Today in Generative Media

DNEG raises $200M for AI, Runway raises $450M; YouTube deepfake takedowns

News

• ‘Dune’ VFX House DNEG Raises $200M for AI Innovation From Abu Dhabi-Based Fund (Hollywood Reporter)

• AI-video maker Runway in talks to raise funds at $4 bln valuation, Information reports (Reuters)

• You Can Ask YouTube to Take Down AI-Generated Content That Looks or Sounds Like You (Gizmodo)

• AI writer served by Wimbledon and IBM commits double fault (The Guardian)

• Artificial Intelligence And Jobs: No Signs Of Worker Fear And Loathing (Forbes)

• The world's biggest AI models were trained using images of Australian kids, and their families had no idea (ABC News Australia)

• Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app (TechCrunch)

• Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now available – but there’s a catch (VentureBeat)

• Meta plans to bring generative AI to metaverse games (TechCrunch)

• Google’s carbon footprint balloons in its Gemini AI era (The Verge)

Software

• Listen to your favorite books and articles voiced by Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Sir Laurence Olivier on our Reader App. (X)

• Meta’s New Text-to-3D Generator Creates 3D Models in Under a Minute (PetaPixel)

• I've pushed a new version of `any-comfyui-workflow` with: … new audio nodes - support for SD3 controlnets - new SDXL tile controlnet … I love that audio is now a first class thing in Comfy. (X)

Research

• AnyLens: A Generative Diffusion Model with Any Rendering Lens (ECCV 2024, project page)

• YouDream: Generating Anatomically Controllable Consistent Text-to-3D Animals (project page)

• Wavelets Are All You Need for Autoregressive Image Generation (arXiv)

Misc

• Public Service Announcement: Beware of the film festivals you see posted on sites such as film freeway, and of their brand new "AI Film" categories. (X)

• Congrats to Pinterest for successfully killing Pinterest. This is what happens when you don't ban AI images. (X)

• humans will choose humans in the market far more than most people are currently expecting. (X)

• RunwayML gen3 “location scout” turned to Gaussian in Luma labs. (X)

• One of the most impressive things about Runway Gen 3 is how well it understands and interprets prompts. It almost always comes back exactly the way I imagined it. (X)

• WTF …. 😂😂😂 (X)