🧵 Threads is rolling out hashtags – now we just wait for threads.
🐦 X (formally Twitter) has started rolling out Grok to subscribers.
🌴 The first GTA 6 trailer is here after being leaked last week.
🚀 NASA plans to land a spacecraft on a world 800 million miles away.
TikTok dancer's worst nightmare just came true.
Okay, that’s hyperbole. But what if instead of having to record a carefully choreographed dance routine, you could just upload a single image and let technology handle the rest?
MagicAnimate, a new diffusion-based human animation framework built by ByteDance (the owners of TikTok) is getting a lot of hype on social media for doing exactly this.
MagicAnimate takes any static image and turns it into a full-blown animation. Imagine the Mona Lisa, and now imagine if da Vinci had the technology to record her dancing. The team behind MagicAnimate made that a reality.
Want to know how it works? According to the team, “MagicAnimate employs a video diffusion model and an appearance encoder for temporal modeling and identity preserving” for the sample image. For the animation process, it uses a “simple video fusion strategy that produces smooth video transition during inference.”
I’m not sure what all of that means either, but the results speak for themselves.
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OpenAI has some competition
ChatGPT Killer: Maybe, but probably not. Google launched its long-awaited AI modal, Gemini. It comes in three different flavors, and the internet definitely has some opinions on it.
Meet your new assistant:This iPhone Shortcut uses GPT-4 to summarize basically anything that you’re currently looking at. Double-tap the back of your phone, and voila!
That’s a lot of zeros: Elon is looking to raise a whopping $1 billion for X. That’s 1/44 of what he paid originally to purchase what was then Twitter. The money will be raised for X AI.
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