Meta's SAM 2, Runway's new Image-to-Video update, Amazon's latest AI chips, and more in this week's AI Pulse!

Reid McCrabb
August 02, 2024

Another Friday, another edition of AI Pulse!

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Meta introduces their new Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) — the first unified model for real-time, promptable object segmentation in images & videos.
Runway releases their Gen-3 Alpha Image-to-Video. Transform any image into the first frame of your video with enhanced artistic control and consistency!
Apple has released a technical report on its Apple Intelligence Foundation Model, detailing the architecture, pre-training methods, and deployment strategies for both on-device and server-based AI models.
DM ToyBox, a new indie project on itch.io, is one of the first video games based on AI-powered content generation. It gives players the control to create characters, items, maps, and more using their imagination.
Amazon has unveiled new AI chips that offer a performance boost of up to 50%, aiming to reduce reliance on NVIDIA's expensive offerings and enhance its AWS cloud services.

This week, we had the HackAI event at the Capital Factory in Austin, Texas and we want to thank all of you who showed up!

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