Generative AI goes Hollywood

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Lionsgate just teamed up with AI startup Runway to create custom video generation models trained on its iconic film catalogue.

As Hollywood grapples with AI’s role in filmmaking, could this partnership redefine the long run of movie production? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Lionsgate partners with Runway for GenAI

• YouTube launches AI-powered creation tools

• Virtually try-on any clothes in only a number of clicks

• Google uses AI to know whales

• 5 recent AI tools & 4 recent AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

RUNWAY & LIONSGATE

⭐ Lionsgate partners with Runway for GenAI

The Rundown: Lionsgate, the film company behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Saw, teamed up with AI video generation company Runway to create a custom AI model trained on Lionsgate’s film catalogue.

The small print:

• The partnership will develop an AI model specifically trained on Lionsgate’s proprietary content library, designed to generate cinematic video that filmmakers can further manipulate using Runway’s tools.

• Lionsgate sees AI as a tool to enhance and enhance its current operations, streamlining each pre-production and post-production processes.

• Runway is considering ways to supply similar custom-trained models as templates for individual creators, expanding access to AI-powered filmmaking tools beyond major studios.

Why it matters: As many writers, actors, and filmmakers strike against ChatGPT, Lionsgate is diving head-first into the world of generative AI through its partnership with Runway. That is considered one of the primary major collabs between an AI startup and a significant Hollywood company — and its success or failure could set precedent for years to come back.

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YOUTUBE

▶️ YouTube launches AI-powered creation tools

The Rundown: YouTube just announced a spread of recent AI features designed to help creators, including text-to-video generation, AI-powered inspiration tools, and automatic dubbing capabilities.

The small print:

• Veo, Google’s recent AI video generation tool, will allow creators to generate six-second video clips for YouTube Shorts using text prompts, with the resulting content watermarked and labelled as AI-generated.

• YouTube’s recent AI-powered “Inspiration” features will help creators brainstorm video ideas and even suggest responses to comments.

• The platform can be expanding its AI dubbing capabilities with expressive speech to make translations sound more natural, mimicking the unique audio’s pitch and intonation.

• These recent features aim to boost human creativity relatively than replace it, in keeping with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, who revealed that 92% of YouTube creators already use AI tools (in some capability).

Why it matters: That is one other win for global AI acceptance with YouTube leaning into AI generation on its platform, relatively than fighting back against it. The platform can be showing how sensible AI watermarks can offset potential downsides for each creators and viewers.

AI TRAINING

👕 Virtually try-on any clothes in only a number of clicks

The Rundown: Kolors Virtual Try-On tool is a free, fun AI tool available on Hugging Face that enables anyone to alter outfits on any photo.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit the Hugging Face “Kolors Virtual Try-On within the Wild” space.

2. Upload a full-body photo of an individual within the “Person Image” section.

3. Upload a transparent image of a garment within the “Garment Image” section.

4. Click the “Run” button to generate your virtual try-on.

Pro tip: For best results, use clear, front-facing images of each the person and the garment.

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• What AI’s role in artistic creation might be

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GOOGLE RESEARCH

🐋 Google uses AI to know whales

The Rundown: Google Research recently developed a brand new AI model able to identifying vocalizations from eight distinct whale species, including the mysterious “Biotwang” sound recently attributed to Bryde’s whales.

The small print:

• The model classifies 12 different whale vocalizations across a broad acoustic range (10 Hz to 120+ kHz), covering multiple calls for some species.

• The AI tool is designed to help conservation efforts by improving the power to trace whale populations and movements through passive acoustic monitoring.

• The model includes newly identified seems like the Bryde’s whale “Biotwang”, which was a decades-old mystery until recently solved by NOAA researchers.

• Google has made the model available for download via Kaggle Models, allowing researchers and conservationists to make use of the technology of their studies.

Why it matters: The advantages of AI in chatbots and medical research are obvious by now, but AI is impacting the whole globe — even deep down within the depths of the ocean. This AI model, particularly, helps us higher understand diverse whale species, which may lead to simpler protection strategies for endangered marine life.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

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• 🎓 Quil Reading for Evidence – Read nonfiction and construct comprehension through writing prompts

• 📸 Remini – Transform old photos into high-definition images

Latest AI Job Opportunities

• 🤖 Cohere – Machine Learning Intern/Co-op

• 📈 Glean – Enterprise Account Executive

• 🛠️ Shield AI – Staff Mechanical Design Engineer

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QUICK HITS

Together AI’s LlamaCoder app generates full applications from prompts using Llama 3.1 405B, gaining 2,000+ GitHub stars and creating 200,000+ apps since launch.

The Biden administration announced a global AI safety meeting in San Francisco for this November, gathering experts from nine countries and the EU.

OpenAI reportedly warned users against probing its recent o1 AI models’ reasoning processes, threatening bans for policy violations.

Northwestern University received $20 million to guide a brand new AI research institute developing tools for astronomy and astrophysics data evaluation.

Google announced $25 million in funding to support AI education initiatives, aiming to coach over 500,000 educators and students in recent artificial intelligence skills.

Alibaba released Qwen 2.5, a multilingual AI model with 72B parameters, rivaling larger models in performance across various benchmarks.

Nvidia launched its AI Aerial platform to optimize wireless networks and enable recent AI experiences on a unified infrastructure for telecom providers.

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