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Douglas S. Chan
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I also asked Runway CTO & Co-Founder Anastasis Germanidis to speculate the next breakthrough in gen-AI videos:

“Could come from further scaling.”

Control, consistency, causal physics, etc haven’t been figured out yet.

My full post: lnkd.in/gQM5_C9x

#RunwayAI #videodiffusionmodels #genAI #GTC2025
July 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I asked Runway CTO & Co-Founder Anastasis Germanidis what led to that 2022 “step function” improvement in gen-AI videos:

“Latent diffusion allowed [us] to train those diffusion models in a much more efficient manner.”

Full write-up: lnkd.in/gQM5_C9x

#RunwayAI #videodiffusionmodels #genAI #GTC2025
News that Netflix began using Runway AI’s video tools for production was reported on Bloomberg [1] yesterday just when I was writing this post on Runway CTO and Co-Founder Anastasis Germanidis. | Doug...
News that Netflix began using Runway AI’s video tools for production was reported on Bloomberg [1] yesterday just when I was writing this post on Runway CTO and Co-Founder Anastasis Germanidis. At NVI...
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July 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
At Dr. Moritz Baecher's Disney Research talk on their AI robots at GTC 2025, I tried to create “the most viral video of GTC”:

“Green robot, can you run into the blue robot and see what happens?” It shook its head.

Thank you for being kind robots!🙏

Full write-up:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...
June 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In @variety.com’s interview of @netflix.com co-CEO Ted Sarandos, he remarked concisely that Apple TV+ could be “a marketing play” for Apple.

This thought stood out for me, here’s why: www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...

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#Netflix #TedSarandos #AppleTV #OTT #streaming #TV #Variety
Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Isn’t Done Disrupting Hollywood: On Winning the… | Douglas Chan
In the Variety issue a few weeks ago is the cover-story interview of Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, who shared many insights on the streaming sector. His one concise response on Apple TV+ stood out for ...
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April 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM
At GTC 2025, VP and GM of Media & Entertainment Richard Kerris @richardkerris.bsky.social's keynote-like talk on Nvidia's Media2 that enables AI for production workflows included imploring us to see AI as a storytelling tool.

See my article:
www.etcentric.org/nvidia-forge...

#GTC2025 #Nvidia #AI
April 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
After only my first day at GTC 2025, I finally came to accept Nvidia has evolved far beyond semiconductors hardware. It now has an ecosystem of intertwined AI software framework for nearly every layer of the AI stack.

See my analysis here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...

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#GTC2025 #Nvidia #AI
March 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Prof. Andrew Ng’s nuggets of wisdom from his interview on @bloomberglp.bsky.social yesterday underscores the importance and draw of innovating in the application layer of AI.

See my full write up:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...

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#AndrewNg #Bloomberg #AI #ApplicationLayer #FoundationModels
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
While attending Queen's University’s Micro Summit Series on AI and supercomputing last night, I was surprised to hear Prof. Ryan Grant says Canada's supercomputing world rank is only 157th.

Find out why and how Grant is bringing Canada to Top20 in my write-up:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...
February 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I was impressed by CES 2025 “Future of Immersive TV” panel’s suggestion:

It should be an encompassing home entertainment system bringing high-quality personalized experiences for consumers to engage with content that align with their everyday lives.

Full write-up:
www.etcentric.org/ces-tv-indus...
CES: TV Industry Adapts to Expansion of Platforms and Devices - ETCentric
Fitting for a trade show long associated with the latest and greatest television sets, this year’s CES featured a panel titled “The Future of Immersive TV.” The panelists, led by moderator Rick Kowals...
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February 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Rightly so that everyone's main focus at CES this year was AI. Though, I also spotted another prevailing trend: Gaming is the new social medial, especially for young generations.

See my full write up here:
www.etcentric.org/ces-gaming-i...

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#CES2025 #gaming #socialmedia #newsocialmedia
CES: Gaming Is the New Social Media for Young Generations - ETCentric
In the conference track of CES this year is a lineup of talks and panels on gaming and esports. During the “Generational Shifts: The Evolution of Gaming” panel, moderated by Consumer Technology Associ...
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February 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
During Jensen Huang’s NVIDIA keynote at CES 2025, it struck me he actually implied a quantum computing use case -- when discusing how to teach robots a single task from just a few human demos to let AI generates synthetic motion trajectories.

See full post here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...
February 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM