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viggle
Viggle built a 3D village in one second, and I am sick with envy
A Toronto company taught a machine to put a boy in a village and walk him across it, physics built in, for less than a cent a scene. I have been typing for fifty years, and I cannot do it in six weeks.
Tavus
Half of Tavus's testers mistook its AI for a real person
Griffin is the first system to pass a video Turing test, and the company that built it says it is not safe to sell yet. Based Boomerstein has not stopped pacing since.
Ben Affleck
Everything you need to know about Ben Affleck and AI
He writes Python, has worked with GPUs, and used his name to get into Google's and OpenAI's labs. Based Boomerstein on how the man knows more than us. We love him.
AI film festival
Astana's AI film festival ditched the human versus AI bracket
The festival drew 8,067 entries from 125 countries with no AI-use threshold, while Sparknify's Human vs. AI festival in San Francisco still ran shorts head to head by origin.
AI
Diogo Almeida tells Ben Horowitz: AI is smart and useless at work
Diogo Almeida's Jev returns a decision instead of a paragraph. Based Boomerstein watched the a16z episode twice, took notes, and found his favorite new nerd.
Runway
The AI video model is not the product any more
The week's evidence from Runway, Comfy and Higgsfield points the same way: the layer that decides which model runs is where the leverage went.
pricing
AI video is now a price war measured in cents per second
A launch discount briefly makes Alibaba's Wan 3.0 cheaper per second than its own predecessor Wan 2.7, and that discount, like Pruna AI's, ends September 24.
opinion
Sora's shutdown shows AI video models are no longer the product
OpenAI is pulling its video API with no replacement while Adobe, Pika and even Runway race to sell other labs' models, and the funding numbers say the bundlers are winning.