NVIDIA VP: Film studios will adopt AI world models for faster, cheaper VFX
Rev Lebaredian · NVIDIA VP Rev Lebaredian Talks Plan To Build AI That Understands The Real World · Feb 5, 2025 · at 51:22
Rev Lebaredian, VP of Omniverse at NVIDIA, discusses the future of Hollywood CGI and how generative world foundation models will disrupt traditional visual effects pipelines.
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“What we're building with AI, with generative AI, and particularly with world foundation models, that once we get to the point where they really understand, ah, the depth of the physics that they need to produce something like Planet of the Apes, once we have that, of course they're gonna use. Those technologies to produce the same images because it's gonna be a lot faster and it's gonna be a lot less expensive to do the same things. It's already starting to happen.”
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