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🤝In Partnership: One integration for every model
🤿Deep Dive: Black Forest Labs built one model for video, audio and robot control
🤝Powered by: One database fewer headaches
🤿Deep Dive: A new TTS platform ranked just behind real humans on a realism benchmark
⚒Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity
🖼AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art
🤝IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MESH API
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Change a single line of code and unlock 1,000+ AI models, smart routing for cost and performance, and persistent agent memory.
🤿 DEEP DIVE
FLUX 3 Trains Video, Audio and Robotic Action Inside a Single Architecture
Intelligence: Black Forest Labs trained a single architecture to generate images, video with synchronized audio and robotic actions, and it is starting to test whether that same foundation can teach machines how to move in the physical world.
Image credit: Black Forest Labs
FLUX 3 Video can produce up to 20 seconds of footage with native audio from one prompt, and BFL says the model can chain individual clips into multi-shot sequences lasting several minutes while keeping characters visually consistent.
In blind preference testing on 10-second clips, an early FLUX 3 checkpoint beat Luma Ray 3.2 in 93% of comparisons but tied Google's Gemini Omni Flash at just 52%, a dead heat against the platform BFL is most directly competing with.
BFL has not published pricing, service-level commitments or a full benchmark methodology, so enterprise buyers cannot yet calculate total cost of ownership or independently verify the video comparisons.
FLUX 3 Dev, the open-weight version developers have relied on with past FLUX releases, is arriving last this time, and BFL has not disclosed its license, parameter count or hardware requirements.
Working with Swiss robotics firm Mimic Robotics, BFL built FLUX-mimic, a video-action model that the companies say can be finetuned for a new robotic manipulation task with as little as 30 minutes of robot data, versus 30 or more hours for prior approaches.
🤝POWERED BY TIGER DATA
Postgres Didn't Fail You. Your Architecture Did.
Adding a second database was supposed to fix things. Now you manage sync, drift, and pipelines on top of queries that are still slow.
TimescaleDB extends Postgres instead. Hypertables, 95% compression, continuous aggregates. One database. No pipeline.
🤿 DEEP DIVE
Bland Speech v3 Beat ElevenLabs, OpenAI and xAI on Audio Realism Scores
Intelligence: Bland introduced a text-to-speech platform trained on over 100 million real conversations rather than studio recordings, and in blind listening tests the model lost first place only to actual humans.
The model launches with instant voice cloning from about 10 seconds of audio, professional cloning from 30 minutes or more, and a stock library including voices named Karen, Valentine, David and Allie.
New accounts get 133,000 free characters, roughly two hours of speech, before pricing drops to $0.015 per 1,000 characters across both the studio and the API.
Bland's team used two home videos totaling about 30 seconds of audio to rebuild the voice of James Piazza, a stroke survivor, letting him order food at a burrito shop in what his mother described as sounding just like him again.
⚒ TOOL SNAPSHOTS
Futuristic tools within AI, no-code, and productivity
📹 Wispr Flow Notetaker - Keeps meetings moving while the notes take care of themselves.
🗺️ NextDoor.Company - Makes startup job hunting feel a lot more local.
📈 AdAnt AI - Gives growing brands a creative team that never runs out of new ad angles.
🧠 Hansel - Makes recalling yesterday's work feel as easy as asking a question.
🗺️ Snipplet - Finally gives your favorite places a home beyond scattered bookmarks.
🖼 AI ART
Examples of great and trending AI art
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