Today in Generative Media

OpenAI inks Hearst deal; AI companions want more; Is generative AI doomed?

News & Opinion

• OpenAI Inks Deal With Hearst, Marking Another Major Media Partnership (Hollywood Reporter)

• 'Maybe we can role-play something fun': When an AI companion wants something more (bbc.com)

• Is generative AI doomed? An expert’s take on the “model collapse” theory (PsyPost)

Software

• Hailuo gets feature competitive launching image-to-video AI generation capability (VentureBeat)

• Podcastfy.ai demo Generate a podcast from multiple URLs using Podcastfy. (HuggingFace)

• Amazon debuts AI-powered Shopping Guides (TechCrunch)

• AirOps is an all-in-one platform for generating and managing AI-based marketing content (TechCrunch)

• Ex Google Maps team members get Sequoia backing to build an AI-powered collaboration board (TechCrunch)

Research

• DreamMesh4D: Video-to-4D Generation with Sparse-Controlled Gaussian-Mesh Hybrid Representation (NeurIPS 2024, project page)

• Presto! Distilling Steps and Layers for Accelerating Music Generation (project page)

• 6DGS: Enhanced Direction-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Volumetric Rendering (arXiv)

Misc

• Diffusion Models From Scratch | Score-Based Generative Models Explained (YouTube)

• I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman (X)

• the winner of the nobel prize in physics spending the entire press conference talking worriedly about superintelligence and human extinction while being basically indifferent to the prize or the work that won it feels like something you'd see in the movies right before shit goes down (X)

• It's not done yet. Hearing reports that the Nobel prize for literature will be going to the authors of "OpenAI's nonprofit governance structure" for outstanding contributions to creative fiction. (X)