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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
YouTube Adds More Gen AI Features to Shorts
This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter. YouTube's bringing more generative AI features to Shorts, by integrating its latest Veo image animation and conversion tools into the Shorts process. First off, YouTube's rolling out image-to-video animation, which can turn your photos into animated elements. As explained by YouTube: 'Bring your story to life with Photo to video, which instantly turns a picture from your camera roll into a video. Just select your image, choose a creative suggestion, and watch your memories come alive.' This has been a trending use case for several AI tools, with users posting videos expanded from photos to create all-new scenes. On another front, YouTube's adding an option to animate drawings, or convert your still images into alternate settings. So now, you can immediately flesh out and/or animate your sketches and doodles, with little effort. Thus far, this hasn't proven as popular as photo animation, but it's another way to utilize AI within the Shorts creation process. Along the same line, YouTube's also launching 'AI Playground,' which will house various new AI experiences that you can test and experiment with. 'Inside, you'll find our latest gen AI creation tools, a gallery of inspirational examples, and pre-filled prompts to help you instantly generate videos, images, music, and more. Find AI playground by tapping the create button and then the sparkle icon in the top right corner. It's available now for everyone in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to start.' It's another option to showcase Google's evolving gen AI tools, providing direct access to its latest models, and what they can do. And this is just the start. Google says that all of its image-to-video and generative effects are currently powered by Veo 2, but will be upgraded to Veo 3 shortly, making them even more responsive. YouTube also notes that all of its gen AI features will utilize SynthID watermarks, and will be clearly labelled to indicate that they were AI generated. Some interesting options, which will likely prove popular, and could give you some new ways to express your IDs through YouTube's improving AI processes. Image-to-video is rolling out over the next week in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with more regions coming later this year. When they're available to you, the new AI features will be in the 'Effects' section in the Shorts camera. Recommended Reading YouTube Shares Insights Into the Potential of Gen AI for Creators
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Business Standard
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Business Standard
YouTube Shorts gets AI image-to-video tool, new effects: Check what's new
Google has introduced Veo 2 model-powered AI tools for YouTube Shorts that transforms photos into short videos and adds effects. There is also a new centralised AI Playground hub Sweta Kumari New Delhi Google is expanding its image-to-video feature to YouTube Shorts, allowing creators to generate videos from static pictures. Beside this, the company has also introduced a fresh wave of generative AI features which it said is designed to experiment with visual effects. This includes immersive AI effects, and a new hub called AI Playground. According to the YouTube blog, all these AI features are powered by Google's Veo 2 video generation model. Google has also confirmed that it will bring Veo 3 model-powered AI tools to YouTube Shorts platform later this summer. Veo 3 is Google's latest video generation model and can also generate synchronised audio with video. Transform photos into videos The new image-to-video feature allows users to transform still images from their camera roll into dynamic six-second videos. Based on the uploaded photo, YouTube will generate a short animation such as a landscape with moving elements or a group photo brought to life. For example, YouTube demonstrated how a pedestrian signal image can change into a zooming animation of a dancing walk symbol. Google offers a similar feature in Gemini, while the Animate feature in Meta's Edits app is also capable of turning images into short video clips using AI. Image-to-video feature in YouTube is now rolling out in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with broader availability planned later this year. New AI effects in Shorts Alongside video creation, YouTube is also introducing new AI-based visual effects. These effects allow users to transform basic doodles into stylised images or generate short, themed videos from selfies. To try them, users can tap the 'Effects' icon in the Shorts camera, then navigate to the 'AI' section. AI Playground To centralise its creative tools, YouTube has also launched AI Playground, a new space where creators can access its latest generative AI creation tools, including AI effects, See Inspiration, and more. Users can find AI playground by tapping the create button and then the sparkle icon in the top right corner. The AI Playground is available in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
YouTube Shorts is adding an image-to-video AI tool, new AI effects
YouTube announced on Wednesday that it's giving Shorts creators access to new generative AI features, including an image-to-video AI tool and new AI effects. The image to video feature lets users turn a picture from their camera roll into a six-second video. Users will see a selection of suggestions that are relevant to the photo they uploaded. YouTube says the feature can be used to add movement to landscape photos, animate pictures of everyday photos, or bring group photos to life. In an example given by YouTube, the feature turns a static image of a pedestrian signal into a short video that slowly zooms into a dancing version of the walking man symbol. The feature works similarly to an offering already available in Gemini. Plus, it's similar to the Animate tool in Meta's Edits app, which also uses AI to transform static images into videos. The new tool is rolling out over the next week in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. YouTube plans to bring it to more regions later this year. It's worth noting that Google Photos is also getting a similar image-to-video tool. As for the new AI effects, creators can use them to transform their doodles into artistic images and turn their selfies into videos where they're swimming underwater, twinning with someone, and more. Users can find these new effects by navigating to the 'Effects' icon in the Shorts camera and then tapping 'AI' to browse all of the generative effects. YouTube notes that the features announced today are powered by Veo 2, Google's AI model for video generation. YouTube says it uses SynthID watermarks and clear labels to indicate that these creations were generated with AI. Last month at Cannes Lions 2025, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced that Google's Veo 3 video generator, which can generate both video and audio, will be coming to Shorts later this summer. He also shared that Shorts are now averaging more than 200 billion daily views. YouTube also announced on Wednesday that AI Playground is its new home for generative AI creation tools, inspirational examples, prefilled prompts, and more. Creators can find AI Playground by tapping the Create button and then the sparkle icon in the top right corner. It's available now for everyone in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Sign in to access your portfolio
Business Insider
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
I asked ChatGPT and Claude 4 to plan my vacation to Tahiti. Here's how they compared.
