An interview with GM SVP of Software and Services Engineering David Richardson on GM's new AI team, building factory “cobots”, or collaborative robots, and more
So far the team includes hires from Google, Meta, AWS and even a Pixar vet who is helping GM develop new factory ‘cobots’
Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool
A leaked internal document shows Runway's celebrated Gen-3 AI video generator collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated movies for training data. X: @mkbhd , @malwarejake , @ednewtonrex , @jos...
Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar's Up
extraordinary experiences from the world's greatest icons Associated Press : Airbnb offering exotic experiences from a Paris museum to the house in ‘Up’ — some for free Natalie Lung / Bloomberg : Airb...
Microsoft blocks the term “Disney” from Bing Image Creator over copyright concerns raised by a viral trend where users created Disney film posters of their pets
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : X: @kantrowitz , @brianroemmele , @cristinacriddle , and @mrgunn Forums: r/technews , r/StableDiffusion , and Ars OpenForum See also Mediagazer X: Alex Kantrowitz...
Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia, Pixar, and the Linux Foundation form the Alliance for OpenUSD, aiming to standardize Pixar's Universal Scene Description
Five major companies in the 3D content industry — Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar — have come together to form the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD).
How Pixar used neural style transfer, a type of AI used to make photos look like popular artworks, to animate Ember, a lead character in its movie Elemental
It's harder to make fire than you might think. But the Pixar team was determined to do the impossible. — Pixar had a problem.
Profile of Alvy Ray Smith, a Pixar co-founder who created the algorithms fundamental to animated movies and left after severe disagreements with Steve Jobs
Profile of Alvy Ray Smith, a Pixar co-founder who created the algorithms fundamental to animated movies and left after severe disagreements with Steve Jobs
Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he's got a vision for where the pixel will take us next. Tweets: @stevenlevy , @rstephens , @...
Profile of Alvy Ray Smith, a Pixar co-founder who created the algorithms fundamental to animated movies and left after severe disagreements with Steve Jobs
Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he's got a vision for where the pixel will take us next. Tweets: @stevenbjohnson , @stevenlev...
Aggregators like Google and Facebook seek to serve the maximum number of users, while “Integrators” like Disney seek to monetize users to the maximum extent
Disney just announced that Soul, its next Pixar film, will be released exclusively on Disney Plus,1 setting …