Today in Generative Media

RunwayML offers $1M grants; Andy Serkis teases AI project; AI checks & balances

News

• The Hundred Film Fund is an open call to creative professionals who have AI-augmented film projects in the pre- or post-production phases that are in need of funding. (RunwayML)

  • AI Company Runway Is Offering Filmmakers Up to $1 Million to Make Movies (IndieWire)

  • AI Startup Runway Says It’s Giving Filmmakers up to $1 Million if They Use Artificial Intelligence to Make Their Movies (Variety)

• Andy Serkis Teases New Project Featuring “AI Characters” (Deadline)

• Rethinking ‘Checks and Balances’ for the A.I. Age (New York Times)

• ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem (The Conversation)

Software

• NotebookLM adds audio and YouTube support, plus easier sharing of Audio Overviews (Google Keyword blog)

• Llama-3.2 on WebGPU 🦙 Blazing fast inference with WebGPU and WebLLM running locally in your browser. (HuggingFace)

• LivePortrait is amazing! That's exactly what I needed. I wrapped fofrAI 's model in a bit of JavaScript. (X) Demo.

• gradio_webrtc: Stream images in realtime with WebRTC (GitHub)

• ComfyUI Mini: A mobile-friendly frontend to run ComfyUI workflows (GitHub)

Research

• PolyOculus: Simultaneous Multi-view Image-based Novel View Synthesis (ECCV 2024, arXiv)

• Lotus: Diffusion-based Visual Foundation Model for High-quality Dense Prediction (project page)

• Next-Token Prediction is All You Need (project page)

• LLaVA-3D: A Simple yet Effective Pathway to Empowering LMMs with 3D-awareness (project page)

Misc

• We just crossed 1,000,000 free public models on Hugging Face! (X)

• Watch Battalion—My First Ever 5-Minute Gen AI Short Film (X)

• The motion brush in Kling is really good! (X)

• ChatGPT new advanced voice mode moaning (X) [NSFW!]