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Rombach: Video AI models scaled like LLMs will gain world understanding
“Having something like we are seeing in language modeling, but trained on pixels on videos will probably give like super interesting downstream behavior to not, not only like generating videos, but also understanding of the world.”
Robin Rombach Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 14:05 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
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Rombach: Pre-trained video models learn 3D synthesis faster than image models
“We showed that it's actually like helpful to incorporate like this implicit three D knowledge that Knowledge that is captured in all of the videos into the model, and then the model can learn much quicker than if you start from the pure image model.”
Robin Rombach Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 23:07 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
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Rombach: AI video generation will evolve into real-time interactive experiences
“Because then this will become more like, I don't know, sometimes I think about this as like a video game, right? You type your prompt, and you immediately see what happens given your input view, and I think this might be a super nice user experience, actually.”
Robin Rombach Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 28:23 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
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Rombach: DALL-E 3 uses an autoencoder trained on a single GPU
“Dolly three uses a model that, like, the autoencoder that was trained on a single GPU.”
Robin Rombach Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 34:34 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
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Rombach: Adapting visual AI for robotics requires mere hours of data
“In practice what you do is, You have like all this like visual understanding in the models. And then you need only a very little bit of like a few hours of fine tuning data to adjust the model on that specific task.”
Robin Rombach Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 57:37 Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
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Rombach: Stable Diffusion's core technique was developed during university research
“It's based on a technique that we developed while we were still at the university.”
Robin Rombach Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 3:23 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
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