ByteDance has introduced DreamActor-M1, a new framework designed to generate realistic human animations from reference images. This framework addresses key issues in current animation models to ...

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While most competitors struggle with facial warping or unstable motion over time, DreamActor M1 keeps the character stable, sharp, and expressive—even during high-motion sequences. ByteDance didn’t ...

The new paper is titled DreamActor-M1: Holistic, Expressive and Robust Human Image Animation with Hybrid Guidance, and comes from six Bytedance researchers. Rather than relying on external modules to ...

A set of popular apps helped China’s ByteDance develop a key component of advanced artificial intelligence: information on how a billion people use the internet. By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from ...

Every video that ByteDance’s users watch or post gives the company another data point about how people use the internet. For years, ByteDance has applied that wealth of information to make its ...

The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world's most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and Toutiao. In the United States, TikTok claims 170 million users. But in China ...