At SIGGRAPH 2024, Shutterstock launched a new multi-modal tool that generates 3D assets from text and image prompts, including ready-to-edit meshes, UVs, and 4K PBR materials, with an immediate focus on servicing the needs of Enterprise-sized businesses, via an API. HP and WPP are early adopters. “In September, we will release a more open self-serve […]
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Chinese AI video generator Kling is now available internationally
Kling, which launched nationally last month, is now available to users around the world. It can produce 2-minute 30 fps / 720p HD videos using prompts up to 2,000 characters in length. Users can also create 5-second clips using text and image inputs and then incrementally extend their length by 4.5 seconds at a time. […]
The eyes have it: how to detect a deepfake
Employing techniques used by astronomers to “measure the shapes of galaxies”, a team of researchers at the University of Hull led by Masters student Adejumoke Owolabi has found that deepfaked humans don’t have the same consistency in reflections across both eyes, allowing them to tell if a portrait of a human was AI-generated or not. […]
150 NVIDIA workstation GPUs power the Las Vegas Sphere’s displays
You might be surprised to learn that the 750,000 square feet of screens at Sin City’s mildly astonishing new visitor attraction are powered by 150 of NVIDIA’s RTX A6000 desktop workstation GPUs, each with 48GB RAM and over 10,752 cores and 300W TDP (Thermal Design Power).. To save you firing up your Calculator app, that […]
The Hollywood icons delivering us today’s news
Judy Garland, Burt Reynolds, James Dean … Sir Laurence Olivier. Thanks to AI voice start-up ElevenLabs’ Reader app and its new Iconic Voices collection, they have new posthumous careers and no doubt new fans (of their voices at least) and their estates have a new source of income. Their voices are being popularly used to […]
402 Terabits per second: Japanese engineers hit new Internet speed record
Using Terahertz waves, “the world’s first O to U-band transmission system capable of DWDM transmission in a commercially available standard optical fiber achieved with custom designed amplifier technology,”, researchers at the Photonic Network Laboratory of Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have achieved a broadband speed that puts it right at the top […]