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‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit

June 20, 2025
Popular AI image generation service Midjourney has launched its first AI video generation model V1, marking a pivotal shift for the company from image generation toward full multimedia content creation. Starting today, Midjourney’s nearly 20 million users can animate images via the website, transforming their generated or uploaded stills into 5-second long clips with options for extending the…
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Announcing the 2025 finalists for VentureBeat Women in AI Awards

June 19, 2025
With VentureBeat’s flagship event, VB Transform, just around the corner, we are excited to announce the finalists for the 7th annual Women in AI Awards. The winners will be announced during a special program on the main stage of Transform on Wednesday, June 25 at 4 p.m. PT. VB Transform is a premier two-day event on June 24-25 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Industry experts and peers will…
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Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 AI models to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance

June 18, 2025
Google moved decisively to strengthen its position in the artificial intelligence arms race Monday, declaring its most powerful Gemini 2.5 models ready for enterprise production while unveiling a new ultra-efficient variant designed to undercut competitors on cost and speed. The Alphabet subsidiary promoted two of its flagship AI models—Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash—from experimental…
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Do reasoning AI models really ‘think’ or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response

June 17, 2025
Apple’s machine-learning group set off a rhetorical firestorm earlier this month with its release of “The Illusion of Thinking,” a 53-page research paper arguing that so-called large reasoning models (LRMs) or reasoning large language models (reasoning LLMs) such as OpenAI’s “o” series and Google’s Gemini-2.5 Pro and Flash Thinking don’t actually engage in independent…
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