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Internet please make this a trend

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Seedance 2.0 is dropping soon I'm calling it, it will break the internet, 100%. It will be SOTA, with Kling 3.0 just released, this will leap yet another step forward. This is the official threshold, the point of no return. More examples below 👇

Seedance 2.0 is dropping soon I'm calling it, it will break the internet, 100%. It will be SOTA, with Kling 3.0 just released, this will leap yet another step forward. This is the official threshold, the point of no return. More examples below 👇

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Finally we can do claymation without the tedious work of mucking around with clay. Imagine telling what ever story you want, in any style you want, without the burden of time/cost/waste What a time to be alive

Finally we can do claymation without the tedious work of mucking around with clay. Imagine telling what ever story you want, in any style you want, without the burden of time/cost/waste What a time to be alive

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Is Disney cooked for real? How much time and money do you think it would have taken a team to do this the traditional way of working/animating? Because now you can do it in 5 minutes by giving an AI a simple prompt (Seedance 2.0) 🤯

Is Disney cooked for real? How much time and money do you think it would have taken a team to do this the traditional way of working/animating? Because now you can do it in 5 minutes by giving an AI a simple prompt (Seedance 2.0) 🤯

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Uber is Dead, my reflections on Waymo I’ve been in San Francisco for just over a week, during which I’ve taken 7 rides with Waymo, a similar number with Uber, and a few with FSD Teslas. My journey to SFO via Uber was alarming—the driver veered out of the lane multiple times and nearly crashed on a ramp, seemingly vying for a one-star rating or to genuinely scare me. Conversely, my experiences with Waymo were virtually flawless, if you don’t consider overly cautious driving a fault. I experienced a minor hiccup when we got stuck behind parked cars because the vehicle thought they were queuing at a red light. It quickly resolved the confusion and moved on, which was rather amusing. Waymo, and other Level 5 autonomous vehicles, are poised to revolutionize the movement of people and goods. The most apt analogy I can think of is that Waymo is transforming the real world into an automated Amazon warehouse, with people as the goods and Waymo vehicles as the robots shuttling them around. With the advent of personal transportation becoming incredibly affordable, sending anything from point A to point B using a self-driving electric vehicle will soon be within easy reach. One of Waymo’s standout features is privacy. Riding in an Uber often means being subjected to the driver’s loud group chats on some app, making the journey neither quiet nor private. In contrast, Waymo offers a fully private experience, allowing you to have confidential phone conversations or chat freely with fellow passengers without distraction. Waymo also reimagines the concept of a car. Without the need for a driver, we can eliminate the front console, reduce weight, and remove the steering wheel. This opens up possibilities for passenger seats to be reoriented, perhaps facing backwards, or for the vehicle to become a mobile living room. Tomorrow’s vehicle designs will differ drastically from today’s. Destinations that are currently expensive and logistically complicated to reach via Taxi/Uber, often lying outside public transport routes, can be simplified to a single “Waymo” journey. This could shift the current model of “Uber + public transport + Uber” to a more streamlined experience. As more cars become self-driving, we could see a reduction in the amount of time cars are parked—from 99% of their lifetime to perhaps just 25%. This not only improves unit economics but could also decrease the number of cars on the road. This transition represents one of the most significant shifts for Generation X. In conclusion, the future is autonomous, electric, and efficient. Uber, as we know it, is dead.

