Krea AI adds video generator
Krea AI now offers its paying users the ability to create videos using AI. The new feature combines both still images and text input.
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Google’s fireworks of new tools and features
As expected, Google used the keynote at its I/O developer conference to demonstrate its strength in AI. Among other things, the company presented new AI models for a wide range of tasks. Some will run directly on Android devices or can be found in the Chrome browser. Others use Google’s specialized servers. They create text, …
VideoGigaGAN improves video upscaling
VideoGigaGAN outperforms previous methods of video upscaling, creating videos with a high level of detail and consistency. The approach is based on the GigaGAN image upscaler and solves its video processing problems through special techniques that result in sharper and smoother videos. Source: Hacker News
“Expressive Avatars” are more lifelike than ever
London-based Synthesia introduces “Expressive Avatars,” a new generation of AI avatars that adapt their facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to the context of the spoken content. This makes it possible to create more realistic and emotional AI videos for marketing, training or patient communication.
Microsoft’s VASA-1 generates video from a photo and audio
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can make human portraits sing and talk. It only needs a still image and an audio file with speech to generate moving lips, matching facial expressions and head movements. Microsoft emphasizes that this is a research demonstration only, with no plans to bring it to market.
Adobe announces AI video capabilities for Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe plans to add plug-ins for third-party AI video generators such as OpenAI’s Sora, Runway ML’s Gen-2, and Pika 1.0 to its Premiere Pro video editing software. This integration would allow users to seamlessly combine and edit footage shot on traditional cameras with AI-generated content. Adobe is also announcing a version of its proprietary Firefly …
Google unveils new Enterprise AI offerings
Google unveiled a series of updates to its enterprise AI offerings at its annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas. Despite recent troubles with consumer-facing tools, the company insisted the technology is safe and ready for enterprise use. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian demonstrated how its most powerful AI model, Gemini, can be used for …
Consistent characters in AI videos with Eggnog
Eggnog enables AI-generated videos with consistent characters. First you create the person, including outfits, then you storyboard the planned scenes of the clip, and finally you create the video. Eggnog aims to become the “YouTube for AI videos”. Sources: TechCrunch, Y Combinator
Video AI Pika adds sound
Pika already offers a “lip sync“ feature that makes people speak in generated videos. Now there is an option to add sound to a generated clip, such as background noises and effects. Source: VentureBeat
Video AI Story.com is promoting longer clips
While many AI videos are only a few seconds long, Story.com allows up to 1 minute. A storyboarding feature is supposed to ensure that the clips ultimately meet the user’s ideas and needs.