Today in Generative Media

Google launches Gemini; Meta's AI image generator; Apple's model framework

• Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4 (The Verge)

• Meta launches a standalone AI-powered image generator (TechCrunch)

• Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework (TechCrunch)

• Respeecher’s ethics-first approach to AI voice cloning locks in new funding (TechCrunch)

• Titan AI leverages generative AI to streamline mobile game development (TechCrunch)

• Pimento turns creative briefs into visual mood boards using generative AI (TechCrunch)

• Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois (Business Insider)

• Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars (project page)

• LooseControl: Lifting ControlNet for Generalized Depth Conditioning (project page)

• MagicStick🪄: Controllable Video Editing via Control Handle Transformations (project page)

• DemoFusion: Democratising High-Resolution Image Generation With No $$$ (project page)