Today in Generative Media
Blown away by AI film; Signs of AI model collapse; AI cheating brings back blue books
News and Opinion
We Made a Film With AI. You’ll Be Blown Away—and Freaked Out. (Wall Street Journal)
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves (The Register)
AI Cheating Is So Out of Hand In America’s Schools That the Blue Books Are Coming Back (Gizmodo)
Software
Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude (TechCrunch)
Opera’s new AI browser promises to write code while you sleep (The Verge)
MAGI-1 4.5B distill and distill+quant models has been released 🎉 (GitHub)
Large Language Models can run tools in your terminal with LLM 0.26 (Simon Willison’s blog)
Research
HunyuanVideo-Avatar: High-Fidelity Audio-Driven Human Animation for Multiple Characters (project page)
Weather-Magician: Reconstruction and Rendering Framework for 4D Weather Synthesis In Real Time (project page)
Training-Free Efficient Video Generation via Dynamic Token Carving (project page)
Unboxed: Geometrically and Temporally Consistent Video Outpainting (project page)
OmniConsistency: Learning Style-Agnostic Consistency from Paired Stylization Data (arXiv)