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Haiper 1.5 Is the Latest Challenger in the Text-to-Video Battleground
The launch of Haiper 1.5 positions the London-based startup as a strong contender in the rapidly evolving AI video generation market, taking on established players like Runway, Pika, and OpenAI: Haiper, founded by former Google Deepmind researchers, has onboarded over 1.5 million users on its platform just four months after emerging from stealth, highlighting its strong positioning and potential for growth. Runway recently opened access to its new, more realistic model for video generation, setting a high bar for competitors in terms of quality and capabilities. OpenAI's entry into the text-to-video space with its Sora model capable of generating 60-second...
read Jul 16, 2024NVIDIA AI Supercharges Filmora Video Editing, Enabling HDR and Accelerated Workflows
The video editing software Wondershare Filmora has added support for NVIDIA's AI-powered RTX Video HDR technology, enabling users to significantly enhance the quality and vibrancy of their videos. Key features and updates: Wondershare Filmora now supports NVIDIA RTX Video HDR, which uses AI to transform standard dynamic range video into HDR10-quality video with expanded color gamut, clearer frames and greater depth. Filmora users with NVIDIA RTX GPUs can also leverage RTX Video Super Resolution to further sharpen and enhance video quality by restoring features and removing artifacts. Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting has been added to OBS Studio and XSplit Broadcaster, giving...
read Jul 16, 2024OpenAI Just Released 2 New Sora AI Videos
OpenAI has published two new videos on its YouTube channel showcasing the capabilities of its Sora AI video generation model, demonstrating the technology's potential to significantly alter filmmaking and creative industries. Professional creatives showcase Sora's capabilities: The videos were created by Tammy Lovin, a digital artist, and Benjamin Desai, a creative technologist, who used Sora to generate all the clips without any additional visual effects: Lovin's video features surreal, neon-infused scenes such as a carwash with sweeping waves, a man walking on clouds, and a woman lighting up a beach, bringing her childhood imaginings to life in a way that...
read Jul 11, 2024AI Tool Promises Hollywood-Grade Video Creation for All
Odyssey aims to bring Hollywood-grade AI video creation to the masses Key differences from other text-to-video tools: Odyssey promises to give users full, fine-tuned control over every element in the generated scenes, unlike current text-to-video tools that output a non-editable video file: If the scenery, characters, lighting, or motion is off in current tools, the user has to start the generation process again from scratch. Odyssey overcomes this by training four separate generative models that allow fine-tuning of geometry, materials, lighting, and motion, enabling users to rapidly create videos exactly as envisioned. Startup background and approach: Odyssey is a year-old...
read Jul 9, 2024DreamFlare Launches Interactive AI-Generated Streaming Platform To Empower Emerging Creators
DreamFlare AI launches AI-generated interactive streaming platform, merging technology and creativity to deliver unique storytelling experiences that would not be possible with traditional mediums. Key Details of DreamFlare AI's Launch: The platform, led by former Google executive Josh Liss and filmmaker Rob Bralver, has raised $1.65 million in a pre-seed round and aims to provide premium AI-generated entertainment: DreamFlare AI offers two main types of experiences: "Flips" (immersive AI-generated stories with movement and audio) and "Spins" (interactive short films where viewer choices affect the storyline). The platform operates on a freemium model, with a selection of free content each week...
read Jul 5, 2024YouTube’s AI Erase Song Tool Simplifies Copyrighted Music Removal for Creators
YouTube enhances 'Erase Song' tool for more efficient removal of copyrighted music: YouTube is updating its Erase Song feature with a new AI-powered algorithm that can more accurately identify and remove copyrighted songs from videos while leaving the rest of the audio intact. Key improvements and options: The updated tool offers creators two choices when removing copyrighted music: Erase Song: This option will only remove the copyrighted song, allowing voiceovers and other audio elements to remain. Mute All Sound: This will mute all audio in the sections containing the copyrighted song. Simplified process for creators: When a creator receives a...
