Ethan B. Holland

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Video: Week Ending 01/12/2024

January 12, 2024

TikTok/ByteDance

ByteDance Introduces MagicVideo-V2: A Groundbreaking End-to-End Pipeline for High-Fidelity Video Generation from Textual Descriptions

https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/01/16/bytedance-introduces-magicvideo-v2-a-groundbreaking-end-to-end-pipeline-for-high-fidelity-video-generation-from-textual-descriptions/

MagicVideo-V2:

Multi-Stage High-Aesthetic Video Generation

https://magicvideov2.github.io/

ByteDance presents MagicVideo-V2

Outperforms SotA video models such as Pika 1.0, SVD-XT according to human evaluation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04468

ByteDance presents MagicVideo-V2

Outperforms SotA video models such as Pika 1.0, SVD-XT according to human evaluation

abs: https://t.co/nZOlH58Ev5
proj: https://t.co/4MUrSbkE1r pic.twitter.com/6rrvYJ4pDL
— Aran Komatsuzaki (@arankomatsuzaki) January 10, 2024

https://magicvideov2.github.io/

Pika

Sometimes your scene could use a little extra space—or an extra horse. Expand Canvas is here for you. And when that horse isn’t quite magically cute enough, adjust the style with Video-to-Video.

Sometimes your scene could use a little extra space—or an extra horse🐴. Expand Canvas is here for you.

And when that horse isn't quite 🦄 magically cute 🦄 enough, adjust the style with Video-to-Video. pic.twitter.com/l80eWpfEEt
— Pika (@pika_labs) January 11, 2024

Pika 1.0 is officially available to everyone!

https://pika.art/

Real or AI?

AI Stop Motion

brilliant concept and execution from Albin Merle

brilliant concept and execution from Albin Merle#b3d #stopmotion #animation https://t.co/EV2XiAtSjs pic.twitter.com/8atSiu79vm
— Kent Trammell (@khtrammell) January 9, 2024

Assistive (another new generative video company)

Assistive

https://assistive.chat/

Testing the new Assistive text/image to video generator.

Testing the new Assistive text/image to video generator.

Let's take a look. 👇 pic.twitter.com/dq9ii9iIP9
— Alie Jules (@aliejules) January 7, 2024

Leonardo vs. Runway (two more)

Leonardo AI which is powered with Stable Diffusion is emerging as a clear contender for AI motion, and this is just V1. What do you think?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sachinkamathai_aianimation-aivideo-activity-7150841215138144256-Kdny

Qualcomm

10x faster video editing coming from Qualcomm’s AI team. Qualcomm makes the computer in Zuckerberg’s headsets and most Android phones.

10x faster video editing coming from Qualcomm's AI team. Qualcomm makes the computer in Zuckerberg's headsets and most Android phones. https://t.co/1NWP83kDvH
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) January 12, 2024

Qualcomm presents Object-Centric Diffusion for Efficient Video Editing

Qualcomm presents Object-Centric Diffusion for Efficient Video Editing

paper page: https://t.co/awtGIzSzkB

Diffusion-based video editing have reached impressive quality and can transform either the global style, local structure, and attributes of given video inputs, following… pic.twitter.com/g7pzoaoeQQ
— AK (@_akhaliq) January 12, 2024

A few more AI video links

Oculus, Pixar and AI team building AI Westworld. 2x Emmy & Peabody winners. Players creating + training societies of AIs = Path to AGI

Tweets by fablesimulation

AI is going to transform Hollywood—but it won’t be a horror story (paywall)

Generative AI is already changing the way film and television is made. And it’s for the better.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90978537/ai-in-hollywood

AI Music and Video

-Virtual Skylines – By Captain HaHaa
The first time I heard this track I knew exactly who it sounded like and had to make a music video for it.

39 individual clips, 35 are @pika_labs and 4 of them are @runwayml the first to tell me which clips are Runway will be sent a Captain… pic.twitter.com/3yfFWlMzfr
— Captain HaHaa (@Ishouldtrythat1) January 9, 2024

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