I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots

Shift, a division of German startup Microagi, offers free private chef services in San Francisco in exchange for recording the cooking process as egocentric training data for robots. The company aims to build a marketplace for human hand-movement data and envisions a future of affordable home humanoid robots.

ByteDance's new move in AI: launching the 'Liu Si' AI companion app and the Jimeng video model

ByteDance has launched a new AI companion app called 'Liu Si' and updated its Jimeng AI model to support video generation, while also opening external API services for its other AI products. This marks ByteDance's intensified push into the consumer AI space.

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