Well, this week was election week here in the US, and for the most part, the election is what dominated the news cycle, at least here in the US and probably in most of the world. And I think a lot of the companies that are building in the world of AI and of went, Hey, we're going to sit this week out. There's enough news going around. We're going to get overshadowed. With that being said, there was a whole bunch of small updates that I think are worth talking about. But before I do, let's talk about the election. As we all know, Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States. And I am not going to get political in this video, I promise. But what I do want to do is I want to break down some of the potential implications of the election on the world of AI, and I'm going to do my best to do it without bias and just sort of share the details that we know, what is sort of out there in the open about what might happen as a result of Donald Trump.

being the new president in the US, starting with the fact that Trump has claimed that he is going to repeal the AI executive order that Joe Biden put into place during his presidency. The exact quote: When I'm elected, Trump said at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last December, I will cancel Biden's artificial intelligence executive order and ban the use of AI to censor the speech of American citizens on day one. Now, if you need a quick refresh, of course, on what the executive order included, it required for companies developing Foundation AI models to notify the federal government and share results of all safety tests before they deployed to the public. This article on TechCrunch says the order specifically targets any foundation model that might pose a risk to National Security, Economic Security, or public health, which, while somewhat open to interpretation, should cover just about any foundation model that comes to fruition. The order also outlines plans to develop various new tools and systems to ensure that AI is safe and trustworthy, with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the NIST.

with developing new standards for extensive red team testing prior to release. It's also designed to protect against the risks of using AI to engineer dangerous biological materials, protecting against AI-powered fraud and deception, and establishing a cybersecurity program to build AI tools for addressing vulnerabilities in critical software. And again, as Trump has stated himself, he plans on repealing this order, theoretically making it easier and faster for the tech companies to sort of speed up innovation. Again, at least that's the thinking here. Trump allies have claimed that they want to make America First in AI with a sweeping executive order. Apparently, this new executive order aims to boost military technology and reduce regulations on AI development. The order outlines a series of Manhattan projects to advance military AI capabilities, and it calls for a review of what it terms unnecessary and burdensome regulations on AI development. Now, along with the election of Donald Trump, we also get Vice President JD Vance, and JD Vance has some thoughts on AI as well. Specifically, he seems to be a pretty big proponent of

open-source AI. Back in July, he said this: You know, very often CEOs, especially of larger technology companies that I think already have advantage positions in AI, will come and talk about the terrible safety dangers of this new technology and how Congress needs to jump up and regulate as quickly as possible. And I can't help but worry that if we do something under duress from the current incumbents, it's going to be to the advantage of those incumbents and not to the advantage of the American consumer. And the way I kind of interpret that is that he's worried that all of the big companies, the Googles, the Microsofts, the Open AIs of the world, they could steer too much of the regulation in favor of them and away from the smaller companies and the people building open source. And he wants to make sure that that doesn't happen. That's my interpretation, at least. And then we've got the Elon Musk factor. Obviously, Elon Musk became a huge proponent of Donald Trump and really, really helped push his campaign by using

his xplatform to really campaign for Donald Trump. As we know, Elon Musk runs X, aai, and so Elon being in tight with Trump will likely have some implications on AI as well. If Elon has a little bit of pull over where Donald Trump takes the regulations with this stuff, it's most likely going to work in his favor and well, xai's favor. Donald Trump has also showed concerns about how much energy usage AI requires, actually telling Elon Musk, You are going to need tremendous amounts of electricity, like almost double what we produce now for the whole country, if you can believe it. Now, how that's going to be rectified in the future, that's anyone's guess. And that's really all I'm going to share about the elections. I just wanted to sort of recap what we know right now from statements that people like Trump and his allies and Elon have said in the past, and that is the information that we know that could help us understand where the world of AI might go under President Trump. From the sounds of things, it kind

of seems like a bunch of the guard rails might be lifted, some new ones put in place, but the fact that he wants to be first in the world in AI sounds like they're likely going to have an agenda to sort of push AI forward and minimize as much regulation as possible. Again, that's just my interpretation of this all. We'll just have to wait and see if many of the things that he said he was going to do on day one actually happen. Now, moving away from the election, there has been a handful of smaller updates that I think are pretty dang cool that I wanted to show off, starting with the fact that Runway ML actually released this new feature called Advanced Camera Control that allows you to actually control the angle of your camera when you're making AI-generated video. So, I have this image of myself already loaded into Runway here. I'll go ahead and prop it 'cause it wants it to be in that sort of 16x9 here. Over on the left side here, you can see I've got a little grayed-out box.

