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OpenAI is training a new version of Sora that will supposedly generate video clips faster, longer, and at higher quality than the demo from back in February.

The previous version (call it Sora 1.0) took ~10 minutes to generate 1 minute of footage. Compared to a traditional film set, which takes 12 hours for 2-3 minutes of usable footage per day, that’s a big productivity boom (about 28.8x). But that’s assuming that 1 minute clip you get is usable, and not, IDK, a “floating chair stalking you.”

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• We recap everything AI Meta announced at Meta Connect 2024.

• Google upgraded its Gemini 1.5 models.

• OpenAI will become for-profit, and Altman gets equity.

• The FTC cracked down on AI deception.

Meta dropped some serious AI heat at its Meta Connect 2024 event.

The Meta Connect 2024 TL;DR: “Smart Glasses + AI = The Future.”

Actually, there was full laundry list of all kinds of AI updates from this event. Slight tangent—who makes a list of their laundry? Shouldn't it be "grocery list?"

Here are the highlights: 

• Meta AI is getting smarter, with a new voice mode (demo here), featuring celebs like Awkwafina and John Cena.

• Llama 3.2, with new multimodal models (11B and 90B), small models (1B and 3B), and a new Llama stack for enterprise.

• Meta Ray-Bans are getting improved AI updates.

• Orion, the world’s first first “full holographic AR prototype.”

For open-source fans, Llama 3.2 steals the show—Meta claims the multimodal versions can decode pics, read chicken scratch, and get cultural nuances just right.

The big takeaway is Meta betting the farm on glasses as the “perfect form factor for AI.” Picture an AI that sees what you see, hears what you hear, and has your back 24/7. For example, over the next couple months, Meta Ray Bans will become:

• More conversational: “Hey Meta, what kind of smoothie can I make with these?” Then keep the convo going.

• Memory-enabled: “Remember where I parked.”

• Action-oriented: “Call this number”, “Scan a QR code.”

• Real-time translators: “Help me translate my convo w/ UFC champ Brandon Moreno.”

• Multimodal + responsive in real time: “Which of these dresses look the most ‘roaring 20s’ for my costume party?”

The final frontier: “Orion”, fully AI-powered AR (augmented reality). Orion incorporates voice AI, hand and eye tracking, and a groundbreaking wrist-based neural interface. Yeah, you read that right.

These advanced AR glasses don’t use screens, but overlay actual holograms onto the physical world using cutting-edge optics, custom silicon, and compact power solutions.

While functional today, Meta says it'll take time to refine the display, sleeken the design, and optimize manufacturing (currently ~$10K per unit, but Meta’s aiming for ~$1K).

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Around the Horn.

• OpenAI’s CTO Mira Murati is leaving the company in order to “do her own exploring” (which some say is corporate speak for “start my own company”), and two of the company’s top researchers are also leaving.

• Google’s $2.7B deal with CharacterAI was mostly about rehiring former employee Noam Shazeer, who made hundreds of millions on the deal.

• Now that OpenAI is valued at ~$150B, it is restructuring into a for profit benefit company, will no longer be controlled by the non-profit board, and Sam Altman will get equity.

• The U.S. FTC cracked down on deceptive AI claims and selling AI tech to deceive consumers under “Operation AI Comply.”

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Thursday Trivia

One of these is a real fantasy movie, and one is AI.

Which is which?

A. 

B. 

A Cat's Commentary.

Trivia answer: A is real (from Dragonslayer), and B is AI.