Best AI Video Generators

The world is on the threshold of a new era of digital creativity, where imagination takes shape not only with a brush and canvas, but also with lines of code. Artificial intelligence, once a fantastic idea, is becoming an everyday reality, offering artists, designers, and enthusiasts new tools to bring their ideas to life.

One of the most exciting areas in this context is AI-powered video generation. Imagine: you describe your idea, and an intelligent algorithm turns it into a captivating video full of movement, color, and emotion. Sounds incredible? However, it is already a reality thanks to models such as Sora, Kling, Runway Gen-3, Veo, and Dream Machine.

Sora

Sora – is an advanced AI model that can create videos based on your text descriptions. Imagine: you just need to describe the desired video in detail, and Sora will generate it, observing all the details, down to the smallest details. Videos up to a minute long will be high-quality and realistic.

At the core of Sora is a cutting-edge AI technology called a diffusion model. Imagine this model first analyzing “clean” data – images or videos – and then gradually adding “noise” to it until the original content becomes unrecognizable. What’s unique about diffusion models is that they can reverse this process: by gradually removing noise, the model restores the original data. This is the mechanism that underlies Sora’s ability to create incredibly realistic images and videos.

To interpret your text queries, Sora uses the familiar GPT language model. GPT transforms your descriptions into detailed instructions for generating videos. This turns even the most succinct ideas into vivid, precise, and visually appealing videos.

Prompt: The camera follows behind a white vintage SUV with a black roof rack as it speeds up a steep dirt road surrounded by pine trees on a steep mountain slope, dust kicks up from its tires, the sunlight shines on the SUV as it speeds along the dirt road, casting a warm glow over the scene. The dirt road curves gently into the distance, with no other cars or vehicles in sight. The trees on either side of the road are redwoods, with patches of greenery scattered throughout. The car is seen from the rear following the curve with ease, making it seem as if it is on a rugged drive through the rugged terrain. The dirt road itself is surrounded by steep hills and mountains, with a clear blue sky above with wispy clouds.
The camera follows a white vintage SUV with a black roof rack as it accelerates down a steep dirt road surrounded by pine trees on a mountainside. Dust flies up from under the wheels, the sun hits the SUV, giving off a warm glow. The dirt road curves gently into the distance, with no other cars in sight. Redwood trees with patches of green grow on both sides of the road. The car, seen from behind, easily takes the turn, giving the impression of a fast drive over rough terrain. The dirt road itself is surrounded by steep hills and mountains, with a clear blue sky and wispy clouds above.

Prompt: A gorgeously rendered papercraft world of a coral reef, rife with colorful fish and sea creatures.
A beautifully rendered paper coral reef world full of colorful fish and sea creatures.

Prompt: A movie trailer featuring the adventures of a 30-year-old space man wearing a red wool knitted motorcycle helmet, blue sky, salt desert, cinematic style, shot on 35mm film, vivid colors.
Trailer for a film about the adventures of a 30-year-old astronaut in a knitted red-wool motorcycle helmet. Blue sky, salt desert, cinematic style, filmed on 35 mm film, bright colors.

In addition to creating videos from text descriptions, Sora can generate videos from images:

Few people know, but Sora can not only create videos based on text descriptions, but also generate static images. Sora creates images by placing fragments of Gaussian noise in a spatial grid with a time span of one frame. The model generates images of various sizes – with a resolution of up to 2048 x 2048 pixels. The quality of images created by Sora exceeds the capabilities of DALL-E 3.

Prompt: Digital art of a young tiger under an apple tree in a matte painting style with gorgeous details.
Digital illustration of a tiger cub under an apple tree in matte painting style with excellent detail.

Prompt: A snowy mountain village with cozy cabins and a northern lights display, high detail and photorealistic DSLR, 50mm f/1.2.
Snowy mountain village with cozy huts and northern lights, high detail, photorealistic, DSLR, 50mm f/1.2.

