Last 2 weeks in multimodal ai art (05/Jul - 19/Jul)

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Text-to-video updates:

- CogVideo released (GitHub, Guided Demo, Run it yourself - paying $1.10/h for the compute)

by THUDM
The most powerful open source text-to-video model is now publicly avaliable. However running it is still a challenge as it requires only commercial grade GPU machines to run

Text-to-3D (and 3D-to-text) updates

- CLIP-Actor released - generate moving 3D avatars (GitHub)

by AMI Lab @ POSTECH

- Pulsar+CLIP released - generate 3D point clouds (Colab)

by nev (@apeoffire)

- PointCLIP released - classify 3D point-clouds (GitHub)

by Renrui Zhang

Text-to-image updates:

- CF-CLIP released - edit images with words (GitHub)

by Yingchen Yu

- CLIP2StyleGAN released - transform images with words (GitHub)

by @AbdalRameen

- 6 community trained Diffusion Models (Watercolor, Lithography, Medieval, Handpainted CG, Ukiyo-e Portraits, Liminal Spaces)

Watercolor, Lithography and Medieval by @KaliYuga_ai, Handpainted CG by @FeiArt_AiArt, Ukiyo-e Portraits by @avantcontra, Liminal Spaces by @JohnWowCool

CLIP and CLIP-like models:

- Chinese-CLIP released (GitHub)

by Junshu Pan
A CLIP model in the chinese language, modest performance but with huge potential