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Black Forest Labs has released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model trained jointly on images, video, and audio that generates videos up to 20 seconds long with synchronized native audio. The company also introduced Flux-mimic, a robotics action model already being tested at Audi.

Yann LeCun, former Meta chief AI scientist and founder of AMI Labs, called Elon Musk's xAI a "failure" that won't be able to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. LeCun warned that AI labs are at risk of a "big bubble explosion" because current pricing doesn't cover operational costs, with services funded primarily by investors.