Today in Generative Media

Asteria AI animation studio; Gamers roast Netflix's genAI plans; OpenAI's legal win

News and Opinion

• This AI Animation Studio Believes It Can Convince All the Skeptics (IndieWire)

• Gamers roast Netflix's generative AI plans after it lays off human developers (Creative Bloq)

• OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished (Wired)

• Spotify’s AI is no match for a real DJ (The Verge)

• How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom (Ars Technica)

• Research: How Gen AI Is Already Impacting the Labor Market (Harvard Business Review)

Software

• Blend Anything Into Everything Revolutionary AI technology that lets you blend images, styles, and ideas together. Transform any image with text prompts, reference images, or smart brushes. (Blendic AI)

• Gemini is now accessible from the OpenAI Library (Google Developers blog)

• Muon is the fastest known optimizer across diverse training scenarios including CIFAR-10 and GPT-2 scale language modeling. (GitHub)

Research

• Fashion-VDM: Video Diffusion Model for Virtual Try-On (SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 project page)

• Edify 3D: Scalable High-Quality 3D Asset Generation (project page) [Warning: this page loads heavy video and 3D assets that temporarily froze my browser!]

• Edify Image: High-Quality Image Generation with Pixel Space Laplacian Diffusion Models (project page)

• SplatFormer Point Transformer for Robust 3D Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• SeedEdit Align Image Re-Generation to Image Editing (project page)

• MVPaint: Synchronized Multi-View Diffusion for Painting Anything 3D (project page)

• ZIM: Zero-Shot Image Matting for Anything (project page)

• FasterCache: Training-Free Video Diffusion Model Acceleration with High Quality (project page) Code on GitHub [works with Mochi]

• Towards High-fidelity Head Blending with Chroma Keying for Industrial Applications (project page)

• AutoVFX: Physically Realistic Video Editing from Natural Language Instructions (project page)

Misc

• Ridley Scott says he's 'trying to embrace AI' (X)

• Behind the scenes of Snoop Dogg’s MV: using AI to nail complex animations. For the chariot shot, I broke down motion with keyframes, using AI like an “in-betweener. (X)

• introducing THE JUNK MACHINE: A physical, interactive ai art robot… Ongoing generative public art project critiquing how AI is corrupting advertising (X)

• magical tbh (X)