📣 Hello! Welcome to our Sunday digest, featuring the most exciting AI news from the 27th week of 2024.

MAIN NEWS

The competition among AI video models is heating up with new updates from Runway and Luma.

⚡️ Runway has opened access to Gen-3 model for everyone. It lets you create high-quality 10-second videos based on an image and text prompt.

🎞 Luma Dream Machine's Keyframes feature allows you to generate videos by uploading the first and last frames and writing a transition prompt.

OLYMPIAD

🏆 @GPT4Telegrambot has partnered with the International Economics Olympiad. Everyone can participate in the OpenTrack. Applications are open until July 19.

SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

👀 Perplexity AI search engine has released an update. The quality of answers in Pro Search has improved thanks to multi-step reasoning.

📱 Connect an AI assistant on Telegram Business to stay in touch with clients, subscribers, and employees 24/7.

🦆 Merlin Bird ID — Shazam for the bird world. The free Merlin Bird ID app recognizes the sounds of over 10,000 bird species worldwide.

📱 From A to Z: AI draws a unique alphabet. Google’s generator creates amazing images of Latin letters.

STARTUP

💡 Lelapa: an AI from Africa. The startup aims to solve the problem of digital inequality and develop language models and AI tools adapted to the African continent.

TO READ

😎 Who are AI agents? Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang says that AI agents will soon learn to plan multi-step solutions for complex problems.

💰 High school students raised $500,000 for their startup. APIGen is working on a platform that will build custom APIs from natural language prompts.

😱 Eternal life in the cloud: Futurist and scientist Ray Kurzweil predicts that people will be able to transfer their consciousness to the cloud.

➡️ We are launching a channel for our readers in Arabic: Hi, AI! | الذكاء الاصطناعي

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