Odyssey, a new AI video tool, claims to offer Hollywood-grade visual capabilities. Developed by a team with experience in self-driving cars and major film projects, Odyssey aims to enable full control over the core layers of visual storytelling, including high-quality geometry, photorealistic materials, stunning lighting, and controllable motion.

The tool is currently not publicly available, but the team is working alongside Hollywood to shape the technology. Odyssey's generative models are designed to provide precise configuration of scene details, allowing creators to bring their visions to life with glitch-free and mind-blowing visuals.

As the AI video landscape continues to evolve, tools like Odyssey offer the potential to democratize access to high-quality, cinematic-level video generation, empowering creators to bring their creative projects to life in ways that may have been previously out of reach.

Live Portrait is a tool that allows you to animate an image using a driving video. Here's how it works:

1. You upload a static image and a driving video.
2. The tool then animates the image to match the movements and expressions in the driving video.
3. The result is a video where the image appears to come alive, with the subject's mouth, eyes, and head movements synchronized to the driving video.

The tool is available on GitHub, and you can also use it through a Hugging Face space for free. While it works well for expressive faces, it may struggle with certain features like beards.

To use Live Portrait, simply select the input image and driving video, then click "Animate" to generate the final output video. You'll see a side-by-side comparison, with the animated image on the left and the original driving video on the right.

This tool is a great example of the advancements in AI-powered video generation, allowing you to breathe life into static images in a seamless and realistic way.

The research project called "Paints Undo" is a fascinating tool that allows you to reverse engineer digital artwork. The idea is simple - you upload a finished image, such as an anime character, and the tool will generate a step-by-step process showing you how to recreate that artwork.

This is essentially the reverse of what we've seen with AI art generators like Midjourney or DALL-E. Instead of starting with a text prompt and generating an image, Paints Undo takes the final image and breaks it down into its initial sketches, painting, and shading steps.

The examples showcased on the project's GitHub page demonstrate this process for various anime-style artworks. You can see how the tool deconstructs the final image, revealing the underlying layers and techniques used to create it.

While the code is currently available on GitHub, the developers note that the processing time is often longer than typical Hugging Face tasks. As a result, they do not recommend deploying it to Hugging Face directly. Instead, they plan to release a Google Colab notebook in the future, which will provide a more accessible way to use the Paints Undo tool.

If you're interested in exploring this reverse engineering approach to digital art, keep an eye out for the upcoming Colab notebook release. This tool could be a valuable resource for artists looking to learn from and replicate the techniques used in their favorite digital artworks.

Creating high-quality videos can be incredibly time-consuming, from scripting to editing to finding the right stock footage. It's a ton of work. That's where nid AI comes in.

nid is the world's most used AI Video Creator with over 25 million users around the world. Imagine having a skilled assistant that can handle all of the painstaking and annoying video editing tasks, leaving you free to focus on your creativity.

Here's how it works:

1. Start with a simple text prompt, like "a short video explaining why advancements in Robotics are accelerating."
2. Click generate video and give it a few additional details, like making it a YouTube short.
3. nid creates a rough draft for you, following the prompt you just entered.
4. From there, you're in the driver's seat. Want to change the intro? Do it with a prompt. Need better footage for a scene? Just click edit, pick the clip you want to swap, and replace it from their high-quality stock video footage.
5. Want to translate the whole video to Spanish? That's easy too, just type the prompt and click generate.

nid AI does the task of over 10 tools all combined into a single easy platform. This can easily save you hundreds of dollars a month in recurring fees, and it starts at only $20 per month.

I highly recommend checking out nid AI, especially if you're serious about video creation. You can start for free, but the paid plans will remove the watermark, give you access to voice cloning, and provide you with additional high-quality stock footage.

Just go to the link in the description and use my coupon code "mw50" or use the QR code on the screen to get twice the number of video credits in your first month. Check out nid AI today and take your video creation to the next level.

If you've been using the chatbot Po, it just got a new update this week called Previews. This is a new feature that lets you see and interact with web applications generated directly in Chats on Po.

Previews work particularly well with LLMs that excel at coding, including Clae 3.5, Sonet GPT 4.0, and Gemini 1.5. Po is a subscription-based chatbot, but when you're using it, you can choose the model you want to use - you're not stuck with just using GPT, Claud, or Gemini. This seems very much like what Anthropic just released with their Artifacts, but it's in Po and you can use it with multiple different models.

You can see from the provided clip that after being prompted, Po actually generated the code and executed the code in real-time right in the chat window. The previews can be shared with anyone via a dedicated link, so if you create a cool coded-up thing inside of Po, you can share a link with others and they'll get access to it in their Po account.

Speaking of Anthropic, they also made Artifacts shareable this week. Artifacts isn't new, where you enter your prompt on the left and it generates the code and preview on the right, and you can interact with it. But the ability to share that with others, so they can use, try, and remix it, is a new feature.

Anthropic is constantly improving the quality of life for using their app. They also rolled out the ability to evaluate prompts inside the developer console. This allows you to generate improved prompts, compare multiple prompts, and test individual variables within each prompt to see how they change the output.

