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Tencent Holdings, a prominent player in video gaming and social media, has entered the competitive field of AI-driven video generation with its latest innovation, HunyuanVideo. Powered by Tencent’s Hunyuan AI foundation model, this text-to-video generator is now offered for free to both businesses and individual users, the company revealed
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AWS has announced a major enhancement to its SageMaker platform at the annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. SageMaker, AWS’s fully managed platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning (ML) and generative AI models, is now integrating a curated set of third-party AI applications. This move aims
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OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has announced an exciting "12 Days of OpenAI" event, unveiling a new feature or model every weekday for the next two weeks. This event promises to showcase cutting-edge AI advancements, some of which have been hinted at in the past but remained unavailable
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that you can now follow fediverse accounts directly on Threads. While the feature is limited in scope, it marks another step in Threads’ journey toward full interoperability with the fediverse, a decentralized social network ecosystem. View on Threads How It Works The integration allows
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Amazon has introduced the Nova family of AI models, designed to generate text, images, and videos. This suite includes: * Amazon Nova Micro: A text-only model optimized for low-latency responses at minimal cost. * Amazon Nova Lite: A multimodal model offering fast processing for text, images, and videos at a very low
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ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, has significantly impacted technology and society since its launch two years ago. Its user base has doubled to 200 million weekly users, reflecting its widespread adoption. Major companies and entrepreneurs remain optimistic about its transformative power. However, the rapid advancement of AI technologies like ChatGPT has
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The AT Protocol is a groundbreaking decentralized framework designed to create open communication and give users more control over their online presence. It was developed by Bluesky, a company initially funded by Twitter, with the vision of creating an open social media ecosystem. AT stands for Authenticated Transfer, emphasizing secure,
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The Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federated" and "universe") is a collection of interconnected, decentralized social media platforms that communicate using open protocols. Unlike traditional social media networks like Facebook or Twitter, which are controlled by a single company, the Fediverse is composed of independent servers (also
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ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol that allows different platforms to communicate seamlessly. Designed as a standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), it provides a framework for building decentralized social media platforms and applications. This protocol enables users on different platforms to interact with each other, breaking
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Alibaba has stepped into the spotlight of advanced AI reasoning with its latest release, the QwQ-32B-Preview model. Designed to challenge the capabilities of OpenAI's o1 reasoning model, this AI model focuses on excelling in complex logical and mathematical reasoning tasks, positioning Alibaba as a strong competitor in the
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Sill is a new application designed to enhance user experiences on decentralized social platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon. Developed by Tyler Fisher, Sill aggregates and curates the most popular links shared within a user's network, offering a streamlined way to stay informed about trending content. Similar to the
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Nvidia has unveiled "Fugatto," an advanced AI audio model capable of generating entirely new sounds and transforming existing audio in unprecedented ways. This innovation allows for the creation of unique audio effects, such as a trumpet that meows or a saxophone that howls, expanding the creative possibilities for