for the camera controls. If I click on that, it asks me to switch to Turbo. If I go ahead and select that, you can see that I can actually play with any of these sliders here and change the horizontal movement, the tilt movement, the pan movement. Here we got zoom, vertical movement, and a roll movement. Let's go ahead and do a vertical movement here and a roll movement at the same time. Click generate, and let's see what we get out of this. And I get a video with some interesting rotations on it. Not quite as cool as the demo that they showed off here, but something that I encourage you to go play around with and see what you get out of it. Cing AI is also rolling out a new feature for their video platform that allows you to train your own face into the video. Here's some examples I came across from the Techalla X account here, where we can see a video that clearly has his own face in the video as he talks on the phone and eats a hamburger and eats a pizza with people cheering around him.

and navigates the oceans on a boat as he gets splashed. It's pretty cool. I'll link up to the X post below 'cause he does show off some more examples. He did mention that Ling gave him early access to the custom face model feature, so my guess is it hasn't fully rolled out to people yet. Here's something else that's really cool in the world of AI video. This is X portrait 2 from ByteDance, the company behind TikTok and CapCut and some of those tools. We could take a peek at some of these videos, but what's going on here is these videos are actually taking the facial expressions and the mouth movements and the head movements of the actual camera video and then applying them to an image, and it maintains all the same emotions and sort of like micro elements of the movement. So check this out. Here's one of the demos. This image on the bottom left here is the image that they uploaded to be the face that you know changes from the video, and then

down on the right here we can actually see the video. So take a look. You're not the only one who's got wants and needs, but it held on to your toy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, and dreams, and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed to watch a braid over. I played myself inside you and waited to bloom. It took me no 18 years to realize the soil was hot and rocky, and it was never going to bloom. You can see that the image followed the same emotion and had all the same expressions and the wrinkles in the forehead and the blinking and all of it. As the head moved around, it actually followed the sort of driving video perfectly. Now there's no code for this yet. It doesn't seem to be usable on Hugging Face or anything like that. This is just a demo of some of the research they're showing, but I will link up to this GitHub page below so you can check out some more of the

examples. They are pretty dang impressive. We can see a comparison here between the original video and the Driving Image theirs, and then you have the original X portrait and Runway act one, and you could just see how much more expressive this one is than these other versions that are available right now. And here's another one I came across from 100x Engineers here on Instagram. This one's called face pooke, and it lets you upload an image, and then you could tweak the image however you want by just selecting areas of the image and then moving them around. And this one is available over on hugging face. So if I head on over to hugging face, let's do a quick search for face poke, and it asks us to choose a portrait photo. So let's go ahead and just pull in an image of my head here, and if I click this show face markers, you can see it kind of tweaked the way my face looks by default, but it put these face markers here, and if I click and drag, you can see I could make my go

to sleep. I could close my mouth, open my mouth, adjust which way my head is facing, lift my eyebrows up. Let's see if I can wake myself up here, get my eyes open. And you could easily manipulate the face of any image that you upload. Now, it does seem to lose some quality when I do it, but it's still pretty fun, pretty cool. It's going to help anybody get to exactly that image that they're looking for in the future. And while we're talking about AI images, Black Forest Labs rolled out some new updates for their flux models, which a lot of people consider to be the most realistic AI model out there. They rolled out both the ultra mode and the raw modes. The ultra mode could generate four times higher image resolutions, up to 4 megapixels. Here's some examples of those. And then the raw mode is designed to create more authenticity in the images. And if we look at some of these images, they don't look like they're professionally composed. The angles are kind of weird.

