The new streaming platform “Showrunner” from studio Fable allows users to create their own series episodes with the help of AI by generating scenes with short text instructions and then combining them into episodes. The goal is ambitious: Showrunner aims to become the Netflix for AI-generated content, allowing viewers to actively participate in the production.
Kling, a new AI video generator from the Chinese company Kuaishou Technology, impresses with quite realistic videos in high resolution that can be created via text input. Although Kling is currently only available with a Chinese phone number, its open beta approach puts pressure on other vendors: OpenAI, for example, continues to keep its video … Read more
The second “International AI Film Festival” demonstrated the extent to which generative AI has arrived in film: according to VentureBeat, the best examples impressed with a successful combination of strong stories and intelligently applied AI effects.
Krea AI now offers its paying users the ability to create videos using AI. The new feature combines both still images and text input.
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, … Read more
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
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 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 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 … Read more
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 … Read more