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AI Turns Photos Into 3D Real Worlds

PLUS: OpenAI is considering adding ads

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Barsee
03 Dec

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In today’s edition:

  • AI turns photos into 3d real worlds

  • 2 years of ChatGPT

  • Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Ready, set, go…

WORLD LABS

AI Turns Photos Into 3D Real Worlds

World Labs, led by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has revealed its first major project: an AI system that transforms any 2D image into an interactive 3D environment, accessible via web browsers.

Here’s what you need to know:

  • The system generates full 3D environments that expand beyond what’s visible in the original image, allowing users to explore new perspectives.

  • Users can freely navigate and view the generated space with standard keyboard and mouse controls, similar to browsing a website.

  • It includes real-time camera effects like depth-of-field and dolly zoom, as well as interactive lighting and animation sliders to tweak scenes.

  • The system works with both photos and AI-generated images, enabling creators to integrate it with text-to-image tools or even famous works of art.

Why it matters:

This technology opens up exciting possibilities for industries like gaming, film, and virtual experiences. Soon, creating fully immersive worlds could be as simple as generating a static image.

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SIDE UPDATES

Tencent’s Hunyuan-Video is a groundbreaking text-to-video model that outperforms rivals like Gen3 and Luma while being fully open-source. It has 13 billion parameters, designed for generating high-quality videos from text. This model introduces advanced features like image-to-video conversion, avatar animation, and dynamic scene modeling, positioning it as a competitive alternative to leading commercial models.

Elon Musk, Shivon Zilis, and X.AI Corp. have filed an emergency court motion to prevent OpenAI’s transformation into a for-profit entity. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft of deviating from the nonprofit’s original mission. It highlights concerns like OpenAI’s $157 billion valuation, exclusive investment deals, and questionable business practices, such as reportedly blocking competitors from investment opportunities.

The Browser Company has unveiled Dia, an AI-powered web browser set to launch in 2025. Unlike traditional browsers with added AI features, Dia is fully built around AI assistance, handling tasks like finding documents, completing sentences with web facts, and shopping from your notes.

OpenAI is considering adding ads to its AI products as it explores new revenue streams to offset its $5B annual costs, despite generating $4B from subscriptions and APIs. The company has hired ad experts from Meta and Google, though CFO Sarah Friar clarified there are "no active plans" yet. While ads could ease financial pressure, they risk altering user trust and the AI experience, echoing concerns about over-commercialization seen in platforms like Google.

Hume AI has launched Voice Control, a new feature for creating customizable AI voices through 10 adjustable dimensions. The feature brings intuitive slider controls for precise manipulation of traits like gender and confidence.

Devin’s closed beta is already being tested by notable companies like Ramp, MongoDB, and Nubank. These firms are using the AI to streamline workflows—debugging, cleaning up codebases, and updating legacy systems. MongoDB reports significant cost savings, while Nubank's engineers claim Devin has made them up to 8x faster in completing tasks.

Tesla's Optimus has received new hands. They could theoretically be used with Neuralink's N1 implant. The hands were revealed after Tesla received approval for a new feasibility trial where it will test its brain-to-computer implant with assistive robotic arms. A video showing Optimus catching tennis balls with its new hands is available in the article.

CHATGPT

2 years of ChatGPT

ChatGPT, launched two years ago, has quickly become the go-to generative AI bot for millions, with 200 million weekly users, double the number from a year ago, according to OpenAI.

Here’s what you need to know:

  • As ChatGPT grows, rivals have surfaced, including Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Perplexity’s (yep, just Perplexity). Even xAI has joined the fray with its Grok, which offers a chatbot with humor and access to X.

  • After being late to the AI game, Apple has integrated ChatGPT into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Siri now provides answers based on “world knowledge” rather than just personal data like your calendar or messages.

  • Amazon has invested $8.25 billion in Anthropic to enhance Alexa with a more conversational tone powered by Claude. This shows Amazon's focus on improving its AI capabilities.

  • Google’s dominance in search might be coming to an end after a federal ruling in August, which declared its search monopoly illegal. The DOJ is pushing Google to sell Chrome, which could disrupt its $2 trillion search empire.

Why it matters:

AI competition is heating up, with Google still leading, but ChatGPT and other competitors are pushing the boundaries in various industries like search and virtual assistants. Google's search monopoly is under threat, and the upcoming shifts in AI integrations could change the landscape in the near future.

TRENDING TOOLS

  • Thoughtly > AI-powered human-like phone agents. Reduce costs, increase efficiency, and seamlessly integrate into your systems. (link) *

  • HappenStance > AI person search in the world. (link)

  • Apify > AI browser automation with over 2000+ ready-made tools, or code templates. (link)

  • Muku.ai > World's first AI influencer ads agency. (link)

THINK PIECES / RESOURCES

  • How ChatGPT learned to reason (link)

  • How Jenni.ai went from $0 to $5M ARR (link)

  • Building v0 in a weekend (link)

  • A simplified overview of AI Agents. Explained like I am five (link)

  • A No-BS database of how companies actually deploy LLMs in production (300+ technical case studies, including self-hosted (link)

  • Everything you need to master Bolt (link)

CONTENT CORNER

How to make an AI clone of yourself. The ultimate AI tool for camera-shy content creators.

How to build a complete AI SAAS using Bolt.new.

Virtual fitting with AI. AI will turn your selfie still image (bottom left) and the clothing image (top left) into a fitting video.

OpenAI might release something important this week or before Christmas.

THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY

That’s all for today’s issue, folks.

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