Sign Up | Advertise | Podcast | AI University | | | Welcome, AI enthusiasts. | Samsung is betting big on bipedal robots, and its latest $181M Rainbow Robotics acquisition shows that it's dead serious about bringing humanoids into the home.
With the Korean tech giant ready to combine its AI-infused products with advanced robotics, your next home assistant might just walk on two legs. Let's get into it… | | In today's AI rundown: | Samsung makes big robotics move ByteDance ups image generation efficiency Create AI product videos with Ingredients Rubik's AI releases first model family of 2025 5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs More AI & tech news
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| | | | SAMSUNG | |  | Image source: Rainbow Robotics |
| The Rundown: Samsung Electronics just announced a major investment into Rainbow Robotics, expanding its presence in humanoid robotics development and positioning itself as a serious competitor in the increasingly crowded sector. | The details: | The tech giant will invest $181M to become Rainbow's controlling shareholder, bringing the Korean robotics firm under its corporate umbrella. A newly created Future Robotics division will report directly to Samsung's CEO, and pioneering roboticist Dr. Jun-Ho Oh will head the initiative. The move unites Samsung's AI tech with Rainbow's robotics background, which includes breakthroughs in bipedal movement with its Hubo robot. Samsung also plans to implement Rainbow's robotic systems in manufacturing facilities while advancing humanoid development.
| Why it matters: While competition in robotics has grown fierce, Samsung's vast resources and web of consumer products seem like a perfect match for levelling up toward their own practical humanoid robots. While it sounds like sci-fi, consumers will likely soon have no shortage of household humanoid robots to choose from. |
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| | BYTEDANCE | |  | Image source: ByteDance |
| The Rundown: ByteDance researchers just published 1.58-bit FLUX, a new approach to AI model compression that dramatically reduces the computational demands of state-of-the-art image generation while maintaining output quality. | The details: | The team compressed the FLUX system to three simple values (positive, negative, or zero) instead of complex numbers, reducing storage by 8x. Specialized software helps the compressed system run using 5x less computer memory while producing faster generation speeds. The compression works without requiring access to training images; instead, it uses self-supervision from the original model. Despite extreme compression, tests on industry benchmarks like GenEval and T2I Compbench show comparable image quality to the full model.
| Why it matters: While AI systems across the board continue to accelerate in capabilities, equally important is ensuring compute requirements don't become a bottleneck for real-world use cases. This breakthrough, at least for images, shows AI can drastically reduce requirements without compromising quality. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: Pika Labs' new Ingredients feature lets you upload specific subjects, products, and styles to generate consistent AI marketing videos. | Step-by-step: | Head over to the Pika Labs' website. Locate the Ingredients feature and upload your product images, style references, and backgrounds. Write a clear prompt describing your desired scene. Generate your video using Creative or Precise modes to tell Pika how much to limit its creative interpretation.
| Pro tip: For best results, use high-quality images of your product against a clean background. |
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| | RUBIK'S AI | |  | Image source: Rubik's AI |
| The Rundown: Rubik's AI just kicked off 2025 with the first model launch of the year, and its Sonus-1 family of AI models features four versions designed for various use cases while achieving performances that rival top competitors on key benchmarks. | The details: | The Sonus-1 family includes four model varieties: Mini (speed), Air (everyday use), Pro (complex tasks), and Reasoning (advanced problem-solving). Sonus-1 Reasoning excels at math problem-solving, achieving 97% on the GSM-8k benchmark and 91.8% on advanced mathematics tests. In general knowledge tests, the Pro version with Reasoning reaches 90.15% on MMLU, surpassing many leading competitors and nearly matching o1. The system also integrates real-time search capabilities and Flux image generation, allowing for up-to-date info and visual creation within the platform.
| Why it matters: The first model release of 2025 is impressive, coming from a completely unknown company (there is basically zero information about it, so take these benchmarks with a grain of salt for now). However, if the capabilities hold, this type of performance may be an early preview of how wild 2025 will be. |
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| | | | LG introduced its new line of AI-powered gram laptops, featuring both on-device and cloud-based AI capabilities — with the 2025 lineup including new Pro models powered by Intel's next-gen processors and Microsoft's Copilot+. | Samsung is partnering with Instacart to enable direct grocery ordering from its 2025 Bespoke refrigerator screens, which will utilize 'AI Vision Inside' tech to recognize and reorder food items for same-day delivery. | X missed Elon Musk's previously reported end-of-2024 release for Grok-3, with recently discovered code potentially hinting at a possible 2.5 release planned instead. | AI startup Rembrand secured a $23M Series A funding round to expand its AI-powered virtual product placement tech from social media to connected TV, with the company planning to launch both self-service and professional models. | Google is reportedly using Anthropic's Claude to benchmark and evaluate Gemini's performance, with internal documents revealing detailed response comparisons between the competing models. | An AI-powered robot named Captcha became the first humanoid to teach a class, taking students at a high school in Germany through a day of lectures and debates. |
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