Chinese multinational Alibaba, best known for its e-commerce operations, also heavily invests in technological development projects. Researchers in the company’s Institute for Intelligent Computing showed off their new AI video generator, EMO. EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, is an “expressive audio-driven portrait-video generation framework” that turns a single still reference image and vocal audio into … Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Runway has partnered with stock agency Getty Images to launch a new generative video model for enterprise customers. In a blog post detailing the partnership, Runway says that the partnership will enable users to “combine the power of Runway with Getty Images’ world-class fully licensed creative content library,” which Runway promises … Read more
About a week after Stability AI announced Stable Diffusion Video, laying the groundwork for AI text-to-video generators, AI startup Pika Labs has announced that it has raised $55 million to push its competing generative video platform further. Alongside the funding, Pika has also announced Pika 1.0, which the company says is “a major product upgrade … Read more