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Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

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Re: Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

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If Amazon does not buy them, the CEO should be fired...

BFL resides in the same region as BMW and Audi. Quite wealthy and pretty fierce to protect their car industry. If Audi or any other german car maker sees BFL as the future of automation, it will be rather hard to buy them out.

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Are you American? We would prefer it to stay a European company. I personally hope Mistral buys them or somehow they unite to make a stand.

Mistral is much worse in its respective field than Flux in their own so I hope not.

Perhaps.. Mistral seems to be focussing more on LLM application rather than foundation models. Seeing that the latter may be becoming commodities, Mistral may come out ahead.

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Really interesting. Upshot: a well trained multimodal video generation model has a world representation model trained inside it. They’ve done some work lifting this world model out and deploying it to robots, where it seems to work well. On the one hand, this isn’t a new idea, and the quality video models certainly have understanding of materials, light, the world (at least in an Occam’s razor sense of understanding)…

FYI several other video labs are getting into robotics

Luma Labs https://lumalabs.ai/news/luma-open-physical-ai-lab

Runway https://runway.com/product/robotics

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time is the great filter

What's a good recent movie I could watch? Today is Friday

Was going to pull out my default recommendation of Oldboy but then I realized it’s 23 years old, which just aged me greatly

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The video at around 3.30min, where the robot arm took 3 attempts to reseat the window trim, was quite unnerving - I have not seen such resolving before. Is it new or am I way out of the loop?

if you want to catch up, i would say Generalist is the state of the art in dexterous manipulation tasks, you can learn more here https://generalistai.com/blog/gen-1

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Ok the phrasing here, it’s, it’s just - > However, compared to more specialized approaches for representation learning they produce less disentangled representations, which puts a ceiling on their usefulness for tasks that require world understanding. Only an LLM would use a less disentangled representation of the concept “more entangled” when trying to explain to people in the real world why less disentangled repres…

We’re just pulling signs of LLM touched writing out of our ass now. Might be time to move on from the accusations, assume all writing is at least LLM assisted and judge it purely on the quality.

I really hope this is how we are going to adapt to LLM era.

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time is the great filter

What's a good recent movie I could watch? Today is Friday

Odyssey is supposed to be pretty good. Main complaint I've seen is that it's not as horny as the source material.

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This is awesome. What's sad to me is that we have all this awesome technology, but movies are worse than ever. I usually watch movies from decades ago just to find something decent and it's amazing how with goofy-looking puppets the storytelling was 1000 times better. This is probably an unrelated rant, sorry

Survivorship bias, possible that you just aren’t watching all the shitty ones that nobody remembers.

OP replied but I’m chipping in too, I’ve also been watching a lot of older movies specifically the more B list and C list which weren’t successful cult classics and they’re still better than anything new. The low production and low talent C list ones are still cheesy and the performances don’t land anywhere near as well as they could but they feel more genuine and creative than what passes for a movie these days.
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