Today in Generative Media

RunwayML valued at $1.5B; DeepFloyd does text; 15M Midjourney users

• Exclusive: Generative AI startup Runway just raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from a cloud service provider (Business Insider)

• With DeepFloyd, generative AI art gets a text upgrade (TechCrunch)

• 15.2 million people are in the Midjourney Discord channel. (Twitter)

• OpenAI’s regulatory troubles are only just beginning (The Verge)

• How I used ChatGPT and AI art tools to launch my Etsy business fast (ZDNet)

• Molly Crabapple Has Posted an Open Letter by 1,000 Cultural Luminaries Urging Publishers to Restrict the Use of ‘Vampirical’ A.I.-Generated Images (ArtNet)

• "Please stop me," says AI art generator founder (CreativeBloq)

• MonoAvatar: Learning Personalized High Quality Volumetric Head Avatars from Monocular RGB Videos (CVPR 2023)

• NeRSemble: Multi-view Radiance Field Reconstruction of Human Heads (arXiv)

• In-Context Learning Unlocked for Diffusion Models (arXiv)

• Brain-inspired modular training makes it possible to visualize a network learning! Cool graphic. (Twitter)