Taylor Swift singing in Japanese: Mind-blowing new AI tech from China

Less than a year ago, Microsoft's VASA-1 blew my mind. The company showed how it could animate any photo and turn it into a video featuring the person in the image. This wasn't the only impressive part, as the subject of the image would also be able to speak in the video.

VASA-1 surpassed anything we'd seen back then. This was April 2024, when we had already seen Sora, OpenAI's text-to-video generation tool that would not be released until December. Sora did not feature similarly advanced face animation and audio synchronization technologies.

Unlike OpenAI, Microsoft never intended to make VASA-1 available to the project. I said then that a public tool like VASA-1 could harm, as anyone could create misleading videos of people saying whatever the creator conceives. Microsoft's research project also indicated that it would be only a matter of time before others could develop similar technology.

Now, TikTok parent company ByteDance has developed an AI tool called OmniHuman-1 that can replicate what VASA-1 did while taking things to a whole new level.

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