{"id":655870,"date":"2025-03-06T02:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T23:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/microsoft-launches-new-ai-projects-with-bladee-yaeji-cuco-and-more\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T23:35:10","slug":"microsoft-launches-new-ai-projects-with-bladee-yaeji-cuco-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsoft-launches-new-ai-projects-with-bladee-yaeji-cuco-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"#Microsoft launches new AI projects with Bladee, Yaeji, Cuco, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af62e71a6ee1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MixCollage-05-Mar-2025-04-32-PM-3031_u2wjag\/bladee-james-ferraro-desktop-game-sanctuary-cuco-yaeji-pondeggi-ai.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MixCollage-05-Mar-2025-04-32-PM-3031_u2wjag\/bladee-james-ferraro-desktop-game-sanctuary-cuco-yaeji-pondeggi-ai.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MixCollage-05-Mar-2025-04-32-PM-3031_u2wjag\/bladee-james-ferraro-desktop-game-sanctuary-cuco-yaeji-pondeggi-ai.jpg 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more\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-268653\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Microsoft has launched <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/unlocked.microsoft.com\/artifacts\/\">Artifacts<\/a>, a new collaboration with TBA Agency collecting new work made with generative <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> by different groups of artists. The teams participating are Bladee and James Ferraro, Yaeji and Andrew Thomas Huang, and Cuco with Paul Trillo and Paul Flores. The creations were made using Copilot&#8217;s Microsoft&#8217;s AI suite as well as open source AI tools, with the goal of showing &#8220;how cutting-edge innovation can amplify deeply personal artistic expression while remaining fundamentally guided by human imagination.&#8221;\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sanctuary-domain.net\/\"><i>Sanctuary<\/i><\/a>, Bladee and James Ferraro&#8217;s collaboration, is a first-person desktop adventure <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> (or &#8220;visual poem&#8221;, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZolsuToCfko\">as Ferraro calls it<\/a>). Stuck in a decaying labyrinth, players can explore and interact with different chatbots designed as characters. \u201cI think that is like the point of the game,&#8221; Bladee says on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/unlocked.microsoft.com\/artifacts\/\">the project&#8217;s landing page<\/a>. &#8220;Being interactive lets people access this vast body of material and extract meaning from it,\u201d Bladee explains.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            The music video for Yaeji&#8217;s new single &#8220;Pondeggi&#8221; is directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, the filmmaker behind videos for FKA twigs, Bj\u00f6rk, and many more. In the video, Yaeji is chased by a witch through the forest, turning into a silkworm as she runs; Huang <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bVTwQdvGnlQ\">says<\/a> AI was used &#8220;as a pipeline tool and also as a means to alter the story itself.&#8221; Yaeji adds that the sections of the music video where she transforms into a silkworm, portions that use AI, were &#8220;parts that I don&#8217;t think I could have imagined myself.&#8221; Watch the music video below.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-268656\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            For his &#8220;A Love Letter to LA&#8221; short film, Cuco enlisted Paul Trillo and Paul Flores. Together they used generative models trained on Flores&#8217; drawings to &#8220;remix and reinterpret&#8221; the images and used a team of traditional artists to animate them. The animation will be used as visuals on Cuco&#8217;s upcoming tour. Check it out below.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-268654\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yaeji - Pondeggi (feat. E Wata) (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vi9j9ogqr4E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('268654');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-268655\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Love Letter to LA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8b174mReHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('268655');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Jordan Darville<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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