Sounds exciting! A visual approach to building AI agents could really make things easier and more intuitive. Can't wait to see it in action!
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Recraft Launches Advanced Style Controls for AI Design Platform
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AI design startup Recraft added Advanced Style Controls to its platform
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
The offering allows users to mix the look and feel of ready-to-use styles with their own images
It saves the hassle of reworking images time and again to ensure style consistencypic.twitter.com/T2g6b09cr7AI design startup Recraft added Advanced Style Controls to its platform The offering allows users to mix the look and feel of ready-to-use styles with their own images It saves the hassle of reworking images time and again to ensure style consistency
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Ace Studio Launches ACE-Step v1: Ultra-Fast Open-Source Music Generation
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Ace Studio dropped ACE-Step v1-3.5B, an ultra-fast, open-source music generation model
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
It can generate 4 minutes of music in 20s (15× faster than LLMs) with support for several genres and structure controlpic.twitter.com/NCrDtOlubFAce Studio dropped ACE-Step v1-3.5B, an ultra-fast, open-source music generation model It can generate 4 minutes of music in 20s (15× faster than LLMs) with support for several genres and structure control
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Windsurf Wave 8 Update: Enterprise Features for Teams
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AI coding platform Windsurf launched its Wave 8 update, focusing on enterprise and teams with:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
—GitHub app to review PRs and edit titles
—Docs-connected context awareness engine
—Cascade conversation sharing
—Team deploys
—Refreshed analyticspic.twitter.com/xnyPzt1ifVAI coding platform Windsurf launched its Wave 8 update, focusing on enterprise and teams with: —GitHub app to review PRs and edit titles
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Lighttricks Releases LTXV-13B Open-Source Video Generation AI
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Lighttricks released LTXV-13B, an open-source AI for video generation
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
—Multiscale rendering for creating smoother content, 30x faster
—Can run on consumer GPUs
—Includes camera motion control, keyframe editing, and multi-shot sequencingpic.twitter.com/2AhuRIlBUZLighttricks released LTXV-13B, an open-source AI for video generation —Multiscale rendering for creating smoother content, 30x faster
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HeyGen Launches Avatar IV for Expressive AI Animations
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HeyGen dropped Avatar IV, an AI for expressive animations
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 7 mai 2025
With one photo and voice script, its audio to expression engine captures tone, rhythm, and emotion to generate facial motion
Also supports different subjects, camera shots, and formatspic.twitter.com/IyLo5uhcGDHeyGen dropped Avatar IV, an AI for expressive animations With one photo and voice script, its audio to expression engine captures tone, rhythm, and emotion to generate facial motion Also supports different subjects, camera shots, and formats
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Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Released with Major Coding Improvements
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AI NEWS: Google just released a new version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, taking coding and web development to the next level Plus, more news from HeyGen, Lighttricks, Windsurf, FutureHouse, Ace Studio, and Recraft. Here's everything you need to know:
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Microsoft Preparing Broader Release of Copilot Pages Interface
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Microsoft is preparing Copilot Pages (Canvas) for the broader release, as the new Pages section is getting a dedicated space on the sidebar.
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Google Gemini begins rolling out GitHub integration for users
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Looks like GitHub integration on Gemini is rolling out to some users. I don’t have it yet h/t @SaiNemani1
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Demonstration of AI voice capabilities in a video
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* Voice is working too, just wasn’t captured there on the vid