AI News: Captions’ Mirage, Marko AI Agent, Gemini Image Gen, & More

🚀 Today’s Biggest AI Announcements: Mirage, Marko, R1 at Home, & More

📽️ Captions Unveils Mirage – AI-Generated UGC Avatars

Captions just launched Mirage, an AI model designed to create high-energy, UGC-style avatars for marketing campaigns.

📌 Why It’s Groundbreaking:

✔ Generates AI-driven video ads featuring non-existent people

✔ Includes animated body language & micro-expressions

✔ Works from a simple script or audio file

🎯 Marko – The AI Marketing Agent That Creates Ads for You

NEX has launched Marko, an AI-powered marketing agent that automates ad creation.

📌 What It Can Do:

✔ Upload your brand assets and Marko handles the rest

✔ Creates AI-generated product videos

✔ Designed for businesses looking to scale marketing

🖥️ Run DeepSeek R1 at Home with Two M3 Ultra Mac Studios

AI enthusiasts are now running DeepSeek R1 locally using Apple’s M3 Ultra Mac Studios.

📌 How It Works:

✔ Uses Thunderbolt 5 interconnect (80Gbps)

✔ Runs DeepSeek R1 (671B, 8-bit) across 2 Mac Studios

✔ Performance: 11 tokens/sec (max 20 tok/sec)

This setup brings cutting-edge AI models to desktops, opening new possibilities for local AI execution.

🛠️ Perplexity API Now Supports Multi-Party Computation (MPC)

The Perplexity API now enables MPC, allowing developers to:

✔ Integrate real-time AI search with their favorite AI models (e.g., Claude)

✔ Access more secure & private AI-powered queries

🎥 Pika Introduces Pika Swaps – AI-Powered Fashion Editing

Pika Labs just released Pika Swaps, an AI-driven tool for effortless fashion transformations in video editing.

📌 Why It’s Cool:

✔ Seamlessly changes outfits in videos

✔ Perfect for fashion brands, influencers, and content creators

✔ Revolutionizes AI-powered visual storytelling

📷 Gemini 2.0 Flash Now Supports AI Image Generation

Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash has just added native image generation capabilities, enabling:

✔ Story-based AI visuals from simple text prompts

✔ Rapid AI-generated content for blogs & social media

📌 This marks a new milestone for Google’s AI creativity tools.

🤖 Figure to Ship Thousands of Humanoid Robots with Helix Neural Network

Figure AI is now mass-producing humanoid robots, powered by:

✔ Helix Neural Network for advanced reasoning

✔ AI-driven robotics built for workforce automation

📌 This is a step toward widespread AI-powered physical labor.

🔮 What These AI Breakthroughs Mean for the Future

📌 Key Takeaways:

✔ AI-generated UGC & marketing automation are growing (Mirage & Marko)

✔ Local AI execution is becoming possible (DeepSeek R1 on Mac)

✔ Multi-Party Computation expands AI privacy & security (Perplexity API)

✔ AI-enhanced visual creativity tools are advancing fast (Pika Swaps & Gemini Image Gen)

✔ Humanoid robots are entering real-world deployment (Figure AI)

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