Training on large data sets allows video models to develop new capabilities. Sora already demonstrates 3D coherence, long-term connectivity and persistence of objects, interaction with the surrounding world, and modeling of digital worlds.

Kling

Kling – the brainchild of the Chinese company Kuaishou, TikTok’s main competitor. This model is capable of creating videos up to two minutes long in high definition 1080p at 30 frames per second. Kling’s developers especially emphasize that their model has a deep understanding of physics, which allows it to realistically reproduce even complex movements.

Of course, creating such videos requires huge computing resources. If Sora uses eight powerful NVIDIA A100 graphics processors to create a one-minute video, then Kling, creating a video twice as long, consumes at least twice as many resources.

One of the main challenges in creating realistic video is temporal consistency – the ability of the model to generate frames that are logically linked to each other, creating the illusion of a smooth flow of time. Kling successfully copes with this task, including when modeling actions that change the state of objects in the frame.

Prompt: A Chinese boy wearing glasses is eating a delicious cheeseburger in a fast food restaurant, with his eyes closed for enjoyment.
A Chinese boy with glasses eats a delicious cheeseburger with pleasure in a fast food restaurant, closing his eyes in pleasure.

Kling can also generate video from an image:

Comparison of Kling and Sora: Kling emphasizes video length, while Sora focuses on detail.

Kling is currently in open beta testing as part of Kuaishou's Kmovie app.

More examples:

Prompt: In a close-up shot, the shiny blue feathers of a parrot glisten in the light, showing off its unique plumage and vibrant colors.
Close-up: The parrot's shiny blue feathers shimmer in the light, showing off their unique markings and vibrant colours.

Prompt: A small white rabbit wearing glasses sits on a chair in a café reading a newspaper, with a cup of hot coffee on the table.
A small white rabbit with glasses sits on a chair in a cafe, reading a newspaper, there is a cup of hot coffee on the table.

Prompt: A giant panda is playing guitar by the lake.
Giant panda plays guitar by the lake

Runway Gen-3

Gen-3 Alpha from Runway is another significant step forward in the field of video generation. The model creates high-quality and detailed videos up to 10 seconds long, demonstrating high precision of movements, a variety of character emotions and smooth camera movements.

Gen-3 Alpha is the first model in the new Runway series, built on the industry-leading infrastructure for large-scale multimodal training. Compared to the previous version (Gen-2), Gen-3 Alpha shows significant improvements in video accuracy, smoothness, and consistency.

Prompt: FPV flying through a colorful coral lined streets of an underwater suburban neighborhood.
A first-person flight through the colorful coral-lined streets of an underwater suburb.

Prompt: An astronaut running through an alley in Rio de Janeiro.
An astronaut runs down an alley in Rio de Janeiro.

Prompt: Dragon-toucan walking through the Serengeti.
A toucan dragon walks through the Serengeti.

Key improvements in Gen-3 Alpha:

Photorealistic generation of people with natural movements, gestures and emotions.
Improved video accuracy and smoothness.
Fine-tune timing and framing.
Multimodality (work in “image to video” and “text to image” modes).
Ability to create your own versions of models and customize them.

Gen-3 Alpha is available by subscription: $15 per month or $12 per month when paid annually.

Google Veo

Veo Google's Veo is positioned by the company as the most advanced video generation model to date. Veo creates 1080p videos that are over a minute long, understands cinematic terms, and can create complex scenes, including slow motion and aerial photography. Veo can also edit existing videos to add new objects and transform static images into videos while maintaining the style of the original.

What’s more, Veo can edit existing videos to add new objects. Imagine adding kayaks crashing through the waves to a scenic aerial view of the coastline. Veo can also transform still images into videos while maintaining the original’s style.

Veo's main focus is on smoothness and consistency of video footage. Veo's algorithms combat common video generation issues such as flickering objects, objects suddenly disappearing, and general “jaggedness” of the image. The result is videos that look natural and cinematic.