In other news, Meta announced a new language model called Mobile LLM, a much smaller model developed for mobile devices. According to the provided chart, the accuracy seems to be much higher than most other mobile models.

Overall, we're seeing continued advancements and improvements in the world of AI, with tools like Po Previews and Anthropic's Artifacts making it easier to create and share interactive applications. The ability to choose different models and evaluate prompts is also a welcome development, empowering users to get the most out of these powerful AI systems.

Open AI has been making headlines this week with several significant developments:

• Open AI has blocked access to ChatGPT in China, cutting off a loophole that allowed users to bypass the ban. However, China still has access to GPT-4 through Microsoft Azure, leading to speculation that GPT-5 may be on the horizon.
• Both Microsoft and Apple have backed out of their plans to have observer roles on Open AI's board, likely due to concerns over antitrust scrutiny.
• Open AI has announced a partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory for bioscience research, and is also working with Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global to develop a personalized AI health coach.

Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, has also made some notable updates:

• They have updated their licensing terms, allowing for more commercial use of their models, as long as annual revenue does not exceed $1 million.
• Stability AI has released new features for their Stable Assistant, including search and replace, and text-to-audio capabilities.

In the realm of copyright implications, a recent court ruling suggests that AI systems may be in the clear as long as their output is sufficiently different from the input material, providing some precedent for future lawsuits.

Additionally, a proposed bill in California (SB 1047) has the potential to severely hinder AI researchers, and is being actively opposed by industry leaders like Ananth Raman from A16Z.

Overall, the AI landscape continues to evolve rapidly, with significant developments from industry giants like Open AI and Stability AI, as well as important legal and regulatory considerations that will shape the future of the field.

Samsung's latest product lineup showcases the integration of AI across their devices. Some key highlights include:

• Galaxy Z Fold 6: Equipped with Samsung's latest AI features, including Circle to search, translate and transcribe PDF documents, generate AI-based images from people or objects in photos, and a sketch-to-image feature that turns quick sketches into high-quality images.

• Galaxy Z Flip 6: The external display features suggested replies from the on-device AI, and AI-powered wallpapers.

• Galaxy Watch 7: The first FDA-authorized wearable to recognize signs of sleep apnea, powered by an AI-empowered sleep algorithm. It also provides comprehensive energy scores based on activity, sleep quality, and other health metrics.

• Galaxy Ring: Uses Galaxy AI to generate an energy score based on activity, sleep quality, and other health data, with AI-powered sleep tracking.

• Galaxy Buds 3 Pro: Features an interpreter setting that leverages AI to translate foreign language dialogue in real-time, directly into the user's ear.

These AI-infused devices showcase Samsung's commitment to integrating intelligent capabilities across their product lineup, enhancing user experiences through personalization, health monitoring, and language translation.

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Finally, here's a robot that navigated the Google deepmind offices using Gemini. It's using that Vision model to see what's around it and navigates through the hallways, making sure not to bump into anything because the vision model knows exactly where it is and can see around itself to make sure it doesn't bump into stuff.

The videos in the TechCrunch article don't have any audio, but it says that the robot can walk around the office and point out different landmarks with speech. They use what's called a "vision-language-action" that combines the environment understanding and Common Sense reasoning power. Once the processes are combined, the robot can respond to written and drawn commands as well as gestures.

Right now, it's kind of like an AI tour guide - it could roam around a building and point things out to you and give you some information about the things it's pointing out.

The AI world has seen a flurry of exciting developments in recent weeks, despite a slight slowdown over the summer. From the preview of the Odyssey AI video tool, which promises Hollywood-grade visuals, to the emergence of tools like Live Portrait and Paints Undo, the AI community continues to push the boundaries of what's possible.

The ability to animate images using driving videos and reverse-engineer the creation process of digital art are just a few of the innovative features showcased. Additionally, the continued advancements in AI language models, such as the release of Mobile LLM by Meta, demonstrate the rapid progress in this field.

Open AI's decision to block access from China, while still allowing access through Microsoft Azure, has sparked speculation about the potential launch of GPT-5. The company's partnerships with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global also highlight its focus on bioscience and healthcare applications.

Furthermore, the court ruling suggesting that AI systems may be in the clear as long as they don't make exact copies provides some legal precedent for the use of copyrighted materials in AI training. The release of the Magnific AI Photoshop plugin and the ongoing discussions around the SB 1047 bill in California further showcase the diverse and evolving landscape of AI technology.

Finally, the integration of AI features across Samsung's latest product lineup, from the Galaxy Z Fold 6 to the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro, underscores the growing ubiquity of AI in consumer electronics. The robot navigating the Google DeepMind offices using Gemini's vision model is a testament to the advancements in AI-powered robotics.

Overall, the AI world continues to be a dynamic and rapidly evolving space, with new breakthroughs and developments emerging on a regular basis. As we move forward, it will be exciting to see how these technologies continue to shape and transform various industries and aspects of our lives.