Published on: 2025-04-29 07:36:55
What happens when AI doesn’t just generate content, but embodies it? AI has already mastered the ability to produce realistic photos, videos, and voices, passing the visual and auditory Turing Test. The next big leap is in AI avatars: combining a face with a voice to create a talking character. Can’t you just generate an image of a face, animate it, and add a voiceover? Not quite. The challenge isn’t just nailing the lip sync — it’s making facial expressions and body language move in tandem. It
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 11:00:04
It's 2025, so it should be no surprise that another organization has sold its soul (entered into a licensing deal with an AI company) for an undisclosed sum. A new partnership allows UK-based Synthesia to access Shutterstock's content library for training its latest AI model, EXPRESS-2. This deal isn't the first of its kind for Shutterstock, which previously teamed up with OpenAI to sell stock images made using AI generator DALL-E 2. Synthesia creates avatars for corporate videos about topics s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 07:30:00
Genies has been investing heavily for this moment. The culture-focused avatar technology company is revealing its user-generated content tools that let anyone create custom AI avatars. Genies raised $150 million in 2022, and it has been busy ever since building out the tech stack for what it calls Parties, or gaming platforms driven by AI avatars, user-generated content, and personalized gameplay. In an exclusive interview, Genies CEO Akash Nigam gave GamesBeat a look under the hood at Genies’
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 02:00:00
A few years ago, several startups with a specific focus on digital avatars appeared because of all the metaverse buzz. While that buzz died down, generative AI has given a new life to avatars as it is easier to spin up different virtual identities. Companies are trying out different use cases for avatars, including D-ID and Synthesia in the enterprise space, Zoom for meetings, Glance for fashion, Praktika for learning, and TikTok and Captions in the creator space. However, Isaac Bratzel, who cr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 20:00:00
Akool, a startup doing AI-driven avatar content creation, announced enhancements to Akool Streaming Avatars that connect avatars with AI models. Akool has added advanced video generation technology that now seamlessly integrates with large language models (LLMs) to help model builders create dynamic, 2D lifelike avatars. With the ability to upload a photo and provide a voice recording, customers can create a personalized avatar that becomes a natural extension of the LLM, making interactions w
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