Meta’s New Movie Gen Benchmarks Simplify Video and Audio AI
Meta has released Movie Gen Bench, a set of tools to help researchers improve AI in creating videos and audio. The release includes two main parts:
Movie Gen Video Bench: The biggest benchmark yet for generating videos from text prompts.
Movie Gen Audio Bench: A way to test AI models that generate sound based on video or text+video inputs.
These benchmarks make it easier to measure how good AI models are at creating media.
New GPT-4o-Audio Model for Generating Voices
OpenAI introduced a GPT-4o-audio-preview model. This tool uses creative prompts to generate different voices and speaking styles. It aims to make audio production more flexible and shows how AI can now handle a wide range of audio tasks. You can find more details about it on Twitter.
Faster AI Reasoning with Shortcut Models
Shortcut models are making AI reasoning quicker—up to 128 times faster. Unlike older models, these don’t need extra training steps, making them much easier to use. They are designed to replace more complex AI systems while improving efficiency.
AI Finds 70,000 New Viruses
A new AI tool scanned biological data and discovered 70,000 unknown viruses. This exciting breakthrough could help us learn more about viruses and advance the study of virology. It also shows how AI can help us understand biology better
Hugging Face Fixes Transformers Issue
Hugging Face developers, including Zach Mueller, fixed a big problem with gradient accumulation in the Transformers library. This update helps AI models train better by fixing how loss is calculated. The fix is now live on GitHub..
Meta’s Spirit LM: New Speech-Integrated Language Model
Meta launched Spirit LM, a tool that mixes speech with text, overcoming the limits of older speech recognition tools. By focusing on phonemes, pitch, and tone, this model is set to improve speech-based tasks like transcription and text-to-speech.
Open Materials 2024 (OMat24)
Meta released OMat24, a dataset for predicting material properties. It’s freely available for both commercial and non-commercial use, promoting open science. This dataset aims to help researchers and companies explore new material possibilities.
AI Training Data Crisis
Brian Roemmele raised concerns about a loss of training material for AI due to old VHS media becoming obsolete. He warned that today’s AI models rely heavily on platforms like Reddit and Facebook, which could lead to a narrow view of human experiences.
AgentOccam: AI Automating Web Tasks
AgentOccam is a new tool that uses large language models to automate tasks on websites without training. It performs better than earlier systems, proving that AI can become more efficient in web-based tasks.
AI-Generated Spider Webs in Toy Story 4
Pixar used AI to create spider webs for scenes in Toy Story 4’s antique mall. This made the animation process much faster. Only webs directly interacted with by characters needed human input—everything else was automatically generated.
MEGA-Bench for Multimodal AI Models
MEGA-Bench introduces an evaluation system covering over 500 different AI tasks. This benchmark helps researchers assess how well multimodal models (those handling images, text, and more) perform across diverse tasks.
https://tiger-ai-lab.github.io/MEGA-Bench
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10563
SambaNova and Gradio Expand AI Access
SambaNova and Gradio are working together to make high-speed AI tools available to everyone. Their goal is to make advanced AI easier to use, empowering both individuals and businesses.
NotebookLM Business Customization Tools
The NotebookLM team introduced new features that let users customize audio summaries. They also launched a business version for organizations through Google Workspace, giving teams advanced AI tools for collaboration.
https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1847084938803175873
OpenAI’s Residency Program Now Open
OpenAI is offering a residency program for people from non-traditional backgrounds who want to work on AI. This is a chance for curious learners to gain hands-on experience in AI development. Applications are open on OpenAI’s website.
MultiUI: Better Visual Understanding for AI
MultiUI provides a huge dataset to help AI models improve their understanding of web interfaces and documents. It uses text along with screenshots to boost models’ ability to read and interact with different kinds of digital content.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13824
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13824
AGI Milestone Announcement
Yam Peleg recently hinted that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) might have been achieved, posting a cryptic tweet with symbolic art. While the details remain unclear, this has sparked curiosity in the AI community.
Hugging Face & GitHub: AI and Technology Innovation Simplified
Janus: This is a cool new tool that helps both understand and create things like images or text using AI. It’s more flexible because it separates how it looks at pictures and text. It’s based on a powerful AI model called DeepSeek-LLM-1.3b-base, which works with a huge collection of 500 billion text tags. This means it can do more than older models and understand a lot of different kinds of information.
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/Janus-1.3B
CS-Notes: If you’re getting ready for a tech interview or just want to brush up on computer science basics, check out CS-Notes on GitHub. It’s a big collection of notes covering important topics like algorithms, operating systems, and system design. It’s a great tool for anyone wanting to get a job in tech.
https://github.com/CyC2018/CS-Notes
Papermark: Want a secure way to share documents online? Papermark is an open-source tool that lets you do that. You can use custom web addresses and get stats on who’s viewing your documents. It’s made with tools like Next.js and TypeScript, and it’s perfect for people or businesses who need to safely share files online.
https://github.com/mfts/papermark
Unkey: Managing APIs can be tricky, especially when it comes to security. Unkey is an open-source project that helps developers handle API authentication and permissions. It’s also open for the community to contribute to its development.
https://github.com/unkeyed/unkey
Reddit Discussions: Cool AI Pony Models
A Reddit post caught attention with a super realistic animated pony model. Here are some things discussed:
Video Creation: People talked about using tools like PONY and others like Kling or Runway to make these animations.
Animation Struggles: Some users had a hard time getting the animations just right and asked if they should try different tools.
Visual Issues: Some folks thought the pony’s unblinking eyes and stiff face were a little creepy, but everyone agreed it looked real.
Furry Community: There was a brief chat about how productive the furry community is when it comes to animation, but some felt the need to keep certain topics separate.
This shows how AI tools are helping create super detailed animations, but there’s still room to make them feel even more lifelike.
What is ComfyUI Outpainting?
Ever wanted to take a picture and make it bigger, like painting on a larger canvas? That’s what Outpainting does! It lets you expand a picture beyond its edges, and AI fills in the new parts. This is great for making comic panels or larger banner images.
For example, if you want to add more space around an image, Outpainting will add the new area based on what’s already in the picture, making it look like a natural extension.
Easy Steps to Use Outpainting in ComfyUI
Let’s break it down step by step:
Start your workflow: Click on “Load Default” in the menu to get the basic setup ready.
Upload your picture: Choose a picture from your computer to expand.
Add a “Pad Image” node: This lets you extend the picture. Connect the dots so that your image is ready to grow beyond its original borders.
And just like that, your picture will now have a new area based on what’s already in the image! Super helpful for creating bigger, more detailed visuals.
This guide makes it simple to try out Outpainting and add extra depth to your projects.
