Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, generative AI is beginning to spam up academic publishing — a discouraging new development on […]
Creators of Sora-powered short explain AI-generated video’s strengths and limitations
OpenAI’s video generation tool Sora took the AI community by surprise in February with fluid, realistic video that seems miles ahead of competitors. But the carefully stage-managed debut […]
Watch it and weep (or smile): Synthesia’s AI video avatars now feature emotions
Generative AI has captured the public imagination with a leap into creating elaborate, plausibly real text and imagery out of verbal prompts. But the catch — and there […]
Adobe’s working on generative video, too
Adobe says it’s building an AI model to generate video. But it’s not revealing when this model will launch, exactly — or much about it besides the fact […]
Former Snap AI chief launches Higgsfield to take on OpenAI’s Sora video generator
OpenAI captivated the tech world a few months back with a generative AI model, Sora, that turns scene descriptions into original videos — no cameras or film crews […]
HP Chromebook Plus 15.6-inch review: Is this the right Chromebook Plus for you?
The 15.6-inch HP Chromebook Plus might not be the best Chromebook, but it gives us hope for other Chromebook Plus models.
Morph Studio lets you make flims using Stability AI-generated clips
Want to weave various Stability AI-generated video clips into a movie? Now there’s a tool for that. Morph Studio, which has its own text-to-video model, just introduced an […]
‘Animate Anyone’ heralds the approach of full-motion deepfakes
As if still-image deepfakes aren’t bad enough, we may soon have to contend with generated videos of anyone who dares to put a photo of themselves online: with […]
Pika Labs, which is building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raises $55M
The generative AI hype hasn’t died down yet. Case in point, Pika Labs, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit and generate videos from captions and still […]
Stability AI gets into the video generating game
AI startups that aren’t OpenAI are plugging away this week, it’d seem — sticking to their product roadmaps even as coverage of the chaos at OpenAI dominates the airwaves. […]