Amazon adds $2.75 billion to its anthropogenic investment and Sora goes to Hollywood

Amazon invests $2.75 billion in Anthropic. This brings Amazon's investment to $4 billion, as this follows their previous investment of $1.25 billion, which gave them the opportunity to invest the additional funds. This comes as a novelty from Anthropics Claude-3 chatbot outperforms ChatGPT-4 in recent tests. Amazon has unique insight into Anthropics' performance because it is part of the suite of AI models offered by AWS, which includes most of Claude's competitors.

Sora goes to Hollywood. Everyone is reacting to a Bloomberg report that OpenAI will soon meet with studios and other Hollywood stakeholders to demonstrate the text-to-video generator's capabilities and explore partnerships. OpenA says anonymous A-list admins are already using it.

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Based in Toronto, shy children are a multimedia production company that used Sora for the short film above about a man literally filled with hot air. His head, as you can see, is a yellow balloon. We now have the opportunity to develop stories we once thought impossible, shares the trio of Walter Woodman, Sidney Leeder and Patrick Cederberg. Walter, who directed Air headsaid Although Sora is good at generating things that seem real, what excites us is his ability to create things that are completely surreal.

Neuralink shows a paralyzed patient playing chess on a PC. Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company has shared a video of its first human patient, Noland Arbaugh, playing chess and Civilization VI using his brain implant. Arbaugh, who is paralyzed below the shoulders, described the experience as “just looking somewhere on the screen” to move the cursor. While some experts see it as a promising step, others point out that it is still in its early stages and that the technology has its limits. Arbaugh acknowledged there is still work to be done, but the implant has already changed his life.

Illuvium Labs raises another $12 million for the NFT gaming universe. After a long development journey of 3.5 years and $60 million in funding, Illuvium Labs is about to unveil its interoperable gaming universe. It will feature three interconnected titles designed to use the same NFTs seamlessly across all games, promising a one-of-a-kind experience. The influx of $12 million in Series A funding from reputable firms like King River Capital, Arrington, and Animoca will be allocated to the development of new gaming titles within the Illuvium ecosystem.

Databricks BDRX claims the crown for best open source LLM. Which include Metas Llama 2 and Mistrals Mixtral. Leading companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic sell or rent their proprietary private models to businesses and subscribers. It was produced for just $10 million, orders of magnitude less than its competitors. On Monday, Wired reported that the company showed data proving its AI models' written comprehension, answers to general knowledge questions, and coding superior to other open source models that can be downloaded from Hugging Face and edited by the users.

Shiba-Inu Metaverse Leader Resigns Amid Intellectual Property Dispute. Marcie Jastrow, the renowned Hollywood executive who led the Technicolors XR efforts, has left the company. This has led the company's legions, known as the Shib Army, to speculate about malfeasance, which is easy to do, because Jastrow is the only person involved who is not anonymous, including the leader charismatic of Ship, Shytoshi Kusama.

This live football experience was built by Immersiv.io to show how AR can transform the live sports streaming and fan experience using Apple Vision Pro. Immersiv.io worked with the Bundesliga (the German Football League) on the production. In an article on X, the company said. This is a 3D reproduction of the live game incorporating live TRACAB Gen 6 skeletal data of all players and the ball, complemented by real-time information, providing the ultimate live tactical perspective of the game.

SXSW 2024: XR that blows your mind. The XR competition was won by an AI experiment, The golden key. This is the second year in a row that an XR experience has not won the grand prize at immersive festivals.

The 2nd Annual AI Film Festival will take place in Los Angeles on May 1 and in New York on May 9. Places are limited, ask to attend at http://aiff.com

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