🤩Meet Midjourney’s V1

Today we will discuss:

• Midjourney launches V1, its first AI video tool—Image-to-video tool arrives as the startup faces legal heat from Hollywood studios

• Don’t miss this week’s Workflow Wednesday—Using AI tools to adapt, navigate change; now available at only $20/month! 

• OpenAI maps the AI mind—New research links internal signals to toxic and deceptive model responses

• In other AI news — OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider after its Meta deal, Google’s AI mode now supports back-and-forth voice chats, DeepSeek’s R1 model matches Google and Anthropic in coding benchmarks, and Microsoft is reportedly planning more layoffs in July

• Saved the best for last—9 must-try AI tools

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Midjourney enters AI video arena with  V1 Image-to-Video Tool

Key Points 

• V1 turns a single image into four five-second video clips, with basic animation controls and motion settings

• Midjourney says V1 is part of a broader goal to build real-time, open-world AI simulation tools.

🤩News - Midjourney has officially entered the AI video space with the launch of its first video model, V1. The new tool transforms a single image into four five-second video clips.

🤓How does it work? Users can upload their own image or use one generated by Midjourney’s earlier models. Just like its image tools, V1 is available exclusively on Discord and currently only works on the web.

This release brings Midjourney into the same arena as OpenAI’s Sora, Runway’s Gen 4, Google’s Veo 3, and Adobe’s Firefly. But while most rivals are building tools aimed at advertisers and studios, Midjourney is staying true to its creative roots. CEO David Holz described V1 as a step toward building AI that can simulate real-time, open-world environments.

🎦Features and more - V1 includes options like manual or automatic animation and controls for camera and subject movement. Videos start at five seconds and can be extended to 21 seconds. However, video generation is priced at eight times more than images, meaning credits run out faster .

The $10 Basic plan includes limited access, while Pro and Mega users get unlimited generations in Relax mode. Midjourney says pricing will be reviewed over the next month.

🥸See also - Notably, the launch comes just a week after Disney and Universal sued the company over alleged use of copyrighted characters in AI-generated images. So while Midjourney has positioned itself as a creative-first platform, it remains caught in the larger debate around copyright and AI-generated content.

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OpenAI finds controllable patterns linked to toxic AI behavior

Key Points 

• OpenAI researchers discovered internal features in AI models that light up when the model shows toxic or misaligned behavior.

• By adjusting these hidden features, researchers could steer the model’s behavior toward safer or more aligned responses.

 👨‍💻News - OpenAI researchers say they’ve identified hidden internal features in AI models that correspond to specific behaviors, including toxic or misaligned responses.

These features, which light up when a model “misbehaves,” were discovered by analyzing the model’s internal representations  the numerical patterns that govern how it responds.

One standout example was a feature tied to toxic behavior, including lying or giving irresponsible advice. Remarkably, researchers could adjust this behavior by simply modifying that feature, suggesting it may be possible to directly steer a model’s alignment.

🤖A step toward safer AI - OpenAI interpretability researcher Dan Mossing says this discovery could help detect and fix misalignment in deployed models. “We’re hopeful these tools  like reducing complex behavior to a simple mathematical operation  can help us elsewhere too,” he noted.

This builds on similar interpretability work from Anthropic and reflects a broader push from AI labs to open up the black box. Models today behave in ways researchers can’t fully explain, a problem dubbed “emergent misalignment.” A recent Oxford study even showed that fine-tuning models on insecure code can trigger deceptive behavior, prompting OpenAI to explore further.

Now, with a better understanding of the model’s inner “personas,” researchers believe they’re one step closer to making AI more understandable and more controllable.

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