Prompt: A fast-tracking shot down a suburban residential street lined with trees. Daytime with a clear blue sky. Saturated colors, high contrast.
A quick camera pan along a quiet suburban street, lined with trees on both sides. Daytime, clear blue sky. Rich colors, high contrast.

Google emphasizes the responsible approach to Veo development. The tool is equipped with safety filters and plagiarism checks, which are designed to prevent copyright abuse and privacy violations. All videos created by Veo are marked with a SynthID watermark, another Google development that allows identifying content created by artificial intelligence.

In an effort to appeal to both professionals and amateurs, Google has enlisted the help of some famous filmmakers, including Donald Glover, who starred in a commercial showcasing Veo's capabilities.

Veo is currently only available to a limited number of users through the VideoFX platform, but Google plans to integrate it into YouTube Shorts and other products in the future.

Vidu

Vidu – another model developed in China by ShengShu Technology in collaboration with Tsinghua University. According to the developers, Vidu is capable of creating videos up to 16 seconds long in 1080p resolution in just a few clicks.

Shengshu's chief scientist, Zhu Jun, describes Vidu as a model with imagination: “It can simulate the physical world and create videos with smooth scene transitions, well-developed characters, and a logical chronology of events.”

There is already a demo video available online that demonstrates Vidu's capabilities. However, it is worth noting that there is no definitive confirmation that all video fragments were created exclusively by Vidu, without any post-processing.

Vidu is based on the patented Universal Vision Transformer (U-ViT) architecture, which combines two advanced video generation models: Diffusion and Transformer. With U-ViT, Vidu is able to create videos with realistic animation, smooth camera movements, detailed facial expressions, and convincing lighting effects.

Vidu is not yet available to the general public. However, ShengShu Technology has already opened a waiting list for early access to the tool.

In the future, Vidu is planned to be integrated into the PixWeaver multimedia tool.

Dream Machine

Dream Machine by Luma Labs is another contender for the title of the best video generator. The developers focus on high speed, smooth and realistic movements, detailed characters and natural shooting.

Speaking about technical capabilities, it is worth mentioning that Dream Machine is capable of creating 120 frames in 120 seconds, generating clips of 5 seconds, providing smooth movements and high-quality camera work, and also understands interactions, that is, it can imitate the natural behavior of people/animals/objects.

However, it is worth noting that there are also problems, for example, instead of showing a complete three-dimensional picture, the model shows several angles.

Of course, the stated characteristics are impressive, but how does the Dream Machine show itself in practice? I took ready-made prompts and generated a video based on them:

Prompt: A gorgeously rendered papercraft world of a coral reef, rife with colorful fish and sea creatures.
A beautifully rendered paper coral reef world full of colorful fish and sea creatures.

Prompt: A small white rabbit wearing glasses sits on a chair in a café reading a newspaper, with a cup of hot coffee on the table.
A small white rabbit with glasses sits on a chair in a cafe, reading a newspaper, there is a cup of hot coffee on the table.

Dream Machine also offers photo animation, an example from user X:

To try out Dream Machine, you need to go to the Luma Labs website, find the Dream Machine page, and click the “Try Now” button in the top right corner. Create an account, and then you'll see a text box where you can type in a description of the video you want.

Unlike competitors (Stable Video, Runway, Pika), which mainly scale and animate 2D images, Dream Machine creates smooth transitions between scenes and realistically animates objects in 3D space.

Dream Machine offers free access to the service with limitations (up to 30 videos per month) and paid plans with advanced features.

The development of AI video generators is progressing by leaps and bounds, offering us ever more advanced tools for creativity. From short clips to full-length videos, the possibilities are virtually endless. And although many of these technologies are still in development or only available to a limited number of users, it is already clear that they are capable of revolutionizing the world of video production.

It remains to be seen what other surprises the developers have in store for us in the near future and how these innovations will change the way we perceive and create video content.

Thank you for your attention!