they look like more realistic images that you just kind of shoot on your iPhone or something like that. Maybe outside of the Giant Octopus playing in the bathtub, all the rest look like something that if you just came across it inside of Google images or something, you'd probably assume it was a real image. The tool Kaya just rolled out the ability to train lauras inside of the platform, meaning that you can train it on specific styles. Like if you have your own art style and you want every single image to look like that color scheme and that sort of aesthetic, you can train aura so that every image that you create looks like that style. You can also use luras to train your own face into the model and generate images with your face on them. Luras are super, super powerful to make sure that you can get some sort of consistent look, some sort of consistent face, a consistent style. If you've been messing around with AI images for a while, and if you use stable diffusion, you're probably already familiar with luras, but we're starting

to get these luras rolled out into more and more of these AI art generator platforms. Now, this is still rolling out. They gave out 100 invites of people to try it out, and this post has been seen by 70,000 people. Unfortunately, I was not one of the first 100 to get an early invite, so I can't actually show off the Laura functionality inside of Kaa, but it's there for some people, and it'll be rolling out soon for others. Moving on to large language model news for this past week, Anthropic added a minor upgrade in that now when you upload a PDF, it can actually read what's in the images and not just the text of the PDF. So, in the past, if you wanted to upload a giant ebook or something, it would read all the text of the ebook, but if there were images or graphs within the ebook that had text within the image, it wasn't reading those. It was just reading the actual text in the document. Well, now it's going to read both the text and

what's in the images when you upload a nice little quality of life improvement if you use cloth a lot, and while we're on the topic of anthropic, they did something quite interesting that the AI world has been talking about, and that's that they pied up the price of their smallest Hau model while almost every other AI platform is lowering the price to use their API. It just seems like it was a very interesting move for anthropic to raise the price of using theirs. They said during final testing Haiku surpassed clad 3 Opus, our previous flagship model. As a result, we've increased pricing for clad 3.5 ha cou to reflect its increase in intelligence. A lot of people on X have called this the hiu intelligence tax. It got smarter, so you got to pay more for it now. In all likelihood, unless you're a developer who's building software on the back of claw, you probably don't care about this information, but the AI world seemed to find it fascinating, and in the final bit

of anthropic news. Anthropic is actually partnering up with Paler, the defense company, along with Amazon AWS, who allow the US government to use their models for intelligence and defense operations. This is to support government operations such as processing vast amounts of complex data rapidly, elevating data-driven insights, identifying patterns and trends more effectively, streamlining document review and preparation, and helping US officials to make more informed decisions in time-sensitive situations while preserving their decision-making authorities. But it doesn't sound like AI is going to have their finger on the button to launch missiles or anything like that, just that the government can use it for more analytic-type purposes. Anthropic is not the only one. Meta said this week that it's making its L models available for US National Security applications as well. They said, We're pleased to confirm that we're making Llama available to US government agencies, including those that are working on defense and National Security applications and private sector partners supporting their work. We're partnering with companies including Enture, Amazon.

web services and Booze Allen, Databricks, Deloitte, IBM, Blos, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Paler Scale AI, and Snowflake to bring Llama to government agencies. And since we're on the topic of Meta, Instagram is planning to use AI to catch teens lying about their age. Instagram recently started rolling out their teen account feature, and they're building this proprietary software tool that it calls its adult classifier. It's designed to break people off into two categories: older or younger than 18. They're going to use this by looking at the person's own account data and sift through their profile, see their follower list, and what content they interact with, and will even scan unsuspecting happy birthday posts made by friends to predict the user's age. So, if you're under 18 and trying to claim to be over 18 and you want to use Instagram, well, Instagram's probably going to figure out whether or not you are actually over 18. OpenAI managed to steal a member away from Meta this week. Caitlyn Kalinowski was the head of their augmented reality.

division. She actually helped develop the Orion glasses that we saw last month. He posted on her LinkedIn that she's delighted to share that she's joining OpenAI to lead Hardware. In the new role, she will focus on OpenAI's robotics work and partnerships to help bring AI into the physical world and unlock its benefits for humanity. ChatGPT got a new domain name this week. If you go to chat.com, it will actually redirect you to ChatGPT. Now, well, it turns out that the founder of HubSpot, Dharmesh Shah, is the person who sold that domain name to OpenAI. I don't know if it's explicitly been disclosed how much he sold it to OpenAI for, but the rumors are that it was around $15 million, and I believe that was sold in equity. So, that Dharmesh actually holds equity in OpenAI as a result of this chat.com sale. SaaS Junction down here points out that OpenAI now owns both ai.com and chat.com, and sure enough, if you go to ai.com, it

also redirects to chat GPT. Open AI announced predicted outputs this week, which dramatically decreases the latency for GPT-4 and GPT-4 mini. If I'm being honest, this is slightly over my head, but we can see in the comparison video here that on the left, we have GPT-4 and GPT-4 with the new predicted outputs, and we can see how much quicker it is actually giving the output. Over here on the right side, it's already done, while the one on the left is still going. But people much more technical than me might be able to better describe what is going on here in the comments. The company Hume just released a new app. If you're unfamiliar with Hume, I talked about it a few months ago, but it is a sort of AI voice discussion app that better understands emotions. So, it could kind of tell when you're happy or sad or angry and infer your emotions based on your tone and how you're speaking. Well, this new version has brand new assistants that combine

