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Welcome, humans.

We’re really only a couple of months into this new era of AI video—call it AI video’s “2.0 era”—and every day the internet is consistently delivering solid gold nuggets, like this AI-made trailer for “The Fast & The Furryous.”

IYKYK: “I live my life one quarter meow at a time…”

We truly don’t know how to feel about the cat playing Vin Diesel… but it’s definitely the right cat for the job! (Check the video and you’ll see what we mean).

There’s also been an AI trailer for “John Wick: Chapter 19” featuring an elderly Keanu Reeves, and another one for “Grand Theft Auto: India.”

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

Figure's humanoid robot got an upgrade with OpenAI-powered speech.
Reddit will add AI-powered search with summaries at the top of results.
NVIDIA's H100 GPUs lack enough memory to train large AI video models.
South Korea introduced new AI textbooks that adapt to students' reading levels.

The humanoid robot company backed by OpenAI just got an upgrade.

One of the most well-funded, advanced, and hands-down coolest humanoid robots (think robots that can do human things) just got an upgrade: Meet Figure 02.

Introducing Figure 02

According to founder Brett Adcock, they rebuilt Figure 02 from the ground up to add:

Six cameras, and a “visual language model” (to make decisions on what it sees)
50% more battery life (for a 5 hour runtime, like a human shift!)
Integrated speech-to-speech reasoning powered by OpenAI (so it can talk to you).

Let’s talk about speech-to-speech reasoning. The Figure 02 robots use a custom AI model from OpenAI, along with its onboard speakers and mic, to hold a conversation with you in real time. It can understand you—as much as any chatbot “understands” you, anyway.

Figure Status Update - OpenAI Speech-to-Speech Reasoning

Why does this matter? These robots are literally working, right now—BMW just completed a successful test with the robots in South Carolina.

And Figure’s not alone. The humanoid robot race is heating up:

Amazon is testing Digit from Agility Robotics.
Mercedes-Benz trialed Apollo from Apptronik.
Hyundai plans to test Boston Dynamics' new robot.
Tesla's Optimus is "ready for field tests".

NVIDIA even announced a new developer program for those who want to build humanoid robots. If Nvidia’s involved, you know humanoid bots are gonna be big!

The most intriguing part of the demo: The end credits. Figure 02 is designed to perform “human-like tasks within the workforce and in the home.” In. Your. Home.

Home robots are on the rise. Like check out this new home robot who will do your chores (partly powered by NVIDIA!), or Amazon’s Astro Home Robot that’s like a little security guard.

Our take: It’s good to keep hardware progress in perspective—after all, hardware (like humanoid bots) is hard to scale.

It’s the software that matters here… just think about how impressive all the ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode demos are. Being able to talk naturally to your tech will be huge, whether it's your smart speaker, your nest, or your humanoid chorebot 9,000.

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Around the Horn.

Good thread on the state of the AI video race.

Reddit plans to launch AI powered summaries that pop up at the top of its results like Google’s SGE.
NVIDIA’s H100 GPUs apparently don’t have enough memory to handle the massive amount of video data needed to train AI video models (500K hours = 1,000 terabytes).
South Korea’s new “future classrooms” will use AI-enabled textbooks to assess a reader’s reading level and edit the content accordingly.

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