HeyGen brings photos to life with natural gestures and expressions

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Here is what we have Today:

• 🎭 HeyGen's Avatar IV creates expressive digital humans from a single photo.

• 🚕 Robotaxis coming to 15 new cities

• 📈 Google's Gemini tops ALL AI rankings

• 👓 ByteDance's AI glasses: TikTok for your eyes?

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

Google

🔥 Gemini 2.5 Pro outcodes everyone — even before Google I/O

Google’s latest AI update just wrecked the leaderboard.

Google just dropped a surprise: Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition — and it’s already rewriting the leaderboard.

No big I/O stage, no countdown hype. Just straight to business.

🚀 What’s New?

✅ Top Score on WebDev Arena
➡️ Crushed Claude 3.7 Sonnet by a wide margin

✅ No. 1 on LM Arena
➡️ Beat OpenAI’s o3 across all categories

✅ Supercharged for Coders

• Frontend & UI dev

• Code editing + transformation

• Agentic workflow creation

✅ Now with Video Smarts
➡️ Convert videos into interactive learning apps

🤔 Why It Matters

Google’s I/O keynote? Still weeks away.

But Gemini 2.5 Pro?
Already live. Already leading.

📈 Quietly pushing AI coding into a whole new era — without the hype.

🔥 TL;DR:

Gemini 2.5 Pro isn’t just flexing.
It’s winning.

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HeyGen

🤖 Avatar IV makes AI avatars feel human

HeyGen just gave AI avatars a personality upgrade.
And it’s not just lip-syncing anymore.

This week, HeyGen launched Avatar IV — a new model that turns a single photo and a voice script into a lifelike, expressive video. We’re talking full-on micro-expressions, natural hand gestures, and vocal-matched facial motion.

🔍 What’s New?

🎧 Voice = Emotion
A diffusion-inspired engine listens to your voice and generates realistic facial motion + micro-expressions.

📸 One Image is All It Takes
Just one reference photo — works even with side angles, anime characters, or your pet.

🎭 Full-Body Support
Portrait, half-body, or full-body — you choose. No more stuck-in-a-box avatars.

🎯 Why It Matters

Say goodbye to robotic, deadpan faces.
With Avatar IV, creators can build:

🎥 Influencer-style UGC
🎮 Animated game characters
🎙️ Expressive visual podcasts
🎤 Singing avatars

This is AI-powered content with real personality.

💡 TL;DR

One photo + your voice =
Lifelike, emotional avatars that move and react like humans.

It’s not just a talking head anymore.
It’s your digital double — with soul. 💥

Trending Today

• Scientists has unveiled a robotic caterpillar made to mimic caterpillar in nature, moving in all directions going over obstacles and even stretching over gaps to make a bridge for themselves. These robots are made from soft materials like liquid crystal elastomers.

• OpenAI is keeping its nonprofit in control as it restructures its business arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC). This reverses a December 2024 plan where the PBC would eventually take over operations. Now, the nonprofit will retain both control and a major stake, while hiring a team to pursue charitable initiatives.

• Uber and WeRide plan to expand their robotaxi partnership to 15 more cities over the next five years, focusing on markets outside China and the U.S., including parts of Europe. The move follows their launch in Abu Dhabi, where WeRide provides the autonomous tech and Uber handles the app and routing.

• ByteDance is developing AI-powered smart glasses with an aim to offer real-time AI features like voice commands, object recognition, and translation, powered by its in-house model Doubao. Still in early prototyping, the glasses may combine high-res video, strong battery life, and privacy-first design.

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