Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese's AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
(0:00) The AI Buildout: Datacenters Bigger Than Cities (Andrew Feldman)
(1:50) Reasoning, Inference, and Breaking Moore's Law
(16:28) Open Source, AI Sovereignty, and the Road to AGI
(40:54) The Innovation Behind Generative Video (Robin Rombach)
(47:31) Martin Scorsese, Robots, and the Future of Hollywood IP
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Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
General Partner Anjney Midha explores the cutting-edge world of text-to-video AI with AI researchers Andreas Blattmann and Robin Rombach.
Released in November, Stable Video Diffusion is their latest open-source generative video model, overcoming challenges in size and dynamic representation.
In this episode Robin and Andreas share why translating text to video is complex, the key role of datasets, current applications, and the future of video editing.
Topics Covered:
00:00 - Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
02:41 - The Stable Diffusion backstory
04:25 - Diffusion vs autoregressive models
06:09 - The benefits of single step sampling
09:15 - Why generative video?
11:19 - Understanding physics through AI video
12:20 - The challenge of creating generative video
15:36 - Data set selection and training
17:50 - Structural consistency and 3D objects
19:50 - Incorporating LoRAs
21:24 - How should creators think about these tools?
23:46 - Open challenges in video generation
25:42 - Infrastructure challenges and future research
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