A new AI service enables real-time conversations with digital twins at a latency of less than one second. Startup Tavus has developed this technology, as founders Hassaan and Quinn report on HackerNews. Their goal was to enable the most natural communication possible between humans and computers. Numerous technical challenges had to be overcome to achieve … Read more
AI startup Rep.ai has raised $7.5 million in funding to launch its “digital twin” technology for sales representatives. This was reported by Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat. The company, formerly known as ServiceBell, is developing AI-powered avatars to assist website visitors in real-time video and audio conversations. Rep.ai combines visual and vocal replication with natural language … Read more
Amazon has unveiled an AI-powered video generator – but only for advertisers. This was reported by Kyle Wiggers for TechCrunch. The tool can create short commercials from a single product image and is currently in beta for select US advertisers. The generated videos are six to nine seconds long and have a resolution of 720p. … Read more
Alibaba is stepping up its AI activities with the release of new open-source models and text-to-video technology. The Chinese technology company has now unveiled over 100 new open source AI models from its Qwen 2.5 family, according to Reuters. The models cover a range of sizes and capabilities, including mathematics and programming. They support over … Read more
YouTube is integrating artificial intelligence into numerous features for creators. The company has announced the integration of Google’s AI video model Veo into YouTube Shorts. This will allow users to generate high-quality backgrounds and short video clips. In addition, a new Inspiration tab in YouTube Studio will offer AI-powered suggestions for video ideas, titles and … Read more
Snapchat is introducing a new AI-powered video creation tool. The tool, which is now in beta for select users, allows users to create videos from text prompts, and soon, image prompts. The company made the announcement at its annual Snap Partner Summit, as Aisha Malik reports for TechCrunch. Snap stresses that all content created with … Read more
Luma AI has released an API for its video AI model Dream Machine, just hours after a similar move by competitor Runway. As Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat, the API allows developers to integrate Dream Machine into their own applications. The model can generate videos from text or images, and offers features such as camera … Read more
Runway is making its fast video generation model Gen-3 Alpha Turbo available via API. This allows companies to integrate the AI model into their own applications. As Shubham Sharma reports, Runway is one of the first companies to give developers access to a proprietary AI video generation model. The API is being rolled out in … Read more
Adobe plans to add AI-powered video generation to its Firefly software later this year. As Maxwell Zeff reports for TechCrunch, three new features – Generative Extend, Text to Video, and Image to Video – will initially be available in the beta version of Premiere Pro and on a free website. Generative Extend allows users to … Read more
A new AI model called Infinity generates realistic talking characters. It is based on a video diffusion transformer that has been trained with audio input. According to the developers, this is the first model of its kind. Users can enter their scripts and get videos of animated characters speaking the text. It can process different … Read more