a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a movie theater, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “video” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1
Luma
“Luma Labs chief scientist Jiaming Song said in an interview that real-time AI video generation is less than a year away. He also showed evidence that Luma’s Dream Machine model can reason and predict world models in some capacity. Absolutely wild.
Runway
“Runway announced that Gen-3 Alpha is now available to all users (on paid plans) The AI video generator can generate realistic 10-second video clips from text prompts and images Pretty significant leap in AI video, wonder where we’ll be in 1 year
“”We have this goal of never having >100 employees @runwayco. It’s possible today because you can scale with increasing capabilities of AI. The AI SDR that we built … took a lot of tweaking When our sales team wakes up in the morning, in their drafts folder is a bunch of
The Rest of Video News
“Researchers in China recently released LivePortrait, a framework that can animate images from a video reference. The code is available freely on GitHub, but you can also now try it on Hugging Face
Live Portrait – a Hugging Face Space by KwaiVGI
“@GerdeGotIt Amazing videos! Both the original and the AI generated one work great together👍
“This is LivePortrait – it can animate an image from a video reference with incredible accuracy. More unreal demos and link to the project below 👇
“AIで画像の顔の動きを完全にコントロールできるようになりました！ 右は１枚の画像で、左の動画の動きに合わせて動いています。 使ったのは「LivePortrait」で、ComfyUIで動かすことができます！ アニメも対応しているので、動画生成AIと組み合わせたらすごい作品が作れそう！
“I’m excited to share @odysseyml, my new thing! 🍿 We’re building Hollywood-grade visual AI, where beautiful scenery, characters, lighting, and motion can be both generated and directed. Our mission is to deliver a better way to create movies, TV shows, and video games.
Captions Raises Series C to Invest $100M in Pioneering AI Video Research in New York City | Business Wire
“Odyssey just emerged from stealth with a ‘Hollywood-grade’ AI video generation platform. The startup is developing four specialized AI video models aimed at revolutionizing visual effects and storytelling capabilities, AI is coming to Hollywood
“Kuaishou’s KLING AI video generator model is now available as a web app for generations up to 10 seconds. (Though a Chinese phone number is still required for access)
“Animal fashion show ✨ I try not to play favorites, but I might have to pick the last one… (made by me, on Kling)
“🔥Hey guys！Kling AI Revolutionized!🎉Web Platform Now Live with Premium Image & Video Creation Power, Fueling Your Entire Creative Journey! 🚀 Kling spark your imagination! 🌟#Kling FOLLOW US！！👇 Official YouTube：
Heads up! You’ve scrolled to the end of this category. There may have been just one or two links (above), so go back up and double check to be sure you didn’t quickly scroll down past it.
Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #41: Week Ending 07/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 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
For previous issues, please visit the archives!
Thanks for reading!
Leave a Reply