Uber is Dead, my reflections on Waymo I’ve been in San Francisco for just over a week, during which I’ve taken 7 rides with Waymo, a similar number with Uber, and a few with FSD Teslas. My journey to SFO via Uber was alarming—the driver veered out of the lane multiple times and nearly crashed on a ramp, seemingly vying for a one-star rating or to genuinely scare me. Conversely, my experiences with Waymo were virtually flawless, if you don’t consider overly cautious driving a fault. I experienced a minor hiccup when we got stuck behind parked cars because the vehicle thought they were queuing at a red light. It quickly resolved the confusion and moved on, which was rather amusing. Waymo, and other Level 5 autonomous vehicles, are poised to revolutionize the movement of people and goods. The most apt analogy I can think of is that Waymo is transforming the real world into an automated Amazon warehouse, with people as the goods and Waymo vehicles as the robots shuttling them around. With the advent of personal transportation becoming incredibly affordable, sending anything from point A to point B using a self-driving electric vehicle will soon be within easy reach. One of Waymo’s standout features is privacy. Riding in an Uber often means being subjected to the driver’s loud group chats on some app, making the journey neither quiet nor private. In contrast, Waymo offers a fully private experience, allowing you to have confidential phone conversations or chat freely with fellow passengers without distraction. Waymo also reimagines the concept of a car. Without the need for a driver, we can eliminate the front console, reduce weight, and remove the steering wheel. This opens up possibilities for passenger seats to be reoriented, perhaps facing backwards, or for the vehicle to become a mobile living room. Tomorrow’s vehicle designs will differ drastically from today’s. Destinations that are currently expensive and logistically complicated to reach via Taxi/Uber, often lying outside public transport routes, can be simplified to a single “Waymo” journey. This could shift the current model of “Uber + public transport + Uber” to a more streamlined experience. As more cars become self-driving, we could see a reduction in the amount of time cars are parked—from 99% of their lifetime to perhaps just 25%. This not only improves unit economics but could also decrease the number of cars on the road. This transition represents one of the most significant shifts for Generation X. In conclusion, the future is autonomous, electric, and efficient. Uber, as we know it, is dead.

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Padel Ping Pong — this is freaking genius All AI startups need to have this in their offices, it’s like 12D chess but for the actual body 🏓 🎾

Padel Ping Pong — this is freaking genius All AI startups need to have this in their offices, it’s like 12D chess but for the actual body 🏓 🎾

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This is the best marketing strategy by Apple ever. Pay folks to walk around allover the US in high purchase intent neighborhoods Creating massive FOMO*

This is the best marketing strategy by Apple ever. Pay folks to walk around allover the US in high purchase intent neighborhoods Creating massive FOMO*

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CGI is about to get easy This is simulon, a new iOS app that’s still in invite only mode The video below was made with a live in-camera preview and auto-exposure matching, no camera solve, no HDRI capture and no manual compositing setup. 🔗 in next tweet

CGI is about to get easy This is simulon, a new iOS app that’s still in invite only mode The video below was made with a live in-camera preview and auto-exposure matching, no camera solve, no HDRI capture and no manual compositing setup. 🔗 in next tweet

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Something exploded on the pad, that must have damaged something on the rocket… Elon Musk

Something exploded on the pad, that must have damaged something on the rocket… Elon Musk

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Flying will never be the same again

Flying will never be the same again

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OpenAI keeps dropping more insane Sora videos These are 100% AI generated 9 reality bending videos 1. Elephant made out of leaves

OpenAI keeps dropping more insane Sora videos These are 100% AI generated 9 reality bending videos 1. Elephant made out of leaves

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Can’t take credit, but have def done this myself. Can confirm it works.

Can’t take credit, but have def done this myself. Can confirm it works.

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Price is in, $799 These will sell out faster than you can imagine.

Price is in, $799 These will sell out faster than you can imagine.

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This handball moment from Saka is what cost Netherlands the game. VAR should be used, and Kane did not deserve that penalty kick. video @creacas_ai

This handball moment from Saka is what cost Netherlands the game. VAR should be used, and Kane did not deserve that penalty kick. video @creacas_ai

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Apple Vision Pro is finally here! But what apps should you be getting? There are over 600 apps built for the Vision Pro Here are 11 of my top picks:

Apple Vision Pro is finally here! But what apps should you be getting? There are over 600 apps built for the Vision Pro Here are 11 of my top picks:

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Turning my kids into cartoons is super fun Here I'm experimenting with Freepik Spaces and JSON prompting using Seedance 2.0 Full prompt below 👇

