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Luma AI debuts Dream Machine 1.6 video generator with camera motions

September 5, 2024
AI video generators are multiplying in number and increasing in realism, but one big roadblock preventing them from replacing traditionally filmed video is a lack of fine-grained control. Many leading AI generators allow users to enter text prompts and/or upload still images that the underlying models convert into motion, but the resulting video clips are often a surprise and may feature…
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Why we need to check the gen AI hype and get back to reality

September 2, 2024
For the past 18 months, I have observed the burgeoning conversation around large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. The breathless hype and hyperbolic conjecture about the future have ballooned— perhaps even bubbled — casting a shadow over the practical applications of today’s AI tools. The hype underscores the profound limitations of AI at this moment while undermining how these…
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This new open-source AI, CogVideoX, could change how we create videos forever

August 30, 2024
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI have unleashed CogVideoX, an open-source text-to-video model that threatens to disrupt the AI landscape dominated by startups like Runway, Luma AI and Pika Labs. This breakthrough, detailed in a recent arXiv paper, puts advanced video generation capabilities into the hands of developers worldwide. ??Hot New Release: CogVideoX-5B, a new…
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Microsoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more

August 26, 2024
Microsoft isn’t resting its AI success on the laurels of its partnership with OpenAI. No, far from it. Instead, the company often known as Redmond for its headquarters location in Washington state today came out swinging with the release of 3 new models in its evolving Phi series of language/multimodal AI.   The three new Phi 3.5 models include the 3.82 billion parameter…
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