TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has just previewed X-Portrait 2, a new portrait animation model built in cooperation with researchers from Tsinghua University, China’s best-ranked university in science and technology.

The model is an evolution of the first-generation X-Portrait technology (which was presented earlier this year at SIGGRAPH) and provides similar functionality to Runway’s Act-One tool

Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/p/bytedances-new-ai-turns-photos-into

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