As we've discussed before, if 2023 was the year of generative AI text and images, 2024 is going to be the one that is dominated by AI audio and video.
Already this year we've seen a number of companies staking out their claims to be the state-of-the-art (SOTA) contributor to this emerging tech - contenders include Runway, Pika Labs, ElevenLabs, HeyGen, Synthesia and a bunch of others. From leftfield, however, comes Alibaba - known most for their Amazon-esque ecommerce platofrm in China, they've obviously been working hard on building a new strand to their empire, generative AI.
And here's the - pretty impressive - results. One of the most iconic images in the world, brought to life (and then reading Shakespeare).
There are plenty more here - including the Joker and Audrey Hepburn - and, as we go through this year it's almost worth bookmarking this story just to see how much better it's going to get, because it will; but it's already pretty incredible ...
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