Lumiere, Google’s Amazing Video Breakthrough

Author(s): Ignacio de Gregorio

Originally published on Towards AI.

Text-to-Video on a new level

Scott Galloway, the famous business professor, bet that 2024 would be Google’s AI year.

And it’s starting to look like it.

Now, they have launched Lumiere, a huge breakthrough in text-to-video, one of the hardest tasks in Generative AI today and probably the biggest unreached milestone in terms of the repercussions it will have once achieved, as it’s a technology that could change forever huge industries like Hollywood, YouTube, or CGI.

Now, Google has taken us one step closer, as their approach to AI video synthesis is not only revolutionary, but it also showcases incredible video quality and a wide range of amazing skills like video in/outpainting, image animation, and video styling, making it the new reference in the field.

But how does it generate videos?

Seems like magic, but it’s not. Let’s unpack its secrets.

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