read Jul 5, 2024YouTube Cracks Down on Deepfakes, Allows Takedowns of Unauthorized AI-Generated Content
YouTube steps up efforts to combat AI deepfakes with new removal policy, allowing individuals to request takedowns of unauthorized AI-generated content depicting them. Key details of the updated policy: YouTube has implemented a new policy to address the rise of AI-generated content that mimics individuals without their consent: Affected individuals can now request the removal of AI-generated content that realistically depicts them through YouTube's privacy request process. To qualify for removal, the content must depict a realistic altered or synthetic version of the individual's likeness. Content creators have two days to remove the likeness or the entire video after a...
read Jun 29, 2024AI vs AI: The High-Stakes Battle to Detect Deepfakes and Defend Reality
Deepfakes are becoming more sophisticated and accessible, posing risks for businesses and democracy. A new company founded by image manipulation expert Hany Farid aims to combat the problem with AI and traditional forensic techniques. Key takeaways: Get Real Labs has developed software to detect AI-generated and manipulated images, audio, and video that is being tested by Fortune 500 companies to spot deepfake job seekers: Some companies have lost money to scammers using deepfakes to impersonate real people in video interviews, taking signing bonuses and disappearing. The FBI and others have warned about the growing threat of deepfakes being used in...
read Jun 26, 2024Google’s AI Chatbots to Mimic Celebrities, YouTubers, and Fictional Characters on YouTube
Google is reportedly developing AI chatbots that mimic celebrities, YouTube influencers, and fictional characters, potentially integrating them into YouTube to enhance user engagement and monetization opportunities. Key details of Google's AI chatbot plans: The report suggests Google is working on creating customizable AI chatbots that users can interact with and even build their own based on famous personalities: These chatbots will focus on replicating the personalities and responses of the celebrities or characters they are modeled after, going beyond task-specific AI like Google's recently released Gems. Google may incorporate these AI chatbots directly into YouTube, leveraging the platform's popular creators...
read Jun 26, 2024Toys R Us Sora-Generated Ad Marks Milestone for AI-Generated Video
Toys R Us releases first commercial made with OpenAI's Sora, signaling growing momentum for AI-generated video in advertising and entertainment. Key details of the Toys R Us commercial: The retailer partnered with ad agency Native Foreign to create a one-minute video narrating the origin story of Toys R Us and its founder, Charles Lazarus, using OpenAI's generative AI video model Sora: The video features fully AI-generated representations of a young Lazarus and the toy store's mascot, Geoffrey the Giraffe, and was produced in just a few weeks from conception to final product. Native Foreign co-founder and creative director Nik Kleverov...
read Jun 26, 2024AI-Powered Bookmarklet Transforms YouTube Shorts Experience on Desktop Browsers
Using AI to improve the YouTube Shorts experience on desktop browsers: A tech enthusiast leveraged ChatGPT to create a custom JavaScript bookmarklet that converts the layout of YouTube Shorts to the standard YouTube video format with a single click, without requiring any coding knowledge. Identifying the problem and potential solutions: The author noticed that YouTube Shorts have a suboptimal viewing experience on desktop browsers, with issues like incorrect video framing and difficult navigation. Recognizing that YouTube is unlikely to address this soon, he decided to find his own solution. By examining the URL structure of regular YouTube videos and Shorts,...
read Jun 21, 20245 AI Tools Transforming Journalism: Realistic Images, Videos, Music, and More
Generative AI has become a transformative force across industries, enabling the creation of realistic images, videos, music, and more. As an AI journalist, I use five key AI tools daily to enhance my work and explore the potential of this technology: Leonardo AI: A versatile platform for generating photorealistic images; Leonardo AI offers a user-friendly interface with granular control over image generation, allowing users to create high-quality, customizable images across various styles and genres. The platform's custom styles and fine-tuned models, such as the impressive Phoenix, enable the creation of images that rival those produced by industry leader Midjourney. Leonardo...
read Jun 21, 2024Google’s AI Video-to-Audio Breakthrough: Automated Movie Magic or Deepfake Danger?
