Firefly takes on AI Video

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Adobe’s Firefly just got a video upgrade — and in contrast to OpenAI’s long-awaited Sora, it’s available to everyone.

With impressive generation capabilities built right into the favored creative suite, is Adobe’s latest model the trojan horse that takes AI video mainstream? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Adobe unveils Firefly Video Model at MAX

• OpenAI locked in legal battle with… Open AI?

• Turn web sites into engaging presentations

• AI simulates Counter-Strike using neural network

• 5 latest AI tools & 4 latest AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

ADOBE

🎬 Adobe unveils Firefly Video Model at MAX

The Rundown: Adobe just announced the addition of recent video generation capabilities to its Firefly AI model and Premiere Pro at the corporate’s MAX Conference, alongside a slew of major AI updates across its creative software ecosystem.

The small print:

• The brand new Firefly Video Model is now in limited public beta and allows users to generate video from text prompts or images in Firefly and Adobe Premiere.

• Video capabilities include cinematic video, 2D and 3D animations, text graphics, b-roll, and screen effects to mix with normal footage.

• The model is trained exclusively on Adobe Stock and public domain content and is designed to be ‘commercially secure.’

• Premiere Pro gets Generative Extend, a Firefly-powered tool for easily extending clips, smoothing transitions, and fine-tuning edits.

• Adobe also rolled out 100+ features across Creative Cloud apps, GenStudio for enterprise marketing, and Project Concept for collaborative remixing.

Why it matters: Adobe’s latest model looks impressive and might be one in all the primary AI video systems to really break into the mainstream with seamless inclusion in its popular creative suite. While OpenAI’s Sora STILL awaits public access, others are filling the void with powerful models — it’s getting more competitive by the day.

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OPENAI

🏛️ OpenAI locked in legal battle with… Open AI? 

The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly involved in a trademark dispute with Guy Ravine, who owns the ‘Open AI’ (with an area) trademark and claims he conceived and pitched the concept for the initiative to major tech leaders before the corporate’s founders.

The small print:

• Ravine registered the domain open.ai in March 2015 and owns the ‘Open AI’ trademark, which Sam Altman and Greg Brockman tried to buy from him.

• He alleges he pitched the concept to tech figures like Larry Page and Yann LeCun months before OpenAI’s launch in December 2015.

• OpenAI sued Ravine in 2023, accusing him of attempting to take advantage of their brand, and Ravine countersued, saying the corporate stole his idea.

• A judge dismissed much of Ravine’s countersuit in September, though he plans to refile and push for a trial.

Why it matters: This Bloomberg investigation is wild, and it’s hard to discern whether this can be a case of pure delusion or the underdog getting crushed by the large corporation. Because the article points out, there’s major irony within the trademark dispute, given OpenAI’s legal issues from training data and copyright complaints.

AI TRAINING

🌐 Turn web sites into engaging presentations

The Rundown: Gamma’s AI tool can transform any web content, including your blog posts, into skilled presentations with just a couple of clicks.

Step-by-step:

1. Log in to your Gamma account (or enroll totally free).

2. Click “+ Create latest” and select “Import file or URL.”

3. Select “Import from URL” and paste your website’s URL.

4. Within the prompt editor, select the quantity of text, language, and AI images you like.

5. Hit “Proceed” and watch your presentation come to life!

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AI RESEARCH

🎮 AI simulates Counter-Strike using neural network

The Rundown: Researchers from the University of Geneva, University of Edinburgh, and Microsoft developed DIAMOND, an AI model that may generate a playable simulation of Counter-Strike(CS:GO) at 10 frames per second inside a neural network.

The small print:

• DIAMOND uses a diffusion-based approach, predicting the subsequent frame based on previous frames and actions.

• The model was trained on just 87 hours of CS:GO gameplay data, a fraction of what similar projects (like Google’s recent DOOM simulation) typically use.

• Users can interact with the simulation using a keyboard and mouse, with the AI recreating elements like weapon mechanics and player interactions.

• The model achieved a 46% higher than human-level rating on the Atari 100k benchmark, a SOTA performance for agents trained on a world model.

Why it matters: While still imperfect, DIAMOND points towards applications in robotics, autonomous systems, and virtual world creation. The power to generate interactive, physics-based environments could revolutionize how AI is trained for real-world tasks. Plus, open-world video game creation is about to significantly level up.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• ⚙️ LLMWare – Dev tool to make AI apps deployed privately or locally

• 🎬 Director Mode by Wondercraft – High quality-tune and direct AI voices through prompts

• 🔊 Audeus – Read aloud PDFs, Google Docs, email, and more using text-to-speech AI

• 📊 SheetBot AI – AI data analyst to visualise, summarize, and automate work

• 📸 PicLooks AI Avatars – Free authentic AI profile pictures for designs

Latest AI Job Opportunities

• ⚙️ Databricks – Engineering Manager

• 💻 Mistral AI – Software Engineering

• 🩺 Curai – Physician – Telemedicine

• 📊 Cohere – Data Partnerships Manager

QUICK HITS

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is reportedly attempting to poach OpenAI employees for a brand new enterprise just weeks after leaving the corporate — despite remaining an advisor.

Key Microsoft AI researcher Sebastien Bubeck departed to affix OpenAI after playing a outstanding role within the small, efficient Phi language models.

Google partnered with nuclear startup Kairos Power to construct seven small modular reactors within the US, aiming to produce 500 megawatts of carbon-free electricity for AI data centers by 2030.

YouTube announced that creators can now leverage its AI Dream Track feature to generate soundtracks for shorts using natural language prompts directly within the app.

Gatorade launched a brand new promotion with Adobe allowing users to leverage Firefly’s AI models to customize squeeze bottles with unique designs.

Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider CoreWeave secured a $650M credit loan to fuel growth and announced an almost $1B investment in U.K. AI infrastructure.

THAT’S A WRAP

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team