Today in Generative Media

DeNiro on AI; Court rejects AI creator copyright; Perplexity mocks Google's AI failures

News and Opinion

• Robert De Niro weighs in on the future of AI in Hollywood: 'Everybody's worried' (Yahoo! Entertainment)

• US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator (Reuters)

• Perplexity dunks on Google’s ‘glue on pizza’ AI fail in new ad (The Verge)

• Nvidia's expanded Zorah demo tells us how AI is the future of graphics (PCGamer)

• Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End (Futurism)

• Gemini 2.0 Flash Makes Mediocre Images...But That's Not The Point! (Why Try AI?)

Software, Hardware and Data

• Partnering to bring customers choice in AI models (Adobe blog)

• xAI launches an API for generating images (TechCrunch)

• Nvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers” (Ars Technica)

• We are now releasing Vchitect-T2V-Dataverse, a large-scale T2V database with *2M high-quality video clips* as well as *fine-grained textual captions* (X)

• We are thrilled to announce a major upgrade to our open-source 3D generation model, introducing two groundbreaking new versions: 3D 2.0 MV (Multi-View Generation) and 3D 2.0 Mini! (X)

• CRISP: Object Pose and Shape Estimation with Test-Time Adaptation (GitHub)

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

• Fine-Tune Gemma for Vision Tasks using Hugging Face Transformers and QLoRA (Google Developers Blog)

Research

• Introducing Stable Virtual Camera: Multi-View Video Generation with 3D Camera Control (project page)

• Generative Gaussian Splatting Generating 3D Scenes with Video Diffusion Priors (project page)

• Distilling Diversity and Control in Diffusion Models (project page)

• Optimized 3D Gaussian Splatting using Coarse-to-Fine Image Frequency Modulation (arXiv)

Misc

• As a fan of weird AI benchmarks, I like MCBench, where you vote on which LLM makes the best Minecraft build based on a prompt (X)

• [Integrating Gemini into the threejs editor] (X)

• New Update: We built a new tool to generate and create your own consistent characters using Gemini 2.0 Generate different versions of a character, add to timeline and create your films all in one place (X)

• Co-draw with Gemini 2.0 native image generation… (X)