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Welcome to our weekly AI Scout newsletter, where we bring you the latest and greatest in the world of artificial intelligence. In this week's edition, we'll be diving into the fascinating world of ethical questions behind AI-generated real faces, the rise of transmedia businesses, and innovative AI tools for API integration.
Deepfakes have been making waves for some time now in social media and stirring up a lot of controversy. Microsoft has recently unveiled VASA-1, a cutting-edge AI system that can produce a convincing videos of a person using just one photo and one audio track. This development has sparked discussions about the potential in the creation of deepfakes on various industries, from entertainment to politics.
On the business front, we have exciting news about Elf Labs, which has launched a transmedia business incorporating hundreds of trademarked fairytale characters. This creative use of AI in storytelling demonstrates the expanding landscape of AI applications beyond traditional sectors. The intersection of AI and storytelling opens up new opportunities in entertainment, marketing, and education.
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Startup News - Elf labs
AI Tools to Make the Most of APIs
Microsoft’s Vasa-1 - Good or Bad?
AI News
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Startup News
Elf Labs, based in LA, is reinventing fairytale characters with a modern twist to create new franchises. Their portfolio includes 400 copyrights and over 140 trademarks for characters like RoboRapunzel and Zombie Peter Pan. They plan to launch diverse media, including films and AR/VR experiences, starting with the animated series RoboStars.
The company, evolving from Toon Studio and overcoming legal hurdles, is now leveraging partnerships for broader content and licensing strategies. The company has generated about $15 million in royalty revenue to date. It has bootstrapped its financing over the 15 years so far.
AI Tools to Make the Most of APIs
Extracta.ai is an AI-driven platform designed for the efficient extraction of data from various types of documents without requiring manual setup or complex training. Here’s a brief overview of its features:
Verbalate is an advanced video translation software, enabling users to expand their content reach by translating video content into multiple languages through voice cloning and lip-syncing. The tool offers a range of features perfect for creators, YouTubers, and companies looking to globalize their content and enhance engagement with international audiences.
The aimlapi.com offers an integrated platform that provides developers with access to over 100 AI models through a single API. With a seamless transition from OpenAI and a superior serverless inference, it is designed to save deployment and maintenance costs while ensuring high-quality, stable AI models at all times.
Microsoft’s Vasa-1 - Good or Bad?
Microsoft's VASA-1 AI is making waves by turning static photos into dynamic, lifelike talking videos, redefining how we interact with digital media. This innovative technology pushes the boundaries of how images can be used, suggesting new possibilities in various fields, from entertainment to communication, however some worry if it will be used for making deepfakes.
White Papers
Here is a shortlist of whitepapers about the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Developers are using these to build the next big AI tools.
- VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation (VideoPoet) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14125
- Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion (DreamFusion) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14988
- Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing and Editing with Visual Foundation Models (Visual ChatGPT) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04671
News
NyquistAI, formerly known as Nyquist Data, is making a strategic pivot that aligns with our evolution as a company and our commitment to the life sciences sector to help companies in life sciences embark on AI transformation within their organizations.
atNorth announces New Chief Development Officer - International development expert , Anna Kristín Pálsdóttir, has been appointed to lead the future expansion of atNorth’s data center portfolio. atNorth is the leading Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider.
Skymizer, renowned globally for its pioneering compiler technology, is steering a significant pivot toward the software and hardware co-designed AI system. The company has innovated a unique approach that integrates software-defined chip IP with a compiler-first philosophy, marking a paradigm shift in designing the future of AI system.
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