AI NEWS: Microsoft is offering free access to OpenAI's Sora AI...
Rowan Cheung@rowancheung
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Jun 04, 2025
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AI NEWS: Microsoft is offering free access to OpenAI's Sora AI video generator
Plus, more news from Captions, Cohere, PlayAI, Character AI, and Topaz Labs.
Here's everything you need to know:
Plus, more news from Captions, Cohere, PlayAI, Character AI, and Topaz Labs.
Here's everything you need to know:
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Microsoft just added Bing Video Creator to its Bing mobile app on Android and iOS
The feature uses OpenAI's Sora video generator to let users produce 5s vertical videos from text prompts —entirely for free
Also dropping on Desktop soon
The feature uses OpenAI's Sora video generator to let users produce 5s vertical videos from text prompts —entirely for free
Also dropping on Desktop soon
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Captions dropped Mirage Studio, a platform that generates hyper-realistic videos with AI actors
All one has to do is upload an audio or script to generate audio and select an AI actor for the content
Particularly good for product marketing
All one has to do is upload an audio or script to generate audio and select an AI actor for the content
Particularly good for product marketing
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Cohere and Arc Institute dropped BioReason, a reasoning AI for biology
It fuses DNA models (Evo2) & LLMs (Qwen3) and uses step-by-step biological reasoning to predict disease pathways with 97% accuracy
It fuses DNA models (Evo2) & LLMs (Qwen3) and uses step-by-step biological reasoning to predict disease pathways with 97% accuracy
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Introducing the world's first reasoning model in biology!
🧬 BioReason enables AI to reason about genomics like a biology expert.
A thread 🧵:
🧬 BioReason enables AI to reason about genomics like a biology expert.
A thread 🧵:
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PlayAI open-sourced PlayDiffusion, a diffusion-based audio inpainting model
It allows users to modify words in spoken sentences without changing the entire speech — all while preserving the original context and tone
Also available on Fal and HuggingFace
It allows users to modify words in spoken sentences without changing the entire speech — all while preserving the original context and tone
Also available on Fal and HuggingFace
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Character AI released a bunch of new multimodal creation tools, including:
—AvatarFX image-to-video
—Scenes for immersive storytelling
—Streams for character interactions
—Animated chat sharing
—AvatarFX image-to-video
—Scenes for immersive storytelling
—Streams for character interactions
—Animated chat sharing
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Topaz Labs dropped Bloom, a new class of image upscaler
It can creatively upscale AI images up to 8x while adding prompt-accurate details
Available in five creative modes, going from subtle to max
It can creatively upscale AI images up to 8x while adding prompt-accurate details
Available in five creative modes, going from subtle to max
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AI NEWS: Microsoft is offering free access to OpenAI's Sora AI video generator
Plus, more news from Captions, Cohere, PlayAI, Character AI, and Topaz Labs.
Here's everything you need to know:
Plus, more news from Captions, Cohere, PlayAI, Character AI, and Topaz Labs.
Here's everything you need to know:
