10X AI (Issue #6): Runway Gen-2, RedPajama 7B, Learning Tools, and Way Too Many Chips

Plus further improvements to Google Bard, ClipDrop's two new image tools, and getting Bing to visualize concepts using Mermaid code.

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Here are this week’s AI developments.

1. Runway Gen-2 is here!

Hey, remember how I tested out Runway’s Gen-1 text-to-video earlier in April? It lets you re-skin an existing video using a text prompt. At the time, I also hinted that Gen-2 would be coming soon.

Well, it’s here now!

Runway’s Gen-2 can create short videos from nothing but a text prompt.

Here’s what happened when I asked for “dogs playing poker”: