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I'm excited to share Odyssey, my new thing! 🍿 We're building Hollywood-grade visual AI, where beautiful scenery, characters, lighting, and motion can be both generated and directed. Our mission is to deliver a better way to create movies, TV shows, and video games. We are inspired by the pioneering computer graphics research in the 80s and 90s, and the founding story of Pixar. Those technical achievements led to movies that inspired millions of people, grossing billions of dollars. We believe visual AI can be a new frontier for storytelling. But, we must hold it to high standards. Today, we're surrounded by low-quality AI-generated text and imagery. For AI to work for Hollywood, it must be capable of producing glitch-free and mind-blowing visuals. Most importantly, visual AI must enable humans to tell the exact story that they imagined, and to put their signature on it. Zack Snyder said it best: “The best movies, my favorite movies, are where you can feel the hand of the filmmaker.” Text-to-video is interesting, but we believe the paradigm is limiting for Hollywood. As a storyteller, you have little ability to direct your environment or characters, or to iterate on the finer details of your shot until it's just right. More powerful models are required! To solve this, we're going layers deeper. We're training 4 generative models that enable full control of the core layers of visual storytelling. Specifically, models to generate... 🧊 High-quality geometry 🏔️ Photorealistic materials 🌄 Stunning lighting 🏃♀️ Controllable motion Individually, each model will enable you to precisely configure the minutia of your scene. Combined, these models will generate video or scenes, but exactly as you wanted. This approach is harder to build than text-to-video. But, we believe it will result in higher-quality movies, TV shows, and video games. Ultimately, that's how each of these technologies should be judged. Hollywood has always adopted new technologies to create new masterpieces. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Avatar, Interstellar. We plan to work alongside Hollywood to shape this technology together, and to put it to the test. This is why we're starting to share our story today, to begin those conversations. To bring this to life, we've recruited an incredible team of AI researchers and Hollywood artists. Our researchers are from Cruise, Wayve, Waymo, Tesla, Meta, and more. And our artists were behind Dune, Godzilla, Avengers, and more. The combination has been so powerful! We've also closed $9M from world-class investors to fuel this. We're lucky to be supported by GV, DCVC, Air Street Capital, Elad Gil, Garry Tan, Soleio, Jeff Dean, Kyle Vogt, Qasar Younis, Guillermo Raunch, Soumith Chintala, and many others. I couldn't be more excited to working on a breakthrough technology like this, and to be collaborating with the most creative industry on the planet. Hollywood-grade visual AI is on the way 🫡

AliveCor introduces the world's first AI that can detect heart attack on a reduced leadset in monumental dual clearance by the FDA. Today, AliveCor launched the all-new, AI-powered Kardia 12L ECG System, which is FDA-cleared to detect 35 cardiac conditions including serious conditions like acute myocardial infarction (MI) and the most common types of cardiac ischemia. The 12-lead ECG has been the standard of cardiac care since 1954, but its availability has been limited. Until now. Small enough to fit in a pocket, Kardia 12L boasts advanced AI algorithms that are substantially equivalent to the current state-of-the-art ECG analysis solutions. Learn how Kardia 12L can assist physicians in rapid disease detection, enhance patient experience, and expand access to accurate heart data faster and more conveniently than ever before. https://lnkd.in/gRjde-pR