Today in Generative Media

AI empowers, enriches creators; Will AI kill comics? OpenAI delays opt-out

News and Opinion

• AI Isn’t Replacing Creators, It's Making Them More Powerful Than Ever (Forbes)

• Meet the content creators harnessing AI —and how they use it to make thousands per month (New York Post)

• The comic book industry has nearly died before. Some artists fear AI will kill it (CNN)

• OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025 (TechCrunch)

• The Coming Year: GenAI Enters The Roll-Up-Our-Sleeves-And-Get-To-Work Phase (Forbes)

• Covert AI Could Lead to a New 'Intention Economy', Experts Warn (Science Alert)

• OpenAI’s latest AI can cost more than $1000 per query (Futurism)

• Nvidia to open-source Run:ai, the software it acquired for $700M to help companies manage GPUs for AI (VentureBeat)

Software

• Generate CAD from text prompts (Zoo)

• ebook2audiobook CPU/GPU Converter from eBooks to audiobooks with chapters and metadata (GitHub)

• PDF scientific paper translation and bilingual comparison (GitHub)

• Introducing smolagents, a simple library to build agents (HuggingFace)

• ModernBERT Embed is an embedding model trained from ModernBERT-base, bringing the new advances of ModernBERT to embeddings! (HuggingFace)

• ai-gradio now supports a coder mode for gemini, will add support for more providers soon (X)

• The V-RAG architecture utilizes a vision language model (VLM) to embed pages of PDF files (or any other document) as vectors directly, without the tedious chunking process. (GitHub)

• MINIMA: Modality Invariant Image Matching (GitHub)

• Co-STORM: Get a Wikipedia-like report on your topic with AI (Stanford)

• Using serverless GPUs in Azure Container Apps (preview) (Microsoft)

Research

• Prometheus : 3D-Aware Latent Diffusion Models for Feed-Forward Text-to-3D Scene Generation (project page)

• TANGOFLUX : Super Fast and Faithful Text to Audio Generation with Flow Matching and Clap-Ranked Preference Optimization (project page)

• 4D Gaussian Splatting: Modeling Dynamic Scenes with Native 4D Primitives (arXiv)

• Reflective Gaussian Splatting (arXiv)

Misc

• NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute: Gain skills to fast-track your success. (Nvidia)

• Check out this diffusion project that we designed and test-drove this past semester at Berkeley and Michigan! (X)

• What's most interesting isn't just the technical leap, but how the AI video space has matured. From scattered Discord channels and GitHub repos to comprehensive frameworks and evolving best practices. (James Gerde on LinkedIn)