Luma AI expands with new video and image features

Luma AI has significantly upgraded its Dream Machine AI platform with new video creation capabilities and an intuitive interface accessible via web and mobile apps. According to reporter Carl Franzen, the platform now includes Luma Photon, a new image foundation model that enables advanced text-to-image and video generation features. The system serves over 25 million … Read more

Genmo Mochi 1 is a new open-source video AI

Genmo has launched Mochi 1, an open-source AI model for generating high-quality videos from text prompts. You can try it for free on this page. According to VentureBeat, Genmo is claiming performance that rivals leading proprietary models like Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha and Luma AI’s Dream Machine. Available under the Apache 2.0 license, Mochi 1 allows … Read more

Pika 1.5: AI videos with fun effects

Pika 1.5 is the latest version of an AI-powered video editing tool developed by Pika Labs, a startup based in Palo Alto, California. This platform enables users to transform static images into dynamic videos while applying a range of special effects, known as “Pikaffects”. Recent additions to the toolkit include effects such as “crumble,” “dissolve,” … Read more

Luma adds API for video AI as well

Luma AI has released an API for its video AI model Dream Machine, just hours after a similar move by competitor Runway. As Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat, the API allows developers to integrate Dream Machine into their own applications. The model can generate videos from text or images, and offers features such as camera … Read more

New AI models for video: Luma Dream Machine and Runway Gen-3 Alpha

Luma AI has introduced “Dream Machine”, a new AI system for video generation. Unlike similar systems such as those from OpenAI (“Sora”), Dream Machine is available for free for everyone to use. Users can create 5-second video clips simply by entering text. However, the quality of the results is not always convincing. The startup itself … Read more