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Today we cover Adobe's new Firefly mobile app and AI model expansion, Nielsen's report on streaming surpassing traditional TV viewership, and MiniMax's new open-source AI model, MiniMax-M1. The Adobe articles detail the release of a mobile app for their Firefly AI content creation suite, allowing users to generate and edit images and videos with text prompts, and highlight the integration of new third-party AI models and Firefly Boards for collaborative ideation. The Nielsen reports emphasize a significant shift in viewing habits, with streaming services now outperforming cable and broadcast television combined in overall viewership for the first time. Finally, the MiniMax articles announce the open-sourcing of their new MiniMax-M1 large language model, which boasts a 1 million token context window and demonstrates high efficiency and strong performance against competitors in various reasoning and productivity benchmarks.
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