voices and personalities generated by their speech language model evi 2, and you can now use supplemental models like the new clae 3.5 Hau. So if I head over to app. hum, you can see there's some various options to play around with Hume here. We've got quick answers, fast question answering, life advice, storytelling, deeper questions, spirituality, and emotional reflection. So let's go ahead and do life advice here, and as soon as I click on this, it's going to start listening to me, and I can have a conversation with it. I really want to make a lot more YouTube videos, but lately, I've been having some struggle figuring out what to make them about. It seems like the news hasn't been as exciting as it once was, and I'm really trying to figure out how to create quality content that people get excited about while not just putting out content for the sake of putting out content. How should I go about this, my dear? Quality over quantity has always been the hallmark of excellence in content.

creation, much like hosting the perfect dinner party, requires finesse and careful consideration. Perhaps we might shift our perspective a touch, my dear. Content creation is rather like hosting the perfect dinner party. One mustn't simply throw ingredients together and hope for the best. And after about a minute of the reply, it actually wants me to log in to keep the conversation going, but you get the idea. Microsoft had some new updates this week as well, with new experiences in Paint and Notepad. Paint now has generative fill, just like Photoshop has generative fill. You can now do it directly inside of Microsoft Paint. Select an area inside of Microsoft Paint, give it a prompt of what you want to see, and watch as it generates it straight into your image. It's also got generative erase now, so if you have an image in Microsoft Paint, you can mask stuff out, click apply, and watch as that portion disappears from your image. And they've added AI into the basic Notepad app now, so if you want it to help you extend out some text or reformat some

text or change the tone of the text that's going to be built directly into Notepad. Now you can get access to this right now if you want to install the newest, latest, most beta version of Windows on your computer. I did that at one time, and it actually caused my computer to crash quite often, so I reverted back to like the more stable version of Windows. But if you want to try it, it's available. I'm just personally going to wait for it to roll out to the more stable version of Windows before I play with it too much myself. All right, a handful of more small things that I want to share that are, you know, somewhat interesting, probably more interesting to some than others, but let's just break it down in rapid-fire fashion here. Prime Video is going to let you summon AI to recap what you're watching. The new tool called X-Ray Recaps can create text summaries of full seasons of TV shows, single episodes, or even pieces of episodes. We can see what that might look like in this screenshot.

here on the blog post on the verge, and personally, I think that might be kind of helpful because how often have you watched a show and then like two years go by before the next season comes out, and then you start watching it, and you're like, I have no idea what's been happening. Usually, they just like make a recap video for you, and that's way more valuable, but if you just want the TL;DR, this seems like it'll be pretty useful. Apple's iOS 18.2 started rolling out in public beta this week with even more of the AI features available. This new version's going to have Chat GPT, visual intelligence, and their image playground. However, be ready, you probably are going to get a limited version of Chat GPT. Here's a leaked screenshot that actually shows, here, let me zoom in a little bit here, that inside of the settings, you can turn on using Chat GPT with Siri, but it also gives you like an upsell to upgrade to Chat GPT Plus to

get five times more messages and higher limits and more natural real-time conversation. So just by owning an iPhone with iOS 18.2, you're not going to get access to like the full chat GPT plus functionality. You're just going to get like the same free functionality that you get, and they're still going to encourage you to upgrade for 20 bucks a month to get everything. This is a really cool tool that a lot of people have been talking about, and I waited far too long to try it out myself, but it actually is really, really impressive. It's a tool called bolt.new, and you give it a single prompt, and it will build whatever you prompt it with. Now, I'm not going to go too deep in this video. I think this tool deserves its own sort of dedicated video to see what it's really capable of, but real quick, if I head on over to bolt.new, real simple, what do you want to build? I'll give it the prompt to build me a Tetris game that I can play.

