Apple would have stopped developing AR glasses. He will continue to support his $ 3,500 pro vision, presented only a year ago. Apple Bance on Vision Pro is gaining ground with companies, having apparently forgotten the sad fate of Microsoft’s Hololens. After lagging behind the AI with his shocking agent once and a future agent, Siri, Apple continues to spend billions on exactly bad things, making the portable AI market in Meta and betting on the company Mr. Do not sell your Apple stock yet. The great thing to be the largest technological company in the world, with a market capitalization of 3.55 billion dollars, is that when Siri is finally the joyful and useful assistant promised in 2012, he will give a kick To all the other AI of the iPhone and that we will spend all our hours of watch with it inside the apple ecosystem.
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Hello, Siri. It’s me, Alexa. With Openai, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Google and Grok sucking the air of the play of the room, it is easy to forget of Amazon and its investment of several billion dollars in anthropic. Now Amazon is preparing to launch an upgrade powered by AI to its vocal assistant, Alexa, marking its most important improvement in more than a decade. The new Alexa engages in multi-tours dialogues, recalls the preferences of users and can operate independently as an agent. The service will initially be free for members premium, but Amazon hopes possibly invoice $ 5 to $ 10 per month. An event is scheduled for February 26 to present the new features.
On her credit, Meta finally seems Grok that mixed reality has become a mixed reality for them. Their bright point, intelligent audio Meta-ray ban compatible AI glasses, ate $ 100 million in marketing on the Super Bowl path on Sunday. With a million sold, it’s $ 100 per pair. In a supposedly “disclosed” email sent to Reality Labs employees by Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, 2025 is a “year of achievement or rupture” for the division. It looks very much like “the year of efficiency”, which has seen mass layoffs in the company. Horizon, Metasast Metastrous Metaversse, Horizon has become a weak competitor of Roblox. Their Ar / VR Reality Labs division won a $ 1 fourth quarter record, but has lost $ 4.4 dollars in the same quarter. The global AR / VR losses for the period of last 12 months are $ 17.7 B. Even if Meta has invested nearly one hundred billion dollars (not a typing of the typo) in their erroneous metavese, they could, and should be perhaps -I Be moving away. $ 100 B represents only 5.7% of the market capitalization of 1.76 Billion of Meta dollars today. The stock would probably increase on the ad.
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Google offers “voluntary” redemptions to equipment and platform employees before the expected cuts. The “Platform and Devices” unit includes more than 25,000 full -time employees who work on Android, Chrome, Chromeos, Google Photos, Google One, Pixel, Fitbit and Nest, according to the internal documents that we have consulted. Affairs are a sigal of cuts expected within Google as it continues to prioritize and use artificial intelligence. A developer of qualified software, increased by AI, can do the work of two or three people. If the AI has not made you a better and more productive coder, a voluntary buyout could be attractive.
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Olas, also known as Autolas Dao, obtained funding of $ 13.8 million to launch Pearl, a decentralized market based on blockchain for artificial intelligence agents. 1KX led the new financing cycle, with the participation of Tioga Capital, Sigil Fund, Zee Prime Capital and Spaceship Dao. Founded in 2021, Olas develops autonomous AI agents – software capable of carrying out tasks and making decisions with a minimum of human intervention in social media management and trading of cryptocurrencies. Olas also presented an accelerator program offering up to $ 1 million in developers to integrate new agents into the Pearl platform.
Riffusion, a startup AI based in San Francisco, launched a free web platform allowing users to create original music using their AI, Fuzz model. Fuzz generates complete songs from text descriptions, audio clips or visual prompts and learns the musical preferences of individual users over time. This version comes as large technological companies like Google, Meta and Tiktok explore audio synthetic technologies focused on similar AI. In particular, Alex Pall of The Chainsmokers joined the Advisory Council of Riffusion, highlighting the potential of the platform in the music industry. The Riffusion approach positions AI as a collaboration tool for professional musicians and relaxed lovers, offering an intuitive interface without subscription costs. Riffusion, a music generation startup led by AI, obtained $ 4 million in start -up financing on October 17, 2023. Greycroft led the investment round, with the participation of South Park Commons and Sky9 Capital. The company plans to use funds to improve its AI capabilities, extend its music library and improve the user experience.
Zynga launched “The Dragon Egg Hunt”, a world treasure hunt in his Puzzle RPG, Game of Thrones: LegendsFood by Google Maps. Participants navigate a 2D card inspired by the opening credits of the show, using Google 3D tiles to search for virtual dragon eggs in key locations in the world. The event offers surprises such as incited codes and rewards. The players work collectively to unlock significant rewards and can win prizes, including a Google Pixel 9 Pro and Google Play gift cards. The competition takes place until February 24, 2025.
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Naturally, the creator of this exceptional clip for the exile Turkish rapper EzhelÖner S. Biberkökü, is director. He made the film himself in six weeks. It cost $ 2,800 in AI generation costs. “Using the possibilities of AI,” said Biberkökü in an email, “I created an official clip for Ezhel of the country that he is deeply missing – without meeting him in person. He loved the video and C ‘ has become his official clip. “
Sebastian Ungrad, artistic director at Munich’s Storybook Studios, a renowned production company, “recurs” during her vacation. “I read the incredible book, ,, By Blake Crouch and felt inspired to create a trailer for a television series adaptation which does not exist (yet)! All animated images with Minimum. Images: Flux & Midjourney. Voices (speech to speech): Elevenlabs. Lip synchronization: Track Actone. Music by: John Utah – Run for the Man, M83 – Solitude (Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation)
The native foreign partner Nick Speverov directed this co -production with TCL Studios and was selected as a finalist in Odyssey projectnarrative competition. “History is based on an idea that I had a long time ago on a future where artists paint human memories so that Androids feel alive,” wrote Cleverov on Linkedin. A dozen people worked on the project that was carried out with a mixture of generative AI, vocal talents and a new post pipeline. “The rootstock that has made cinema an exclusive company is eroding, allowing more creatives to explore their visions significantly,” he said.
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