Today in Generative Media

Meta's Llama 3.1 powers Meta AI; Condé Nast vs. Perplexity; AI takes video game jobs

News

• Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet (The Verge)

• Meta AI Is Now Multilingual, More Creative and Smarter (Meta blog)

• Condé Nast has reportedly accused AI search startup Perplexity of plagiarism (Engadget)

• AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry (Wired)

• 'Our resolve is unwavering and should not be tested': Major union SAG-AFTRA breaks glass on big red strike button as negotiations continue on voice actor AI protections (PC Gamer)

• Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices (The Verge)

• Mark Zuckerberg imagines content creators making AI clones of themselves (TechCrunch)

• I finally feel grateful for AI, and it’s weirding me out (Fast Company)

Software

• How Luma AI’s new ‘Loops’ feature in Dream Machine could transform digital marketing (VentureBeat)

• Adobe's Photoshop can now generate AI images via prompts like Dall-E or Midjourney (Engadget)

• Canva’s AI tools are leading a creative revolution For developing an all-in-one AI tool for creativity, Canva is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 Innovation by Design Awards. (Fast Company)

• Introducing the official global launch of Kling AI's International Version 1.0！ ANY email address gets you in，no mobile number required! (X)

• Introducing ComfyDeploy (S24) The collaborative cloud Comfy that works with ANY custom nodes, models. (X)

• Very, very fast voice bots. Llama 3.1 running on @GroqInc . 500ms voice-to-voice response times (X)

• Customize GPT-4o mini for your application with fine-tuning. Available today to tier 4 and 5 users, we plan to gradually expand access to all tiers. First 2M training tokens a day are free, through Sept 23. (X)

• The best AI image generators to try right now (ZDNet)

Research

• Transparent Image Layer Diffusion using Latent Transparency (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)

• MovieDreamer: Hierarchical Generation for Coherent Long Visual Sequences (project page)

• Masked Generative Video-to-Audio Transformers with Enhanced Synchronicity (project page)

• A Simulation Benchmark for Autonomous Racing with Large-Scale Human Data (project page)

• Computational Tradeoffs in Image Synthesis: Diffusion, Masked-Token, and Next-Token Prediction (arXiv)

Misc

• Taiwanese farmers were forced to grow less rice because the AI chip manufacturer needed water. (X)

• Zuck's AI strategy in a nutshell (X)