🏇 Noteworthy Bits

Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology via NYTimes

This article explores the A.I. technology behind buzzy startup, Runway AI. The company recently released its image-to-video and text-to-video products for the public. The company also has a suite of tools for video editors which provides the ability to edit and generate content in dozens of ways such as removing backgrounds from videos, erasing and replacing parts of a photo, or blurring out faces or backgrounds. The company has 40 employees and raised $95.5M.

How Runway Took The Late Show Edits From 5 Hours to 5 Minutes from Runway

Fascinating Q&A with the graphics team from the Late Show talking about their creative process and how they leverage technology from Runway. Cumbersome editing tasks that previously took hours now take just a few minutes.

Introduction To Prompt Engineering from Microsoft

If you’re starting to experiment with different generative A.I. products yourself, you will find this explainer from Microsoft to be useful as there is a degree of art and science to writing a useful prompt for generating output.