Today in Generative Media

Promise, a genAI studio; Voice clones in Microsoft Teams; AI publisher Spines

News

• Today, we’re announcing the launch of Promise—a new studio built from the ground up to push the boundaries of storytelling with the transformative power of Generative AI. (Promise Studios)

• Microsoft will soon let you clone your voice for Teams meetings (TechCrunch)

• Itching to write a book? AI publisher Spines wants to make a deal (TechCrunch)

• The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI (Wired)

• Coca-Cola causes controversy with AI-made ad (NBC News)

Software and Data

• AnyChat brings together ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and more for ultimate AI flexibility (VentureBeat)

• Perplexity’s AI search engine can now buy products for you (The Verge)

• Jan is an open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline. (jan.ai)

  • Jan shows you if your hardware can run AI models and lets you monitor performance in real-time. (X)

• Kolors Virtual Try-On in the Wild (HuggingFace)

• Text to Math Animations powered by manim engine + gpt-4o (VisualMath AI)

• MeshGPT: Generating Triangle Meshes with Decoder-Only Transformers (GitHub)

• LAION announces the LAION-DISCO-12M - a collection of 12 million links to publicly available YouTube samples paired with metadata to support basic machine learning research in foundation models for generic audio, music information retrieval, and audio dataset analysis (LAION)

Research

• GPS-Gaussian+: Generalizable Pixel-wise 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Human-Scene Rendering from Sparse Views (project page)

• LLaMA-Mesh: Unifying 3D Mesh Generation with Language Models (project page)

• StdGEN: Semantic-Decomposed 3D Character Generation from Single Images (project page)

• SmoothCache: A Universal Inference Acceleration Technique for Diffusion Transformers (arXiv)

Misc

• Generative AI in media and entertainment (FX Guide) In this new Field Guide to Generative AI, fxguide’s Mike Seymour was commissioned by NVIDIA to unpack the impact of generative AI on the media and entertainment industries, offering practical applications, ethical considerations, and a roadmap for the future.

• Justin Tranter x Music AI | Google Lab Sessions | Full Film (YouTube)