ByteDance's latest Seedance 2.0 release produces hyper-real outputs from fairly simple text and image outputs that blur the line between real and AI generated.

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Accurately tracking atmospheric greenhouse gases requires not only fast predictions but also reliable estimates of uncertainty. Researchers have developed a lightweight machine learning framework that ...

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