a stuntman on a horse on the set of a Western movie –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8
HeyGen
AI Video Startup HeyGen Valued at $500 Million in Funding Round – Bloomberg
Luma
“@BenjaminDEKR Now you know why I left Google to join Luma. I was in the team that developed Veo early on but knew it would never be shipped to the masses for quite a long time, same as Sora. Not until a company like Luma forces their hand, that is (at least I hope, gimme access 😁).” / X
“X gets the landscape version. Music videos about to get more interesting @LumaLabsAI
“Coming soon to Dream Machine – powerful editability and intuitive controls! Here’s a sneak-peak of something exciting we are working towards. #LumaDreamMachine Sign up for early access and to be the first to know when it is ready:
Runway
Crazy times ahead. This video is not real. @runway 3 : r/singularity
“This is bananas. Gen-3 Alpha just got dropped by Runway. 7 wild examples:
Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: A New Frontier for Video Generation
“Gen-3 Apha is fking insane thread: Prompt: Highly detailed close up of a bacteria.
“A new chapter of creativity begins. Introducing GEN-3 Alpha – The first of a series of new models built by creatives for creatives. Video generated with @runwayml’s new Text-2-Video model. Coming soon.
“Runway introduced Gen-3 Alpha, a new AI model that can generate realistic 10-second video clips from text prompts and images Between KLING, Luma, and Runway dropping public models and OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo coming — AI video is having a moment
“Nothing great happens overnight. Runway is turning 6 years old in October, and every year we have made continuous progress toward our long-term goal of creating a new art form. There is still a long way to go.
“Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: Runway’s new base model for video generation. Gen-3 Alpha can create highly detailed videos with complex scene changes, a wide range of cinematic choices, and detailed art directions.
“AI video is accelerating Runway just announced Gen-3 Alpha: their video generation model to answer Dream Machine and KLING last week It’s capable of generating highly realistic, 10 second clips from text, or images
The Rest of Video News
“Hedra just dropped Character-1, a new foundation model that can turn images into signing portrait videos According to the startup, the model has infinite duration (but 30s max for the public preview)
“Introducing the research preview of our foundation model, Character-1. Available today at
Hedra
“Lip sync apps just became irrelevant. @hedra_labs is a foundational video model focused on humans — these are expressive generations brimming with emotion. Oh and they can do beards too 🙂 I got a sneak peek into what’s next and I couldn’t be more excited
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AI News #38: Week Ending 06/21/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 91 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
- Safe Intelligence, Inc.
- 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/
- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
- Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett
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