Today in Generative Media

Pika's AI video app & $55M; Own your AI identity; Stability introduces memberships

• Pika Launches AI Video Editing App And Announces $55 Million In Funding (Fortune). Pika Wows in Debut as AI Video Generator Takes Aim at Tech Giants (Decrypt) Amazing that a small Palo Alto startup can beat Google/Meta/Microsoft to market with a video generation model. Disruption at its finest. Hollywood is unprepared. (X)

• Why you should own your own digital identity in the age of AI (Axios)

• Recent weeks have shown how alignment of business models is important in AI. We are bringing in Stability Memberships to help solve this alignment. (X)

• Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (Stability AI)

• SparseCtrl: Adding Sparse Controls to Text-to-Video Diffusion Models (project page)

• Sketch Video Synthesis (project page)

• Functional Diffusion (project page)

• ACT: Adversarial Consistency Models (ArXiv)

• How to run Stable Video on a Mac (X)

• Someone already dropped a fine tuned SDXL Turbo model.... Introducing: TurboVisionXL by socalguitarist on civitAI (X)

• You'll have to translate the post, but they optimized the LCM img2img workflow to get 45fps a second with 4090. (X)

• And thanks to ComfyUI we can merge SDXL Turbo with existing SDXL model. This increases generation quality drastically. (X)

• AI-generated graphics are going to provide us with interactive experiences like never before seen. (X)