Today in Generative Media

Toronto hosts "AI on the Lot" pop-up; Nvidia revenue jumps 122%; The next-gen Pixar

News

• Toronto International Film Festival Hosts AI on the Lot Pop-Up Event (Variety)

• Nvidia Revenue Jumps 122% in Positive Sign for Tech’s A.I. Boom (New York Times)

• The Next Generation Pixar: How AI will Merge Film & Games (a16z)

• This Week in AI: AI is rapidly being commoditized (TechCrunch)

• New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time (Ars Technica)

• Google’s custom AI chatbots have arrived (The Verge)

• This new open-source AI, CogVideoX, could change how we create videos forever (VentureBeat)

Software

• We tested SAM2 for rotoscoping. This is what we found. (Electric Sheep News)

• Flux dev is now 2x faster on Replicate (X)

• SageBrush 2.6 with Flux support is approved by Apple, and now available on the App Store! (X)

Research

• Training-free High-quality Video Generation with Chain of Diffusion Model Experts (project page)

• Towards Realistic Example-based Modeling via 3D Gaussian Stitching (project page)

• LapisGS: Layered Progressive 3D Gaussian Splatting for Adaptive Streaming (arXiv)

• GeoTransfer : Generalizable Few-Shot Multi-View Reconstruction via Transfer Learning (arXiv)

Misc

• Disruptive tech often starts as a toy — like Google running DOOM at 20 fps on a single TPU. But how soon until neural rendering takes over? (X)

• A concept for a first-person shooter, where you’re stranded deep in a hostile jungle with nothing but a banana. (X)