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• 🎬 Alibaba's video AI outperforms Sora...and it's 2.5x faster

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🧠 Alexa+ — Amazon AI Assistant Gets a Major Upgrade

Amazon just dropped Alexa+, its next-gen AI-powered assistant, rebuilt from the ground up to be smarter, more conversational, and truly useful in daily life.

🔍 What’s New?

• Alexa+ taps into multiple AI models, including Amazon’s Nova and Anthropic’s Claude, picking the best one for each task.

• It can book reservations, order groceries, buy concert tickets, and even analyze documents.

• The assistant remembers your preferences, keeps conversations flowing, and integrates with hundreds of services.

• Price? $19.99/month—but it’s free for Prime members. U.S. early access starts next month.

💡 Why It Matters
Alexa (and Siri) have struggled to keep up in the AI race. But now, Amazon is bringing next-gen voice AI to 100M+ Prime users, possibly setting the stage for another "ChatGPT moment" in mainstream tech.

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🎥 Alibaba’s AI Video Model Shakes Up the Industry

China’s AI video game just leveled up.

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab just unleashed Wan2.1, an open-source AI video suite that outperforms top models—including Sora—on key benchmarks. Even more impressive? It generates videos 2.5x faster than its competition.

What’s inside?
✅ Wan2.1-T2V-14B leads the VBench leaderboard, mastering motion dynamics, physics simulation, and text generation.
✅ Supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-audio—plus it’s the first model to render text in both English and Chinese.
✅ Powerful video editing tools, including inpainting, outpainting, multi-image reference, and character consistency.
✅ A lightweight 1.3B version can run on consumer hardware, generating 5-sec 480P clips on an RTX 4090 in just 4 minutes.

Why does this matter?

The open-source AI race is heating up—and China isn’t slowing down. Wan2.1’s quality leap is the latest in a wave of major AI video releases, following Google’s Veo 2. With near-flawless rendering, Alibaba is making open-source AI video a serious contender in 2025.

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• Omi AI assistance is a wearable Artificial intelligence device that can be placed near or around your head functioning as a personal assistant utilizes a brain computer interface to interpret the users thoughts and respond accordingly, also listening to outside conversations in different languages and translate it for you.

• Anthropic debuted "Claude Plays Pokémon" on Twitch, a continuation of the company’s research showcasing their new AI model Claude 3.7 Sonnet attempting to navigate the classic Game Boy game Pokémon Red in real-time.

• OpenAI also launched a GPT-4o mini-powered Advanced Voice to free ChatGPT users—promising the same conversation style as the GPT-4o version for Plus and Pro users.

• Google has released a no-cost version of its AI coding assistant tool—Gemini Code Assist — globally, for any developer to use helping student developers, hobbyists, freelancers, and startups “more conveniently learn, create code snippets, debug, and modify their existing applications.”

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