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Post by hu3 »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #230
localfirst wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have to take account that this community (good chunk have stakes in YC and a lot to gain from secondary shares in OpenAI) and platform is going to favor its own and be aware that Sam Altman is the golden boy of YC's founder after all. So of course you are going to see snarky comments and straight up denial in the competition. We saw that yesterday in the comments with the release of GPT4o in anticipation of Gemini…

> We have to take account that this community (good chunk have stakes in YC and a lot to gain from secondary shares in OpenAI) You have to be pretty deep inside your own little bubble to think that even more than a 0.001% of HN has "stakes in YC" or "secondary shares in OpenAI".

It can be a vocal minority. Still vocal.

I wouldn't discard.

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Post by Keyframe »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #65
Keyframe wrote: post #38

Kind of sucks to be google. Even they're making good progress here, and have laid the foundations of a lot if not most things.. their products are, well there aren't any noteworthy compared to rest. And considering google is sitting on top of one of the largest if not THE largest video database, along with maps, traffic, search, internet.zip, usenet, vast computing resources vertically integrated.. they have the whol…

I don't know how more people don't talk about the 1M context tokens. While the output is mediocre for cutting edge models, you can context stuff the ever living hell out of it for some pretty amazing capabilities. 2M tokens is even crazier.

That's a good point. Gemini gatekeeping me on so many answers made me forget about this extraordinary feature of it.

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Post by iamleppert »

Too little, too late. Google is follower, not leader. They need to stop trying and do more stock buybacks and strip the company to barebones, like Musk did with Twitter & Tesla.

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Post by [deleted] »

popcar2 wrote: post #46

Not nearly as impressive as Sora. Sora was impressive because the clips were long and had lots of rapid movement since video models tend to fall apart when the movement isn't easy to predict. By comparison, the shots here are only a few seconds long and almost all look like slow motion or slow panning shots cherrypicked because they don't have that much movement. Compare that to Sora's videos of people walking in rea…

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Post by jazzyjackson »

aragonite wrote: post #168

With so much recent focus by OpenAI/Google on AI's visual capabilities, does anyone know when we might see an OCR product as good as Whisper for voice transcription? (Or has that already happened?) I had to convert some PDFs and MP3s to text recently and was struck by the vast difference in output quality. Whisper's transcription was near-flawless, all the OCR softwares I tried struggled with formatting, missed words…

You might enjoy this breakdown of the lengths one person went through to take advantage of the iOS vision API and creating a local web service for transcribing some very challenging memes:

https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip...

discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34315782

Re: Veo

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Post by m3kw9 »

Why is it always in slow motion, is it hard to get the speed correctly?

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Post by [deleted] »

localfirst wrote: post #180
typpo wrote: post #114

The amount of negativity in these comments is astounding. Congrats to the teams at Google on what they have built, and hoping for more competition and progress in this space.

We have to take account that this community (good chunk have stakes in YC and a lot to gain from secondary shares in OpenAI) and platform is going to favor its own and be aware that Sam Altman is the golden boy of YC's founder after all. So of course you are going to see snarky comments and straight up denial in the competition. We saw that yesterday in the comments with the release of GPT4o in anticipation of Gemini…

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Post by nialv7 »

satvikpendem wrote: post #197
theresistor wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not available on my (free) account in either the app or the website. So no, everyone does not have access to it.

It's for paid users for now, not free. I have ChatGPT Pro and I can use the new model.

I am a free user and I have 4o. I think it is just a gradual roll out.

Re: Veo

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Post by [deleted] »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #230
localfirst wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have to take account that this community (good chunk have stakes in YC and a lot to gain from secondary shares in OpenAI) and platform is going to favor its own and be aware that Sam Altman is the golden boy of YC's founder after all. So of course you are going to see snarky comments and straight up denial in the competition. We saw that yesterday in the comments with the release of GPT4o in anticipation of Gemini…

> We have to take account that this community (good chunk have stakes in YC and a lot to gain from secondary shares in OpenAI) You have to be pretty deep inside your own little bubble to think that even more than a 0.001% of HN has "stakes in YC" or "secondary shares in OpenAI".

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