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AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.i…

Video generation platform Luma AI raises $900 million, valued at $4 billion
The firm’s Indian-American CEO Amit Jain, an IITian who was formerly with Apple, told ET that the domain the company operated in is capital-intensive and requires sizable investments to scale. Sources close to the company pegged its valuation at around $4 billion.

AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/funding/vide…

Video generation platform Luma AI raises $900 million, valued at $4 billion
The firm’s Indian-American CEO Amit Jain, an IITian who was formerly with Apple, told ET that the domain the company operated in is capital-intensive and requires sizable investments to scale. Sources close to the company pegged its valuation at around $4 billion.

Adobe Firefly unterstützt neues Videomodell Luma AI Ray3
Adobe Firefly enthält ab sofort Luma AIs neues Videomodell Ray3. Es erzeugt 10 Sekunden lange Clips und soll sich auf intelligente Szenenplanung verstehen.
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Will we see you tomorrow at Tech Pizza Monday? VICTORY CAFE whoops, that was too loud, Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., 6 PM. With any luck, we will have some printouts of the paper we will discuss at on tje following Monday. Come for the pizza, also, stay for the pizza, not to mention the discussions about free and open technology for a free and open society. #Toronto

Luma AI partners with Adobe to bring its generative video model Ray3 to Firefly's paid users; Ray3 creates highly realistic 10-second videos without dialogue (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digi…

Luma AI and Adobe Partner to Distribute New Generative Video Model
Ray3, the companies hope, can become a staple to rival Google

After doing some digging on the CMPTR 25-pin interface, I think I'm gonna change the design of the CMPTR adapter. The IBM Luma pin and HSync pins kinda scream CGA (e.g. IBM 5151) so I'm gonna rip out two of the BNC connectors and run RGB CSync on one side via 2x2 connectors. Beside those will be a DB9 connector running RGB, IBM Luma, H/VSync which makes a lot more sense.
#electronics

Luma AI partners with Adobe to bring its generative video model Ray3 to Firefly's paid users; Ray3 creates highly realistic 10-second videos without dialogue (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digi…

Luma AI and Adobe Partner to Distribute New Generative Video Model
Ray3, the companies hope, can become a staple to rival Google

Quiet Friday nights are for updating our calendar. Event listings have been added into December. Subscribe at https://luma.com/techpizzamondays

For the #privacy aware people in or around #Prague . The first #Privacy Coffee/Beer/Juice meeting in scheduled.

PRivacy Coffee PRague #1 · Luma
A meeting for (digital) privacy aware people who would love to discover some common topics, exchange ideas and approaches and maybe have some drinks…

Come for the talking about free and open source technology for a free and open society and for the pizza, stay for the…wait, those are the only two things that our weekly meetup, Tech Pizza Mondays, is about.
RSVP at the Luma link or just show up! (If you just show up, we’re going to ask you how you found out about us.) September 17th, 6 PM, Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W. #Toronto

LUMA: Low-Dimension Unified Motion Alignment with Dual-Path Anchoring for Text-to-Motion Diffusion Model
Haozhe Jia, Wenshuo Chen, Yuqi Lin, Yang Yang, Lei Wang, Mang Ning, Bowen Tian, Songning Lai, Nanqian Jia, Yifan Chen, Yutao Yue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25304

LUMA: Low-Dimension Unified Motion Alignment with Dual-Path Anchoring for Text-to-Motion Diffusion Model
While current diffusion-based models, typically built on U-Net architectures, have shown promising results on the text-to-motion generation task, they still suffer from semantic misalignment and kinematic artifacts. Through analysis, we identify severe gradient attenuation in the deep layers of the network as a key bottleneck, leading to insufficient learning of high-level features. To address this issue, we propose \textbf{LUMA} (\textit{\textbf{L}ow-dimension \textbf{U}nified \textbf{M}otion …

@… I’ve seen @… use https://luma.com/ to good effect!

The @… team is hosting an event in London again. Meet at the ARIA offices and hear about building new tools for science.
Ink & Switch is hosting another Social in London on Nov. 11th at the Alan Turing Institute. I'll share some early scientific work in Patchwork, & Marcel will give a peek at the Playbook…

Ink & Switch London: Building new tools for Science · Luma
Ink & Switch's mission is to help computers become better tools for thought. We believe that the promise of computers as "intelligence amplifiers" or "bicycles…

Tomorrow is a regular edition of Tech Pizza Monday, though we are discussing to make the second Monday of the month a special edition. Come join us, won’t you? Details at the Luma link. #Toronto #tech #pizza

Lossless 4:2:0 Screen Content Coding Using Luma-Guided Soft Context Formation
Hannah Och, Andr\'e Kaup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18968 https://arxiv.o…

Lossless 4:2:0 Screen Content Coding Using Luma-Guided Soft Context Formation
The soft context formation coder is a pixel-wise state-of-the-art lossless screen content coder using pattern matching and color palette coding in combination with arithmetic coding. It achieves excellent compression performance on screen content images in RGB 4:4:4 format with few distinct colors. In contrast to many other lossless compression methods, it codes entire color pixels at once, i.e., all color components of one pixel are coded together. Consequently, it does not natively support im…

Tonight: https://luma.com/rkwlcbxm

The World Series ends either tonight or tomorrow night, but one thing is for certain: We will host Stickers Club on the Monday after it! Same day, same time, same place as usual! Monday, 6 PM, Victory Cafe at 440 Bloor St. W. here in Toronto. Visit the Luma link for details! https://luma.com/rkwlcbxm

Stickers Club is tomorrow! https://luma.com/rkwlcbxm

Tomorrow is our Papers Club edition, and there’s still time to read the paper (which is a minor history of Twitter bots). The PDF is linked in the Luma link! Same place and time as usual. https://luma.com/knolfj6v

Update on the Sony PVM-2530: probably should use RGB before diagnosing color issues (e.g. luma). I did have to get in my custom CMPTR board to do it, but everything lined up perfectly. I do need to fix the geometry a bit, but for right now I think I'll be playing a few games after work.
#electronics

As far as we know, it being Labour Day, Victory Cafe will be open tomorrow, as they usually are on holiday Mondays. And it’ll be the first Monday of the month, which means it’s a Stickers Club edition! 6 PM, 440 Bloor St. W. Details at the Luma link! #Toronto #tech

Stickers! Pins! Patches! All this plus pizza (and Monday, and tech!) can be found at Tech Pizza Monday: Stickers Club Edition. Monday, October 6th, 6 PM at Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W. #Toronto #tech #pizza