For this special holiday edition of AI Playground, I asked ChatGPT and Anthropic's powerful new Claude 4 chatbot for recommendations for my Tahitian trip. I'm on vacation with my wife and a group of friends to celebrate the birthday of one of our oldest friends, Theresa. We're staying in Moorea for about seven days. There are four couples ranging in age between roughly 50 and 60 years old. I requested suggestions such as activities during the day and evenings, along with restaurant and bar recommendations. Finally, I asked what would be the best event and location to celebrate Theresa's birthday. Then, I asked Theresa and another friend, Lisa, to review the AI responses. My buddies had already spent a ton of time planning this vacation, so they immediately knew whether the chatbots had done a good job, or not. Here's what they thought: Theresa, the birthday girl: Both chatbots gave similar recommendations, such as a cultural tour, 4x4 rentals, a lagoon cruise plus snorkeling, and what I hadn't even thought about: a sunset cruise on my birthday. ChatGPT recommended three restaurants that we booked: Rudy's, Moorea Beach Cafe, and the Manava Polynesian show. Claude recommended one place we booked, Cocobeach. Both recommended Holy Steak House, but it's a 40-minute taxi ride from our hotel, which seems not worth it when there are so many other restaurants nearer. I preferred the ChatGPT format of a day-by-day itinerary. Claude's seemed like it was too heavily focused on marketing from the Cook's Bay hotel. Lisa: ChatGPT's answer was more comprehensive, listing a sample daily itinerary with pricing estimates and source/reference links. There was overlap, but ChatGPT offered more options and parsed its suggestions in an easy-to-read bullet format. The icons were a bit gimmicky, or maybe just overused. The response from Claude was easier to read, and I preferred its visual layout, but it proposed a smaller selection of activities, restaurants, and other things to do. Neither site mentioned scuba diving as a possibility, despite the fact that there's excellent diving around Moorea and many of us are doing this on the trip. (She gave ChatGPT 4.5 stars out of 5. Claude got 3.5 stars from her.)
Channel Post MEA
17-02-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Core42 And Qualcomm Launch AI Playground Platform In UAE Data Centers
Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and digital services, has announced the launch of the AI Playground in UAE data centers. Built on the Qualcomm Cloud AI family of accelerators and Qualcomm AI Inference Suite for Cloud, this free-to-access platform equips developers and AI engineers with ready-to-use high-performance AI applications and agents, tools, and libraries to streamline AI adoption and deployment across cloud and edge devices. The AI Developer Playground removes infrastructure complexity by integrating AI inference accelerators, standardized APIs, and pre-built generative AI applications to maximize efficiency. As AI adoption accelerates across industries, the need for automation, scalability, and performance optimization has become critical. This platform empowers developers and AI engineers to build, scale, and optimize AI solutions effortlessly, supporting everything from computer vision to generative AI. 'As AI reshapes businesses at an accelerated pace, Core42 is committed to providing the infrastructure that drives this transformation,' said Raghu Chakravarthi, EVP of Engineering at Core42. 'By offering the Qualcomm AI Inference Suite, we are making AI more accessible, scalable, and efficient, driving both innovation and sustainability across industries.' The Qualcomm AI Inference Suite offers a comprehensive set of enterprise-ready AI tools, enabling developers to build AI agents and applications across a range of use cases, including, Chat, Reasoning, Code or Image Generation, Enterprise RAG applications. This cost-effective cloud solution supports Kubernetes and bare-metal container deployments, ensuring integration with popular generative AI models and frameworks. Developers also gain free access to leading open-source models, including Llama-3.3 70B and JAIS30B, with continuous updates to align with evolving AI demands. 'We are proud to collaborate with Core42 to open new frontiers in automation and efficiency. Together, we can enable breakthroughs across enterprises, delivering AI-powered agents for applications as diverse as smart city automation, digital (social media) marketing, and medical AI applications,' said Rashid Attar, SVP, Cloud Computing, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. 'This solution offers a robust, security-rich, end-to-end platform that can be deployed, empowering developers to reach users without the burden of managing complex infrastructure.' Core42's collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. through the Qualcomm AI Inference Suite and Cloud AI accelerators grants developers and AI engineers seamless access to advanced AI models and applications, enabling optimal performance while reducing operational costs. By advancing inference-as-a-service, this collaboration empowers developers and AI engineers to stay at the forefront of AI innovation, effortlessly integrating the latest advancements into their workflows. 0 0
