primordial soup

noun

Biology.

the seas and atmosphere as they existed on earth before the existence of life, consisting primarily of an oxygen-free gaseous mixture containing chiefly water, hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide.
a laboratory preparation containing the substances believed to have composed primordial soup, and used in experiments seeking to understand the origin of life.

primordial soup

A liquid rich in organic compounds and providing favorable conditions for the emergence and growth of life forms. Oceans of primordial soup are thought to have covered the Earth during the Precambrian Eon billions of years ago. The organic compounds in the primordial soup, such as amino acids, may have been produced by reactions in the Earth's early atmosphere, which was probably rich in methane and ammonia. The complex self-replicating organic molecules that were the precursors to life on Earth may have developed in this primordial soup.

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Origin of primordial soup¹

First recorded in 1925–30

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Director Darren Aronofsky’s company Primordial Soup will use Google’s generative AI tools in short films by three filmmakers.

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On Tuesday, Google announced a partnership with “The Whale” director Darren Aronofsky’s venture Primordial Soup, which will work with three filmmakers on short films and give them access to Google’s AI video generator Veo.

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That effort includes a partnership with Aronofsky’s venture, Primordial Soup.

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New York-based Primordial Soup said in a press release that Google’s AI tools helped solve “practical challenges such as filming with infants and visualizing the birth of the universe” in “Ancestra.”

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Thanks to the development of these droplets, the researchers have made headway in answering basic questions about biological movement -- and in doing so, they have gained insight into the directed movement of the earliest forms of life in the primordial soup billions of years ago, as well as a lead on creating new biologically inspired materials.

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