Meta's FlowVid: A Breakthrough in Video-to-Video AI
Plus: Alibaba releases AnyText, Google to cut 30,000 jobs amid AI focus.
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In today’s edition:
🎥 Meta's FlowVid: A breakthrough in video-to-video AI
🌍Alibaba’s AnyText for multilingual visual text generation and editing
💼 Google to cut 30,000 jobs amid AI integration for efficiency
📚 Knowledge Nugget: Building an AI Team - Roles Overview by
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Meta's FlowVid: A breakthrough in video-to-video AI
Diffusion models have transformed the image-to-image (I2I) synthesis and are now making their way into videos. However, the advancement of video-to-video (V2V) synthesis has been hampered by the challenge of maintaining temporal consistency across video frames.
Meta research proposes a consistent V2V synthesis method using joint spatial-temporal conditions, FlowVid. It demonstrates remarkable properties:
Flexibility: It works seamlessly with existing I2I models, facilitating various modifications, including stylization, object swaps, and local edits.
Efficiency: Generation of a 4-second video with 30 FPS and 512x512 resolution takes only 1.5 minutes, which is 3.1x, 7.2x, and 10.5x faster than CoDeF, Rerender, and TokenFlow, respectively.
High-quality: In user studies, FlowVid is preferred 45.7% of the time, outperforming CoDeF (3.5%), Rerender (10.2%), and TokenFlow (40.4%).
Why does this matter?
The model empowers us to generate lengthy videos via autoregressive evaluation. In addition, the large-scale human evaluation indicates the efficiency and high generation quality of FlowVid.
Alibaba releases AnyText for multilingual visual text generation and editing
Diffusion model based Text-to-Image has made significant strides recently. Although current technology for synthesizing images is highly advanced and capable of generating images with high fidelity, it can still reveal flaws in the text areas in generated images.
To address this issue, Alibaba research introduces AnyText, a diffusion-based multilingual visual text generation and editing model, that focuses on rendering accurate and coherent text in the image.
Why does this matter?
This extensively researches the problem of text generation in the field of text-to-image synthesis. Consequently, it can improve the overall utility and potential of AI in applications.
Google to cut 30,000 jobs amid AI integration for efficiency
Google is considering a substantial workforce reduction, potentially affecting up to 30,000 employees, as part of a strategic move to integrate AI into various aspects of its business processes.
The proposed restructuring is anticipated to primarily impact Google's ad sales department, where the company is exploring the benefits of leveraging AI for operational efficiency.
Why does this matter?
Google is actively engaged in advancing its AI models, but this also suggests that the tech giant is not just focusing on AI development for external applications but is also contemplating a significant shift in its operational structure.
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Knowledge Nugget: Building an AI Team - Roles Overview
Whether you are building an AI product or finding ways to incorporate AI into your organization, it's likely you will need an AI team. But building a resilient team in an uncertain and dynamic environment is a tough challenge, which is why we rely on observations, principles, and understandings to determine team design.
A big part of team selection comes down to understanding the various roles required and how those roles enable the success of the AI team.
In this article,
discusses a list of roles now emerging for building high performing AI teams. These roles are based more on functions and traits and less on skills.Why does this matter?
As AI tools and models grow, it seems the focus leans towards software engineering. But going too far that way can cause problems with output and model performance. To succeed, it's crucial to build a team that can weather all of the unknown and unseen trials in today’s emerging environment. This requires understanding how to build an integrated team with new emerging roles.
What Else Is Happening❗
💰OpenAI's annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion as customers shrug off CEO drama.
It went up from $1.3 billion as of mid-October. The 20% growth over two months suggests OpenAI was able to hold onto its business momentum despite a leadership crisis in November that provided an opening for rivals to go after its customers. (Link)
👩💻GitHub makes Copilot Chat generally available, letting devs ask code questions.
GitHub’s launching Chat in general availability for all users. Copilot Chat is available in the sidebar in Microsoft’s IDEs, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio– included as a part of GitHub Copilot paid tiers and free for verified teachers, students and maintainers of certain open source projects. (Link)
📸Nikon, Sony, and Canon fight AI fakes with new camera tech.
They are developing camera technology that embeds digital signatures in images so that they can be distinguished from increasingly sophisticated fakes. Such efforts come as ever-more-realistic fakes appear, testing the judgment of content producers and users alike. (Link)
🧪Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI.
A new class of antibiotics for drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria was discovered using more transparent deep learning models. The team behind the project used a deep-learning model to predict the activity and toxicity of the new compound. (Link)
🧠Samsung aims to replicate human vision by integrating AI in camera sensors.
Samsung is reportedly planning to incorporate a dedicated chip responsible for AI duties directly into its camera sensors while aiming to create sensors capable of sensing and replicating human senses in the long term. It is calling this “Humanoid Sensors” internally and would likely incorporate the tech into its devices earliest by 2027. (Link)
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