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WhatsApp's AI avatars; ElevenLabs AI voice isolator; Upon the threshold...

• WhatsApp is developing a personalized AI avatar generator (The Verge)

• ElevenLabs launches free AI voice isolator to take on Adobe (VentureBeat)

• Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold (Ethan Mollick on Substack)

• VEGS : View Extrapolation of Urban Scenes in 3D Gaussian Splatting using Learned Priors (ECCV 2024, project page)

• MegaScenes: Scene-Level View Synthesis at Scale (project page)

• 🎥 Director3D: Real-world Camera Trajectory and 3D Scene Generation from Text (project page)

• LivePortrait: Efficient Portrait Animation with Stitching and Retargeting Control (project page) Code and notebook on GitHub.

• ControlNeXt is our official implementation for controllable generation, supporting both images and videos while incorporating diverse forms of control information. In this project, we propose a new method that reduces trainable parameters by up to 90% compared with ControlNet (GitHub)

• This repository contains the official author's implementation associated with the paper "Gaussian in the Wild: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Unconstrained Image Collections" (GitHub)