This AI Can Turns Photos Into 3D Worlds 🤯

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

Fei-Fei Li, known as the "godmother" of AI, just released an early peek at what her AI startup has been working on: a system that can turn still images into realistic three-dimensional worlds.

Let’s jump into it!

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• World Labs’ AI Can Generate Interactive 3D Scenes from a Single Photo 🤯

• Amazon Announces New Slate of AI Models

• AI Tutorial: How to use Gemini to make calls and send messages without unlocking your phone

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

• AI Findings/Resources

AI News

WORLD LABS

World Labs’ AI Can Generate Interactive 3D Scenes from a Single Photo 🤯

World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has launched its first project: an AI system that generates interactive, modifiable 3D scenes from a single image, resembling video game environments.

Details:

• The system intelligently generates full 3D environments, filling in areas not visible in the original image, offering better control and consistency than other "world models."

• World Labs' system can also add interactive effects and animations to scenes, such as changing object colors and dynamically lighting backdrops.

• The project website offers demos of these AI-generated scenes, which you can explore using a keyboard and mouse to navigate and look around.

• However, there’s room for growth: movement is limited to small areas, and occasional rendering errors occur, like objects blending unnaturally.

Although impressive, World Labs notes that this is only an "early preview." The startup plans to develop more tools aimed at customers ranging from video game developers to movie studios.

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AMAZON

Amazon Announces New Slate of AI Models

Amazon revealed its Nova AI models at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.

These models are part of the Amazon Bedrock library on AWS and aim to provide businesses with powerful tools for understanding, generating, and reasoning with text, images, and video.

The three new "understanding" AI models available now are:

• Nova Micro: A text-focused model designed for speed and cost efficiency.

• Nova Lite: A "very low-cost" multimodal model that processes images, video, and text to generate text.

• Nova Pro: A high-capability model for advanced multimodal tasks.

There are also new content generation models:

• Nova Canvas: Image generation model.

• Nova Reel: Video generation model

There’s another model still being trained, Nova Premier, which the company says will be their “most capable multimodal model for complex reasoning tasks,” set to release in early 2025.

Amazon also announced that it is building what it claims will be the world’s largest AI compute cluster, in partnership with Anthropic, using its Trainium 2 chips.

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AI Tutorial

How to use Gemini to make calls and send messages without unlocking your phone

Gemini has been available as a replacement for Google Assistant for a while, and Google has been steadily adding new features to make it more useful as a phone assistant. This long-awaited update now enables true hands-free calling and messaging.

*Note: The feature is available in version 15.48 of the Google app. The rollout is gradual, so it might not be available on your device yet.

How to enable it:

1. Check if the feature is available:
   Open Gemini, click your profile photo, and navigate to Settings > Gemini on Lock Screen.

2. Toggle on “Make calls and send messages without unlocking.”

3. Ensure proper app settings:
   Make sure the 'Calling and Messaging' apps are activated in Gemini. Also, ensure that '“Hey Google” & Voice Match' is enabled as well.

Now, you can use the "Hey Google" command to ask Gemini to call someone or send a message without unlocking the screen.

AI Tools to check out

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AI Findings/Resources

🔮 Hugging Face CEO makes his 2025 AI predictions

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🧠 How ChatGPT learned to reason

The latest in AI and Tech

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Bezos funds AI chip rival to Nvidia

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Apple now uses Amazon's AI chips

Apple is using Amazon’s custom AI chips for tasks like search and may use them to train its AI models. The partnership was revealed at AWS Reinvent this week.

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