AI News – June 18
Meta are trying to tempt OpenAI employees with $100 million offers Gemini 2.5 Flash-lite is Google’s fastest and cheapest model Midjourney enters the world of video generation And Higgsfield put out another amazing Update. Here’s today’s AI news. OpenAI have launched a new podcast series where they will be sitting down to discuss the future of AI and of course their first guest was Sam Altman.
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However, the most viral Sam Altman clip and actually came from his brother’s podcast Uncapped, where Sam also appeared and claimed that Meta is offering $100m signing bonuses to OpenAI staff Yes, you heard that right not $100m a year a 100 million just to accept the offer at Meta, the AI talent war is insane.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-lite has been released and it aims to bring a whole new level of speed and cost effectiveness to the model range. Incredibly, it’s five times cheaper and almost twice as fast as its predecessor. This means that this model excels at all kinds of multimodal outputs and it can process complex data sets at lightning speed.
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Midjourney have long been seen as the premium AI image generation model and now they’re moving into the world of video generation. They’re bringing their world class aesthetics to video and from the demonstrations that we’ve seen so far, they seem like they have a real shot at becoming one of the leading video generation models in the market.
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Let’s see if it’s capable of taking on the likes of Veo 3. And finally, Higgsfield are not letting up. After creating headlines with their, Higgsfield Speak feature, they’ve now launched ‘Canvas’. Canvas allows users to place products into video footage with incredible control and precision.
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You upload the product image, paint in the area where you want the product to appear and hit go. The result is a fantastic product video ready to be used in any marketing campaign.