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Video AI Gets 3 Dimensional
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Welcome to another edition of VP Land.
SIGGARPH is in full swing and weāve got a lot of exciting news to bring you over the next few days.
But brace yourselvesā¦thereās a lot of NVIDIA news.
Actors have 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Gen AI has 1 Degree of NVIDIA.
In this issue:
šØ Picasso powers new 3D AI tools
š» Puget launches an AI training computer
š¼ GPU, the musical
and more! Letās dive in.
MAIN STAGE
AI Goes 3 Dimensional.
NVIDIAās Picasso powering new tools in Maya and Shutterstock
Source: NVIDIA
Autodesk, creator of 3D animation software Maya, announced some updates at SIGGRAPH.
The big one: integrating generative AI
Weāre integrating generative AI services developed using NVIDIA Picasso, a foundry for building generative AI models, into Maya. As a first step, weāll work toward responsibly and ethically integrating AI into 3D content creation for characters and worlds. The ability to dynamically generate textures, materials and high dynamic range images directly into LookdevX in Maya will enable dramatically faster look development and scene lighting workflows.
Focusing on AI helping, not replacing artists is a common thread in these updates.
Yesterday we covered Unityās new WÄtÄTools, which hinted that AI was coming (and called it āassisted artistryā) but offered far less detail than Autodesk just did.
They also announced a partnership with Wonder Dynamics, creator of Wonder Studio, which automatically animates and composes CG characters into live-action scenes.
Shutterstock Moves Beyond Stock
Shutterstock announced a 3D background scene generator.
The input: simple text or image prompt
The output: 360-degree, 8K HDRi environment maps.
Again - AI is here to help, not replace you!
Weāre committed to hyper-enabling 3D artists and collaborators ā helping them build the immersive environments they envision faster than ever before and streamlining their content-creation workflows using NVIDIA Picasso
360 background generation isnāt new. Blockade Labs has Skybox AI, which takes generation a step further by allowing you to sketch out the layout of the space you want before generating.
They also got a shoutout during NVIDIAās keynote presentation.
Shutterstock also announced three tentative collaboration deals with Luma Labs AI, RECON Labs, and Volinga AI (check out our previous coverage on Volingaās NeRF tools and virtual production integration).
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SECOND UNIT
Puget Systems launches computers to train your own AI models
If you want to train your own Large Language Models (LLMs) but donāt want to go the cloud route, Puget System just launched a line of custom-built workstations for on-premise LLM training.
The system runs up to four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada graphics cards. For speed tests and to join the waitlist, head over here.
AI Machines
Puget builds high-end systems customized for specific tasks (video editing, 3D modeling, engineering, etc), so its no surprise they built an LLM machine.
Back at NAB, one of Pugetās main case studies they were showing off was Corridor Digitalās AI-generated short film, which was created using Puget hardware.
We talked a bit about how the hardware needs of the future might change for running generative AI to create videos.
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