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Luma AI’s Ray3 Modify brings actors and AI into perfect sync
MUMBAI: What if AI stopped guessing how humans move, feel and perform, and instead took its cues directly from them? Luma AI believes it has found the answer with Ray3 Modify, its latest video model now live on the Dream Machine platform.
Ray3 Modify is designed to make AI video feel less like a magic trick and more like a reliable creative partner. Rather than generating scenes from scratch, the model builds on real actor performances, preserving their timing, expressions and emotional intent while letting creators reshape the world around them.
For years, AI video has dazzled but frustrated. Performances could drift, emotions could flatten and continuity often slipped through the cracks. Ray3 Modify tackles this head on by anchoring every scene to human-led footage. The camera, the actor and the original performance become the director, with AI following their lead.
The result is a hybrid workflow that feels closer to a film set than a prompt box. Brands can shoot with actors and then place them in multiple environments without reshoots. Filmmakers can capture a performance once and reimagine it across worlds, styles and moods. Editors can revisit scenes long after the cameras have stopped rolling.
At the heart of Ray3 Modify are four standout upgrades. New start and end keyframes allow creators to control how scenes begin and conclude, keeping motion and framing consistent even in complex shots. Character Reference locks in a character’s identity, costume and likeness across an entire scene, a crucial step for actor-led projects. Performance Preservation ensures that eye lines, gestures and emotional beats remain intact. And an enhanced Modify Video pipeline improves how faithfully AI follows real-world movement and composition.
Luma AI CEO and co-founder Amit Jain, says the goal is creative control without creative compromise. Teams can shoot first and imagine later, changing locations, looks or even reworking scenes with AI, all without rebuilding the physical production.
Available now on Dream Machine, Ray3 Modify is aimed squarely at real production workflows across film, advertising and post-production. It signals a shift in AI video from spectacle to craft, where human performance sets the rhythm and AI fills in the rest.
In short, Ray3 Modify makes AI video less about replacing actors and more about amplifying them. And that might just be the performance upgrade creatives have been waiting for.
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Paisabazaar launches Credit Premier League 2.0
Nationwide campaign rewards highest credit scores with Rs 1 lakh top prize.
MUMBAI: When credit scores become a national league, even your CIBIL report starts feeling like it’s playing in the IPL and Paisabazaar has just kicked off the second season. Paisabazaar, India’s leading marketplace for financial products and the country’s largest free credit score platform, has announced the return of the Credit Premier League (CPL) 2.0, a fun, nationwide initiative to recognise and reward individuals with the highest credit scores.
Building on the success of the first edition, CPL 2.0 introduces higher rewards and broader participation. The individual(s) with the highest credit score in the country will win Rs 1 lakh, while state champions will each receive Rs 10,000. Additionally, all participants from the winning state, the one with the highest average credit score will also be rewarded.
All winnings will be credited directly to winners’ PB Wallet, allowing them to pay credit card bills, recharge mobiles, or settle utility bills seamlessly on the Paisabazaar platform.
Paisabazaar CEO Santosh Agarwal said the campaign aims to make credit awareness more engaging and mainstream. “With CPL, we are bringing together engagement, gamification and rewards to make conversations around credit scores more mainstream,” he noted. “Our focus remains on building a financially aware and credit-healthy Bharat.”
The first edition of CPL saw over 5.5 million participants, with the highest individual score touching 861. Delhi recorded the highest average credit score of 746.
Consumers can participate simply by checking their free credit score on the Paisabazaar platform or app. The CPL leaderboard and rankings will be available exclusively on the Paisabazaar App.
In a country where financial dreams are serious business, Paisabazaar has found a smart way to turn credit scores into an exciting game – because when your financial health gets rewarded, everyone wants to play.
