Sign Up | Advertise | Podcast | AI University | | | Welcome, AI enthusiasts. | Amazon just unveiled its new Nova family of AI models spanning text, image, and video with capabilities that put them in the conversation with industry leaders. | With a massive customer base, unlimited resources, and now competitive new models, the retail giant may be ready to climb the AI ladder. Let's get into it… | | In today's AI rundown: | Amazon releases Nova AI model family Tencent unveils powerful open-source video AI Build web apps without code using AI Exa introduces AI database-style web search 5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs More AI & tech news
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| | | | AMAZON | |  | Image source: Amazon |
| The Rundown: Amazon just announced Nova, a new family of AI models with text, image, and video generation capabilities, marking the retail giant's biggest push into the consumer GenAI space. | The details: | The Nova lineup includes four text models of varying capabilities (Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier), plus Canvas (image) and Reel (video) models. Nova Pro is competitive with top frontier models on benchmarks, edging out rivals like GPT-4o, Mistral Large 2, and Llama 3 in testing. The text models feature support across 200+ languages and context windows reaching up to 300,000 tokens — with plans to expand to over 2M in 2025. Amazon's Reel model can generate six-second videos from text or image prompts, and in the months ahead, the length will expand to up to two minutes. Amazon also revealed that speech-to-speech and "any-to-any" modality models will be added to the Nova lineup in 2025.
| Why it matters: Amazon got what feels like a later start into the AI race, but this release is the company's biggest play yet. With a massive customer base, near unlimited war chest, and now highly competitive models, the retail giant could be a dark horse contender to quickly surge the AI power ladder. |
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| | TENCENT | |  | Image source: Tencent |
| The Rundown: Tencent just released HunyuanVideo, a new open-source, open-weights, 13B parameter AI video generation model that beats top closed rivals in testing — with the release also making it the largest publicly available model of its kind. | The details: | HunyuanVideo ranked above commercial competitors like Runway Gen-3 and Luma 1.6 in testing, particularly in motion quality and scene consistency. In addition to text-to-video outputs, the model can also handle image-to-video, create animated avatars, and generate synchronized audio for video content. The architecture combines text understanding, visual processing, and advanced motion to maintain coherent action sequences and scene transitions. Tencent released HunyuanVideo's open weights and code, making the model readily available for both researchers and commercial uses.
| Why it matters: An open-source, open-weights video model is now as good (or better) than the top closed options, providing a wildly impressive foundation to build on. AI video is having a moment, and it's hard to imagine how good these models will be in 2025, given the acceleration we are already seeing. |
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| | | | EXA | |  | Image source: Exa |
| The Rundown: Search startup Exa just launched Websets, a new search engine that aims to transform the chaotic web into a structured database using embedding technology from large language models to create the 'perfect web search'. | The details: | Unlike traditional keyword-based search engines, Exa encodes webpage content into embeddings that capture meaning rather than just matching terms. The company has processed about 1B web pages, prioritizing depth of understanding over Google's trillion-page breadth. Searches can take several minutes to process but return highly specific results lists spanning hundreds or thousands of entries. The platform excels at complex searches, such as finding specific types of companies, people, or datasets that traditional search engines struggle with. Websets is Exa's first consumer-facing product, with the company also providing backend search services to enterprises.
| Why it matters: While others race to weave AI models into classic search engines, Exa is rethinking search from the ground up. Though currently slower than normal search, this database-style approach could revolutionize how we find and organize web info — especially for surfacing deeper, specific patterns across the internet. |
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| | | | ElevenLabs unveiled Conversational AI, a new tool that allows users to seamlessly add voice capabilities in 31 languages to AI agents with features like ultra-low latency, LLM flexibility, advanced turn-taking, and more. | Google announced that its VEO video generation model is now available in private preview on the company's Vertex AI platform with its Imagen 3 text-to-image model launching to all users in the next week. | OpenAI appointed former Coinbase CMO Kate Rouch as its first Chief Marketing Officer to lead marketing efforts for both consumer and enterprise products. | Hailuo AI introduced l2V-01-Live, a new AI video model that brings 2D illustrations to life with smooth motion. | Amazon released Automated Reasoning checks on its Bedrock platform to combat AI hallucinations by validating responses against customer-provided data, alongside new Model Distillation and multi-agent collaboration features. | Meta posted a new blog detailing the company's 2024 election integrity efforts, revealing that less than 1% of fact-checked misinformation involved AI content. | European defense tech startup Helsing unveiled its HX-2 attack drone, featuring AI-enabled autonomous capabilities — with plans to mass produce tens of thousands annually at lower costs than existing systems. |
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