Today's featured AI news highlights, happy reading 👇
🤖 Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet upgrade, adding computer operation capability, with coding and reasoning abilities surpassing GPT-4.
🎨 Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion 3.5 series models, improving text understanding and image quality while reducing hardware requirements.
🎬 Runway releases Act-One feature, capable of transforming video characters into animated characters while maintaining synchronized expressions and movements, with stunning results.
💻 QtScrcpy: Open-source phone screen mirroring tool, supporting USB and WIFI connections, offering various useful features without requiring root access.
📺 TV: GitHub open-source IPTV live stream update tool, supporting custom channels and multiple running modes, providing rich channel resources.
Latest News
1. Anthropic launches upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet with groundbreaking features.
We will soon be able to guide Claude to operate computers like humans, capable of viewing screens, moving cursors, clicking buttons, and typing text.
Official announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use
The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet surpasses GPT-4 in coding and reasoning capabilities, and a new model Claude 3.5 Haiku has also been introduced.
Currently, the upgraded 3.5 Sonnet model is available for use, while computer use is in public beta, and 3.5 Haiku will be available before the end of the month.
2. Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5.
Including multiple model variants such as Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large and Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo, featuring high customizability and ability to run on consumer-grade hardware.
This update shows significant improvements in prompt text understanding and image quality, with enhanced stability and reduced hardware requirements.
Detailed introduction: https://stability.ai/news/introducing-stable-diffusion-3-5
Model download: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai
Additionally, a Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium model with 250 million parameters will be released on October 29.
3. Runway introduces video character to animation conversion feature: Act-One.
Simply provide any video to convert it into animated characters of any style, maintaining synchronization with the person's emotions, expressions, voice, and lip movements.
Detailed introduction: https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-act-one
From the demonstration video provided, it's stunning! The converted animated characters have rich expressions and movements, with impressive stability, opening up many future possibilities.
Open Source Projects
1. A powerful open-source and free phone screen mirroring tool for computers: QtScrcpy.
Supports one-click connection of Android devices to computers via USB or WIFI, enabling screen display and control without root access.
Offers rich features including real-time screen display, keyboard and mouse control, screen recording, screenshots, batch operations, file transfer, clipboard synchronization, and more.
GitHub: https://github.com/barry-ran/QtScrcpy
Supports major platforms including GNU/Linux, Windows, and macOS, providing high-performance, high-quality, low-latency, and quick-start user experience.
2. Recommended GitHub IPTV live stream update tool: TV.
Allows customization of channel menus, automatically obtains and updates the latest live stream interfaces based on template channels, and generates usable interface files.
GitHub: https://github.com/Guovin/TV
Specific channels include satellite TV, Guangdong channels, movies, sports, animation, gaming, music, classic drama theaters, and more, with the ability to add custom channels.
Supports multiple running modes such as workflows, command line, GUI software, Docker, etc.
