Today in Generative Media

Google's genAI video; Spotify Wrapped adds Google's AI podcast; Amazon's Nova AI

News

• Google’s new generative AI video model is now available (The Verge)

• Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast powered by Google’s NotebookLM (TechCrunch)

• Amazon announces its own set of Nova AI models (The Verge)

• Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic (Wired)

• The new Surf browser shows why everyone’s trying to connect AI to the web (The Verge)

• Hugging Face CEO has concerns about Chinese open source AI models (TechCrunch)

• Adobe claims surrealism isn't just for AI in its 2025 creative trends (Creative Bloq)

• New website shows you how much Google AI can learn from your photos (Ars Technica)

Software

• Announcing Luma Photon and Photon Flash. The most creative, intelligent and personalizable image generation models built on a new groundbreaking architecture that delivers ultra high quality and 10x higher cost efficiency. (LumaLabs)

• Welcome to a new era of video editing. Elevate your video creation with a single prompt, and let our AI technology do the editing for you. (your.mov)

• Creativity as Search: Mapping Latent Space (RunwayML)

• 🪄 Taming Rectified Flow for Inversion and Editing (HuggingFace)

• Our voice sliders make it intuitive to adjust base voices along 10 interpretable dimensions including: Nasality: resonant to nasal, Masculine/Feminine: from masculine to feminine, Buoyancy: from deflated to buoyant (X) [Hume]

• Indic Parler-TTS is a multilingual Indic extension of Parler-TTS Mini (HuggingFace)

Research

• Spatiotemporal Skip Guidance for Enhanced Video Diffusion Sampling (project page)

• Capturing Light with Robots: A Novel Workflow for Reproducing Realistic Lens Flares (project page)

• SuperGaussians: Enhancing Gaussian Splatting Using Primitives with Spatially Varying Colors (arXiv)

• JetFormer: An Autoregressive Generative Model of Raw Images and Text (arXiv)

Misc

• We made a 10 minute Gen AI Batman Film! (Reddit)

• Lipstick AI Studio presents the groundbreaking new Vodafone commercial (YouTube)

• Tracking every item in my house with video using Google Gemini -> I call it "KeepTrack" (X)

• Ever wondered what actually happened in your favorite movie scenes? This video explores iconic moments from beloved films and takes them in completely unexpected directions. (X)