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)

• TinyTroupe - 🤠🤓🥸🧐 - LLM-powered multiagent persona simulation for imagination enhancement and business insights. (GitHub)

• 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)

• Watermark Anything with Localized Messages (arXiv)

Misc

• Our Machine Learning Crash Course goes in depth on generative AI (Google Keyword blog)