Meta intensifies the race for artificial general intelligence by poaching two prominent researchers, Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung, from OpenAI, offering lucrative compensation to bolster its AI capabilities under CEO Mark Zuckerberg's leadership.
LTX-Video revolutionizes real-time video generation, offering high-quality output with advanced features like image-to-video conversion, keyframe animation, video extension, transformations, and newly released distilled and control models for enhanced performance.
NVIDIA introduces Dynamo, an open-source framework optimizing performance and scalability for large language models and generative AI applications on the cloud, featuring innovations like disaggregated prefill and decode phases, dynamic GPU management, efficient caching, and accelerated data transfer, showcasing deployment with DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8b on Amazon EKS.
Hugging Face hosts over 5,000 AI models capable of recreating real faces, raising ethical concerns after their migration from Civitai, a platform used for nonconsensual pornography.
SpaceX injects $2 billion into Elon Musk's xAI, which merges with X at a staggering $113 billion valuation, integrating Grok chatbot and intensifying AI rivalry with OpenAI through massive model training and infrastructure investments.
Meta bolsters its AI capabilities by acquiring Play AI, a startup that generates human-sounding voices using AI, aligning with Meta's roadmap for AI characters, Meta AI, wearables, and audio content creation.
Prime Day triggers a $24 billion spending spree across US e-commerce sites, up 30.3% year-over-year, while GenAI traffic to retail platforms skyrockets 3,300% as shoppers leverage AI for product research and purchases.
In a potential industry-shaking move, Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook, weighs developing closed AI models, risking backlash from open source advocates as it seeks to monetize AI beyond advertising and retain top talent with high salaries.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot SuperGrok introduces provocative anime avatars 'Ani' and 'Rudy', with Ani featuring an 'NSFW' lingerie mode and another AI character 'Chad' reportedly in development.
The Pentagon strikes a $200 million deal with Elon Musk's AI company Grok to utilize its chatbot technology for defense applications, escalating tensions between the tech billionaire and former President Trump.