Join the discussion
Write your take first — we'll ask for email only when you're ready to publish.
- Hacker News
- >"Draft videos more efficiently in 360p
Generate lightweight previews in 360p resolution up to 60% faster
and at a third of the cost compared to Omni 1.1’s standard 720p resolution. This is helpful for rapid prototyping, storyboard iteration, and quick rendering in developer platforms."
This is a great idea, to have a low-resolution mode for additional speed to create previews, do test runs, create rapid prototypes, etc.
My curiousity is, what's the absolute useable minimum that this could be?
That is, would/could 240p resolution work? If so, what about 144p? How about lower? Then, could those images be upscaled quickly (and is the result still usable?) with a faster image upscaling-only neural network?
The reason why knowing such lower numbers / lower bounds -- is because they could be important for additional cost/time savings and/or running derived LLM's on local resource-constrained hardware...
Anyway, great post, great idea, and we welcome Gemnini Omni 1.1 Flash to the ever-expanding list of LLM/AI's!
- I let myself get mildly excited with the last Omni release, but it turns out it (and this one) can't do the one practical thing I want - Sync generated video to provided pre-existing audio.
Meanwhile, I'm happily using Minimax H3 locally on my 12Gb 4070RTX to finally finish the lip syncing to recorded dialog on my abandoned 20 year old Flash animation hobby projects.
by Nihilartikel - Anyone else becoming numb to these updates?
I feel like I should be excited about being able to generate almost perfect videos but, I just don't care anymore.
by bluerooibos - Google does anything except launch a new version of Gemini Pro.
- > What stands out about Gemini Omni Flash is its accuracy: the details hold up under scrutiny.
Quote under the video of a short Argentinian footballer wearing no 10 with "RESSC" on his back. Can't make it up.
by petegleeson - Interesting that OpenAI abandoned Sora entirely but Google are continuing to invest heavily in their own video generation.
Maybe because they see video generation as key to developing "world models"?
by simonw - Prompt engineering tip for Google employees: just add "P.S. Make sure the page works in Firefox too."by 037
- I heard a radio spot recently and I wondered if the voice was a real person or AI. It makes we wonder how such industries are dealing with this gen-AI revolution. We spend a lot of time here thinking about how it affects software developers, but I hardly ever see any commentary on how it is affecting screen and voice actors.by petcat