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Reve Image 1.0 Halfmoon – A new model trained from the ground up to excel at prompt adherence, aesthetics, and typography
A little-known AI image generator called Reve Image 1.0 is trying to make a name in the text-to-image space, potentially outperforming established tools like Midjourney, Flux, and Ideogram. Users receive 100 free credits to test the service after signing up, with additional credits available at $5 for 500 generations—pretty cheap when compared to options like MidJourney or Ideogram, which start at $8 per month and can reach $120 per month, depending on the usage. It also offers 20 free generations per day.
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NVidia Physical AI – Collection of commercial-grade datasets for physical AI developers
https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/physical-ai-67c643edbb024053dcbcd6d8
🔹 15TB of high-quality, standardized synthetic data
🔹 320,000+ trajectories for robotics training
🔹 1,000+ OpenUSD assets, including a SimReady collection
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RGBAvatar – Reduced Gaussian Blendshapes for Online Modeling of Head Avatars
https://gapszju.github.io/RGBAvatar
A method for reconstructing photorealistic, animatable head avatars at speeds sufficient for on-the-fly reconstruction. Unlike prior approaches that utilize linear bases from 3D morphable models (3DMM) to model Gaussian blendshapes, our method maps tracked 3DMM parameters into reduced blendshape weights with an MLP, leading to a compact set of blendshape bases.
https://github.com/gapszju/RGBAvatar
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Robert Legato joins Stability AI as Chief Pipeline Architect
https://stability.ai/news/introducing-our-new-chief-pipeline-architect-rob-legato
“Joining Stability AI is an incredible opportunity, and I couldn’t be more excited to help shape the next era of filmmaking,” said Legato. “With dynamic leaders like Prem Akkaraju and James Cameron driving the vision, the potential here is limitless. What excites me most is Stability AI’s commitment to filmmakers—building a tool that is as intuitive as it is powerful, designed to elevate creativity rather than replace it. It’s an artist-first approach to AI, and I’m thrilled to be part of it.”
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WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of the Windows operating system that enables you to run a Linux file system, along with Linux command-line tools and GUI apps, directly on Windows, alongside your traditional Windows desktop and apps.
https://ubuntu.com/desktop/wsl
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Apple TV+ Reportedly Loses $1 Billion on Streaming a Year
https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/apple-tv-reportedly-loses-1-billion-streaming-1235110323
But it supposedly also has 45 million subscribers, and with $124.3 million in revenue.
Per the company’s most recent earnings, the three months ending in January saw Apple bring in $124.3 billion in revenue, $26.3 billion of which came from Services, a record for the division. That’s just for one quarter. For the year, Services brought in more than $96 billion. It can afford to absorb a billion dollars in losses.https://spyglass.org/apple-tv-plus-strategy
It Wasn’t the Apple TV+ Spend, It Was the Apple TV+ Strategy
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RawTherapee – a free, open source, cross-platform raw image and HDRi processing program
5.10 of this tool includes excellent tools to clean up cr2 and cr3 used on set to support HDRI processing.
Converting raw to AcesCG 32 bit tiffs with metadata.