Google DeepMind's new video-to-audio AI tool marks a significant step towards fully automated movie scenes, combining video and audio generation in a potentially game-changing way. Key Capabilities: The V2A (video-to-audio) tool can automatically generate soundtracks, sound effects, and even dialogue for AI-generated videos, using pixel data and optional text prompts: It can create atmospheric scores, timely sound effects, and dialogue that matches characters and tones. Multiple audio options can be generated for any given video, allowing for customization. The tool can generate audio based on pixels alone, with text prompts being optional. Potential Impact: This technology could revolutionize amateur filmmaking...
read Jun 20, 2024YouTube Deepfake Dilemma: Navigating the Blurry Line Between Creativity and Deception
YouTube rolls out new process for removing AI-generated deepfakes, but challenges remain in determining what constitutes a violation. Key details of YouTube's AI deepfake removal process: The company has expanded its takedown request options for AI-generated content, allowing users to flag deepfakes for potential removal: YouTube will consider factors such as whether the AI content could be mistaken as real and if it falls under parody or satire when deciding to remove the flagged material. This move follows the company's initial announcement in November 2023 about its plans to address the growing concern of AI-generated deepfakes on the platform. Balancing...
read Jun 19, 2024ElevenLabs Releases Open-Source AI Tool to Create Sound Effects for Videos
ElevenLabs releases open-source tool for generating sound effects in videos, showcasing the potential of its recently launched Sound Effects API and aiming to simplify the creative process for developers and filmmakers in the rapidly evolving AI video generation space. Key features of the Video to Sound Effects app: ElevenLabs' new open-source tool allows users to generate sound effect samples for their videos quickly and easily: Users can upload a video, and the app extracts four frames at one-second intervals, sending them along with a prompt to OpenAI's GPT-4o to create a custom text-to-sound effects prompt. The generated prompt is then...
read Jun 19, 2024DeepMind’s AI Breakthrough: Generating Soundtracks and Dialogue for Videos
DeepMind unveils AI tech that generates soundtracks and dialogue for videos, potentially reshaping the AI-generated media landscape and raising concerns about the impact on creative industries. Key aspects of DeepMind's V2A technology: DeepMind's new AI model, called V2A (short for "video-to-audio"), can generate music, sound effects, and dialogue that match the characters and tone of a given video: V2A takes a description of a soundtrack paired with a video to create audio that syncs with the visuals, using DeepMind's deepfakes-combating SynthID technology to watermark the generated content. The underlying diffusion model was trained on a combination of sounds, dialogue transcripts,...
read Jun 19, 2024Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Sparks AI-Generated Video Revolution, Threatening Jobs and Raising Copyright Concerns
Runway's latest AI model, Gen-3 Alpha, generates high-quality video clips from text and images, offering improved speed, fidelity, and control compared to its predecessor, as the race for advanced AI-generated video heats up in the tech industry. Key features and capabilities: Gen-3 Alpha excels at generating expressive human characters with a wide range of actions, gestures, and emotions, while interpreting various styles and cinematic terminology: The model enables imaginative transitions and precise key-framing of elements in the scene, allowing for more creative control over the generated videos. Despite some limitations, such as a maximum video length of 10 seconds and...
read Jun 13, 2024Luma Labs Launches Video Gen Product Dream Machine
Driving the news: Luma Labs, a startup focused on generative AI, has recently launched a powerful new AI system called Dream Machine that can generate high-quality videos based on simple text prompts. The key features of Dream Machine include incredibly fast video generation (120 frames in 120 seconds), realistic and consistent motion, better character consistency, and natural camera movements. Very nice generation. Though there are flaws, it is better than others tbh. The challenge here again is the consistency of characters (and multiple characters in a single frame) across generations. Start using today: Dream Machine is available for anyone to...
read May 6, 2024The Possibilities of AI – Sam Altman (video)
In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani and Sam Altman gives advice for aspiring AI entrepreneurs and shares his insights about the opportunities and risks of AI tools and artificial general intelligence. Key points we found: Sure, here's an updated summary of the key points from Sam Altman's talk, including his advice for students: Sam believes this is the best time in history to start companies and build impactful products due to the potential of AI. He encourages students to seize this opportunity. Sam advises students to chart their own course, come up with original ideas, and learn...
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