About this episode

The episode discusses advancements in real-time VFX, AI models, and robotics competitions.

Lucy 2.5 overlays generated effects onto live webcam footage in real time, and the effects actually react to your hands, your hair, and the light in the room. Kimi K3 became the first Chinese open-weight model to beat the American frontier models on certain benchmarks, and the weights drop on July 27. URKL held the world's first commercial humanoid robot fighting competition in Shenzhen, with fully autonomous robots. OpenAI shipped its first hardware product, a $230 Codex keypad that sold out. Tim Sweeney declared the AI luddite movement over. And Blender got a new multi-solver physics plugin called Hurricane. LINKS FROM THE SHOW: 1. Lucy 2.5: Real-Time AI VFX (Decart) - https://x.com/AbermanKfir/status/2077861986092843250 - https://lucy.decart.ai/ 2. Kimi K3 - https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2077830229968683203/photo/1 - https://x.com/arena/status/2077824029126504525 - https://x.com/minchoi/status/2077957907857994006 3. URKL Robot Fighting Championship - https://x.com/big_business_/status/2077806786732601354 4. OpenAI Codex Micro Keyboard - https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2077425991790870644 - https://x.com/AxelCastroK/status/2077499100749250788…

People in this episode

Host: Bad Decisions Studio

Topics covered

• 3D Art
• VFX
• AI
• Robotics
• Technology
• Blender

Keywords

• 3D Artists
• Live VFX
• AI effects
• robot fighting
• OpenAI
• Blender

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: URKL

Products: Lucy 2.5, Kimi K3, OpenAI Codex Micro Keyboard, Hurricane

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