TravelGenie

Get your travel vibe on with Travel Genie the next gen platform that understands what you like.

[Manus @ManusAI]

Manus is entering the next chapter: we’re joining forces with Meta to take general agents to the next level.

Full story on our blog: https://t.co/huPrnbITCi

[TravelGenie @ZenrayHotSauce]

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[TravelGenie @ZenrayHotSauce]

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[Min Choi @minchoi]

10. Stunning aesthetics/styles
https://t.co/3wm3G8S0mc

[TravelGenie @ZenrayHotSauce]

Dragon's Breath is back @zenray.net

[Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys]

Thanks for the support @AndrewYNg! Completely agree, faster token generation will become increasingly important as a greater proportion of output tokens are consumed by models, such as in multi-step agentic workflows, rather than being read by people.

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

New incredible AI image generator is here

NEX AI just dropped Ikon 2 , a new foundation model that beat Deepseek in accuracy with way fewer GPU hours.

Ikon's image generator bring realism to next level

here's why it's mind blowing:

[TomLikesRobots🤖 @TomLikesRobots]

This could be huge for AI storytelling. I've tried so many AI lipsync tools and have never been satisfied.
This is my first try with @hedra_labs Character-3 and it's blown me away.
It was so easy. I uploaded a track from @SunoMusic and an image from @midjourney and it just worked.

[Amira Zairi @azed_ai]

🚨 China just shook the AI world again!

HunyuanVideo I2V is LIVE an insane open-source image-to-video model that’s fast, powerful, and free to use.

This might be the best I2V model yet!
Check out these 9 mind-blowing examples👇🔥

[TechHalla @techhalla]

I’m sure you’ve seen these videos going viral everywhere—but don’t ask me why!

But I know how to make them with AI.

Check out this thread for prompts and tools!

🧵👇

[AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success]

10.
Physical Simulation
Generates videos that accurately simulate real-world physics and realistic object interactions.

[Henry Daubrez 🌸💀 @henrydaubrez]

VEO 2 by @GoogleDeepMind : MY CHEAT SHEET

Alright, so after 500h-ish spent on VEO and giving birth to both "Kitsune" and "Banished", tons of people asked for a making-of. Instead, I decided to give you what I actually know of VEO 2 to this day. Please share! it's made to be spread around!

1/ If you're not using a LLM (Gemini, ChatGPT, whatever), you're doing it wrong.

VEO 2 currently has a sweet spot when it comes to prompt length: too short is poor, too long drops information, action, description etc. I did a lot of back and forth to find my sweet spot, but once I got in a place I thought felt right, I used a LLM to help me keep my structure, length, and help me draft actions. I would then spent an extensive amount of time tweaking, iterating, removing words, changing order, adding others, but the draft would come from a LLM and a conversation I built and trained to understand what my structure looked like, what was a success, or a failure. I would also share the prompts working well for further reference, and sharing the failures also for further reference. This would ensure my LLM conversation became a true companion.

2/ Structure, structure, structure

Structure is important. Each recipe is different but same as any GenAI text-to something, it looks like the "higher on the prompt has more weight" rule applies. So, in my case I would start by describing the aesthetics I am looking for, time of day, colors, mood, then move to camera, subject, action, and all the rest. Once again, you might have a different experience but what is important is to stick to whatever structure you have as you move forward. Keeping it organized also makes it easier to edit later.

3/ Only describe what you see in the frame

If you have a character you want to keep consistent, but you want a close-up on the face for example, your reflex will be to describe the character from head to toe and then mention you want a close-up...It's not that simple. If I tell VEO I want a face close-up but then proceed to describe the character's feet, the close-up mention will be dropped by VEO... Once again, the LLM can help you in this by giving it the instruction to only describe what is in the frame.

4/ Patience

Well, it can get costly to be patient, but even if you repeat the same structure, sometimes changing one word can still throw the entire thing out and totally change the aesthetics of your scene. It is by nature extremely consistent if you conserve most words, but sometimes it happens. In those situations, trace your steps back and try to figure out which words are triggering a larger change.

5/ Documenting

When I started "Kitsune" (and did the same for all others), the first thing I did was start a Figjam file so I could save the successful prompts and come back to them for future reference. Why Figjam? So I could also upload 1 to 4 generations from this prompt, and browse through them in the future.

6/ VEO is the Midjourney of video

Currently, no text-to-video tool (Minimax being the closest behind) gave me a feeling I could provide strong art directions and actually get them. I have been a designer for nearly 20 years, and art direction to me has been one of the strongest foundations of most of my work. Dark, light, happy, sad, colorful or not, it doesn't matter as long as you have a point of view and please...have a point of view. Recently watched a great video about the slow death of art direction in film (link in comments) and oh boy, did VEO 2 deliver on giving me the feeling I was listened.
Try starting your prompts with different kinds of medium (watercolor for example), the mood you are trying to achieve, the kind of lighting you want, the dust in the rays of light, etc... which gets me to the next one

7/ You can direct your colors in VEO

It's as simple as mentioning the hues you want to have in the final result, in which quantity, and where. When I direct shots, I am constantly describing colors for two reasons: 1. Well, having a point of view and 2. reaching better consistency through text-to-video. If I have a strong and consistent mood but my character is slightly different because of text-to-video, the impact won't be dramatic because a strong art direction helps a lot with consistency.

8/ Describe your life away

Some people asked me how I achieved a good consistency between shots knowing it's only text-to-video and the answer is simple: I describe my characters, their unique traits, their clothing, their haircut, etc..anything which could help someone visually impaired have a very precise mental representation of the subject.

9/ But don't describe too much either...

It would be magical if you could stuff 3000 words in the window and have exactly what you asked for, right? Well, it turns out VEO is amazing with its prompt adherence, but there is always a moment where it starts dropping animations or visual elements when your prompt stretches for a tad too long. This actually happens way before the character limit allowed by VEO is reached, so don't overdo it, it's no use and will play against the results. For info, 200-250 words seems like a sweet spot!

10/ Natural movements but...

VEO is great with natural movements and this is also one of the reasons why I used it so extensively: people walking don't walk in slow-motion. That being said, don't try to be too ambitious on some of the expected movements: multiple camera movements won't work, full 360 revolutions around a subject won't work, anime-style crazy camera movements won't work, etc... what it can do is already great, but there are still some limitations...

[Min Choi @minchoi]

2. Build a Personalized project management app
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[Eyisha Zyer @eyishazyer]

NVIDIA just released free online courses on AI.

No payment or fees are required!

Here are 6 courses you don't want to miss in 2024:

[Alex Patrascu @maxescu]

The @runwayml Gen-3 image-to-video is a 10/10 ⭐️

It's time to make movies, boys and girls.

More examples below:

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[AK @_akhaliq]

Cat Hybrids, Kling AI by @AndrewJumpen

[niceaunties @niceaunties]

Happy Full Mooooooon 🐮
“Business Idea”
So many cows, so much gas.. aunties fill up biodegradable floating batteries with cow gas, powering anything from thinking hats to tour buses to racing cars 🏎️

A single cow belches and f a r t s around 220 pounds of methane gas per year. Cattle are the top agricultural contributor to greenhouse gases worldwide. ⛽️

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

This is by far the most impressive AI video I’ve seen so far. And it’s done with @runwayml and @suno_ai_ (probably also Midjourney). I love it 🚀