Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview has officially taken the #1 spot in Image-to-Video generation on Design Arena
• #1 overall with a 1357 Elo rating
• Massive 49-point lead over the next-best model
• Ahead of Seedance 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 Fast
It established a new Pareto frontier in AI video generation, delivering state-of-the-art quality while simultaneously being faster and more cost-efficient than competing models
The model averages just 41.2 seconds per generation while maintaining top-tier output quality
Most AI labs optimize for one metric
xAI is improving quality, speed, cost efficiency, and product capabilities all at the same time
That’s an incredibly difficult combination to achieve
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The Henry Nowak bodycam footage will radicalise many. If they released the Southport footage, the country would erupt.
Anything you are allowed to see is put through a risk assessment. Yes, releasing the Nowak footage will cause some protests, upset, petitions.. Maybe a list of demands they can ignore. But in this instance, releasing the footage allows them to claim transparency, ease some of the tensions building and let it fizzle out in a week or two. It is essentially pain they can manage.
Just think about the horrors you're not allowed to see. Horrors beyond your comprehension. Your brain could not process seeing 6 year old Bebe King with 122 stab wounds. Butchered beyond recognition. A girl covered in so much blood her own dad didn't recognise her as the blood altered her hair colour and covered her face. Here is Ed Dutton sharing the details of Southport:
Empathy is supposed to be a virtue but what if too much of it is quietly destroying the West?
Simi one shotted this video that breaks down Gad Saad's Suicidal Empathy in a 2-minute whiteboard explainer so you can get the whole argument fast.
(explainer by @laminalabs)
“You’re not virtuous. You’re harmless. You’re like a rabbit. Rabbit isn’t virtuous. It can’t do anything except get eaten. It’s not virtuous. If you’re a monster and you don’t act monstrously, then you’re virtuous. But you also have to be a monster. The hero has to be a monster” – Jordan Peterson