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Getty Images & Runway. AI Video creation. After having provided stock content to Nvidia to help the latter train “responsible” AI models, Getty now also partnered with Runway to develop Runway's new generative AI video model: Runway <> Getty Images Model (RGM). RGM will provide a baseline model upon which companies can build their custom models for the generation of video content, while using their own proprietary datasets.
Amazon. Joining the AI Text-to-Image creation party. Albeit a bit late to the party, Amazon revealed its own LLM (Large Language Model), named Q (no relative of X), as well as their Titan Image Generator, a text-to-image generator aimed at business customers. Titan not only lets you create images from scratch but also swap out backgrounds with AI-generated alternatives.
Nice touch: by default AI-generated images come with a “tamper-resistant” invisible watermark.
Freepik. Real-time Sketch-to-Image creation. This year’s Visual 1st panelist Freepik launched Freepik Pikao, a real-time AI drawing program that generates artistic images from rough sketches, text prompts and Freepik’s stock content that the user might opt to insert.
Nice touch: Pikao’s dual window mode, which lets you sketch or modify rough content in one window, while you can see the artistic rendition of your doodles being updated in real-time in a second window.
Stable Diffusion. Going real-time. Who wants to wait for the AI engine to crank up until an image is generated based on your text prompt? With a similar feel to typing a query in your browser search box while the answers already start appearing while still typing, Stable Diffusion’s SDXL Turbo already starts generating images while you’re typing your prompt. Apparently, SDXL Turbo is also speeding along when the user submits image prompts to generate their AI images.
FiLMiC & Bending Spoons. The joy of being acquired. Having your startup be acquired is the dream scenario for many startup entrepreneurs, but at times we get a rough reminder that things post-acquisition aren’t always that rosy.
Latest reminder: Bending Spoons, the Italy-based app developer best known for its Splice video and its Remini AI photo editing apps, just laid off all 22 member of the original FiLMiC team after it acquired FiLMiC in September of last year (FiLMiC Pro has been a highly rated advanced iOS video editing app for many years).
[Déjà vu? Bending Spoons also gutted Evernote, the popular note-taking app company, by laying off most of its US- and Chile-based employees earlier this year.]
Projector. Home video streaming out of beta. This year’s Visual 1st Special Recognition Awards winner, Projector (the Netflix-like TV streaming service for watching your own family videos on your TV) is now out of beta and sold as a subscription, priced at $129.99 per year, including unlimited uploads and storage. Projector also launched an Affiliate Portal that offers partner guidelines, best practice recommendations, and selling & brand identity tools.
Sony. In-camera authenticity. Is this the original version of the photo or has it been manipulated? This question is an ongoing refrain for photojournalism but has now become even more critical with the emergence of AI-created or AI-manipulated images. Hurray, camera vendors are now coming to the rescue.
Sony just announced it has successfully completed testing its C2PA in-camera authenticity tech with its partner Associated Press. Sony plans to add C2PA authentication via a firmware update for the a9 III, a1, and a7S III cameras next Spring.
They’re not the only camera vendor bringing provenance data to the point of image capture. Last month Leica announced a camera that could digitally sign images and append C2PA-compliant metadata to its images, and Nikon has shown a prototype Z9 that does the same.
Vyrill. AI-generated video insights. What are people saying about your brand? Video ecommerce tech developer, and last year’s Visual 1st presenter, Vyrill announces Ask Vyrill, a GenAI assistant which provides insights to ecommerce vendors about UGC videos that feature their brand. Ask Vyrill provides answers both as text and video clips in order for these ecommerce vendors to gain a deeper understanding of the “voice of their shoppers.”
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