Today in Generative Media
Visions of AI Art; Amazon's AI chips, $110M for academics; Welcome to LLMflation
News
Visions of A.I. Art From OpenAI’s First Artist in Residence (New York Times)
Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia (Ars Technica)
Amazon invests $110 million to support AI research at universities using Trainium chips (Amazon blog)
Welcome to LLMflation – LLM inference cost is going down fast. (Guido Appenzeller at Andreessen Horowitz) For an LLM of equivalent performance, the cost is decreasing by 10x every year.
Software
Particle is a new app using AI to organize and summarize the news (The Verge)
introducing lipsync-1.8.0 edit what anyone says in any video, no training required (X)
Brush is a 3D reconstruction engine, using Gaussian splatting (GitHub) Brush works on a wide range of systems: macOS/windows/linux, AMD/Nvidia cards, Android, and in a browser. To achieve this, it uses WebGPU compatible tech, like the Burn machine learning framework, which has a portable wgpu backend.
RMBG-2.0 for background removal (HuggingFace)
Research
Add-it: Training-Free Object Insertion in Images With Pretrained Diffusion Models (project page)
UrbanIR: Large-Scale Urban Scene Inverse Rendering from a Single Video (project page)
Misc
Our Machine Learning Crash Course goes in depth on generative AI (Google Keyword blog)
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