A fashion photoshoot of a runway look inspired by movie directors. A large screen displays the word “Video” –ar 4:3 –style raw
Google (Veo)
“Google DeepMind released new demos of its Veo AI video generation model. The demo showcases the ability to turn single reference images into new videos with simple text instructions
“Our video generation model Veo can create clips from a single reference image. 🖼️ These can follow the original visual style alongside instructions from a text prompt. Let’s take a look. 🧵
KWAI
“A Chinese AI video generator just dropped before we got access to Sora Can generate 2-minute videos at 30fps, 1080p quality, available on the KWAI iOS app with a Chinese phone number A few generations from their site: 1.
“2. A car driving on the road in the evening with a gorgeous sunset and tranquil scenery reflected in the rearview mirror
“3. A Chinese man sitting at a table, eating noodles with chopsticks
“4. Panda playing guitar
“5. A white cat driving in a car through a busy downtown street with tall buildings and pedestrians in the background
“6. A little man with blocks visiting an art gallery
“7. A Chinese boy wearing glasses enjoys a delicious cheeseburger with his eyes closed in a fast food restaurant
“Yes, I did get access to KLing.#KLing #KWAI #Sora #AIVideo Here are some fun facts about KLing: 1. The company behind KLing is the biggest competitor to TikTok in China.
“Trillion dollar cluster talk is cool and all, but why does China get Sora-tier video generation before we did? Please remedy the asymmetry! 🐉 Dragon looks tight. Perspective shift is realistic. Only minor artifacts at the tail end – on the tail no less!
“KWAI just dropped a SORA like model available in their IOS app 😮 called KLING
OpenAI (Sora)
“Ashton Kutcher has access to a beta version of OpenAI’s Sora and says it will lead to personalized movies and a higher standard of content through increased competition
Pika
“Excited to announce our $80M Series B funding led by @sparkcapital. Grateful to have our investors and team members joining us along this journey – can’t do this without you all. Stay tuned for more updates from us later this year! 🙌 Read more:
“We recently raised an $80M Series B. So much has happened over the past year, and I’m incredibly proud of the team! A huge thank you to all of our investors, supporters, and community members—we couldn’t have done it without you! Here’s to the long journey ahead. 🙌💪😃”
“It’s been a hell of a year. And today we’ve capped it off with a humbling fundraise, led by @sparkcapital. Huge thanks to our incredible community. We wouldn’t have gotten here without you!
Spark Capital, Jared Leto Back AI Video Startup Pika – Bloomberg
The Rest of Video News
“Researchers from Rutgers, Carnegie, and others introduced SignLLM, the first multilingual AI model for Sign Language Production (SLP). The model can generate AI avatar videos, creating sign language gestures from natural language across eight different languages.
Nvidia’s Latest Investment is an AI Startup Focusing on Video Search – Bloomberg
CV-VAE: A Compatible Video VAE for Latent Generative Video Models
“AI startup Higgsfield unveiled a new AI video model called NOVA-1. NOVA-1 allows enterprises to train a custom version of the model using a brand’s product and brand assets.
ZeroSmooth: Training-free Diffuser Adaptation for High Frame Rate Video Generation
Captions | Your AI-powered creative studio
Cartwheel generates 3D animations from scratch to power up creators | TechCrunch
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #36: Week Ending 06/07/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 40 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
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) 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/
For previous issues, please visit the archives!
Thanks for reading!
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