Google launches new video and image generation models

Today’s Highlights:

📰 News: Google launches new video and image generation models, Veo 2 and Imagen 3

💰 Funding: Databricks raises $9Bn+

⚡️ Top News Stories:

1. Google unveils Veo 2 and Imagen 3 models, advancing video generation and image realism while introducing Whisk for image-based AI creativity.

• Veo 2 is Google DeepMind's latest video-generating AI model, creating 2min 4K clips with improved realism, physics, lighting, and motion, featuring enhanced camera controls for precise angles and dynamic movements.

• Veo 2’s advancements are integrated into VideoFX, Google’s video creation tool, with plans to expand features into YouTube Shorts in 2025.

• Imagen 3 is Google’s latest AI image generation model, delivering higher-quality visuals, better text adherence, and more realistic depictions of detailed scenes.

• Google also introduces Whisk, an AI image generator powered by Imagen 3, creating visuals using images as prompts, enabling multi-image inputs for subject, scene, and style definition.

2. OpenAI has launched "Projects" for ChatGPT, enabling users to organize related conversations, files, and custom instructions into project-specific workspaces for streamlined workflows and improved efficiency.

3. OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode now allows ChatGPT to analyze and respond to live video input and screen sharing in real time.

4. ChatGPT’s AI search engine is now available to all users, with enhanced location-based results and optimized mobile search features.

5. Pika Labs released version 2.0 of its AI video generator, introducing the “Ingredients” tool, enabling users to upload and integrate characters, objects, and backgrounds into AI-generated videos with improved realism, smoother motion, and enhanced control for polished outputs.

6. Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Haiku, an upgraded AI model available on web and mobile that outperforms its predecessor in coding, data extraction, labeling, and content moderation tasks while offering longer text outputs and a more recent knowledge cutoff.

7. Grok-2 has been upgraded, now available for free, is 3x faster with improved accuracy, multilingual capabilities, and new features like web search and citations for real-time information access and source verification.

8. Google launches NotebookLM Plus, a premium subscription with advanced AI features, deeper integrations, and voice command capabilities for organizing, summarizing, and interacting with documents more efficiently.

9. Character.AI introduces a safety-focused LLM for teens that guides responses away from sensitive content, featuring enhanced content filtering, parental controls for monitoring activity and session lengths, interventions for self-harm inputs, and disclaimers clarifying Characters’ fictional nature, especially those with professional titles.

10. Cohere partners with Palantir’s Foundry platform to integrate its AI models for enterprise customers, focusing on secure, data-constrained solutions while prioritizing enterprise use cases over consumer-facing chatbots.

11. Scientists from Stanford, Genentech, and the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative propose a global open-science effort to develop the first AI-powered virtual human cell, leveraging advances in AI and biological data to revolutionize drug discovery, disease modeling, and personalized medicine.

💰 Top Funding News:

1. Databricks is finalizing a $9.5Bn funding round at a $60Bn valuation, led by Thrive Capital w/ Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, and GIC, including a secondary sale for employees, marking one of the largest funding rounds ever.

2. Liquid AI, which develops general-purpose AI systems using liquid neural networks, raised a $250M Series A, led by AMD

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