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Meta's Ray-Ban glasses now have live AI translation and even Shazam. These glasses are going to be the biggest winners of Augmented Reality (AR), making the world smaller, letting you figure out music, and helping you better understand the world around you.

I am most interested in the AI translation component. Where you can listen to a conversation and translate it into your native language. The missing piece is how to respond back in someone’s native language and not require them to also have the glasses.

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Here’s Marey

Marey is a new video model expected to launch in 2025 that aims to be one of the first ethically trained video models. The model is a collaboration of Asteria an AI film and animation studio, and Moonvalley a GenAI video AI research startup. Moonvalley licensed all of the content it used to train its model.

This comes after OpenAI admitted that it would be impossible to train an AI video model without copyrighted material.

Customers Hate GenAI Ads

New research has come out showing that customers are not a fan of GenAI ads. I would agree, and most of these ads fail to meet the mark, particularly if they're supposed to have an emotional component. The most notable failure of the season is the Coca-Cola ad, which comes off as AI slop.

Media and Entertainment’s GenAI Struggles

TVTechnology shares their thoughts on how the media and entertainment industry still struggles to adapt GenAI, likening it to the internet where people are interested in it but are still trying to uncover what are the best use cases for the technology.