generating 3D objects and scenes from text prompts Trained on native 3D data, Cube uses 3D tokenization to create functional 3D outputs in seconds Support for image inputs is also on the way!
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Li Auto’s MindVLA Redefines Autonomous Driving Technology
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"Just like iPhone 4 redefined mobile phones,"Peng Jia, head of R&D of Li Auto’s autonomous driving technology, said, "For the automotive industry, MindVLA will also redefine autonomous driving."
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MindVLA Navigates Complex Traffic Using RL and Multi-Agent Modeling
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MindVLA can also navigate complex traffic environments by jointly modeling its own vehicle behavior and the trajectories of other vehicles. It employs RL to learn from mistakes, continuously optimizing its decision-making.
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MindVLA: Fast-Slow Thinking with Action Token Diffusion
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MindVLA integrates fast and slow thinking modes and can switch between them autonomously. When deployed, it uses Diffusion to decode Action Tokens into optimized trajectories.
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Li Auto Unveils MindVLA Autonomous Driving Model at NVIDIA GTC
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At NVIDIA GTC 2025, Li Auto, a Chinese car company, released more details about MindVLA, their next-generation autonomous driving model. MindVLA is a world model that deeply integrates their Novel View Restoration and Progressive Scene Reconstruction capabilities.