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More AI videos will be coming your way now that TikTok has developed a mind blowing video tool that enhances visual storytelling. Can education improve with the use of AI, lets discuss. And ChatGPT keeps creating and deploying apps and agents.

• ByteDance Unleashes The Future of Visual Storytelling.

• AI Companion Focused on Education and Deeper Learning.

• 🧰 AI Tools (AI Agents)

• ChatGPT Steps up Desktop Integrations and AI Agents.

• 📰 News and Trends.

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ByteDance Unleashes The Future of Visual Storytelling.

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is dominating social media with its continuous stream of engaging video content. now they are coming up with amazing technology to provides creators with X-Portrait 2 a powerful tool for enhanced visual storytelling.

This low-cost solution for expressive portrait animation uses a static portrait and a driving performance video to create realistic character animations, simplifying content creation.

Its advanced expression encoder captures subtle emotions like pouting and cheek-puffing, paired with generative diffusion models for fluid animations.

X-Portrait 2 enables cross-style expression transfer for realistic and cartoon imagery, excelling at capturing rapid movements and emotional shifts, ideal for animation and visual effects.

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AI Companion Focused on Education and Deeper Learning.

Young Bill Gates mentioned in the 80s that technology was going to revolutionize education for its ability to provide information in different formats, such as: video, audio, visuals, and continue to improve. Now Google has launched a new experimental AI tool called "Learn About," designed as an educational companion built on the LearnLM AI model.

Unlike traditional chatbots like Gemini or ChatGPT, Learn About focuses on educational, textbook-style responses. It incorporates interactive elements, visuals, and provides additional context to support learning. For example, it uses images from educational sites, suggests related topics, and includes context boxes like "why it matters" or "Build your vocab." This approach aims to guide users through new topics more comprehensively, emphasizing learning over simply presenting facts.

🧰 AI Tools

AI Agents.

• OpenAI's Swarm - GitHub
  An experimental open-source framework developed by OpenAI to orchestrate networks of AI agents. Swarm focuses on making agent coordination and execution lightweight, highly controllable, and easily testable.

• Anthropic's Claude
  An AI assistant built by Anthropic, trained to be safe, accurate, and secure. Claude excels at tasks involving language, reasoning, analysis, coding, and more.

• Reframe AI OpenAI Community
  An AI database platform that combines a low-code interface with AI agents to automate data workflows end-to-end. Reframe enables users to create executable workflows that link large language models to data sources, accelerating queries and optimizing data management.

• Experts.js - OpenAI Community
  A framework that facilitates the creation and deployment of OpenAI's Assistants, linking them together as tools to create advanced multi-AI agent systems with expanded memory and attention to detail.

• OpenAI Platform
  Provides resources, tutorials, API documentation, and dynamic examples to help developers get the most out of OpenAI's developer platform, including building and integrating AI agents.

ChatGPT Steps up Desktop Integrations and AI Agents.

OpenAI has launched desktop versions for Mac OS and Windows, integrating third-party apps like VS Code and Xcode into ChatGPT to enhance productivity.

Mac OS users can access VS Code, Xcode, Terminal, and iTerm2 directly from ChatGPT, initially for Plus and Teams subscribers, with expansion planned. The Windows app, available to all, includes Advanced Voice Mode and screenshot capabilities.

These updates make ChatGPT a central part of creative workflows, boosting productivity and it makes the app ready to take over your entire computer. OpenAI may release an AI agent called "Operator" in January, allowing direct actions on users' computers and competing with similar tools from Anthropic and Google. This coincides with OpenAI's policy paper suggesting AI-focused "economic zones" in the U.S.

📰 AI News and Trends

• AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now more open (Nature)

• Google is committed to make benefits of AI more accessible and inclusive for everyone in the Middle East and North Africa (Google)

• A $100 Billion Middle East AI Fund Plots Its U.S. Expansion (TheInformation)

• OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China (CNBC)

🌐 Other Tech news

• SEC chair doubles down on crypto stance under threat of Trump ousting (CT)

• To Work for Elon Musk’s Government-Efficiency Team, you need to work 80+ hours a week and join his platform X (WSJ)

• Silicon Valley eyes a windfall from Trump’s plans to gut regulation (WP)

• US regulators plan to investigate Microsoft’s cloud business (FT)

• The EV transition isn’t “dead,” one analyst tells, but it’s likely to slow down under a second Trump administration (TechBrew)

• Trump Already Preparing to Load Up Government with Pro-Crypto Officials (GizModo)

• Scientists Develop Breakthrough Nasal Spray That Could Delay Alzheimer’s by Over a Decade (SciTech)