Even as OpenAI continues to impress by releasing new demo examples of its high-quality AI video generation model Sora, it still remains out-of-reach to the public for now. But existing AI video generator companies aren’t sitting still: today, rival Pika announced the release of a new feature for its paying subscribers called Lip Sync. The feature allows users to add spoken dialog to their videos with AI-generated voices from separate generative audio startup ElevenLabs, while also adding matching animation to ensure the speaking characters’ mouths move in time with the dialog. With...…Even as OpenAI continues to impress by releasing new demo examples of its high-quality AI video generation model Sora, it still remains out-of-reach to the public for now. But existing AI video generator companies aren’t sitting still: today, rival Pika announced the release of a new feature for its paying subscribers called Lip Sync. The feature allows users to add spoken dialog to their videos with AI-generated voices from separate generative audio startup ElevenLabs, while also adding matching animation to ensure the speaking characters’ mouths move in time with the dialog. With...WW…

Figure, a Sunnyvale, California-based startup focused on building humanoid robotics to ease a labor shortage in heavy and manual labor-focused industries such as warehouse and retail work, has just received enormous backing and valuation. The company today announced it has received a staggering $675 million investment round from such technology industry heavyweights as Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, and ARK Invest. Following this, Figure says it is now valued at $2.6 billion — a...…Figure, a Sunnyvale, California-based startup focused on building humanoid robotics to ease a labor shortage in heavy and manual labor-focused industries such as warehouse and retail work, has just received enormous backing and valuation. The company today announced it has received a staggering $675 million investment round from such technology industry heavyweights as Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, and ARK Invest. Following this, Figure says it is now valued at $2.6 billion — a...WW…

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, which became Meta Platforms back in 2022, has some thoughts about Apple’s new Vision Pro spatial computer, and he’s not afraid to call the other company out for what he sees as some deficiencies, especially when compared to his own company’s rival Quest 3 headset. Yesterday, Zuck posted on his Instagram account a roughly 3:30 second long video recorded in a candid and only lightly produced manner, with him seated on his couch. Here’s a rip of it from YouTube to make it easier to watch on this article page: Zuckerberg began by noting that...…Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, which became Meta Platforms back in 2022, has some thoughts about Apple’s new Vision Pro spatial computer, and he’s not afraid to call the other company out for what he sees as some deficiencies, especially when compared to his own company’s rival Quest 3 headset. Yesterday, Zuck posted on his Instagram account a roughly 3:30 second long video recorded in a candid and only lightly produced manner, with him seated on his couch. Here’s a rip of it from YouTube to make it easier to watch on this article page: Zuckerberg began by noting that...WW…

OpenAI is not content with just being known as the ChatGPT or even LLM company: today it unveiled a demo of Sora, its new AI text-to-video generation model, with co-founder and CEO Sam Altman posting on X (formerly Twitter) that it was a “remarkable moment.” While the product is not officially usable by the masses yet due to what Altman said in his post was “starting red-teaming,” or oppositional testing of its security defenses, flaws and misuses, the founder did note that it was being made available to a “limited number of creators,” with public expansion to come at a later date. Entering...…OpenAI is not content with just being known as the ChatGPT or even LLM company: today it unveiled a demo of Sora, its new AI text-to-video generation model, with co-founder and CEO Sam Altman posting on X (formerly Twitter) that it was a “remarkable moment.” While the product is not officially usable by the masses yet due to what Altman said in his post was “starting red-teaming,” or oppositional testing of its security defenses, flaws and misuses, the founder did note that it was being made available to a “limited number of creators,” with public expansion to come at a later date. Entering...WW…

On the heels of the abrupt announcement today from OpenAI that its board of directors had fired co-founder Sam Altman as CEO due to him allegedly being “not consistently candid in his communications with the board,” the tech world is reacting with a range of emotions to the news.While many on X cracked jokes alluding to OpenAI’s rivalries with Google and other companies, others sought to praise Altman for his role co-founding and shepherding the generative AI company to a valuation nearing $90 billion according to recent reports, and making it the centerpiece of the current generative AI...…On the heels of the abrupt announcement today from OpenAI that its board of directors had fired co-founder Sam Altman as CEO due to him allegedly being “not consistently candid in his communications with the board,” the tech world is reacting with a range of emotions to the news.While many on X cracked jokes alluding to OpenAI’s rivalries with Google and other companies, others sought to praise Altman for his role co-founding and shepherding the generative AI company to a valuation nearing $90 billion according to recent reports, and making it the centerpiece of the current generative AI...WW…