Others in the Race

OpenAI’s flagship model, Sora, is not publicly available yet, nor is there any update from the company regarding its release but hopefully it will be launched after elections. Genmo also unveiled a research preview of Mochi 1 – an open-source model designed to generate high-quality videos from text prompts.

Earlier this month, Meta also entered the Gen AI space with its MovieGen. Adobe also introduced Gen AI to video with its Adobe Firefly. Luma’s Dream Machine was made freely available for experimentation on its website. In terms of competition from China, Minimax officially launched its Image-to-Video feature. Even Kling introduced new capabilities to its model including a lip sync feature.