Gfycat says it'll use machine learning to make more high-res GIFs

Embedding a GIF into your blog post is often a hilarious way to illustrate your reactions, but the GIFs themselves can be low in resolution, like text running across an image that's too blurry to read. Gfycat is offering an AI-powered solution to improve GIF quality with machine learning, according to a press release. "Human curation doesn't take into consideration people's tastes and mood, so we've created our own AI tools," CEO Richard Rabbat told The Verge in a statement. Because the company loves cats, it has named each of its three parts of the solution after a feline. The first, called Project Angora, involves searching online for a GIF video source, then swapping out the GIF with a higher-res version.