There’s news that considered one of the co-leaders of OpenAI, which was developing the video creation artificial intelligence (AI) ‘Sora’, has moved to Google.
TechCrunch reported on the third (local time) that William Peebles and Tim Brooks, who led Sora development at OpenAI, had moved to Google DeepMind.
Brooks announced through
He said, “The 2 years at OpenAI have been amazing, and I’m grateful to all of the passionate and type individuals who created the Sora project together. I sit up for recent challenges at Google DeepMind.”
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, said he welcomed Brooks through X. “He’ll help us make our long-held dream of becoming a world model a reality.”
The concept of a world model was introduced in a paper by AI co-founder David Ha Sakana, who was a member of Google Brain in 2018. The concept is that AI learns to grasp the physical laws of the true world. Through this, it is feasible to create AI that’s more efficient and performs higher than a big language model (LLM) that learns the world only through language.
Recently, World Labs, a startup founded by Stanford University professor Fei Fei Lee, also announced that it goals to construct a large-scale world model (LWM) based on ‘spatial intelligence’ to grasp and judge the true world.
DeepMind has applied this idea to models resembling the recently released ‘Genie’. Unlike existing AI models that require labeled data, Genie learns by observing actions and interactions in videos.
Through this, Genie can create a virtual world that outputs not only text, but in addition synthetic images, real photos, and sketches as prompts and controls actions.
This model has quite a lot of applications, from creating controllable content in games or movies to deploying embodied agents trained solely in simulation directly into the true world.
Brooks’ departure got here amid news that Sora was being completely upgraded. In accordance with The Information, OpenAI is reportedly training a new edition of Sora to revamp Sora, which was released in February. It just isn’t yet known whether Sora has already accomplished all of his training.
Rivals are also moving quickly. Runway recently signed a partnership with Hollywood studio Lionsgate, which produced the ‘John Wick’ and ‘Twilight’ series, to coach custom video models based on Lionsgate’s film catalog. Stability AI is strengthening the event of video generation models by recruiting James Cameron, director of ‘Avatar’, ‘Terminator’, and ‘Titanic’, as a director.
OpenAI showed its potential by demonstrating the Sora system with Hollywood film producers earlier this 12 months, but no long-term collaboration with a serious studio has yet been announced.
It also emerged amid a series of exits of Open AI leaders. It’s only been 10 days since CTO Mira Muratti, Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, and Vice President of Research Barrett Joff announced their resignations.
It is understood that Open AI plans to supply employees with the chance to sell their stocks in order that they will make a big sum of cash because of the continuing personnel outflow.
Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com
