Lilian Weng on Video Diffusion

**OpenAI** expands with a launch in **Japan**, introduces a **Batch API**, and partners with **Adobe** to bring the **Sora video model** to Premiere Pro. **Reka AI** releases the **Reka Core multimodal language model**. **WizardLM-2** is released showing impressive performance, and **Llama 3** news is anticipated soon. Geoffrey Hinton highlights AI models exhibiting **intuition, creativity, and analogy recognition** beyond humans. The **Devin AI model** notably contributes to its own codebase. **Opus** demonstrates the ability to recognize its own generated outputs. **Sam Altman** warns startups about being steamrolled by OpenAI if they don't adapt quickly. **Yann LeCun** discusses AGI timelines, emphasizing it is inevitable but not imminent or solely from LLMs. Lilian Weng's blog on **diffusion models for video generation** highlights **training-free adaptation** as a breakthrough technique.