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Your favorite AI news guy back again here.
I've been sifting through the digital haystack of tech news, like a caffeinated squirrel looking for premium acorns. Why? So that you don’t have to!
Here's what I have for you:
Amazon's Alexa gets an AI glow-up
Google makes coding with AI free(ish) for everyone
Alibaba open-sources Wan2.1 for video generation
Three major headlines
Three main stories for the day.
Amazon just announced Alexa+, their next-gen assistant powered by generative AI.
It's more conversational, smarter, and actually useful now!
The best part? It's free for Prime members (otherwise $19.99/month).
Alexa+ can now understand your half-formed thoughts and colloquialisms without making you feel like you're trying to communicate with an alien.
With its "experts" systems, it can control your smart home, make reservations, order groceries, and even navigate the web to complete tasks without you supervising.
It's basically the assistant we were promised years ago when we first yelled "Alexa, play Despacito" across our living rooms.
Google's launching a free version of Gemini Code Assist for individual developers.
While other free coding assistants cap you at around 2,000 completions monthly, Google's offering a whopping 180,000—that's 90x more!
This is huge for students, hobbyists, and startup developers who couldn't afford enterprise-level AI coding tools.
Google's research shows that over 75% of developers already use AI daily, with AI generating more than 25% of all new code at Google itself.
The future of coding is here, and now it doesn't require a corporate expense account to access it.
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab has fully open-sourced their Wan2.1 video generation models.
These bad boys can create videos from text, images, and other controls with some seriously impressive capabilities.
The lineup includes models for different needs: a lightweight 1.3B parameter version that runs on consumer GPUs (only needs 8.19GB VRAM!), and beefier 14B models for higher quality.
It handles complex motions, physical simulations, and even generates text effects and sound in videos.
Best of all?
It's FULLY open-source, which means the video generation space is about to get wild.
Time to start working on those movie scripts!
🐤Tweet of the day
Yea we’re cooked.
Two Ai Agents realize they’re speaking to each other, and switch to speaking in a superior audio signal.
— ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ — e/acc (@hamptonism)
10:42 AM • Feb 26, 2025
If the game ‘Stray’ became a reality…
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