black and white movie still. a humanoid robot is gleefully sledding down a snowy hill. –ar 16:9 –style raw
Adobe
Bringing generative AI to video editing workflows in Adobe Premiere Pro | Adobe Blog – https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/04/15/bringing-gen-ai-to-video-editing-workflows-adobe-premiere-pro?sdid=FZPQYRN2&mv=social&mv2=owned-organic&linkId=100000255421923
Generative AI in Premiere Pro powered by Adobe Firefly | Adobe Video – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6de4akFiNYM&t=130s
“We’re thrilled to announce breakthrough #GenerativeAI features powered by the new #AdobeFirefly video model. Take a sneak peek at Object Addition, Object Removal and Generative Extend. All coming soon to #PremierePro! 💥 https://twitter.com/Adobe/status/1779916565216985143
Adobe explores OpenAI partnership as it adds AI video tools | Reuters – https://www.reuters.com/technology/adobe-explores-openai-partnership-it-adds-ai-video-tools-2024-04-15/
HeyGen
“[𝗡𝗘𝗪]✨🤳🏽 URL ➡️ UGC Meet Gail, Tim, Lukas, Daran, Lea, and Kim — HeyGen’s newest UGC-style avatars! 1️⃣ Input a URL (from Amazon, a Shopify store, etc.) 2️⃣ Customize title, description, media, script, and avatar 3️⃣ Create content in seconds for social media, emails, etc. https://twitter.com/HeyGen_Official/status/1780597444335575108
Krea
“Krea Video is coming. who wants to help us beta test? 👇 https://twitter.com/krea_ai/status/1781237437693641085
The Rest of Video News
VASA-1 – Microsoft Research Given such context, we have no plans to release an online demo, API, product, additional implementation details, or any related offerings until we are certain that the technology will be used responsibly and in accordance with proper regulations. – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/
“A stunning, new model by Microsoft Research just got presented. It’s single portrait photo + speech audio to hyper-realistic talking face video. 9 example outputs and how it works: https://twitter.com/_Borriss_/status/1780799789837303986
“Ultra realistic AI-video from a photo This is VASA-1 from Microsoft research The improvements in quality we’re getting between each new release is incredible. Links below https://twitter.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1780754955441209750
Diffusion Models for Video Generation | Lil’Log – https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2024-04-12-diffusion-video/

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AI News #28: Week Ending 04/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 48 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
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