🎥 Tiktok animates your selfie, 🖌️Cursor for design, Hollywood video effects for $5, 👩‍⚖️ Harvey says other models are better than GPT now

🎥 Tiktok turns your selfie into a viral GIF now

TikTok just dropped AI Alive, a new tool that animates static images into short videos right inside TikTok Stories. You can now add movement, visual effects, and even ambient sounds. Forget filters—your photos can now breathe. TikTok's making moves while Snapchat is still "testing" their version.

Fun Fact: TikTok built this tool on top of ByteDance’s in-house video generation model, which might eventually challenge OpenAI’s Sora.

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👩‍⚖️ Legal AI Harvey worth $3B isn’t married to ChatGPT

Harvey now runs legal prompts through Claude 3 (Anthropic) and Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) alongside GPT-4. Gemini drafts, GPT preps for court, Claude handles those weird edge cases. For enterprise use cases, the model competition is heating up. Harvey’s internal “BigLaw” benchmark now shows 7 models outperforming OpenAI’s o3 in key legal tasks. Several rival models now lift heavier legal workloads than GPT-4

May the best model win. (In court.)

Fun Fact: Despite being born in OpenAI’s Startup Fund nursery, Harvey is outgrowing its parents.

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Higgsfield has a whole library of visual effects born from the Mission in San Francisco.

Could AI have done this from latent space without any data from the original VFX? Doubt it, but damn are the economics compelling.

A Cursor for design just launched, and it’s pretty neat.

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