AI video breaks the 60-second barrier

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The past 12 months of AI video acceleration has brought hyper-realism, smooth motion, and ideal lip-syncs — all trapped in frustrating 5-second bursts.

But an open-weight model just shifted the conversation from fragmented edits to real-time directing of 60-second generations — with LTXV’s update handing creators the keys to a brand-new sort of AI video production.

In today’s AI rundown:

• LTXV unlocks 60-second AI videos

• Recent ChatGPT agents for Excel, PowerPoint

• Research market conditions and create financial dashboards

• Self-driving AI lab discovers materials 10x faster

• 4 latest AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

LIGHTRICKS

🎥 LTXV unlocks 60-second AI videos

The Rundown: Lightricks just released an update to its open-weights LTXV model, now allowing for image-to-video generations over 60 seconds long — streamed in real time, with live prompt control and efficient performance on consumer GPUs.

The main points:

• The model streams video live because it generates, returning the primary second immediately while constructing scenes repeatedly without cuts.

• Users can apply control inputs throughout generation, adjusting poses, depth, and elegance mid-stream for dynamic scene evolution.

• LTXV is trained on fully licensed data, with direct integration with LTX Studio’s production suite and the flexibility to run efficiently on consumer devices.

• The open-source model has each 13B and mobile-friendly 2B parameter versions, available free on GitHub and Hugging Face.

Why it matters: With most video models topping out at just a couple of seconds of output, LTXV’s real-time, 60-second outputs change what’s possible with current AI video content. The shift from waiting minutes for brief clips to directing longer scenes as they generate will open up entirely latest creative workflows.

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OPENAI

📊 Recent ChatGPT agents for Excel, PowerPoint

The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly developing ChatGPT agents that may create and edit spreadsheets or presentations directly in chat and bypass the necessity for suites like Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, in response to a report from The Information.

The main points:

• ChatGPT will feature dedicated buttons below the search bar to generate spreadsheets and presentations using natural language prompts.

• The outputted reports will likely be directly compatible with Microsoft’s open-source formats, allowing users to open them across common applications.

• An early tester reported “slow and buggy” performance from the ChatGPT agents, with a single task taking on to half an hour.

• OpenAI reportedly also has a collaboration tool allowing multiple users to work together inside ChatGPT, but there isn’t any information on its release yet.

Why it matters: The flexibility to create sheets and presentations in ChatGPT, away from Microsoft’s Office empire, appears like a private shot — but OpenAI “steamrolling” a few of the most-used business apps isn’t a surprising move. Still, “slow and buggy” won’t cut it if it truly desires to displace Microsoft and Google’s widely adopted products.

AI TRAINING

📊 Research market conditions and create financial dashboards

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn easy methods to use Grok 4’s advanced research and canvas to conduct comprehensive market evaluation and construct dynamic financial forecasting models.

Step-by-step:

1. Access Grok and select Grok 4 within the model dropdown menu

2. Request comprehensive market research for [INDUSTRY] financial forecasting by analyzing current economic conditions.

3. Ask for scenario planning: “Create three financial scenarios: best case, most probably, and worst case for the subsequent 18 months.”

4. Create visualizations using its Canvas by asking it to code a visible financial dashboard with revenue projections and key economic indicators.

Pro tip: Grok 4’s real-time access keeps your forecasts current as market conditions evolve.

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• How Slack unifies structured and unstructured data by connecting to apps like Salesforce, Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, and more

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💼 AI Job Opportunities

• 🏗️ Glean – Solutions Architect

• 📊 Abridge – Product Manager, Enterprise

• 🚀 OpenAI – Design Execution Manager, Stargate

• 🎬 Luma AI – Account Executive, Entertainment

📰 Every thing else in AI today

Meta reportedly poached Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung from OpenAI, with the 2 researchers previously contributing to each the o1 model and Deep Research.

Anthropic is gaining Claude Code developers Cat Wu and Boris Cherny back, with the duo returning after joining Cursor-maker Anysphere earlier this month.

Microsoft is rolling out Desktop Share for Copilot Vision to Windows Insiders, allowing the app to view and analyze content directly on users’ desktops in real-time.

Scale AI is shedding 14% of its staff in a restructuring following the departure of CEO Alexandr Wang and other employees as a part of a multibillion-dollar investment by Meta.

OpenAI is reportedly creating a checkout system inside ChatGPT for users to finish purchases, with the corporate receiving a commission from sales.

Anthropic is receiving interest from investors for a brand new funding round at a valuation of over $100B, in response to a report from The Information.

AWS unveiled Bedrock AgentCore in preview, a brand new enterprise platform of tools and services for deploying AI agents at scale.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team