Sign Up | Advertise | Podcast | AI University | | | Welcome, AI enthusiasts. | The barrier between images and reality just got thinner with World Labs revealing tech that transforms static images into explorable 3D spaces.
Creating immersive digital environments is about to become as easy as taking a photo, and it could change how we think about virtual spaces forever. Let's get into it… | | In today's AI rundown: | World Labs unveils explorable AI-generated worlds OpenAI weighs ChatGPT advertising push Bring characters to life with AI videos Hume releases new AI voice customization tool 5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs More AI & tech news
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| | | | WORLD LABS | |  | Image source: World Labs |
| The Rundown: 'Godmother of AI' Fei-Fei Li's startup World Labs just revealed its first major project — an AI system that can transform any image into an explorable, interactive 3D environment that users can navigate in real-time through a web browser. | The details: | The system generates complete 3D environments beyond what's visible in the original image, maintaining consistency as users explore. Users can freely move and look around a small area of the generated spaces using standard keyboard and mouse controls. The tech also features real-time camera effects like depth-of-field and dolly zoom, plus interactive lighting and animation sliders to manipulate scenes. The system works with photos and AI-generated images, allowing creators to combine it with everything from text-to-image tools to famous works of art.
| Why it matters: World Labs' approach of generating actual explorable 3D environments opens up entirely new possibilities for areas like games, films, virtual experiences, and creative workflows. In the very near future, creating sophisticated worlds will be as accessible as generating images is today. |
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| | OPENAI | |  | Image source: Grok |
| The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly exploring the introduction of advertising into its AI products as it seeks new revenue streams, with CFO Sarah Friar confirming the company is evaluating an ads model despite previous hesitation from leadership. | The details: | OpenAI has quietly hired key execs from Meta and Google for an advertising team — including former Google search ads leader Shivakumar Venkataraman. While bringing in $4B annually from subscriptions and API access, OpenAI faces over $5B in yearly costs from developing and running its AI models OpenAI executives are reportedly divided on whether to implement ads, with Sam Altman previously speaking out against them and calling it a 'last resort.' Despite her initial comments about weighing ad implementation, Friar clarified there are "no active plans to pursue advertising" yet.
| Why it matters: While ad integration may offset some massive AI development costs, it can also be a slippery slope (like Google's over-saturation of promoted results). Depending on the implementation, having ads within models could also change the relationship between the user and AI and the 'trust' of the outputs. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: Rendernet now lets you create life-like videos with character consistency, perfect for storytelling and product marketing. | Step-by-step: | Visit RenderNet AI and create a free account. Select 'Create New' in the main dashboard and follow the steps to create your character. Choose the character you created and type a prompt describing the scene and the character's motion. Click 'Generate Video' to create your character video.
| Pro tip: To have more control over the video, you can also generate an image of your character and convert it to video using the Video Anyone feature in Studio. |
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| | HUME | |  | Image source: Hume |
| The Rundown: Hume AI just launched Voice Control, a new feature allowing developers to create consistent, custom AI voices by adjusting 10 intuitive sliders. | The details: | The system features 10 adjustable dimensions, including gender, assertiveness, confidence, and enthusiasm, that can be modified through a slider interface. Rather than selecting from preset options, creators can make precise, continuous adjustments that remain consistent across different use cases. Voice Control also isolates each voice characteristic, allowing users to adjust individual traits without impacting other qualities.
| Why it matters: The future of AI speech isn't cloning—it's personalization. Creating custom voices will be as easy as creating a character in a video game, and tools like this could revolutionize how we think about AI speech development for use cases such as brand voices, NPCs in games, audiobook narration, and more. |
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| | | | Cohere released Rerank 3.5, a new AI search model featuring enhanced reasoning capabilities, support for 100+ languages, and improved accuracy for enterprise data searching across documents, code, and more. | The Browser Company teased Dia, a new AI-integrated smart web browser with demos that included agentic actions, natural language prompting in the command bar, and built-in AI writing and search tools.
The U.S. Commerce Department unveiled new chip restrictions targeting China's AI advances, blacklisting 140 entities and expanding controls on high-bandwidth memory chips. | AI chip startup Tenstorrent secured a $700M funding round led by Samsung and backed by Jeff Bezos, valuing the Nvidia competitor at $2.6B. | Nous Research launched a new distributed AI training effort, pre-training a 15B parameter language model over the internet and live-streaming the process. | Amazon Web Services announced major data center upgrades to support next-gen AI chips and genAI workloads, including new liquid cooling systems and improved electrical efficiency. |
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| | | | That's it for today!Before you go we'd love to know what you thought of today's newsletter to help us improve The Rundown experience for you. | | See you soon, | Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team | |
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