Charlie Fink is a consultant, columnist, author, and adjunct, covering AI, XR, and the Metaverse for Forbes. He is the author of the critically acclaimed AR-enabled books Charlie Fink’s Metaverse (2017), and Convergence, How The World Will Be Painted With Data (2019). Fink
Cohere AI’s $500 Million Series D, Musk’s Memphis Gigagactory, Cuts At Magic Leap, Meta Reality Labs
Cohere is now valued at $5.5 Billion. Meta’s got four major-ish items in the news, including the release of a new open-source LLM, Llama 3.
Civit AI Film Contest, A New AI Feature, Dishwashing Cats, More AI Videos
Rapid improvements in AI video generation tools, like Runway, Kling, Luma's Dream Machine, and Hapier, are enabling more cinematic and realistic films.
Book Review: ‘The Metaverse, Building The Spatial Internet,’ By Matthew Ball
A review of the second edition of the New York Times Bestseller about the 3D successor to today's internet.
$16 Million For AI NPCs, Jigspace 3D Reels In $13 Million, Text-To-Video Cage Match
AI isn’t taking a vacation. If anything, its strides are getting wider and wider.
Zoc Flips The Script On Education With AI
Zoc AI captures a full transcript and generates well-organized notes eliminating frantic note-taking, so students to focus their full attention on the lecture.
AMD Buys Silo AI For $665 Million, Captions Raises $60 Million, New AI Video Tools
AMD Ups AI Game. Captions makes millions of videos every month. Odyessey out of stealth with $9M. Infinite Realty Buys Landvault. Apple AI Lauching Without Siri. Samsung AI.
Limp Bizkit’s AI Music Video, AI Pirate Horror Fantasy, Found Footage From The Future, A Treat From Tokyo
I see dozens of Cinematic AI shorts every week and try to include the best in my weekly column. This week, there's too much AI. It demanded it's own story.
DreamFlare AI Launches Interactive AI-Generated Streaming Service
The new service merges technology and creativity to deliver interactive storytelling experiences with Cinematic AI.
Toonstar Uses AI To Power Hit YouTube Series
Parker James' YouTube show uses AI to achieve the speed, scale and efficiency that eludes the broader entertainment industry.
RunwayML Eyes $450 Million Investment, Launches Gen-3 Alpha
Featuring RunwayML Gen-3 AI demos, Eleven Labs Nabs Dead Celebrity Voices, Open AI Tames Time, Meta text-to-3D asset gen, plus news from the Fortnite Metaverse.