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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

  • 🚀Meta planned $60B AI expansion for 2025.

  • 🍎Apple named new AI chief for Siri upgrade.

  • 🤖 Qwen launches model upgrades, 1M token support

  • 📱Microsoft and Oracle's TikTok bid

  • 💡AI Tutorial:How to create consistent AI videos with 'Ingredients'

  • 🤯 6 new AI Tools

  • 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

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Chinese startup Deepseek is building top-level AI models that compete with industry leaders while spending far less money.

Key Points:

Deepseek’s AI models match or beat OpenAI’s o1 and GPT-4o without a huge budget.The team focuses on AI research instead of making quick profits. They bought over 10,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs before U.S. export rules changed

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  • Knowledge Graph integration for intelligent data retrieval and AI-powered interactions.

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Alibaba's Qwen team just unveiled two new open-source models capable of processing up to 1M tokens, alongside significant speed improvements and a revamped Chat interface. The new Qwen2.5-1M series includes 7B and 14B parameter models, both supporting 1M token context lengths while maintaining accuracy.

Apple is bringing in Kim Vorrath, a longtime leader, to help improve its AI and upgrade Siri. Kim Vorrath, an Apple veteran, is now a key leader in the AI team. Apple is working on better AI models and a stronger Siri system. A big Siri update in iOS 18.4 will help it understand screens and take action.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced a massive $60-65B capital expenditure plan for 2025 focused on AI infrastructure, aiming to position Meta AI as the leading assistant and Llama 4 as the state-of-the-art model in the industry. Meta is growing its AI power with more GPUs and bigger data centers. The company plans to expand fast in 2025.

Oracle, Microsoft, and a group of investors are in talks to take over TikTok's global operations. The deal will allow ByteDance to keep a minority stake in TikTok while the app's algorithm, data collection, and software updates will be overseen by Oracle. Oracle's server network already provides the bulk of TikTok's backbone

AI Tutorial

How to create consistent AI videos with 'Ingredients'

Pika Labs' Ingredients feature allows you to upload images of people, places, and objects to create consistent AI-generated videos.

  1. Go to the Pika Labs website.

  2. Click on the Ingredients tool and upload your images of people, clothing, objects, background visuals, etc.

  3. Type a clear description of the scene you want to create and click on Generate. (You can choose between Creative or Precise mode to adjust how much flexibility you want Pika to have in its video creation.)

  4. You can then swap any "ingredient." For example, you can change the background to keep the same character in a different setting.

🔥AI Tools to supercharge your productivity

  1. Robopic transforms your digital photography experience, allowing you to create hyper-realistic AI photos and videos

  2. MindShow is an AI-powered slide creation tool designed to elevate your presentations effortlessly.

  3. Robopost is an all-in-one social media management tool designed to help freelancers, entrepreneurs, small businesses

  4. Talkiemate - Connect with custom virtual characters for engaging conversations.

  5. Deckee.AI is an AI website, Ethereum web3, and nft marketplace builder that helps influencers

  6. Stylar is an AI-powered design partner that revolutionizes image generation

⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

📡 Verizon unveils AI strategy to power next-gen AI demands.

🖥️ OpenAI's ChatGPT gets a major Canvas upgrade.

⚠️ Hackers use GenAI to attack more frequently and effectively.

🌐 OpenAI wants to take over your browser.

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