Charlie and Rony give the show a go without Ted, who's traveling. Very busy news week with lots of M&A activity. We talked about CoStar Group's $1.6B acquisition of 3D scanner Matterport, Lamini AI's $25M raise for secure Enterprise AI, Neurable also raised money, Gen AI company Freepik acquired hit AI upscaler Magninfic, which is also a Spanish company. There was also news about Roblox (not good), Sandbox LBVR (very good), and behind-the-scenes with Sora director Paul Trillo, on how he created a commercial music video using OpenAI's new tool. Our guest Marta Marciszewicz walks us through how AI animation company Anything World brings characters to life instantly for the games industry. Want your player character attacked by an army of spiders? They've got you covered.

Links to socials:

- the webpage: anything.world

- the linktree with all the links: https://linktr.ee/AnythingWorld

- X: https://twitter.com/_AnythingWorld

- Discord: https://discord.gg/N64U9RfwsJ (here we have a bot that anyone can use to try out Animate Anything and see how it works in practice for free)

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anything-world/

- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_anythingworld/

- twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/anythingworld (where we have lives every week)

- TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@_anythingworld

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe4m3YtFC_Q5OhC-I5dvAzQ

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Anything.World.Worldwide/

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This Week In XR May 10th, 2024 ft. Marta Marciszewicz, Head of Machine Learning, Anything World

The AI/XR Podcast.