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• 🏃‍♂️ Robots learn athlete moves: AI copies your favorite celebrations

• 🧠 Google drops Gemini 2.0 bombshell - AI gets cheaper

• 🗣️ Amazon's fixed Alexa: No more AI hallucinations?

• 🤖 From robots to smart rings: OpenAI's wild hardware plans.

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

Google

✨ Gemini 2.0 Rolls Out with Pro & Flash Models

Google just rolled out its latest AI lineup, Gemini 2.0, featuring the powerhouse 2.0 Pro Experimental, the cost-effective Flash-Lite, and an innovative Flash Thinking model designed for step-by-step reasoning.

The details:

• 🧠 2.0 Pro Exp. packs a massive 2M token context window and excels at coding, handling complex prompts with advanced world knowledge.

• ⚡ 2.0 Flash-Lite is a budget-friendly upgrade over 1.5 Flash, offering faster performance at the same cost.

• 🏆 Flash Thinking Exp. is now free in the Gemini app, giving users real-time, step-by-step reasoning insights.

• 🎨 Multimodal inputs are supported across all models, with image generation and text-to-speech features launching soon.

Why it matters:

Google’s Gemini 2.0 Pro is here, but its benchmarks aren’t wowing AI enthusiasts. Unlike the December updates that leaped ahead of the competition, 2.0 Pro’s performance looks underwhelming compared to OpenAI’s latest releases. Is Google keeping something up its sleeve?

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Nvidia

🏀 AI-Powered Robots Master Pro Athlete Moves

Robots are getting athletic—literally. Nvidia and Carnegie Mellon have built an AI system that teaches humanoid robots to move like elite athletes. Think LeBron’s dunks and Ronaldo’s goal celebrations—now performed by machines.

🔍 How does it work?
The AI, called ASAP, trains robots in two phases:
✅ First, it learns movements in a simulated environment.
✅ Then, a neural network fine-tunes those motions for real-world physics.

🚀 The results?

• Unitree G1 robots nailed complex athletic moves, mimicking pros.

• The system slashed motion errors by 53%, a massive leap in AI-driven movement accuracy.

• But not everything is perfect—some test robots overheated and suffered motor damage during high-intensity moves.

💡 Why does this matter?
Robotic movement is evolving at an insane pace. Today, they’re recreating legendary sports moments. Tomorrow? They might be competing in leagues of their own.

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• OEL, a new technology has generated electricity by only adding acidic alkaline liquids. This is a mini outdoor lamp which is able to generate electricity with seawater, a can of coke, sprite and other alkaline liquids.

• OpenAI has filed a trademark application covering everything from humanoid robots to AI wearables like smart jewelry, VR/AR headsets, wearables for ‘AI-assisted interaction,’ smartwatches, and more, hinting at ambitions to move into physical products through partnerships with hardware veterans like former Apple designer Jony Ive.

• OpenAI shared a demo of an automated sales agent system during an event in Tokyo, which has the ability to handle tasks like enterprise lead qualification and meeting scheduling.

• Enterprise software giant Workday announced plans to cut 1,750 jobs or 8.5% of its workforce as the human capital management firm invests heavily in artificial intelligence to counter a softer macroeconomic environment.

• Amazon is reportedly getting ready to release an AI-powered Alexa in a few weeks as they sent press invites to an event to be held on February 26 in New York featuring the head of its devices and services team, Panos Panay. It was built using a unique architecture that makes hallucinations far less likely.

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