AI News – May 30
Veo 3 comes to the UK robots will get to Mars before humans Flux.1 Kontext brings consistency to your images and videos and robot dogs are now playing badminton here’s today’s AI news. Google has announced that Veo 3 is launching in the UK and Pro subscribers are getting access with a 10 pack of free trial videos.
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Pro users will also get access to Veo 3 via the Gemini app. At a SpaceX event, Elon Musk gave an update on the plans for travel to Mars, but humans won’t be the first ones there, Elon elaborated, “The first flights there we will send with the Optimus robot so it can go out there to explore and prepare the way for humans” and the timeline for this?
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By the end of 2026. You can really see how Elon’s investments across several leading technologies are starting to converge. Multiple generative AI services have announced that they’re integrating the new Flux.1 Kontext model by Black Forest Labs into their services because of its amazing ability to retain character and scene consistency across multiple shots.
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Leonardo’s Omni Editing is just one example, but it’s also available in Freepik, LTX and others. With the latest video models, there’s little room left to improve on quality, so control over composition and scene flow while maintaining consistency are the next big battlegrounds.
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And finally, ETH in Zurich used reinforcement learning to teach a robot dog to play badminton. Why? Because it’s cool, but it is a very impressive achievement. Using a stereo camera, it predicts the shuttlecock trajectory and can achieve rallies up to around 10 shots.
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It’s fun, but it does also give us a glimpse into the future of sports training and coaching.