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HUGE AI NEWS: HiDream-O1 Image, Bach 1.0, Zaya1, LabOS, PhysForge & more #ai #ainews #aitools #aivideo #agi Thanks to our sponsor Luma. Try Luma Agents today: https://lumalabs.ai/aisearch-agents RecGen https://reconstruction-by-generation.github.io/ HiDream-O1 Image https://huggingface.co/HiDream-ai/HiDream-O1-Image UniVidX https://houyuanchen111.github.io/UniVidX.github.io/ Gemma 4 MTP https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/ ProgramBench https://programbench.com/ MolmoAct 2 https://allenai.org/blog/molmoact2 PhysForge https://hku-mmlab.github.io/PhysForge/ GPT Realtime 2 https://openai.com/index/advancing-voice-intelligence-with-new-models-in-the-api/ Gene 26.5 https://www.genesis.ai/blog/gene-26-5-advancing-robotic-manipulation-to-human-level AlphaEvolve https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/ Bach https://www.bach.art/ Zaya1 https://www.zyphra.com/post/zaya1-8b LabOS https://ai4labos.com/ DRex https://vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/DRex/ TwELL https://pub.sakana.ai/sparser-faster-llms/ SwiftI2V https://hkust-longgroup.github.io/SwiftI2V/ CDM https://byliutao.github.io/cdm_page/ Map2world https://robot0321.github.io/Map2World/index.html 0:00 AI news intro 0:46 RecGen 3:24 HiDream-O1 Image 7:10 UniVidX 9:55 Gemma 4 MTP 12:26 ProgramBench 15:03 MolmoAct 2 16:42 PhysForge 18:27 GPT Realtime 2 20:55 Luma Agents 22:18 Gene 26.5 25:19 AlphaEvolve 28:44 Bach 1.0 30:08 Zaya1 8B 33:06 Atlas 33:55 Unitree vs EngineAI 34:44 LabOS 37:13 DRex 39:18 TwELL 41:37 SwiftI2V 43:50 CDM 45:52 Map2world Newsletter: https://aisearch.substack.com/ Find AI tools & jobs: https://ai-search.io/ Support: https://ko-fi.com/aisearch Here's my equipment, in case you're wondering: Lenovo Thinkbook: https://amzn.to/4jWeKwH Dell Precision 5690: https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/ai-technologies/index.htm?utm_source=AISearchTools&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=precisionai#tab0=0 GPU: Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada https://nvda.ws/3zfqGqS Mic: Shure SM7B https://amzn.to/3DErjt1 Audio interface: Scarlett Solo https://amzn.to/3qELMeu

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