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Good morning, human brains, and welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• Make an AI clone of yourself 💁‍♂️ 🤖 

  Synthesia launched Personal Avatars.

• Top AI models come to GitHub 🧠 👨‍💻

  GitHub launched GitHub Models.

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MAIN COURSE

Clone yourself with AI. Here's how 💁‍♂️ 🤖 

On Wednesday, Synthesia launched Personal Avatars. It allows you to create a realistic digital version of yourself.

How can I make one?

Sit in front of a webcam, read a 60-second text, and wait a day for the avatar to generate.

Why would I do this?

It’s useful for video content creation, presentations, marketing videos, or teaching in multiple languages without actually speaking them.

How does it work?

It clones your voice, capturing inflection and style, then adds animation and lip-syncing to a webcam photo.

So, it can replace me?

Nah. It's not perfect. Movements can be a bit off, and it might “correct” physical features you have.

How much does it cost?

The first plan with customization is $22 per month.

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SIDE SALAD

Top AI models come to GitHub 🧠 👨‍💻

Yesterday, GitHub launched GitHub Models. It allows you to use different AI models directly in its platform of 100+ million developers.

What does it do?

It lets you experiment with and deploy top AI models from Meta, Mistral, and Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service right in your workflow.

Anything else?

There's a built-in playground for testing models like Llama 3.1, GPT-4o, and Mistral Large 2. It promises seamless integration from testing to production.

What’s up with GitHub?

They hit $2 billion annual revenue run rate, with Copilot driving 40% of revenue growth.

Will they sell my data?

Allegedly, no. GitHub says prompts and outputs won't be shared with model providers or used to improve the models.

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Think Pieces 🧠

Should open-source be restricted? An NTIA report advises the U.S. government not to restrict open-source AI models for now, but to monitor risks and benefits.

Startup News 💰

Shutterstock launched a generative 3D service, and Getty Images has upgraded its image generation service, both powered by Nvidia's Edify.

Research 👨‍🔬

Theia — a vision foundation model designed for robot learning that distills knowledge from multiple pre-trained vision models into a single, smaller model.

ThinK — a method for optimizing KV cache memory in large language models (LLMs) by selectively pruning redundant channels in the key-value cache.

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