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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

• 👀 Microsoft looking to move beyond OpenAI

• 🗺️ Ex-OpenAI scientist’s new path to ASI

• 🤖Google released Gemini Embedding

• 💬Sam Altman’s World Network released World Chat

• 💡 AI Tutorial:How to turn two images into a short animated video

• 🤯 6 new AI Tools

• 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

👀 Microsoft looking to move beyond OpenAI

Microsoft is reportedly developing MAI, a new family of AI models that rivals current industry leaders — alongside the build-out of its own in-house reasoning models to reduce reliance on OpenAI for its Copilot suite. The new MAI models reportedly match top offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, with the company planning to offer them through Azure.

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🗺️ Ex-OpenAI scientist’s new path to ASI

Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) is reportedly raising $2B at a $30B valuation—with the researcher hinting at a different approach to achieving advanced AI than all other rivals. Sutskever reportedly told investors he has identified a completely new direction for AI development, describing it as “a different mountain to climb.”

🤖 Manus, a New AI Agent From China is Going Viral—And Raising Big Questions

Manus is an autonomous agent that can analyze, plan, and execute tasks on its own. It is currently only accessible through invitation codes, which are in short supply - demand is through the roof as the AI community is raving about its capabilities. Many are now asking whether China has leapfrogged the US in AI.

Google released Gemini Embedding

Gemini Embedding text model is a new AI model for understanding text relationships across languages. It’s helpful if you’re building search, recommendation, or classification systems. It works across finance, science, and legal fields without special training.

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Sam Altman’s World Network released World Chat

Sam Altman’s World Network released World Chat, an encrypted mini-app that allows users to chat, connect, and send money with verified humans. World Chat combines the Contacts tab, the World ID protocol and the World App wallet to enable features and functions that make World Chat incredibly useful.

AI Tutorial

How to turn two images into a short animated video

1. Go to ToonCrafter on Hugging Face’s website.

2. Upload your first image as the starting keyframe in "Input Image 1" and the second image as the ending frame in "Input Image 2."

3. Enter a prompt to describe the action you want to animate.

Optional: Adjust settings like Random Seed, ETA, FPS, and more.

4. Click "Generate" to create your short animated video.

5. Download or share the video.

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