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Rocky Stano
December 18, 2024
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🎨 Google’s Whisk: Generate Images From Images, Not Just Text
🎥 Veo 2: Google’s New 4K Video Model Challenges OpenAI’s Sora
🇯🇵 Waymo Heads to Tokyo: Robotaxi Testing Begins in 2025
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SOFTBANK AND USA
SoftBank Pledges $100B U.S. Investment, Promises 100,000 Jobs
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son committed to investing $100 billion in the U.S. over four years, aiming to create 100,000 jobs.
AI and emerging technologies are likely focus areas as SoftBank capitalizes on the ongoing AI boom.
GOOGLE AI
Whisk and Veo 2: Google’s Big AI Announcements
Google launched Whisk, an AI tool that generates images using other images instead of text prompts.
You can mix subjects, scenes, and styles to quickly create visuals using Google’s Imagen 3 model.
It’s designed for creativity and rapid edits, not perfect precision.
Credits: (The Verge) Generated images with Whisk: Rolled the dice for subject, scene, and style, then customized the scene. Added steam for a fire being in water – before and after results shown.
More news from Google: Google DeepMind unveiled Veo 2, its new video-generation model to rival OpenAI’s Sora.
Veo 2 creates videos over two minutes long in 4K resolution—four times the quality of Sora.
Credits: Google
Though currently limited to short clips in Google VideoFX, it’s expected to expand soon.
Veo 2 improves motion, lighting, and camera angles, delivering sharper and more realistic videos.
Credits: Google
Do you think Google’s Veo 2 can outperform OpenAI’s Sora in AI video generation? |
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WAYMO
Waymo Expands Abroad: Tokyo Robotaxi Testing in 2025
Alphabet's Waymo will begin testing autonomous robotaxis in Tokyo in early 2025, marking its first international expansion.
Partnering with taxi operator Nihon Kotsu and app GO, Waymo aims to collect driving data to train its AI systems in Japan's left-hand traffic market.
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