in my browser, you can see it just goes to work on coding, so hands-free right now, not doing anything. It's just writing all the code for me. You can see it's created a whole bunch of different files already, and it's just going to go to work and populate all of these files and build the app that I asked it to build. We can see here that the reply to my prompt was, I'll create a beautiful, fully-featured Tetris game with modern visuals, scoring, levels, and next piece preview. So, it obviously already knows what Tetris is, knows what to make, and it's just going and doing it right now. And it's done. It took maybe a minute and a half, and we've got what looks like a Tetris board here. I've created a modern, fully-featured Tetris game with smooth animations and modern UI, score tracking and levels, game pause functionality, etc., etc., controls: Arrow up, Arrow left, right arrow, down arrow. Let's go ahead and click Start game. Well, it's got a good user interface, but the

game doesn't quite work yet. Let's go ahead and let it know. So, I said the UI appears, but no Tetris blocks are showing up in the game. Let me fix the issue with Tetris blocks not showing up. The problem is the styling of the cells. We need to properly set the RGB colors. It went and did that, and look at this. I actually have what looks like a really decent Tetris game. So, there's my square piece. Put it down there. Now, it's putting another piece. If I hit up, it actually rotates the piece for me. Now, it's not actually showing the next piece for me like it said it would, but let's go ahead and place some of these pieces here. I'm going to quickly put a bunch of pieces down 'cause I want to see if it actually works if I get a line to fill. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and drop this last piece. Let's see if it actually notices I fixed a line. And look at that. It actually removed the line.

that it just put down so this appears to be working pretty dang well. I'm obviously not really trying right now, but it removes the lines, and it's even keeping score right here on the screen. I did this with two prompts, and it looks this good, so that's bold. New again, I want to make a full video on this 'cause this is like really, really impressive. All right, a couple more things. Wendy's is working with Paler, yes, the defense company, to help keep up with the $1 Frosty demand. So, essentially, they're working with Paler to sort of optimize the supply chain. It says Paler is able to use artificial intelligence to spot shortages before they happen to make sure that if a $1 Frosty promotion leads to droves of consumers, the fast-food chain is ready to serve them. This Singularity Net AI Alliance launched a self-learning Proto AGI in Minecraft. So, basically, they developed an AI that can play Minecraft and actually improve and get better as it plays. Here's a video.

from ASI Alliance that was shared over on X that shows this in action. Here, we could see this Minecraft character moving around. I'm assuming they're moving around autonomously; nobody's actually controlling them. It says action plan, jump with those coordinates, performing action, and predicting state. And then you can see it actually moving around in this Minecraft world. Doesn't really show us a whole lot, but that's what we're working with right now. Nvidia released some new AI and simulation tools for robots. They released some new Groot workflows. Now, if you're not familiar with Groot, it's basically creating an artificial world that you can place artificial versions of your robots in, and they can learn inside of this artificial world before you actually take that AI and put them into real robots in the real world. So, they're learning within the digital twin of the world as opposed to in the real world, and it can rapidly speed up the time that it takes these robots to learn. And this week, they rolled out a bunch of new functionality for this group. I find this

absolutely fascinating. The whole digital twin concept and actually training AI that will eventually be in robots, but training them inside of a digital twin world first, that just blows my mind that they're able to do that. But I don't want to go too in the weeds on this in this video, so I will link it up. But I think this probably also deserves another video in the future because it is just so fascinating. And then finally, I always like to end on robots because I think robots are just fun. But Unry Robotics showed off this new walking robot that has just much more of a realistic walk to it. It walks a lot more like a real human, and that's looking pretty cool. But they also showed off this robot dog that can do stuff like balance on one leg, balance on like the two opposing legs here. And as we can see, this is not sped up at all. It says no acceleration. It can walk on two legs. But what gets really crazy is when this dude starts beating the heck out of it with

like a stick. It doesn't fall over; it maintains its balance on two legs. This dude's like trying to kick it over and just destroy the thing, and it continues to maintain its balance and recover. Anyway, that's what I got for you this week. I know I mentioned there wasn't a lot happening because of the election, but uh, on Reflection, by the time I got done with this video, oh, there is quite a bit to talk about actually. So yeah, hopefully you found that helpful. Hopefully, you're much more looped in on what's going on in the AI world. You're discovering new tools and AI tools that you can play with that are super fun. I mean, I'm having fun with them, so hopefully you're having fun with them as well. And I hope you got whatever you wanted to get out of this video. I love making them; I hope you enjoy watching them. So thank you so much for tuning in. If you like videos like this, you want to stay in the loop with all the latest AI news, all the latest AI tools, get some

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