🎆 The New Friday Series 🎆

Martin Musiol & Daniel Aguspina
April 26, 2024

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What You Can Expect

We are constantly refining our newsletter's format and quality—only HQ insights for you!

Our loyal readers asked for it, and so, we're introducing a Friday AI wrap-up.

This series will provide a concise bullet-point summary of the week's tech events with relevant links.

All signal, no noise.

Simulon can add any 3D model to your real footage video in a matter of minutes

I was asked about how well @Simulon works for automotive visualization. Using a pre-existing 3D model, creating and rendering a video like this takes just a few minutes.
For ultra-detailed reflections, 3D artists might prefer replacing the ML-generated HDRI with a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Divesh Naidoo (@diveshnaidoo)
5:55 PM • Apr 18, 2024

Meta will let you control computers with your brain (through a wristband)

Mark Zuckerberg: we will have consumer neural interfaces to control computing devices soon and he is playing with demo versions now
— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick)
10:16 PM • Apr 19, 2024

VASA-1 by MS can generate lifelike talking faces from a single image and an audio clip

Microsoft just dropped VASA-1.
This AI can make single image sing and talk from audio reference expressively. Similar to EMO from Alibaba
10 wild examples:
1. Mona Lisa rapping Paparazzi
— Min Choi (@minchoi)
2:57 AM • Apr 18, 2024

AI Avatars by Synthesia are now able to express emotions (also in a subtle way)

From happy to sad to optimistic in less than a minute 🤯
The world’s first Expressive #AIavatars are here and launching on April 25th.
Don’t miss the pre-launch discussion with some of the leading minds behind the new tech: @vriparbelli, @MattNiessner & @jnstrck
The X Spaces… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Synthesia 🎥 (@synthesiaIO)
2:11 PM • Apr 17, 2024

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