Generative AI

A little more than three years ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and education changed forever. For students, the ability to generate fluent, credible text on demand in seconds is an incredible new tool.

Disney, the entertainment conglomerate that owns Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm and its own animated classics from 101 Dalmatians to Zootopia, licensed OpenAI to use its characters in generated videos.

Runway’s GWM-1 family of video-generation models respond to user input in real time while producing scenes that remain consistent regardless of the camera’s position.

Models that generate 3D spaces typically generate them as users move through them without generating a persistent world to be explored later. A new model produces 3D worlds that can be exported and modified.

Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) image-segmentation model has evolved into an open-weights suite for generating 3D objects. SAM 3 segments images, SAM 3D turns the segments into 3D objects, and SAM 3D Body produces 3D objects of any people among the segments. You can experiment with all three.

A music-generation newcomer emerged from stealth mode with licenses to train generative AI models on music controlled by the world’s biggest recording companies.

A new image generator reasons over prompts to produce outstanding pictures.

Music-generation service Udio will build an AI streaming platform in collaboration with the world’s biggest record label.

OpenAI and Meta, which have been content to offer standalone chatbots or tuck them into existing products, introduced dueling social video networks and other initiatives designed to boost revenue and engagement.

A Swedish organization that collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and record companies has formed a technology-legal-business ecosystem designed to allow AI developers to use music legally while compensating publishers of recordings and compositions.

Researchers used AI models to create novel viruses from scratch.

The mixture-of-experts approach that has boosted the performance of large language models may do the same for video generation.

Generated video clips are capturing eyeballs in viral videos, ad campaigns, and a Netflix show.

Apple revamped two vision-language models in a bid to catch up with fast-moving competitors.

Hollywood studios joined the record companies, publishers, and artists in the fight against companies that have trained AI models on their copyrighted works.