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Now, you know times are tough if OpenAI just raised a cool ~$6.6B back in October and is now considering launching ads on its website to make a little extra $$.
Just kidding. Whatâs ACTUALLY going on is OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar is testing the waters with different monetization ideas as the company gets ready to become a for-profit. Yâknow, because for profit = you need to make money, not just spend other pplâs.
The only problem is Sam Altman recently said he hates ads and they should be a business model of âlast resortâŠ
âŠso no wonder the company was quick to say it had âno plansâ to add ads.
Hereâs what you need to know about AI today:
- World Labs unveiled an AI that generates interactive 3D worlds.
- Browser Company unveiled AI-powered web browser.
- Runway revealed new AI video creation interface.
- Ex-Googler exposed Googleâs AI photo analysis capabilities.
World Labs just dropped an AI that lets you step inside any image like it's a video game.
When Google/Stanford AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li starts a new company, people pay attention. Her latest venture, World Labs, just unveiled something wild: an AI system that turns regular photos into explorable 3D worlds.
Feed the AI system any imageâa photo, painting, or generated artâand it converts it into a video game-like environment you can explore with your keyboard and mouse:
Seriouslyâyou can step right into famous paintings. Want to sit at the counter in Hopper's Nighthawks? Or stroll down Van Gogh's CafĂ© Terrace at Night? Now you can by trying out their live demo here (well, sort ofâthe AI fills in any parts of the scene that weren't in the original painting, so thereâs some creative license).
Right now, you can only explore a small area before hitting invisible walls, and sometimes objects blend together in strange ways. But rememberâthis is just an early preview. This is as bad as itâs ever going to beâŠ
So what makes this âworld modelâ different from other 3D generators? Unlike other generators that might warp or change unexpectedly, these scenes stay rock-solid consistent as you explore and follow real physics (no floating objects or impossible geometry).
Critically, World Labs is aiming to build tools for human creatorsânot robot onesâwith tools that give creators true control over 3D worlds, with professional camera effects like:
- Depth of field controls (blurry backgrounds, like a real camera).
- Dolly zooms (think that famous Jaws shot).
- Interactive lighting and special effects.
Hereâs a good thread from an AI Filmmaker breaking down each of these features and why this is such a big deal. Some early creators have already used it to make short films, combining World Labs with:
- Midjourney for generating the initial scenes.
- Runway for editing.
- ElevenLabs for voiceovers.
- CapCut for final touches.
Our take: Unlike text-to-video generators that today spit out surprising but uncontrollable outputs like a Gacha blind box, World Labs is building something more fundamental.
As Techcrunch pointed out, creating explorable 3D worlds is possible today, but costs millionsâsomething only AAA game studios and movie productions can afford. World Labs could make that power instant and accessible to everyone.
And consider this: Ben Thompson at Stratechery just wrote about how each new computing era needs a âbridgeââa technology that starts on current devices, but enables the next wave. He argues AI might be the bridge to widespread wearable computing, and we think World Labs' tech fits perfectly into this narrative.
When you can instantly turn any 2D image into an explorable 3D world, those AR glasses everyone's building start to make a lot more sense...
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- DataFuel transforms entire websites into clean, structured data for your AI models with a single query.
- CreatorKit made a tool to create a personalized video from Santa Clause.
- Pilemeter snaps photos of your lego brick piles and tells you exactly what pieces you own and where they are (iOS, Play store).
- Vela OS helps investors and founders better predict startup success by analyzing founder behavior, market signals and company metrics (hereâs their public Github repos).
- Both Luma Labs and Runway released new tools to better help creators after the news (Lumaâs, Runwayâs).
- Supabase released version 2 of itâs AI Assistant, a unified dashboard tool that helps developers turns text requests into complete database schemas, SQL queries, and JavaScript code while keeping your data private.
- ACE Studio generates studio-quality vocals from MIDI and lyrics using 80+ AI voices across different music styles (their voice demos are INCREDIBLE).
- Noiz summarizes any Youtube video (officially launches as a web browser in one monthâfor now, you can use the web version to test it)âthereâs also Voiser, which is an alternative for iOS that turns YT vids and voice recordings into searchable text in 75 languages.
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- The Browser Company announced Dia (featured above), a new AI-centric web browser built to simplify internet tasks, set to launch in early 2025.
- The new generation of Claude will train on Project Rainier, a cluster of 100K+ Trainium 2 servers (AWSâ new AI chip servers, announced at Re:invent).
- A former Google engineer revealed how Google's AI can extract detailed information from any uploaded photo (he created Ente as an alternative to Google Photos).
- Nebius, a spin-out of Yandex (the âGoogleâ of Russia) just raised $700M from investors like Nvidia, Accel, and Orbis to expand its AI infrastructure in the US.
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Tuesday Ticker.
Here aer the results from last weekâs poll:
- N.L. chose Gemini: âThe reasoning explained, and intricate interwoven nuances of the prompt, provided context, and response. Very human-like, flowing, and thoughtful.â
- R.B. chose ChatGPT: âChatGPT is much more well adapted to handling high-level mathematics and physics concepts. I see it as more of a true collaborator. Gemini is lagging behind, and gives mostly platitudes.â
- K.N. chose Gemini: âI have tried both and refining the prompts i got more accurate results using gemini.â
- P.E. chose ChatGPT: âI uploaded documents to perform marketing tasks. Trying to upload files with Gemini was so infuriating that I didn't get passed that step. So Chatty wins just by ease of use. Period.â
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