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Generative AI models have reached a baseline ability to generate at least passable videos from a single image or short sentence. Companies developing products based on these models claim that anyone with images or recordings can create stylish promotional videos. Also, videos usually perform better than still images or documents. Avatar, backed by Peak XV and Tiger Global, released a new tool on Monday called Velocity. Create product videos directly based on product links. The company will compete with companies like Amazon and Google, which are also experimenting with AI-powered video tools for advertising. The startup ethos behind these tools…
Samsung's CES reporter is always a weirdo. Korean electronics giants generally maintain a dry attitude when it comes to home appliances. After all, the company is expected to announce its latest flagship device, the Galaxy S25, towards the end of January. CES 2025 will continue the company's TV and consumer electronics tradition. There are also possibilities, such as consumer robots that will probably never see the light of day. Samsung has adopted the tagline “AI for All: Everyday, Everywhere” for its presentation, which begins today, January 6th at 2pm PT / 5pm ET. We will include embedding when it becomes…
Elvie, a female-founded hardware startup, has unveiled a new app-controlled smart bouncer that gently transforms into a basket net while carrying a baby. With the new Elvie Rise, announced at CES 2025 on Monday, parents and caregivers no longer have to move babies between cradling, sleep and play products. The startup is known for its portfolio of women's health products, including connected breast pumps and smart pelvic floor exercisers, and is now expanding into the sleep category with its latest product. In bouncer mode, the product uses Elvie's SootheLoop technology to record and repeat the bounce initially established by a…
AMD is fully committed to its efforts at CES 2025. While chipmaker Nvidia remains at the forefront of the AI boom, its competitor is sucking the oxygen out of every room it graces. So how will AMD counter Nvidia's reported RTX 5000 announcement? The company will need to show off its own next-generation GPUs. As part of the ongoing rebranding, the RDNA 4 cards may arrive as the RX 8000 or RX 9000 series. No matter the company's name or numbers, AMD will face some challenges at this year's show. The presser will begin early on January 6th at 11am…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is currently losing money because its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan has more users than expected. In a series of posts about X, Altman wrote, “The price was set by me personally and I thought I could make some profit.” OpenAI released ChatGPT Pro late last year. In addition to granting access to o1 Pro mode, an upgraded version of OpenAI's o1 “inference” AI model, ChatGPT Pro lifts rate limits on several of the company's other tools, including the Sora video generator . Although OpenAI has raised about $20 billion since its founding, it…
At CES 2025, Samsung announced that it will bring popular features from its phones and tablets to TVs. Live Translate does exactly what it says on the box, providing users with real-time translations of live broadcasts. The feature works in seven different languages, although it's not entirely clear which ones at the time of publication. In its current form, the system works by translating the subtitles on the broadcast rather than listening to the audio directly. Live Translate was introduced in early 2024 as part of the Galaxy S24 launch. Currently, it works in 13 different languages on the front…
Have you ever watched a cooking scene on TV and thought, “I wish I could make that at home?'' Maybe it's Il Timpano from The Big Night or Beef from Julie & Julia. Maybe it was Bourguignon. Whatever your desires are inspired by the show, you're in luck if you buy a Samsung TV in 2025. At the CES 2025 press conference in Las Vegas on Monday, Samsung announced Samsung Food, a new feature on its TVs that leverages the company's AI processor to recognize food on the screen and find recipes for it. If Samsung Food sounds familiar, it's…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on his personal blog that he believes OpenAI “knows.”[s] How to build [artificial general intelligence]” as traditionally understood, and is beginning to set its sights on “superintelligence.” “We love our current product, but we're here for a bright future,” Altman wrote in a post published late Sunday night. “Hyperintelligent tools have the potential to vastly accelerate scientific discovery and innovation far beyond what we could do alone, resulting in vast increases in wealth and prosperity.” Altman previously said that superintelligence could be “thousands of days” away and that its arrival would be…
Timekettle announced its latest earphones, the W4 Pro, at CES 2025 in Las Vegas this week. The product aims to further the startup's focus by bringing real-time two-way translation to phone and video calls. The earbuds automatically begin translating calls in 40 languages without any input from the user. As expected, there is a delay of approximately 3-5 seconds after speaking. Timekettle says: “The newly introduced feature enables two-way translation, making it easy to have cross-linguistic conversations through any telecommunications application or traditional telephone system, without sacrificing the original audio quality. , provides two-way synchronous translation.” However, the translated audio…
Accel keeps funding size for its eighth vehicle in India at $650 million, even as other ventures in the region compete to raise increasingly large pools of funding . Accel partner Shekhar Kirani said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company has ample opportunity to raise “billions of dollars.” But unlike its peers who have supersized their funds, Accel remains stable based on a calculated analysis of India's venture opportunities. Peak XV raised $2.5 billion as the latest set of funds for the region, while Lightspeed has nearly doubled its India fund to $500 million in recent years. Stellaris…