AI News for February 20.
Figure wow everyone with their robot duo. Google advance the scientific field with co scientist Elevenlabs and Spotify team up to create audiobooks and Pika Labs delivers yet another fun AI tool. Here’s today’s AI news. Figure unveiled a spectacular video of two of their robots networked together via their new Helix AI.
The robots were able to cooperate on a task that they’d never seen before. We did a separate video on this one earlier today. It’s really fascinating to watch. Google DeepMind has released AI Co Scientist, a multi agent system built on Gemini 2 that is specifically designed to collaborate in scientific fields of all kinds.
It aims to accelerate research by orders of magnitude and produce novel hypotheses and research. Hats off to Google for thinking about how to use AI to really drive progress and not just hit some benchmarks. Eleven Labs and Spotify have announced a new partnership to simplify the process of creating and publishing audiobooks.
With ElevenLabs, excellent AI voice synthesiser, you can turn your written words into a beautiful audiobook with minimal effort and then seamlessly publish and distribute them to a worldwide audience. With Spotify. Pika Labs just can’t stop shipping cool stuff. Today they released Pikaswaps where you can swap out any object in a video for something else more entertaining.
Pika really are creating some of the most fun AI tools on the market.