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Funding 2 months ago

World Model Startup Odyssey Reaches $1.45B Valuation with Amazon-Backed Round

Odyssey, an AI company focused on world models, has raised a new funding round that values the startup at $1.45 billion. The round is backed by Amazon alongside other prominent ...

TechCrunch – AI · #funding #world-models
Research 2 months ago

AI2 Releases MolmoMotion, a Language-Guided 3D Motion Forecasting Model

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released MolmoMotion, a model that predicts future 3D point trajectories for objects in video given a frame, a set of query points, and a na...

Hugging Face Blog · #world-models #multimodal-vlm-architecture #character-animation
Legal 2 months ago

Trump's Anthropic Shutdown Galvanizes Sovereign AI Efforts in Europe and Beyond

When the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline for all foreign nationals — including the company's own non-American employees — ...

T E · #legal-policy #enterprise-ai-safety #saas-market-dynamics
Research 2 months ago

Researchers Propose 5D Spatio-Directional Hash Encoding to Improve Neural Rendering

A new research paper from Philippe Weier, Lukas Bode, Philipp Slusallek, Adrián Jarabo, and Sébastien Speierer introduces a compact five-dimensional neural encoding designed to ...

arxiv.org · #vfx-industry #virtual-production #world-models
Funding 2 stories
  • Hallstone Ventures Closes $10M+ Fund I with Bets on AI Infrastructure for Entertainment 2 months ago
  • Taste Raises $18.5M Seed to Build AI Infrastructure for Aesthetic and Design Judgment 2 months ago

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Research 2 stories
  • Adobe Research's Object-WIPER Removes Objects and Their Visual Traces from Video Without Retraining 2 months ago
  • SliderEdit Gives Fine-Grained, Continuous Control Over Instruction-Based Image Editing 2 months ago
Object-WIPER: A Smarter Way to Erase Objects from Video 

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Funding 2 months ago

Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility with $50M CHIPS Act Grant to Scale AI Optical Components

Coherent has broken ground on an expanded manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas, backed by a $50 million CHIPS Act grant and an additional ~$17 million in earlier state and l...

NVIDIA Blog – AI & Simulation · #funding #ai-hardware-infrastructure
Acquisition 2 months ago

One Year After Technicolor's Fall, MPC Is Folded Into The Mill By New AI Parent Company TransPerfect

A year after the collapse of Technicolor sent shockwaves through the global VFX industry, another major consolidation is underway: TransPerfect, a translation and AI services co...

Cartoon Brew · #vfx-industry #acquisition

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