🟠 Mach8 | Become the MonaLisa yourself
A new AI video model aimed at video generation has been introduced. We have tried the Rabbit R1 hands-on, and Meta has released new AI segmentation models. Let's get right into it!
The Rabbit R1: A Revolution in AI or Just a Toy?
Listen to our latest podcast about the Rabbit R1. How does it work, and is it the next step in an AI revolution? Find out on Spotify.
Turning Yourself into the Mona Lisa
Kuaishou Technology, a China-based tech company, has released LivePortrait, an AI model designed to transfer a video onto a different image. It's open-source and free to use on Hugging Face.
How to Use It
The model is released on Hugging Face, so you can access it on the project page. Follow these steps to start generating your own AI-generated video:
Select one of the available source portraits.
Upload a square (1:1) video of the motion you want to transfer.
Click the animate button and wait until your render is done.
Greatly improved lip and eye tracking
The model excels in its ability to track your mouth and eye movements with astonishing accuracy. This enhances realism and makes it really fun to try out. Besides using it on Hugging Face, you can also download it from GitHub to your local or cloud-based system.
Manual Motion Tracking Is History
Following the launch of the new Llama models, Meta has now released Segment Anything 2. This new AI model can "cut out" any object in any image with a single click.
How does it work?
Using the public demo environment demonstrates how easy yet powerful the tool is. There are three different ways to prompt which objects you want to select in the image:
Hover & Click: By simply moving your mouse over an object, it detects the possible mask. Clicking on it selects the object.
Box: This is a square selector box with which you can roughly select the object. From this, you get a mask outline back.
Everything: This splits up the entire image into different objects.
It’s open-source!
When testing, it seems to work as well as the integrated features in your Adobe suite. What makes this unique is that it’s fully open-source, giving us the flexibility to build it into our own products.
An Always-Listening AI Friend Necklace
We have already seen the Humaine Pin, the Rabbit R1, and many more less popular AI devices. Now, a new one is being launched by Avi Schiffmann, a Harvard dropout who is trying to help lonely people with an AI friend around their neck.
How it works
Around your neck hangs a simple and small necklace that’s connected to your phone via Bluetooth. Unlike other AI devices like the Rabbit, it's always listening to your surroundings. It saves all of this information and proactively sends you messages on your phone, such as wishing you good luck with an interview. With a price tag of $99, it isn’t very expensive and might well be the next form of AI hardware people buy.