Lovers of free tech, rejoice! Google and xAI have unveiled pretty interesting updates to their AI offerings for free, matching and expanding upon OpenAI’s recent democratization efforts.

OpenAI fired the latest salvo in the war for the hearts—and, ultimately, wallets of users—with its ambitious “12 Days of OpenAI” campaign last week, releasing a series of powerful tools to the public. The campaign’s highlights include Sora, the firm’s state-of-the-art text-to-video generator, the advanced reasoning model “OpenAI o1,” and SearchGPT, a sophisticated web search integration.

Of these, both the search engine and the reasoning model are available for free users. Sora requires a ChatGPT Plus subscription.

Then Google responded yesterday with a sweeping series of announcements to show that it still has a lot to offer. Directly competing against Sora, Veo 2—the company’s latest video generation AI model—was announced, and registrations are already open for users to tr

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Author: Jose Antonio Lanz