🔥 Explode and melt videos with Pika

Hey folks,

Some major things happened in the last few days. OpenAI’s DevDay launched a Realtime API, Pika 1.5 has taken realistic video generation to another level, Luma released a HyperFast 1.6 update to video generation, OpenAI closed $6.6B in funding and NVidia dropped a comparative model to GPT-4o! So much happening so let’s dive in..

🐝 Buzz News

AI models
🔨 OpenAI’s DevDay brings realtime API

🐝 The Buzz: It’s been a wild week for OpenAI, full of executive departures and major fundraising developments, but the startup is back at it, trying to convince developers to build tools with its AI models at its 2024 DevDay. The company announced several new updates, enhanced visual AI, multimodal voice capabilities, and methods to democratize AI, showing developer empowerment and sustainable growth over new product launches.

• Realtime API enables speech-to-speech application building using the same model that powers Advanced Voice, with the ability to choose from six voices.

• Model Distillation simplifies fine-tuning smaller models using outputs from larger ones, making training more accessible to developers.

• Prompt Caching reduces costs by nearly 50% across models and speeds up responses by up to 80% when reusing recent input tokens in API calls.

• Vision Fine-Tuning allows models to be trained with both images and text, allowing developers to optimize tasks like image recognition and analysis.

AI Video
🦁 Pika 1.5: an AI model that creates hyper-realistic videos

🐝 The Buzz: Pika Labs launched Pika 1.5 with unique "Pikaffects" special effects and advanced motion controls, allowing creative, non-realistic video generation

• Pika Labs' Pika 1.5 model enables hyper-realistic video creation, featuring lifelike movements of people and animals.

• The new "Pikaffects" suite enables advanced effects like "Explode it," "Melt it," and "Cake-ify it" in five-second clips.

• Pika 1.5 introduces advanced motion controls, including Bullet Time and Vertigo, for more cinematic video production.

AI at work
💻️ Create short viral clips with Canva Highlights

Canva’s ‘Highlights’ feature allows you to upload long video content, then use AI to select the short moments from your long video that can be used for viral content online.

• Open Canva (paid subscription)

• Create a blank canvas and Upload your video

• Select Edit at the top, then pick Highlights on the left

• Let AI analyze your video and return the Highlights

• Review the highlights and select which clips to turn into short viral clips for Insta, TikTok etc

• Export the videos and save to your laptop

“A mosquito is holding a violin, facing the front, and playing it just like a human does. The mosquito grips the violin and bow with its legs, standing upright with lifelike posture. The scene is captured in ultra-realistic detail, using a professional SLR camera with precise lighting to emphasize the texture of the mosquito’s body and wings, along with the fine details of the violin. Render in 4K resolution, with a focus on lifelike textures and lighting”

AI productivity
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