Happy Monday, everyone 👋 Rui and Luis here.
You know that moment when a generation comes back almost perfect, and then one mangled hand ruins the whole thing? So you re roll it, and now the parts you actually loved are gone too.
Grok Imagine 2.0 went straight at that problem this week, and it is our favorite kind of update: not a flashier model, just less of the thing that makes you want to close the laptop.
Also on deck, Alibaba pushed AI video to 30 seconds, FLUX 3 Video started making its own audio, and Google DeepMind lost its CEO and chief scientist on the same day.
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xAI shipped Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, live now on grok.com/imagine and the mobile apps.
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🎬 Alibaba opened Wan3.0 in public beta, doubling single generation video from 15 to 30 seconds. (continue reading)
🎞 FLUX 3 Video is generally available, with 20 second HD clips that generate their own dialogue, sound effects and lip sync. (continue reading)
🧠 Google DeepMind lost its CEO and chief scientist on the same day. Demis Hassabis moved up to Alphabet chief scientist, Jeff Dean left after 27 years to found Discovery Loop, and Alphabet shares fell around 4%. (continue reading)
🎙 ElevenLabs released Dubbing v2, which keeps tone and emotion across 90+ languages instead of flattening your delivery. (continue reading)
Great prompt from @Arzoo12sh on X:
Prompt:
A cinematic miniature world scene featuring a tiny chibi-style young man with black styled hair, glasses, a white shirt, blue jeans and brown shoes, standing inside a giant white coffee cup. He is holding an enormous metal spoon and stirring the hot coffee, looking shocked and surprised. Rich coffee foam swirling around the spoon, steam rising from the coffee, cozy modern kitchen in the background, warm natural sunlight, wooden table, shallow depth of field, highly detailed 3D animation, realistic textures, whimsical scale contrast, cinematic lighting, vertical 9:16 composition.
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Stay creative,
Luis & Rui
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