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LAION releases BVD — 1.3B crawled video URLs, 80M downloaded videos, 10M hours of content, 55M scene-detected and synthetically captioned clips. It's the open-research video equivalent of LAION-5B, and it arrives at the moment when video-trained multimodal models are becoming the competitive baseline.
Read more →Salvatore Sanfilippo — the author of Redis — published a native C+Metal inference engine for MiniMax H3 targeting M3/M5 Macs, roughly repeating what llama.cpp did for language models: bypass the Python stack, write tight hardware-specific kernels, and find out how fast the silicon can actually go.
Read more →NVIDIA's SANA-WM generates 60-second, 720p video from a single image and a camera trajectory — on a single GPU. The open-source 2.6B-parameter model achieves 36× higher throughput than prior open-source world models and ships under Apache 2.0.
Read more →Netflix and INSAIT Sofia University released VOID, the first open-source video inpainting system that removes objects and regenerates the physical interactions they caused — not just the hole they left. It's Netflix's first public AI model release, built on a novel quadmask encoding and CogVideoX, under Apache 2.0.
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