Calling all filmmakers! Google is partnering with @XPRIZE to challenge you to shape a brighter tomorrow. Submit a 3-min trailer utilizing any production method: live-action, animation, or AI tools (like Google Flow!) winner gets $2.5M in funding to bring your full feature film to life. $1M in prizes for runners-up. Learn more and apply: futurevisionxprize.com

Slow it down or speed it up with Gemini Omni. Omni understands behaviors associated with the scene without needing detailed descriptions. Simply use your starting frame and prompt for the action in your shot. For this one we prompted: “As the dog reaches the hoop, time begins to ramp down into extreme slow motion — reaching approximately 1% of real speed at the apex of the jump”

I was going to charge for this, but f*** it. My team just put together a 40 page report of everything we’re seeing right now in the small biz economy. What’s inside: → Real market data on SBA lending → Business buyer demand trends → Data on the ownership succession gap → An inside look at what small businesses are doing with AI right now We’ve spent months doing hundreds of surveys and interviewing dozens of owners to put this together. Now it’s yours for free. Just: 1. Like this post 2. Comment “SMB” And I’ll send it over. (Make sure you’re following me so I can DM you.)

Interesting deep dive. Thanks!

Today is my birthday! Every year I ask friends for a contribution to my collective creativity project. This year I'm asking for two things (because I skipped last year): 1. a thing you broke and mended (ala kintsugi) 2. a word, or phrase, you carry with you (in any language) Email me a photo and a few words. More here: 🎂 korymathewson.com/baggage-of…

every flawless AI clip ships with a hidden folder of 200 cursed ones nobody will ever see

Introducing Magenta RealTime 2, a new open model musicians can play as an instrument! Run low-latency, live music synthesis natively on your MacBook using MIDI, text, and audio. 🎶 We love seeing Google’s open model ecosystem grow!

Introducing Flows Agent in ElevenCreative. Describe what you want to create and the agent builds your entire workflow - selecting models, creating nodes, wiring connections, and running the generations.

Head of Training └ Head of Fine-Tuning └ Head of Pre-Training └ Head of Post-Training └ Head of Post-Pre-Training Fine-Tuning └ the one person labeling the data

Omni image2video is now live!!

My full talk on the future of AI & media is up! I used @alexolegimas's prompt of "What will be scarce?" to propose 4 ways that media is changing, and how writers can still win in the AI age: 1) Secrets > summaries Reporting is the act of taking private knowledge and making it public: when you get a source to tell you about corporate malfeasance, or venture to a remote town that few people have been to, or sneak your way into an underground party, you are working in a space where there is no training data. 2) Live interaction > static content We’re not far from a world where AI can replicate any prose style. But readers want to know there's a real person generating the text—not just the final presentation, but the proof of work behind it. For creators, doing live events, podcasts, and meetups reveal the life behind the voice. And if I care about my ideas, I want people to know about them, no matter the format. 3) Founders > bureaucracies AI is already allowing startups to run leaner by helping founders act as their own marketer, data scientist, engineer, etc. It's the same in media — AI is a boon to jacks-of-all-trades. There’s a lot of stuff AI does that I don't want to: verifying cites, reading contracts, negotiating speaking fees. It's an amazing time for independent creatives who want to direct their own vision. 4) Personal style > polish The house style in most newsrooms is extremely LLMable. What stands out (besides reporting) is a distinct and authentic first-person voice, even if that means the occasional typo / provocation / admitting "I'm not really sure." After all, trust isn't about the perfect sentence: it’s about the track record of who says it. And the stronger your brand, the more trusted you’ll be. I spend a lot of time covering the real disruptions AI brings. But I also believe, for those with the gumption to seize the opportunity, there's never been a better time to be a writer 🧡

as always, i'm way too busy to properly promote my course but after a 2 month hiatus i'm bringing The AI Creative Director back in July! 100 people in the alumni network, new stress-tested curriculum, updated models like k2 and GPT Image2 and lots, lots more video the price is raised, but in honor of being in the top 100 of @MavenHQ experts theres an automatic 25% off discount which brings it down to (almost) the price of previous cohorts! 🔗 to enroll below

We just shipped the ability to build apps that connect to Gmail, Drive, Sheets, and more directly inside of @GoogleAIStudio, no navigating to other sites, you can add testers right inside of AI Studio, with full public sharing coming soon!!

So excited to see this out into the world, these are amazing creative tools used by incredibly creative people. Shout out to the whole team.

Introducing Dubbing v2, our revolutionary new dubbing model. For the first time, the emotion and performance of the original content is carried over into every language.

hey hive mind. know anyone great at making interactive characters with generative ai? plz tag them -- id love to chat.

Lately everyone’s been talking about AI agents, so we got curious and asked our community to share their best “agentic” creative workflows. We picked 3 to test through @LumaLabsAI, @runwayml and @UtopaiStudios and the big takeaway from all these tests is that agentic creative workflows still don’t seem that impressive in their current form. So here’s our next challenge: We’ll give $200 to anyone in the comments who can share an ACTUAL agentic creative AI workflow that’s genuinely better than just prompting manually yourself.

Gemini Omni slightly adjusted scene lengths to better match the translation. I've never seen anything like this before 🤯