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Infinity AI</strong></a><strong>:</strong> </strong>Working on a “script-to-movie” model: you tell it what the on-screen characters say and do and it’ll generate a video accordingly. Their first product creates “talking-head” style clips from a provided script. </p><p><a href=https://www.ycombinator.com/"https://kscale.dev//">K-Scale: Building the infrastructure for enabling robotics foundation models and ultimately solving the problem of real-world embodied intelligence.</p><p><a href=https://www.ycombinator.com/"https://www.linum.ai//">Linum: </strong>Building models and tools that allow you to make animated videos from prompts. </p><p><a href=https://www.ycombinator.com/"https://www.metalware.io//">Metalware: AI tools to help firmware engineers build faster, like a specialized copilot for low-level programming or a PDF Reader that can crunch through a pile of data sheets and answer questions way faster than manual searching. The co-founders helped build the firmware for Starlink’s antennas.</p><p><a href=https://www.ycombinator.com/"https://www.navier.ai//">Navier AI</strong></a>: A physics-ML solver that can simulate computational fluid dynamics in real time, an essential need for aerospace and automotive engineering.</p><p><a href=https://www.ycombinator.com/"https://osium.ai//">Osium AI</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Helps R&amp;D engineers design new materials faster, using AI to predict the physical properties of a material and speed up otherwise arduous microscopic image analysis.</p><p><a href=https://www.ycombinator.com/"https://www.phind.com//">Phind: </strong>A conversational search engine built for developers, with a VS Code extension to tie it into your existing codebase. Ask it a question and it can generate an answer using your code as context. Stuck on an error/warning? 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