CALM: Conditional Adversarial Latent Models for Directable Virtual Characters (research.nvidia.com)
Siggraph 2023, Nvidia improves on their previous research into controllable, natural movement learnt from unlabelled data. Code and paper available.
Nvidia released a paper about a 100KB text-to-image model that only trained for 4 minutes but claims to be better than bigger models (research.nvidia.com)
They also claim that it only takes about 8 seconds to generate various good images.