Mal McCallion

Business growth expert, Founder of ModelProp. Veteran of startups Zoopla & Primelocation. Father, runner, Ipswich Town fan.

[Mal McCallion @MalMcC]

Anyone looking to escape the vice-like grip of #Rightmove and their brutal price increases?

Join us! I'm on a webinar Wednesday at 1230 to tell you all about it.

Don't be surprised if I look a +teeny+ bit older than this photo from 2017 though😬

https://t.co/0BktQ2avAx

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So we're in #Madrid for this week's Property AI Report podcast!

Maybe I just wanted to let off some steam about hypocrisy in the acting community when it comes to #AI ...

48 podcast episodes in ... search up 'Property AI Report' on your usual platforms to hear a lot more :)

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Honoured to be closing out the #PPW2025 event in Madrid yesterday - real excitement around the next-gen #AI portal that we're building.

This really was a powerful event; 400+ delegates, 50+ speakers , an incredible amount of ideas, contacts, conversations and fun all crammed in.

[Mal McCallion @MalMcC]

Great @ICGapproved event last week and honoured to be on a panel with property, technology and marketing gurus @WhiteIain Ian Macbeth of @AvocadoProperty @kirstyfranks84 & John Paul.

1 in 5 homemovers is using AI now for property search. Learn more: https://t.co/yb4txRug4B

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Snippet from this (47th) week's Property AI Report - search it up on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you usually get your good stuff.

Here I'm chatting all sensibly about #Zillow before @Goddard_Matt starts ruminating on his teenage years ....

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Welcome to the future (Part 4,387) - #robots. These things are going to be incredible and not just for stacking dishes.

https://t.co/sOKwKuBlkj #figure01 #OpenAI

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Was great to join @stbaker and Edmund Keith on their #onlinemarketplaces podcast. Covered plenty of #portals #ai and #proptech issues - incl why filtered #property search is going to die ... https://t.co/1CnJ9oZbF2

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This may not look like much but it's a massive breakthrough by @pika_labs - video sound fx from prompts.

We've been so spoilt with the quality of video imagery that it's almost become mundane to see something like this. But hear it, too - and unscripted?

Huge moment.

#ai

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There is a lot of meme entertainment to be had by looking up the #katemiddleton hashtag. The amateur way it's been thrown out to a conspiracy-thirsty audience is breathtaking.

This will be one of those moments that's taught in AI school in years to come ...

[Jon Harvey @jondharvey]

What’s all the fuss about this new photo of #KateMiddleton and her kids. I can’t see the problem.

[Mal McCallion @MalMcC]

@DHS01 @restisents @richardosman @MarinaHyde Will give it a listen, thanks. Fast is right - incredible what’s changed in the last few months, the next few are going to be incredible

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Whilst there will inevitably be some weirdness early on, #Sora is looking like a blockbuster Hollywood Blockbuster killer ...

[Min Choi @minchoi]

AI will disrupt Hollywood (Part 27)📽️

Sora isn't available yet, but Creators have been generating cinema quality short films, trailers, and teasers with AI in just a few hours 🤯

10 wild examples:

[Dogan Ural @doganuraldesign]

We're stepping into a new reality (!)

Introducing EMO: a groundbreaking AI that creates expressive portrait videos from just an image and audio!

🧵 More in the thread:

[Mal McCallion @MalMcC]

This week's Property / AI Report: https://t.co/HaoFvxb5OZ
#modelprop #property #ai

- Developers in the dock
- Cute AI
- SOTA #Sora

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So you just send @Google #genie a prompt (image or text) and it'll create a world for you from 'trained' unsupervised data. Incredible.

[AK @_akhaliq]

Google presents Genie

Generative Interactive Environments

introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos. The model can be prompted to generate an endless variety of action-controllable virtual worlds described through text, synthetic images, photographs, and even sketches. At 11B parameters, Genie can be considered a foundation world model. It is comprised of a spatiotemporal video tokenizer, an autoregressive dynamics model, and a simple and scalable latent action model. Genie enables users to act in the generated environments on a frame-by-frame basis despite training without any ground-truth action labels or other domain-specific requirements typically found in the world model literature. Further the resulting learned latent action space facilitates training agents to imitate behaviors from unseen videos, opening the path for training generalist agents of the future.

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Actually very cool #panama #canal

[#NaMo Again 🚩 @BhaktSanatani_]

@fasc1nate How ships cross the Panama Canal.. ❤️
https://t.co/G5GeuBxK92

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I don’t think I’ve seen anything in the ⁦@Telegraph⁩ that summarises its audience quite as succinctly as this poll #boomer #housing #crisis

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Mark #Zuckerberg on Apple's #VisionPro.

https://t.co/FgVhyU8VlE

#MarketingTips - even if you really, really want to trash your incoming, terrifying competitor, don't go direct ... you only make them stronger (and yourself seem much weaker)

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This is from @openai's #Sora - it's incredible.

Prompt: A giant, towering cloud in the shape of a man looms over the earth. The cloud man shoots lighting bolts down to the earth.

That's it. Not long until full HD films created entirely in #AI are here ...

[Borriss @_Borriss_]

The Sora videos posted by the OpenAI team are getting wilder..
(Part 2)

7 new ones:

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@Amazon #Science proving inadvertently that its 'UK English' AI has been exclusively trained on #DickVanDyke's British accent https://t.co/0j2ufeJzGL (listen to 'Speaker D' for evidence ...)