Plus, Opus 4 Demonstrates the Fragility of Voluntary Governance.
In this edition: Google released a frontier video generation model at its annual developer conference; Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 demonstrates the danger of relying on voluntary governance.
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Google Releases Veo 3
Last week, Google made several AI announcements at I/O 2025, its annual developer conference. An announcement of particular note is Veo 3, Google's newest video generation model.
Frontier video and audio generation. Veo 3 outperforms other models on human preference benchmarks, and generates both audio and video.
Google showcasing a video generated with Veo 3. (Source)
If you just look at benchmarks, Veo 3 is a substantial improvement over other systems. But relative benchmark improvement only tells part of the story—the absolute capabilities of systems ultimately determine their usefulness. Veo 3 looks like a marked qualitative [...]
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Outline:
(00:33) Google Releases Veo 3
(03:25) Opus 4 Demonstrates the Fragility of Voluntary Governance
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First published:
May 28th, 2025
Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-56-google-releases
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