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• Synthesia human-like avatars

• AI drug discovery startups

• Phoenix robot gen 7

• 6 research and 5 AI tools

• More AI & tech Stories

synthesia
 Synthesia human-like expressive avatars

Synthesia launches expressive AI avatars that can adjust their tone, facial expressions, and body language based on the content they delivers.

Decoding the Details :

• Expressive avatars understand the context and sentiment of the text and adjust their delivery accordingly

• The technology is powered by EXPRESS-1, a deep learning model trained on real-world text and video data

• Synthesia is focusing on positive enterprise use cases, such as healthcare and marketing

• The technology aims to bridge the gap between digital avatars and human-like sentiment understanding
  

Healthcare
🧬Xaira Therapeutics Raises $1 Billion to Revolutionize Drug Discovery with AI

Xaira Therapeutics, an AI biotech company, has raised $2 billion to revolutionize drug discovery using generative AI models.

 Decoding the Details :

• Xaira Therapeutics has been operating for six months and has now raised $2 billion from prominent investors.

• The company uses foundational models developed by the University of Washington’s Institute of Protein Design to create molecular structures for drug discovery.

• Investors acknowledge that generative AI applications in biology are still in the early stages but are optimistic about Xaira’s potential.

Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary AI: Phoenix Gen 7 Robot

Sanctuary AI introduces the seventh generation of its Phoenix robot, showcasing major advancements in human-like motion, uptime, visual perception, and task automation speed.

Decoding the Details :

• Improved hardware: increased uptime, reduced build time and cost, enhanced range of motion, and miniaturized hydraulics

• Advanced sensing capabilities: better visual acuity and tactile sensing for higher-fidelity data

• Faster task automation: from weeks to less than 24 hours, marking a major milestone

• Capturing high-quality human behavioral data to expedite the development of foundational AI models and customer deployments

 🧰 AI Tools

• Anon - The toolkit for building AI integrations for sites without APIs.

• Greetio - Send eCards with personalized AI-assisted poems

• Looka AI: AI-powered platform to design a logo

• Papermark AI: Your open-source AI document assistant. chat with documents

• HomeStage: Upload a picture and instantly add virtual furniture to any room

🧬New Research
arXiv is a free online library where researchers share pre-publication papers.

📑CatLIP: CLIP-level Visual Recognition Accuracy with 2.7x Faster Pre-training on Web-scale Image-Text Data

📑PuLID: Pure and Lightning ID Customization via Contrastive Alignment

📑Editable Image Elements for Controllable Synthesis

📑ID-Aligner: Enhancing Identity-Preserving Text-to-Image Generation with Reward Feedback Learning

📑MoDE: CLIP Data Experts via Clustering

📑MotionMaster: Training-free Camera Motion Transfer For Video Generation

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