WaTale: A free, fully local visual novel engine (Powered by SD 1.5, LayerDiffuse, and ControlNet)

Hey all. I’ve been working on WaTale, a visual novel app powered by local AI. It combines text, image, and voice models to create fully interactive, branching visual novels entirely on your own hardware. This is a free to use, hassle-free, fully bundled solution. When relying on the local generation pipeline (Ollama for text, Stable …

Comfy raises $30M to continue building the best creative AI tool in open

Hi r/StableDiffusion, Today we’re excited to share that Comfy has raised $30M at a $500M valuation! Comfy has grown a lot over the past year, and especially over the past six months: more than 50% of our users joined the Comfy ecosystem during that period. Comfy Cloud has also grown quickly, with annualized bookings crossing …

Learning Long-Term Motion Embeddings for Efficient Kinematics Generation

Understanding and predicting motion is a fundamental component of visual intelligence. Although modern video models exhibit strong comprehension of scene dynamics, exploring multiple possible futures through full video synthesis remains prohibitively inefficient. We model scene dynamics orders of magnitude more efficiently by directly operating on a long-term motion embedding that is learned from large-scale trajectories …

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Scaling Camera File Processing at Netflix

Orchestrating Media Workflows Through Strategic Collaboration Authors: Eric Reinecke, Bhanu Srikanth Introduction to Content Hub’s Media Production Suite At Netflix, we want to provide filmmakers with the tools they need to produce content at a global scale, with quick turnaround and choice from an extraordinary variety of cameras, formats, workflows, and collaborators. Every series or film …

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Building Workforce AI Agents with Visier and Amazon Quick

Employees across every function are expected to make faster, better-informed decisions, but the information that they need rarely lives in one place. Workforce intelligence (who is in your organization, how they are performing, and where the gaps are) is one of the most valuable signals an enterprise has, and platforms like Visier are purpose-built to …

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Day 2 at Google Cloud Next: A marathon developer keynote

At Google Cloud, every day is Developer Day, but none so much as day 2 of Google Cloud Next, when we hold the developer keynote.  This year’s topic? An in-depth look at Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. This year’s theme? Planning a marathon for 10,000 participants through the Las Vegas Strip. OK, let’s run with it.  …

Why faster AI isn’t always better

In the race to make AI models not just reason better but respond faster, latency—the delay before an answer appears—is often treated as a purely technical constraint, something to minimize and move past. But how is this relentless push for speed actually impacting the people using these systems every day?