Turning my kids into cartoons is super fun Here I'm experimenting with Freepik Spaces and JSON prompting using Seedance 2.0 Full prompt below 👇

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I made the realistic trollface meme with Google Veo 3 and Nanobanan Pro in late November for fun. In the last week it picked up over 500.000.000 views combined on TikTok amongst the late Gen-z generation. “told teach to check email”

I made the realistic trollface meme with Google Veo 3 and Nanobanan Pro in late November for fun. In the last week it picked up over 500.000.000 views combined on TikTok amongst the late Gen-z generation. “told teach to check email”

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Tutorial Time: Run any open-source LLM locally. Now we will run an LLM on your M1/2 Mac. And its fast. All you need is moved to: @lmstudio let's get started. Good to be back. A thread

Tutorial Time: Run any open-source LLM locally. Now we will run an LLM on your M1/2 Mac. And its fast. All you need is moved to: @lmstudio let's get started. Good to be back. A thread

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Meta Movie Gen just dropped 😱 Here are 10 examples that blew me away 1. Snow Monkey playing with sailboat

Meta Movie Gen just dropped 😱 Here are 10 examples that blew me away 1. Snow Monkey playing with sailboat

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Influencer Schools in Asia This is next level, a legion of influencers to influence… you. What’s the equivalent in the west if any?

Influencer Schools in Asia This is next level, a legion of influencers to influence… you. What’s the equivalent in the west if any?

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My buddy Jeremy just sent me this. FedEx your guys just harassed $20.000 worth of equipment just like that. not cool guys, not cool at all
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My buddy Jeremy just sent me this. FedEx your guys just harassed $20.000 worth of equipment just like that. not cool guys, not cool at all

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Learned something about Bees Today. A male bee mates for less than 5 seconds in midair. The ejaculation is so explosive you can hear it pop from a few feet away. His body rips in half. He falls dead before hitting the ground. And he is one of the lucky males in the hive. When a male bee, called a drone, chases down a queen mid-flight at speeds of 22 miles per hour, his entire reproductive organ turns inside out. The pressure required for this comes from nearly all the blood in his body, which rushes downward to force the organ outward like a spring. The semen fires into the queen with so much force it makes the audible pop. The organ then snaps off and stays lodged inside her like a cork. As he flips backward off her body, his abdomen rips open. The next drone waiting his turn has to physically yank out the dead male's cork before he can mate. The same thing then happens to him. The queen does this 12 to 20 times in a single afternoon. She flies up to a spot in the sky that beekeepers call a drone congregation area. Picture an invisible meeting point about 50 to 130 feet above the ground where up to 11,000 male bees from as many as 240 different hives are hovering, waiting for her. These spots stay in the exact same locations year after year, sometimes for over a decade. No one fully understands how brand new drones, born only weeks earlier, find them. By the end of her mating run, the queen has collected around 100 million sperm cells. She keeps only 5 to 6 million in a tiny internal storage organ that keeps them alive for years. From that supply, she uses just two sperm cells per egg for the rest of her life, laying up to 2,000 eggs a day for 2 to 7 years. After that one afternoon in the sky, she will never mate again. A 2019 study from UC Riverside, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Western Australia found that bee semen contains toxic proteins that temporarily blind the queen by interfering with how vision genes function in her brain. If she can't see well, she can't fly out again to mate with more males. Their semen also carries a separate protein that attacks and kills sperm cells from rival drones still inside her. The males keep competing long after every one of them is dead. The 99.9% of drones who never get to mate have it worse. As autumn arrives, the female worker bees in the hive stop feeding their brothers, then drag them out of the entrance after biting off their wings. The drones can't fly back in. They starve or freeze in the grass within days. The colony raises a fresh batch of disposable males the next spring, and the whole cycle starts over.
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Learned something about Bees Today. A male bee mates for less than 5 seconds in midair. The ejaculation is so explosive you can hear it pop from a few feet away. His body rips in half. He falls dead before hitting the ground. And he is one of the lucky males in the hive. When a male bee, called a drone, chases down a queen mid-flight at speeds of 22 miles per hour, his entire reproductive organ turns inside out. The pressure required for this comes from nearly all the blood in his body, which rushes downward to force the organ outward like a spring. The semen fires into the queen with so much force it makes the audible pop. The organ then snaps off and stays lodged inside her like a cork. As he flips backward off her body, his abdomen rips open. The next drone waiting his turn has to physically yank out the dead male's cork before he can mate. The same thing then happens to him. The queen does this 12 to 20 times in a single afternoon. She flies up to a spot in the sky that beekeepers call a drone congregation area. Picture an invisible meeting point about 50 to 130 feet above the ground where up to 11,000 male bees from as many as 240 different hives are hovering, waiting for her. These spots stay in the exact same locations year after year, sometimes for over a decade. No one fully understands how brand new drones, born only weeks earlier, find them. By the end of her mating run, the queen has collected around 100 million sperm cells. She keeps only 5 to 6 million in a tiny internal storage organ that keeps them alive for years. From that supply, she uses just two sperm cells per egg for the rest of her life, laying up to 2,000 eggs a day for 2 to 7 years. After that one afternoon in the sky, she will never mate again. A 2019 study from UC Riverside, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Western Australia found that bee semen contains toxic proteins that temporarily blind the queen by interfering with how vision genes function in her brain. If she can't see well, she can't fly out again to mate with more males. Their semen also carries a separate protein that attacks and kills sperm cells from rival drones still inside her. The males keep competing long after every one of them is dead. The 99.9% of drones who never get to mate have it worse. As autumn arrives, the female worker bees in the hive stop feeding their brothers, then drag them out of the entrance after biting off their wings. The drones can't fly back in. They starve or freeze in the grass within days. The colony raises a fresh batch of disposable males the next spring, and the whole cycle starts over.

