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We tried recreating landscape photos with AI using NVIDIA Canvas

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The whole concept of AI has always been quite fascinating to me. Not so much the whole end of the world Terminator stuff, but how AI relates to imagery. That a computer can generate somewhat realistic-looking images with very little input from the user is just mind-boggling.

One of the companies at the forefront of AI imaging tech is NVIDIA. So, when NVIDIA reached out to me to ask if I’d like to test out the recently released NVIDIA Canvas and some of the AI-powered features in Photoshop and DaVinci Resolve on one of the also recently launched RTX Studio laptops, I jumped at the opportunity.

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NVIDIA launches new RTX 3070Ti and RTX 3080Ti graphics cards

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Despite the great global graphics cards shortage, NVIDIA has announced not one, but two new graphics cards. The NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti. Aimed towards both gamers and creatives, thanks to their studio-focused drivers to boost the performance of new AI features found in applications like Lightroom, Photoshop and DaVinci Resolve.

The new Ti cards boost performance gains over their non-Ti counterparts with more CUDA cores and GDDR6X memory. The RTX 3070 Ti, they say offers 1.5x the performance over the previous-generation RTX 2070 and 2x over the GTX 1070 Ti. The RTX 3080Ti looks very similar on paper to NVIDIA’s flagship RTX 3090, at a noticeably lower cost.

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NVIDIA launches RTX 3050 mobile GPUs for low priced laptops for creatives

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NVIDIA has today announced their new hotly-anticipated RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti mobile GPUs for RTX Studio laptops. Designed for both gamers and creatives, the new GPU comes with a host of new laptops coming from the usual suspects like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.

The RTX 3050 takes advantage of many of the new GPU-accelerated AI features out there like Smart Portrait and Super Resolution in Photoshop, Scene Edit Detection in Premiere Pro and the Magic Mask feature in DaVinci Resolve 17, offering some significant performance gains over the previous generation NVIDIA RTX and GTX-based laptops.

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NVIDIA’s latest RTX Studio drivers boost new AI features from Adobe and Blackmagic

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A couple of years ago, graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA decided that it was time to stop focusing just on gamers and launched their “Creator Ready” drivers. Those have since evolved into what is now called their “Studio” drivers, but they’re essentially the same thing; versions of their drivers that are geared more towards content creation rather than gaming.

They’ve seen a lot of changes over the last couple of years, especially since the launch of their first series RTX cards, and now their new March 2021 version of the Studio drivers focus heavily on the latest AI-powered tools from Adobe, including the new Super Resolution feature, as well as the newest neural engine in Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 17.

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Nvidia has developed neural network that could revolutionise video streaming

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One of the big problems with video, especially when watching it online, is the amount of bandwidth it often takes up. This problem of bitrates is particularly a problem when it comes to things like live streaming and video conferencing. Researchers at Nvidia think they’ve found a way around the limitations of existing video streaming codecs, though, with the development of a new neural network engine.

The new engine works by completely ignoring every traditional video codec out there in order to bring the amount of bandwidth required for video streaming down to a fraction of what it might normally use with something like h.264.

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Sick of dog pictures on social media? Nvidia’s GANimal AI lets you turn them into other animals

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Of course, I’m kidding, how can anybody get sick of dog pictures on Facebook?

Nvidia’s research teams have been doing some pretty crazy stuff with AI the last few years. This latest one is pretty funny from an amusement level standpoint but quite groundbreaking from a technical one. Nvidia’s GANimal AI lets you remap your pet’s “expression” onto other animals.

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Can you guess which of these faces is real and which is computer-generated?

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NVIDIA’s researchers came up with an impressive algorithm that’s able to generate realistic faces. Some of them are so realistic that you may have a hard time figuring out that they were computer-generated. If you’re up for a challenge, there’s now a website where you can test how many fake faces you can distinguish from real ones. It can get more difficult than you may think.

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Nvidia releases new Creator Ready Drivers boasting improved performance in Adobe desktop apps

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Nvidia unveiled their new Creator Ready Drivers (CRD) for the Titan, RTX 20, GTX 10 and GTX 16 series graphics cards at GTC 2019 last week and now they’re ready to download.

Nvidia claims they offer increased performance while offering greater stability with the apps that many photographers, video editors and other creatives use on a daily basis. Applications like Adobe Photoshop CC and Premiere Pro CC, both of which, Nvidia says see up to a 9% performance increase.

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