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AI video editing just got native.
Palmier Pro launched as the first Mac editor built around AI generation not bolted onto it.
You can now generate, edit, and control AI video directly in your timeline.
But wait, there's more:
DeepSeek just raised $7.4 billion to scale open-weights models
Sakana AI dropped Fugu, a conductor model that orchestrates multiple AIs to beat single LLMs
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In today's post:
Palmier Pro brings AI generation straight into your video timeline
DeepSeek raises $7.4B to keep building open-weights models
Sakana AI's Fugu orchestrates multiple models to beat single LLMs
Palmier Pro Turns Your AI Agent Into a Video Editor
Editing AI video just got a massive upgrade.
Palmier dropped Palmier Pro, a new Mac video editor that lets AI agents directly control your timeline.
You no longer have to jump between websites to generate clips and stitch them together.
The details:
Palmier Pro is a free, open-source Mac app built specifically for Apple Silicon chips.
It features a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI agents like Claude and Cursor trim, reorder, and edit clips for you.
You can generate AI images, video, and audio from models like Kling and Seedance without ever leaving the app.
The editor itself is completely free to use, but you pay a subscription starting at $29 a month for 5,000 AI generation credits.
Why it matters:
Traditional video editors treat AI like a cheap add-on.
Palmier Pro treats AI like a true co-worker.
By letting AI talk directly to the timeline, you can give it complex tasks like cutting out all the boring parts of a video.
This fixes the biggest headache in AI video creation right now.
💡 L8R's Take:
Adobe Premiere Pro needs to wake up right now.
Bouncing between ten different AI websites to make one video is a total nightmare.
Palmier is building the exact workflow creators actually want.
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DeepSeek's $7.4 Billion War Chest
The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek just pulled off a massive $7.4 billion funding round.
This huge pile of cash pushes their worth past $50 billion and makes them one of China's most valuable tech startups.
They are gearing up to build giant server farms and drop even more powerful open-weight AI models.
The details:
Founder Liang Wenfeng put in $3 billion of his own money and keeps total control over how the company runs.
Big tech players like Tencent and CATL threw in billions, but they get zero voting rights and cannot sell their shares for five years.
China's state-backed AI fund also invested, but they actually get voting rights and skip the five-year lock-up rule.
DeepSeek will use the money to train next-gen models like DeepSeek-V4-Pro, which boasts 1.6 trillion parameters.
Their cheap but powerful models are forcing US rivals to rethink how much they charge for AI.
Why it matters:
DeepSeek is changing the entire AI game right now.
They proved you do not need to spend crazy money to build top-tier models.
Now, with $7.4 billion in the bank, they can push their cheap, open-weight tech to millions of developers.
This puts massive pressure on American companies like OpenAI to drop their prices.
💡 L8R's Take:
The voting rights detail is the real story here.
Private investors just handed DeepSeek billions with zero say, while the Chinese government gets a VIP seat at the table.
If you build on DeepSeek, you must pay attention to how much control the state actually holds over this tech.
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Forget Giant AI Models. Sakana's New Fugu Makes Small AIs Team Up.
Building one massive AI model is expensive and hard.
Tokyo-based Sakana AI just flipped the script by launching Fugu, an intelligent conductor model.
Instead of answering your prompt itself, Fugu hires a team of specialist AI agents to do the heavy lifting for you.
The details:
Fugu acts as a smart boss that hands out tasks to other AI models for planning, coding, and checking work.
The Fugu Ultra version scores a massive 73.7 on SWE-Bench Pro, matching top models like Anthropic's Fable 5.
You can swap it right into your current apps because it uses a standard OpenAI-compatible API.
The service skips the European Union entirely, but it is available everywhere else as of June 22, 2026.
Why it matters:
You no longer have to rely on a single giant tech company for top-tier AI.
Fugu gives you a whole team of experts working together without the headache of managing them yourself.
This proves the future of AI is teamwork, not just building bigger and bigger brain jars.
💡 L8R's Take:
Giant models are a trap that locks you into one vendor's ecosystem.
Sakana is giving developers ultimate freedom, and if you are not testing Fugu today, you are falling behind.
🚀 Quick L8R Summary
Palmier Pro: A Mac video editor that bakes AI generation right into the timeline no more jumping between apps.
DeepSeek Funding: Chinese AI lab DeepSeek just raised $7.4 billion, hitting a $50B valuation without giving up control.
Sakana's Fugu: A conductor model that orchestrates multiple AIs to tackle complex tasks one API, many brains.
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