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285,707 views • 3 days ago

I was skeptical, but now I’m completely convinced. Fencing will become super popular due to this one very particular improvement to the sport. “Sword tip visualization” It’s going to debut at the summer olympics. Every single duel will look like a bloody lightsaber fight
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I was skeptical, but now I’m completely convinced. Fencing will become super popular due to this one very particular improvement to the sport. “Sword tip visualization” It’s going to debut at the summer olympics. Every single duel will look like a bloody lightsaber fight

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3,857,997 views • 1 month ago

Never seen a more blatant use of AI in filmmaking. Flamboyant. Horrid. Humans don't talk or act like this.
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Never seen a more blatant use of AI in filmmaking. Flamboyant. Horrid. Humans don't talk or act like this.

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3,892,931 views • 3 months ago

Dead Guy: Spread my ashes in the skies 💨 Bro, how much Ben you got in that bag tf?!
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Dead Guy: Spread my ashes in the skies 💨 Bro, how much Ben you got in that bag tf?!

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4,951,084 views • 6 months ago

What Bieber did at Coachella was less a performance and more a reminder that his early catalogue has real staying power. A laptop, a YouTube stream, crowd requests, and songs most people in that field first heard as teenagers. The format was stripped back. The reaction wasn't.
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What Bieber did at Coachella was less a performance and more a reminder that his early catalogue has real staying power. A laptop, a YouTube stream, crowd requests, and songs most people in that field first heard as teenagers. The format was stripped back. The reaction wasn't.

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944,495 views • 1 month ago

This is a multi-billion dollar business Dusty robotics just invented a new tool that every single construction company will end up buying Just like a Roomba, it drives around, but it’s not cleaning, instead it’s printing the floor plan on to the slab. So simple, so powerful
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This is a multi-billion dollar business Dusty robotics just invented a new tool that every single construction company will end up buying Just like a Roomba, it drives around, but it’s not cleaning, instead it’s printing the floor plan on to the slab. So simple, so powerful

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5,000,808 views • 8 months ago

Is this the future of podcasts? AI conversations | Bill Gates x Socrates I think very realistic conversations like this will be bread and butter in any streaming app. Let’s take it one step further and imagine this but personalized towards you? 🤯 What do you think?
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Is this the future of podcasts? AI conversations | Bill Gates x Socrates I think very realistic conversations like this will be bread and butter in any streaming app. Let’s take it one step further and imagine this but personalized towards you? 🤯 What do you think?

