Midjourney’s Next Big Thing: Text to Video Generation

🚨 AI Model Warns of Future Covid Outbreaks Using Virus Genomes 🚨

🔥 Midjourney to launch text-to-video model, heating up the AI video race 🔥

Midjourney, a generative image creation tool that plans to introduce a “text to video” model in the next few months. The article discusses the competitive landscape of the generative video industry, the recent updates from Midjourney, and the potential implications of AI video generation for the creative and media industries.

• 🎥 The company announced that it will start training its video models in January, aiming to introduce a new feature that will allow users to generate videos from text prompts.
• 🏁 Several other platforms have already released or announced their own video models, such as Stability AI, Meta, Pika, and Runway ML, making the market more crowded and challenging.
• 💯 The company is known for prioritizing the realism and prompt-following of its images, and recently updated its v6 model with improvements and fixes. It hopes to replicate its success in the video domain as well.
• 🌎 The ability to create and manipulate video content with AI opens up many possibilities for entertainers, advertisers, and consumers, as well as potential risks for how we perceive reality

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🔥🔥 AI Model Predicts Future Covid Waves Using Genomic Data 🔥🔥

Scientists at MIT developed an AI model that can predict which Covid-19 variants are likely to cause new waves of infection in different countries. The model uses genomic data, vaccination rates, and other factors to forecast the spread and impact of new strains. The model could help public health officials plan ahead and prevent future outbreaks.

• 🦠 An AI model can predict which variants of the Covid-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus will likely bring about fresh waves of the infection, a new research has found. 
• 🧬 The model analyzed 9 million genetic sequences across 30 countries and incorporated factors like vaccination rates and non-pharmaceutical interventions. 
• 📈 The model demonstrated an ability to predict approximately 73% of variants in each country that would result in at least 1,000 cases per 10 lakh people within three months, with accuracy exceeding 80% after two weeks. 
• 🚨 The model could give public health programs advance notice about which lineages are potentially dangerous and allow officials to plan ahead. 
• 🧫 The model also found that some specific mutations in the spike protein and other regions of the virus genome contributed to the rapid spread and immune evasion of Omicron and its subvariants. 

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🚀 CES 2024: AI Takes Over the Tech World with NVIDIA, Microsoft and More 🚀

CES 2024, the world’s largest consumer tech trade show, will showcase AI-related products and services from major tech companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft, and OpenAI. AI will be the dominant theme of the event, featuring new innovations in gaming, cloud, and creativity. CES 2024 will take place in Las Vegas from January 9 to January 12.

• 🎆 AI is going to be the central theme for CES this year. 
• 🌟 Even though Sam Altman, the poster boy for AI, will not be present at CES 2024, almost all tech companies, presenting at the tech show will focus on AI-related products and services. 
• 🎮☁️🎨 Some of the highlights include NVIDIA’s new AI-powered gaming platform, Microsoft’s AI-powered cloud services, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the viral hit that pushes the boundaries of creativity. 
• 🎢 CES 2024 is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, from January 9 to January 12, showcasing cutting-edge technologies and innovations from prominent creators in the consumer electronics industry. 

     Read about it here: Link

🤖 GitHub Copilot Chat: The Ultimate AI Assistant for Developers 👩‍💻👨‍💻🤖

GitHub launched Copilot Chat, a chatbot that lets developers ask and receive answers to coding-related questions within their IDEs. Copilot Chat is powered by GPT-4 and can provide code suggestions, descriptions, unit tests, and fixes. Copilot Chat is available as an extension for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and JetBrains IDEs (beta).

• 💬 GitHub made Copilot Chat generally available, letting developers ask questions about code. 
• 🚀 Copilot Chat is a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot that operates similarly to Microsoft’s Copilot, which helps developers write code faster and better. 
• 🙋‍♂️ Copilot Chat more recently came to individual Copilot users, allowing them to chat with the AI assistant and get answers to their coding queries. 
• 🛠 Copilot Chat is available as an extension for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and JetBrains IDEs (beta). 

Read about it here: Link

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🪩🪩 DreaMoving: Human Video Generation 🪩🪩

Alibaba strikes again with DreaMoving: a diffusion-based controllable video generation framework to produce high-quality customized human videos. Repo online, waiting for the code.