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Runway’s Aleph Model, NotebookLM turns notes into videos & Ideaogram’s Consistent Character Creation
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July 30, 2025
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Runway’s latest model lets you edit actual video footage with just a prompt. NotebookLM now turns your notes into narrated, visual study reels. And Ideogram? It can take one image and keep your characters consistent across every scene.
In today’s issue:
🤯 Runway’s Aleph Model
🧠 Google’s NotebookLM turns notes into videos
📈 Ideaogram’s Consistent Character Creation
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
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LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
Edit real video using text prompts—no need to generate from scratch.
Create new camera angles or adjust scenes (add rain, remove smoke, shift time).
Auto-adjusted lighting and depth keep edits natural and seamless.
Control every detail: age characters, change props, apply green screens.
Cuts down on post-production time and cost while giving creative flexibility.
NotebookLM’s new Video Overviews turn notes into narrated, visual slideshows.
Combines charts, images, and quotes for digestible study videos.
Part of Google’s bigger AI push across Search, Vertex AI, and Chrome.
Veo 3 models now do high-res video + native audio + image-to-video from prompts.
Used by Canva and eToro for ad localization, content scaling, and cinematic output.
Upload a single image, and Ideogram keeps your character consistent across scenes.
Add them to new scenes with Magic Fill, or tweak style with Remix tools.
Character masks isolate face, clothes, or props for fine-grained edits.
Combine with other tools for advanced storytelling and scene-building.
Free to use on ideogram.ai and the iOS app—perfect for creators and designers.
BRAIN BOOST 🧠
🎬 If editing real video with just a text prompt becomes the new normal… what might filmmakers start questioning next? |
QUICK HITS 💥
It’s time for some quick hits that you’ll love. Let’s go in…..4-3-2-1 👇️
5- TOP AI TOOLS OF THE DAY
🤖 TheLibrarian.io
Your AI assistant inside WhatsApp and Slack—prep meetings, open GitHub tickets, get briefs, and more
✅ OneTask
An AI to-do app that cuts the noise and highlights the one thing you actually need to do
🧠 Albert Einstein
Chat with an AI version of Einstein—intellect, wit, and relativity included
📚 Britannica AI Chatbot
Get accurate, encyclopedia-level answers powered by Britannica's trusted database
✈️ Airial Travel
Plan trips the smart way with personalized itineraries generated just for you
4-AI JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Meta - AI Research Scientist, Monetization AI
UiPath - Senior Sales Engineer
Palantir Technologies - Systems Engineer, Microsoft 365
xAI - Software Engineer, Developer Experience
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3-THINGS IN TREND
Entrepreneur and podcast host Greg Isenberg has shared a list of AI tools he uses to take his startups from idea to launch at breakneck speed
X user Aakash Chopra has dropped a list of AI agents designed to mimic an entire workforce.
X user Pawel Huryn has dropped a cheat sheet for context engineering, with 6 powerful templates to help you boost AI agent performance.
2-USEFUL LINKS
1-TOP ROBO NEWS
At China’s VOYAGEX Music Festival, humanoid robot Adam stole the show by jamming on a keytar with a live band. Thanks to custom actuators, Adam didn’t just hit the right notes—he moved like a real performer. Robotic bandmates? They might be closer than we think.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🧠 Meta Snags Apple AI Talent
Meta’s superintelligence team hired Bowen Zhang from Apple, the fourth AI researcher it’s poached in a month.
🧪 AI ‘Virtual Lab’ Designs COVID Treatments
Stanford and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub built an AI lab of simulated scientists that design, debate, and test biomedical ideas—producing COVID-19 treatments in days.
🤝 Microsoft Eyes Post-AGI Deal with OpenAI
Microsoft is reportedly finalizing a deal to maintain access to OpenAI’s models even after it hits AGI—a key sticking point in their current partnership.
🎨 xAI Teases ‘Imagine’ Image + Audio Gen
Elon Musk’s xAI opened the waitlist for “Imagine,” a multimodal tool that creates video and images with audio—similar to Google’s Veo 3.
🤖 Writer’s Action Agent Outsmarts Rivals
Writer launched Action Agent, an enterprise AI that autonomously completes tasks—outperforming Manus and OpenAI’s Deep Research in recent tests.
Funding 💰️
Anthropic Raising $5B at a $170B Valuation as AI Funding Heats Up
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