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Pika.art – an AI for creating videos from stills
“It converts simple text instructions into captivating videos, in seconds.
The story behind this AI is fascinating: A team of four engineers, led by Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, was born with a clear vision: to transform video creation.
After raising $55 million, Pika Labs initially focused on Japanese anime-style animations before expanding into 3D animation” -
MiniMax-01 goes open source
MiniMax is thrilled to announce the release of the MiniMax-01 series, featuring two groundbreaking models:
MiniMax-Text-01: A foundational language model.
MiniMax-VL-01: A visual multi-modal model.Both models are now open-source, paving the way for innovation and accessibility in AI development!
🔑 Key Innovations
1. Lightning Attention Architecture: Combines 7/8 Lightning Attention with 1/8 Softmax Attention, delivering unparalleled performance.
2. Massive Scale with MoE (Mixture of Experts): 456B parameters with 32 experts and 45.9B activated parameters.
3. 4M-Token Context Window: Processes up to 4 million tokens, 20–32x the capacity of leading models, redefining what’s possible in long-context AI applications.💡 Why MiniMax-01 Matters
1. Innovative Architecture for Top-Tier Performance
The MiniMax-01 series introduces the Lightning Attention mechanism, a bold alternative to traditional Transformer architectures, delivering unmatched efficiency and scalability.2. 4M Ultra-Long Context: Ushering in the AI Agent Era
With the ability to handle 4 million tokens, MiniMax-01 is designed to lead the next wave of agent-based applications, where extended context handling and sustained memory are critical.3. Unbeatable Cost-Effectiveness
Through proprietary architectural innovations and infrastructure optimization, we’re offering the most competitive pricing in the industry:
$0.2 per million input tokens
$1.1 per million output tokens🌟 Experience the Future of AI Today
We believe MiniMax-01 is poised to transform AI applications across industries. Whether you’re building next-gen AI agents, tackling ultra-long context tasks, or exploring new frontiers in AI, MiniMax-01 is here to empower your vision.✅ Try it now for free: hailuo.ai
📄 Read the technical paper: filecdn.minimax.chat/_Arxiv_MiniMax_01_Report.pdf
🌐 Learn more: minimaxi.com/en/news/minimax-01-series-2
💡API Platform: intl.minimaxi.com/
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Alex McDowell’s mandala for non-linear virtual production
spring2013animationseminar.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/march-27-alex-mcdowell/
www.rinascimentodigitale.it/transmedia.html
“I think that it’s important now for people coming into the entertainment or pop culture business to know that all bets are off, … We don’t necessarily know that film making as we know it will exist in few years.
We don’t know that gaming is going to look the way it (now) looks or TV is going to look the way it looks. There is no doubt that there is convergence happening through these various media” -
DepthCrafter – Generating Consistent Normals Long Depth Sequences for Open-world Videos
Read more: DepthCrafter – Generating Consistent Normals Long Depth Sequences for Open-world Videoshttps://depthcrafter.github.io/
We innovate DepthCrafter, a novel video depth estimation approach, by leveraging video diffusion models. It can generate temporally consistent long depth sequences with fine-grained details for open-world videos, without requiring additional information such as camera poses or optical flow.
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Disney to slash $5.5 billion in costs as it unveils vast restructuring
Read more: Disney to slash $5.5 billion in costs as it unveils vast restructuringhttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/disney-reorganization.html
“On Wednesday, during its quarterly earnings call with investors, Disney also announced it would be cutting $5.5 billion in costs, which will be made up of $3 billion from content, excluding sports, and the remaining $2.5 billion from non-content cuts. Disney executives said about $1 billion in cost cutting was already underway since last quarter.”
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RIP Leonard Nimoy
Read more: RIP Leonard Nimoyhttp://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a33392/leonard-nimoy-what-ive-learned/?spr_id=1456_152373401
Best piece of advice I ever got was from John F Kennedy when I was driving a taxi in and out of the Hotel Bel-Air. He was a senator then. I was just out of the army and I needed to make some money, so I got to talking about the difficulty of making a living as an actor. And he said, “Just keep in mind, there’s always room for one more good one.”
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