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In today's edition: 🔥

• 🚀 Elon's Grok 3 Outshines Rivals

• 👺 Scarlett Johansson hates AI

• 🧠 Mira Murati’s OpenAI rival ‘Thinking Machines Lab’

• ⚡ OpenAI Hints at Open Source Return

• ✨ HP Buys Humane as AI Pin Shuts Down

• 🦙 Meta’s first dev conference

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

• 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

🚀 Grok 3 Outshines Rivals in Early Tests

Elon Musk’s xAI unveils Grok 3, claiming it surpasses competitors in key performance areas. Grok 3 is said to be significantly more capable than its predecessor, Grok 2, according to Musk. The model outperformed OpenAI and DeepSeek in internal tests, particularly in math, science, and coding. xAI also introduced “Deep Search,” a new search engine designed for next-generation queries.

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🧠 Mira Murati’s OpenAI rival ‘Thinking Machines Lab’

OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Murati officially brought Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI research company, out of stealth with the mission to make AI systems more “widely understood, customizable, and generally capable” through open science.

⚡ OpenAI Hints at Open Source Return

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is considering a new open source AI model and is asking for public input.

Sam Altman posted a survey on X asking users if OpenAI should release a small o3-mini model or a more efficient phone-sized model.OpenAI has largely moved away from open source since GPT-4, but Altman is reconsidering this approach. Competition from Meta, Deepseek, and Mistral is pressuring OpenAI to engage more with the open-source community.

✨ HP Buys Humane as AI Pin Shuts Down

HP is acquiring Humane's assets for $116M, ending the AI Pin's short-lived journey. Humane's AI Pin will stop working on February 28, 2025, as the company shuts down services.HP is acquiring Humane’s engineers, product managers, and AI technology to build its own AI innovation lab.

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Deepfake targets Jewish celebrities👺

Scarlett Johansson called for AI regulation after a viral deepfake video went viral. It showed her and other Jewish celebrities allegedly protesting antisemitic content.

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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Step-Video-T2V — a video model that utilizes a deep compression VAE, achieves visual improvement with a video-based DPO approach, and supports bilingual prompts.

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

🦙 Meta’s first dev conference

🤖 Fiverr’s AI platform for gig workers

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