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In a post announcing waitlist sign-ups for its Veo 2 video model, Google says the next version “brings an improved understanding of real-world physics and the nuances of human movement and expression.”
OpenAI’s Sora notably struggles with physics, so it will be interesting to compare the results of Veo 2 when we eventually get access.
Folks in the online AI research community are upset after the world’s biggest AI conference, NeurIPS, gave its prestigious Best Paper Award to, among others, a controversial former ByteDance intern named Keyu Tian, writes Wired.
ByteDance allegedly dismissed Tian for sabotaging colleagues’ AI research and hoarded resources for his own work — accusations detailed in an anonymous GitHub blog calling for the award to be revoked.
The “Grok 2 + Aurora” option has vanished from Grok’s model selector menu only a day after it appeared, Engadget reports, replaced by “Grok 2 + FLUX beta” instead. The model still makes photorealistic images, but it was less willing to reproduce celebrities when I asked.
X owner Elon Musk wrote yesterday that the photorealistic and largely unrestricted model is a beta “internal image generator.”
Update: Added testing detail.
Today, a Hugging Face employee published data from 1 million Bluesky posts scraped from its API to the AI repository. He’s removed it and apologized, but 404 Media notes the set was “trending” all day.
Bluesky says it’s looking into ways to “specify consent (or not) for AI training.” but acknowledges that “It will be up to outside developers to respect these settings.”
