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Oct 8

Oct 8Thu
  1. QbitAIAI score47

    Vidu Q4 Preview Offers 4K Video Generation at About 0.09 Yuan per Second

    AIShengshu Technology has opened a preview of its Vidu Q4 video generation model, which supports native 4K output and up to 15 reference images and three reference audio clips. Testers generated a one-minute video for about 5.4 yuan, roughly 0.09 yuan per second at 720P, which the article says is a starting price that varies by resolution and mode. The Vidu Q4 preview is available through the Vidu platform, with the MaaS API priced at about 0.6 yuan per second for 720P image-to-video.

Oct 7

Oct 7Wed
  1. Apple Machine Learning ResearchAI score42

    Apple's Normalizing Trajectory Models generate images in four steps with exact likelihood

    AIApple researchers introduced Normalizing Trajectory Models (NTM), which model each reverse diffusion step as a conditional normalizing flow trained with exact likelihood. The model matches or outperforms strong image generation baselines on text-to-image benchmarks in just four sampling steps while retaining exact likelihood over the generative trajectory.

  2. 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalogAI score34

    Envato launches Burst Mode, generating up to six visual directions per credit

    AIEnvato has launched Burst Mode, which turns a single idea or reference image into up to six visual directions for one AI credit, up to 10x faster. Users can steer each batch with references, moodboards, and a creativity control ranging from focused to wild, then refine promising results with "More like this."

    Video from @testingcatalog's post
  3. Google DeepMind · The KeywordAI score62

    Google expands SynthID Detector globally to check AI-generated media

    AIGoogle is making its SynthID Detector available globally in English, letting anyone check whether an image, video, or audio file was made with AI from Google or partners including OpenAI, NVIDIA, Kakao, and soon Apple. The tool joins built-in verification in Search, the Gemini app, and Chrome, which now handle over 1 million requests daily. Google says SynthID has watermarked over 180 billion images and videos and 240,000 years of audio.

    Why it matters: The source specifies which vendors' AI media the detector checks, helping readers judge how far the verification covers content they encounter online.

Oct 6

Oct 6Tue
  1. meng shaoAI score52

    xAI Cookbook adds five apps, expanding Grok API examples to ten

    AIThe xAI Cookbook now has ten runnable Grok API examples across three tracks: real-time voice agents, multimodal generation, and live X data analysis. The author says four voice examples show the same Realtime Voice API across WebSocket, WebRTC, Twilio phone, and mobile transports. The four multimodal examples chain understanding, image generation or editing, video, and TTS, with Grok making creative decisions and Imagine models executing them.

    Image from @shao__meng's post
  2. Comfy BlogAI score43

    Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 Is Now Available via ComfyUI Partner Nodes

    AIGoogle's Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 image generation and editing model is now available through ComfyUI Partner Nodes, succeeding Nano Banana 2 with a balance of price and performance. It accepts up to 14 reference images, outputs images up to 4K, and offers Minimal, Medium, and High thinking levels plus search grounding and 9:21 aspect ratio support.