vintage photograph. a old time movie director is carried away by a large bunch of balloons. –ar 5:3

Adobe

“Adobe introduced VideoGigaGAN. It’s a new feature capable of upscaling videos 8x with new levels of sharpness and minimal quality loss. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1783732903517503851

Adobe – Adobe Previews Breakthrough AI Innovations to Advance Professional Video Workflows Within Adobe Premiere Pro – https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-previews-breakthrough-AI-innovations-to-advance-professional-video-workflows-within-Adobe-Premiere-Pro/

VideoGigaGAN – https://videogigagan.github.io/

Adobe’s impressive AI upscaling project makes blurry videos look HD – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24138979/adobe-videogigagan-ai-video-upscaling-project-blurry-hd

Sora

“Remember that ‘air head’ video made with Sora? Turns out it used a ton of rotoscoping and manual VFX. A ‘head’ would pop back on, and the balloon colors would keep changing from generation to generation. TL;DR researchers and developers of generative AI tools really need to… https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1783544598259794046

Synthesia

World’s first expressive avatars by Synthesia – https://www.synthesia.io/avatars

“Wild. AI avatars can now interpret text automatically. Synthesia just released a new diffusion model called EXPRESS-1, which allows AI avatars to understand a script and adjust performance on the spot. Direct link to access and try it below. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1783874579267498010

The Rest of Video News

“Here’s more about how and why I made REID AI, an AI-generated version of myself: https://twitter.com/reidhoffman/status/1783145011217056165

“🚨 China just released SORA’s rival “Vidu” This is China’s first long duration, high consistency, and high dynamics video modelIt can create videos upto 16s with 1080P in single click. It excels at simulating the real physical world and also showcases a vivid imagination,… https://twitter.com/sambhavgupta6/status/1784121231094198751

Me, myself, and (A)I: a Q&A with my AI avatar | LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/me-myself-ai-qa-my-avatar-reid-hoffman-71unf/

Reid Hoffman meets his AI twin – Full – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgD2gmwCS10
生数科技 – https://www.shengshu-ai.com/home

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