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21,721,822 views • 3 years ago

Using AI to translate Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime performance 😂
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Using AI to translate Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime performance 😂

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1,400,045 views • 3 months ago

Hollywood creates with millions of dollars and a team of hundreds. This was made by ONE person using AI.
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Hollywood creates with millions of dollars and a team of hundreds. This was made by ONE person using AI.

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1,992,241 views • 6 months ago

Storyboard first. Always. I’ve tried the new infinite canvas for AI video creation from Topview. Like no more blind prompting and hoping for the best. Instead you plan visually. Control the story. Generate better videos. Quick and dirty example below. 👇
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Storyboard first. Always. I’ve tried the new infinite canvas for AI video creation from Topview. Like no more blind prompting and hoping for the best. Instead you plan visually. Control the story. Generate better videos. Quick and dirty example below. 👇

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17,346 views • 2 days ago

The future of photography is “lens-free” This is an incredible project by Bjørn Karmann The camera creates a prompt based on the geo data and that then turns into an AI photo 🤯
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The future of photography is “lens-free” This is an incredible project by Bjørn Karmann The camera creates a prompt based on the geo data and that then turns into an AI photo 🤯

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12,360,037 views • 3 years ago

Grok needs a lot of red teaming, or it needs to be temporary turned off. It’s an international security concern.
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Grok needs a lot of red teaming, or it needs to be temporary turned off. It’s an international security concern.

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4,735,485 views • 1 year ago

Stop deviating from the real problem. Posting something that goes viral, to then be punished by 93% reduction in reach within 48h or candidate pool refresh. Here, me hunting for undisclosed paid posts. Enjoy
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Stop deviating from the real problem. Posting something that goes viral, to then be punished by 93% reduction in reach within 48h or candidate pool refresh. Here, me hunting for undisclosed paid posts. Enjoy

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135,637 views • 18 days ago

This is unacceptable, should not be possible Made possible by 𝕭𝖏ø𝖗𝖓 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖆𝖑
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This is unacceptable, should not be possible Made possible by 𝕭𝖏ø𝖗𝖓 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖆𝖑

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8,560,187 views • 2 years ago

Social selling factory in Indonesia 🤯 This is UGC industrial mass production. This is a freaking factory. Selling things online is changing so fast. Everything is changing so fast. This is unreal
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Social selling factory in Indonesia 🤯 This is UGC industrial mass production. This is a freaking factory. Selling things online is changing so fast. Everything is changing so fast. This is unreal

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7,766,769 views • 2 years ago

New era for the sports industry It's time for folks to really start looking at how spatial computing will change sports for ever. What used to cost millions and take weeks, can now happen in real-time and cost close to nothing. 🧵 A thread
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New era for the sports industry It's time for folks to really start looking at how spatial computing will change sports for ever. What used to cost millions and take weeks, can now happen in real-time and cost close to nothing. 🧵 A thread

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6,637,264 views • 2 years ago

Boston Dynamics was running 10months ago. Everyone else is just playing ketchup But what’s impressive is how fast the gap between human and robotic movement is closing. Irreversible so too. The high speed tsunami is coming
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Boston Dynamics was running 10months ago. Everyone else is just playing ketchup But what’s impressive is how fast the gap between human and robotic movement is closing. Irreversible so too. The high speed tsunami is coming

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1,160,669 views • 6 months ago

Trackless trains will make subways and trams obsolete
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Trackless trains will make subways and trams obsolete

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5,495,686 views • 2 years ago

Future of gaming low graphics real-time gen AI 💥
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Future of gaming low graphics real-time gen AI 💥

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3,211,906 views • 1 year ago