AI News – April 15
OpenAI are taking on X with a social media app Google’s VEO2 is now available in Gemini. Claude’s new research tool connects to your workspace and Kling brings cinematic video to users with Kling 2. Here’s today’s AI news The Verge has reported that OpenAI is developing its own social network designed to compete with platforms like X.
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The project is said to be in its early stages with an internal prototype that incorporates ChatGPT’s image generation capabilities into a social feed. Is this a serious attempt to unseat X at the top of the social media news space or just part of the Elon vs. Sam beef? Regardless, it will be interesting to see what OpenAI can produce.
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Google’s VEO2 video generation model is now accessible to Gemini Advanced users and Google One AI Premium subscribers. VEO2 allows users to create high resolution 8 second videos from text prompts, and it’s been vying for the best generative video spot since its release.
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With it now being part of Google’s AI subscription, the usage is likely to explode and the reason to buy a subscription for Gemini is more compelling than ever. Anthropic has introduced a new research feature for its AI assistant, Claude. This is similar in nature to most of the other deep research kinds of tools that we’ve seen from other providers, but it has one important trick up its sleeve.
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As well as the usual web access, Claude’s research tool can also access information from the user’s Google workspace, including Gmail, Calendar and Docs. This allows this research tool to combine knowledge from your docs and about you personally to create a far more tailored response.
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It also seems to allow a certain amount of agentic style operation across your workspace applications and finally, after teasing it yesterday, Kling have launched Kling 2.0, significantly enhancing their text to video technology. This update offers improved motion dynamics, prompt adherence and realistic character expressions, allowing for high quality cinematic visuals.
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We’re only just starting to see some real world usage, but what we’ve seen so far looks stunning. Many users are already claiming that it’s bringing cinema quality video into the hands of ordinary users. This new model has been integrated into Freepik, so if you have a subscription you can start playing with it right now.