The announcement of the AI model comes amid discussions about ByteDance divesting its American business to ensure TikTok’s continued operation in the country.

In a black and white video, OmniHuman-1 shows the known scientist Albert Einstein talking in front of a blackboard performing hand gestures and showing facial expressions. ByteDance says it trained the new tool on more than 18,700 hours of human videos, combining it with various types of inputs like text, audio and physical poses.

TikTok parent company ByteDance unveils OmniHuman, an AI system that can generate realistic videos of people from just one picture.

The technology behind OmniHuman-1 taps into the evolving realm of deepfakes, a domain often associated with controversies around misinformation and fraud.c

ByteDance has demoed a model that its researchers says creates realistic full-body deepfakes from a single image.

ByteDance has come up with a generative AI framework that can create highly realistic videos of a human based on a single image and motion signal.