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Hosts: James Okafor & Maya Chen
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• Today we've got a one-GPU Hollywood studio, Mira Murati's big reveal, and DeepSeek's efficiency breakthrough.
• Alright, James, I saw this open-source video pipeline demo and honestly, my jaw dropped. Someone built an entire film production studio that runs on a...
• Yeah, this is from the AMD hackathon winner. Picture this: you type one sentence in English, wait 45 minutes, and get back a complete cinematic reel w...
• The data tells a different story than what we usually hear about AI video. This isn't some massive cloud cluster burning millions in compute. It's eig...
• Here's why this changes everything — they solved the consistency problem without any LoRA training. FLUX.2 uses reference editing to keep character id...
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