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SUMMARY:AI for Video Generation
DESCRIPTION:It’s been a while since we covered Video Generation models\, actually February of last year. I dropped a link below from the email for last year that covers the list of models that we covered. I believe that Sora is the only one currently still in use. \nThis week we will focus on the Wan2.1 model that is getting a lot of warranted publicity. The following paper review next week will dive deeper into the Wan paper (linked below). We’ll also do a survey of publicly available tools for generating video. There’s a list of these tools below in the links. \nWe’ll end with a live demo of the Wan2.1 model running in hosted Rupod instance. It’s been a lot of fun this weekend getting this all set up and working. My definition of “fun” is different than most though 🙂 There are a few topics for later that I’ve run across in the process: \n\nRunpod for hosting AI workflows\nComfyUI\n\nAI Huntsville Taskforce \nThe taskforce is hosting a session on April 10 to cover an Introduction to AI\, presented by Deloitte. The intent is to raise awareness of AI in Huntsville\, so it aligns closely with our mission here. I’ll forward more info to this distro next week. \nAmerican Planning Association \nI’m presenting an overview of AI and its application to city planning\, with some help from Josh. I believe there is room for additional seats if you are interested in attending. Just reply and let me know.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLinks & Other Events: \n\n2024 Video Breakthroughs – https://mailchi.mp/842e92b8296d/240221-ai-video-breakthrough\nWan Paper – https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20314\nhttps://hailuoai.video/\nhttps://app.klingai.com/\nhttps://app.runwayml.com/\nhttps://www.genmo.ai/play\nhttps://wan.video/wanxiang/videoCreation\n\nDetails: \n\nDate – 4/02/2025\nTime – 6-7:30pm\nLocation – HudsonAlpha\nAddress –  601 Genome Way Northwest\, Huntsville\, AL 35806\nZoom –https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88543069893?pwd=kfcxGybJ2QVOxeUObPa5AGp0MbNxPb.1
URL:https://www.hsv.ai/event/video-generation/
LOCATION:HudsonAlpha\, 601 Genome Way Northwest\, Huntsville\, AL\, 35806
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SUMMARY:Agent Frameworks
DESCRIPTION:This week we will continue our series on AI Agents\, based on the HuggingFace tutorials. We will also jump into some of the protocols such as MCP and A2A. \nThe frameworks covered include: \n\nsmolagents\nLlamaIndex\nLangGraph\n\nAI Huntsville Taskforce \nThe date for the Introduction to AI session has changed to May 15. The intent is to raise awareness of AI in Huntsville\, so it aligns closely with our mission here. I’ll forward more info to this distro next week. \nAmerican Planning Association \nI’m presenting an overview of AI and its application to city planning\, with some help from Josh. I believe there is room for additional seats if you are interested in attending. Just reply and let me know. \nMailing List Progress \nGood news and bad news. This list is now large enough to surpass the free tier of MailChimp! You can guess the bad news 🙂\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLinks & Other Events: \n\nHuggingFace Tutorial – https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/en/unit2/introduction\nMCP – https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol\nA2A – https://github.com/google/A2A\n\nDetails: \n\nDate – 4/16/2025\nTime – 6-7:30pm\nLocation – HudsonAlpha\nAddress –  601 Genome Way Northwest\, Huntsville\, AL 35806\nZoom –https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82537267316?pwd=whsvIokcMixZUhZzPczfU50Xaxo1cw.1
URL:https://www.hsv.ai/event/agent-frameworks/
LOCATION:HudsonAlpha\, 601 Genome Way Northwest\, Huntsville\, AL\, 35806
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SUMMARY:Virtual Paper Review - Diffusion Transformers & Flow Matching (Wan 2.1 Technical Report)
DESCRIPTION:Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! This month we are looking at the concepts behind recent advancements in video generation. We will focus on Diffusion Transformers and Flow Matching techniques\, culminating in a review of the recent Wan 2.1 technical report. \nThis virtual session will follow our usual format. In the first half\, we will cover foundational concepts essential for understanding the paper and related techniques: \n\nVariational Autoencoders (VAEs)\nWhat is a latent space?\nCore principles of Diffusion Models\nDiffusion Transformers (DiTs) architecture\nRectified Flow / Flow Matching concepts\n\nThe second half will then review the Wan paper\, analyzing its components and contributions in the context of the concepts discussed: \n\nThe overall model architecture and innovations\nImplementation and role of the Spatio-Temporal VAE\nDataset construction and usage\nDetails of the Captioning Pipeline for text-to-video/image\nVideo Editing with Wan (VACE)\nExperiments in Video to Audio generation\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLinks: \n\nhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20314 : Wan Technical Report\nhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09748 : Diffusion Transformers\nhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.02747 : Flow Matching for Generative Models\nhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6114 : Variational Autoencoders\n\nDetails: \n\nDate – 4/23/2025\nTime – 6-7:30pm\nLocation – VIRTUAL\nZoom –https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87940486028?pwd=xfuet8FvR7hc63na4v3XyYEl2rWoAP.1
URL:https://www.hsv.ai/event/paper-review-wan/
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SUMMARY:Supporting American Planning Association Lunch & Learn
DESCRIPTION:The State of AI: Innovations\, Applications and Impacts in Planning \nFor the last 2 years\, AI has been one of the trends recommended in APA’s Trend Report for planners to act and prepare for. The report notes that while the advancements in Gen AI have the potential to greatly enhance public services\, there are concerns about cybersecurity and privacy\, as well as the environmental impact of the computing power required to support supercomputers. In this event\, the status and extent of AI technology especially in North Alabama will be explored. The impact of AI on our local economy and communities will also be discussed. \nDate & Time: April 25\, 2025\, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm \nSpeakers: \n\n Langley\n\nFounder of Huntsville AI and Chief Technical Officer of CohesionForce\, Inc. \nDr. Vineetha Menon \nDirector of the Big Data Analytics lab in the University of Alabama in Huntsville
URL:https://www.hsv.ai/event/supporting-american-planning-association-lunch-learn/
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