Albert Bozesan and Robert Sladeczek: Western AI Demo

• Albert and Robert tested AI’s limits by shooting a Western-style demo with just a mirrorless camera and a local park, later adding elements like a campfire, mountains, and even a horse.

• The project highlights how AI can enhance low-budget filmmaking, but traditional editing and VFX skills remain crucial—offering a glimpse into the future of hybrid live-action and AI-driven films.

Pieter Levels: Flight Simulator

• Pieter Levels has built a fully functional multiplayer flight simulator, fly.pieter.com, using AI tools like Cursor and Grok-3 to generate almost all the code.

• The game runs on a Python WebSockets server that updates player positions every 100 milliseconds, enabling real-time flight interactions.

• He has already added several features, including the ability to buy different planes, dogfighting mechanics, and providing compatibility with mobile.

Abandoned Films: Transformers - 1950s Super Panavision 70

• Abandoned Films has released an AI-generated trailer reimagining "Transformers" as a 1950s Super Panavision 70 film, capturing the era's cinematic aesthetics.

• This project is part of their ongoing series that uses AI to blend modern film concepts with classic filmmaking styles.

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Introducing FLORA

• FLORA has launched an intelligent canvas that integrates leading text, image, and video AI models into a unified platform, enabling users to ideate, iterate, and explore creative concepts seamlessly.

• The platform supports real-time collaboration, allowing teams to work together using their preferred AI tools within an infinite canvas.

• Additionally, FLORA offers a community-driven space where users can discover and share various workflows tailored to diverse creative needs. 

Claude AI is Playing Pokémon on Twitch

• Anthropic's newest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, is currently live-streaming its gameplay of Pokémon Red on Twitch, demonstrating the model's advanced reasoning capabilities.

• This initiative offers a modern parallel to the 2014 social experiment "Twitch Plays Pokémon," where the chat collectively controlled the game with commands.

• Despite its progress, including earning three gym badges, Claude occasionally encounters challenges, such as difficulty navigating around obstacles like rock walls.

ElevenLabs Announces Scribe

• ElevenLabs has introduced Scribe, an advanced automatic speech recognition model capable of transcribing speech in 99 languages with high accuracy, featuring word-level timestamps and speaker diarization.

• This comes off the back of expanding its services to enable authors to create and publish AI-generated audiobooks directly through its Reader app, offering compensation based on user engagement.

• Furthermore, ElevenLabs has partnered with Spotify, allowing authors to distribute their AI-narrated audiobooks on Spotify's platform via Findaway Voices, thereby broadening their audience reach.