Cluely Wants You To Cheat With AI. Sand AI Open Source Video Marvel. World's 1st Robot Race!

AI News - April 21

Cluely promotes cheating with an ad for its new service. The new Magi-1 video model can make clips of any length and the world's first robot marathon takes place in Beijing. Here's today's AI news. There have been a few headline making ads for AI services this year, including OpenAI's Super bowl ad and the Perplexity ad with Squid Games star Lee Jung Jae.

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A new startup called Cluely has just released a promotion for its new AI service that might have both of them beat. The video shows a young man who is trying to cheat on a date by claiming to be 30 years old, where Cluely is guiding him through the deceptive process. This cheating is the selling point for this service.

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Cluely is pitched as an undetectable AI powered assistant built for interviews, sales calls, zoom meetings and more. The AI sits in the background seeing and listening to your activity so that it can give you undetected intelligent advice on the fly. We're not sure quite how this works without a pair of Meta's, Ray Bans or Google's new glasses, but it seems like a very interesting, if morally dubious proposition.

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Sand AI has released a new open source video generation model called Magi-1 It boasts a staggering 24 billion parameters, making it capable of full length cinematic videos. It does this with its capacity to create infinite video extensions along with precise control over timing and and high quality output without the need for clip stitching.

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It's open source and it's available on platforms like GitHub and Hugging Face. This year has been full of incredible models that have come from out of nowhere. Let's see if Magi-1 has staying power. This weekend the world's first robot marathon was held in Beijing. More than 20 humanoid robots took part in the 21 kilometre race and with a time of 2 hours and 40 minutes, the Tiangong Ultra robot was declared the winner.

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Only six robots were able to actually complete the course and some of the big robot manufacturers were absent. Regardless, this kind of competitive event represents just another way that China is pushing the frontier of robotics.