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Emilia David

Emilia David

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    More Sora videos come out into the wild.

    OpenAI worked with visual artists and filmmakers to see what they could do with Sora, its new text-to-video generation platform. The results are a mix of conceptual videos telling stories with surreal characters and recreations of real-life settings.

    Director Paul Trillo said he appreciates the lack of budget restrictions. “Sora is at its most powerful when you’re not replicating the old but bringing to life new and impossible ideas we would have otherwise never had the opportunity to see.”

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    Emilia David
    Not even Meta can pay AI talent enough.

    The Information reports Meta has had issues keeping AI talent and has resorted to hiring researchers without an interview. Meta has been losing researchers to Google’s DeepMind, OpenAI, and Mistral, which was founded by former Meta engineers.

    One reason could be the salaries AI researchers could earn. Meta reportedly pays AI researchers up to $2 million, which is less than the $5 million to $10 million paid by OpenAI.

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    Emilia David
    Inside TSMC’s very secretive chip training facility.

    CNN gained entry into the training facility where TSMC teaches engineers to design and operate the machines that build semiconductors. The hope is to train engineers to “seed” factories it’s building in the US, Japan, and Germany.

    TSMC told CNN that it needs “to hire thousands more” employees to staff facilities around the world as demand for advanced chips grows.

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    Anthropic just released the smallest and fastest Claude 3 model.

    Claude 3 Haiku can now be accessed through claude.ai, Amazon Bedrock, and Perplexity Labs. It will be available on Google’s Vertex AI soon.

    Anthropic previously said that even though Haiku was smaller than Claude 3 Opus and Sonnet, it still reads dense research papers “in less than three seconds.”

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    Emilia David
    Meta kills CrowdTangle.

    Users will have until August 14th to finish projects and migrate to Meta’s new social media tracker Meta Content Library and API or other services like it. Journalists and researchers used CrowdTangle to help track viral stories and misinformation through sites like Facebook and Instagram.

    Rumors of CrowdTangle’s demise have been around since 2022 when Meta reportedly removed developer support for the service.