☕🤖 Midjourney finally releases their first video model
PLUS: OpenAI Files Revealed...what?
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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your daily dose of AI news!
Midjourney is stepping into AI video, OpenAI’s secrets are hitting the open web and YouTube is plugging Veo 3 straight into Shorts.
Let’s dive in!
(3-minute coffee break ☕)
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🌎 AI News around the world
🔥 Midjourney launches its first AI video-generation model, V1 (continue reading)
📑 OpenAI’s secrets are hitting the open web - “The OpenAI Files” will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works (continue reading)
💸 Meta dangled $100 million bonuses to poach OpenAI staff, says Sam Altman (continue reading)
⚠️ Pope Leo makes AI’s threat to humanity a signature issue (continue reading)
🎬 YouTube will let creators generate Shorts with Google Veo 3 (continue reading)
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format:
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