The Brazilian government has unveiled an artificial intelligence investment plan worth 23 billion reais ($4.07 billion USD) for 2024-2028. The plan aims to develop sustainable and socially responsible technologies while achieving technological independence and competitiveness in the AI sector. Nearly 14 billion reais will fund company innovation projects, while over 5 billion will be invested in AI infrastructure and development. The remaining funds will support training programs, public service improvements, AI regulation measures, and initiatives directly impacting areas like public health, agriculture, the environment, the economy, and education. President Lula da Silva stresses that AI must generate income and create jobs.
Shutterstock and Getty Images have expanded their generative AI services for designers and artists using technology licensed from NVIDIA. Shutterstock's new Generative 3D allows users to create 3D objects and 360-degree backdrops for virtual scenes with text or image prompts. Getty Images has also improved its AI image generation service, which can now produce images twice as fast and give users more control over the style and composition. Both services use NVIDIA's Edify, a multimodal generative AI architecture, and NVIDIA NIM for performance optimization. Edify lets companies train generative models with their own licensed data.
Runway now supports image-to-video with its latest Gen-3 Alpha model. Users can use any image as the starting point for creating a video. The image can be used alone or in combination with a text instruction to further control the video generation. RunwayML introduced the new Gen-3 model at the beginning of July, which is a significant improvement over the previous version.
