Video Generation

the hackathon was hosted in the rubpod’s san francisco office, it’s a startup providing gpu services on demand. the hackathon was in collaboration with runpod and comfiui’s team. when i got to the place, it basically looks like a penthouse and got super pumped about how folks in sf hosts events in a penthouse but turned out it was runpod’s office, it’s a startup providing gpu services on demand. the hackathon was in collaboration with runpod and comfiui. so i teamed up with one of my acquaintance from different hackathon. (sf feels so tiny that you run into people that you already met at all these other events) and so we had actually around 90 minutes to use these two tools and comeup with a picture generated the hackathon was hosted as a model called seed dream which was apparently doing better quality image generations than gogle’s nano banana and so the hakathon was hosted by runpod in collaboration comfi ui. run pod was a cloud gpu provider, and comfi ui was an on device application by which we can mix a combination of pictures, text or a video in order to generate a single output. in order to participate in the hackathon, it’s mandatory to use the model seed dream which obviously we had to run it ourselves and so we had runpod and confi ui give us free credits ~ $50 each so that we can run the model seed dream either in the cloud or on device, generate images or videos and participate i the hackathon. this is how usually hackathons be also. in order to push people to try their products they pool up some money, host an event, buy some food & drinks and give the prizes. it’s pretty much a cardinal flow. we wasted a lot of time. thinking what ideas to depict or things like that. and funny thing, we had about 90 minutes to make the image/video and we spent like 60-70 minutes on making some stupid pictures, and talking about ideas, and then we eventually end up making something, which i did not feel like even demoing. but still, it was fun, i liked it. good food, some good people, and damn, i met couple folks dropping out mid way of their phd to go try figure out building things with AI. maybe building things is far fetched better than getting a phd. especially at this particular time. maybe.