OmniHuman 2.0: Make Photos Talk, Sing & Move Online

kept by poppy oct 30

OmniHuman 2.0, ByteDance's AI model, turns a single photo and audio into expressive talking, singing, or animated character videos, with optional prompts for actions and camera movement.

Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI
Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, letting Sora users create videos with over 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters.
also on #ai-video-generation
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood - The New York Times
A 15-second AI-generated video featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, created with ByteDance's tool, is more cinematic than previous efforts, alarming Hollywood.
also on ByteDance, #generative-ai
What Are Chinese People Vibecoding? - by Irene Zhang
Chinese AI companies like ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba are racing to build domestic coding agents, while developers bypass geoblocks to access Western tools like Cursor.
also on ByteDance, #ai-agents