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Captions, an AI startup that simplifies video creation and editing, has secured $60 million in a new funding round led by Index Ventures. The investment pushes the company's valuation to $500 million. The round also saw participation from Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and actor Jared Leto. Captions' software enables users with no filmmaking experience to create, edit, and share videos featuring multilingual avatars. CEO Gaurav Misra revealed that nearly 3.5 million videos are shared monthly through the company's app, which has already surpassed 10 million total downloads. Captions integrates its proprietary AI models with those from other providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Eleven Labs. The company faces competition from well-funded and highly valued startups such as HeyGen and Synthesia. Among Captions' latest offerings is a generative AI video editor.

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RX1 is a humanoid open-source robot that can be built for under $1,000. RX1, the first project from Red Rabbit Robotics, is a human-sized two-armed robot that can grip and place objects. It can be controlled remotely via a connection to a computer using machine learning or a VR headset. The project uses 3D-printed and commercially available components. With the RX1 Humanoid Servo, plans for the first component are now available on GitHub. More build plans, software, and instructions will be released in the coming weeks.

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Google Deepmind has launched Multimodal Canvas, an experimental testing console for developers. With a valid API key, they can use Gemini 1.5 Flash to quickly test multimodal prompts with text, drawings, camera shots, and other images. Gemini 1.5 Flash is faster and less expensive than the larger Gemini 1.5 Pro, and supports a 1 million token context window.

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