Open AI launches its Text to Video model 🤩

Sora

Open AI launches its Text to Video model 🤩 Sora 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 it’s tires, the su https://openai.com/sora

Abhigyan Mohanta

How Runway hopes to outrun OpenAI and Google in the AI video race.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-runway-hopes-to-outrun-openai-google-in-the-ai-video-race?offer=email-monthly-digest-299-2025&utm_campaign=Leads%3A+Collection+-&utm_content=7683&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=5282&rc=gzsl71

Now, if I could draw our attention away from all the Ghibli memes, another startup has also debuted a shiny new AI, and it points to the direction competition in the industry is heading in. 
That spiffy AI belongs to Runway, a New York–based startup focused on generative video AI. It released a new version of its video-editing tool that makes it easier to construct longer, more sophisticated clips. A few days later, Runway formally announced what was a poorly kept secret: It had secured a gigantic new chunk of funding from General Atlantic and other investors, reportedly valuing it at $3 billion. And it publicly highlighted a new part of its operations: The startup will begin financing filmmakers, hoping to deepen connections it has made in Hollywood. 
Runway’s AI is rather obviously a significant step forward from what it offered before, and it seems pretty inevitable that OpenAI will shift to concentrating on videos in earnest given Runway’s very public advancements. (In December, OpenAI released its first version of its video-editing tool, Sora.) Runway hopes to capture a different market than OpenAI’s. It wants its tools used by professionals, while OpenAI targets a more general mass market. When Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela described the strategy in an interview for our earlier Big Read, I found myself nodding along: Yeah, they want to be the Adobe of AI—got it. It seems like he’d have real room to maneuver away from OpenAI and establish his own territorial claim. Yet as this week has proven again, no AI company has proven to be better at capturing everyone’s attention than OpenAI, and I suspect it’s just a matter of time before OpenAI sets out to really squash the competition in video. (I wonder if concerns about that explain why Runway didn’t get the $4 billion valuation it initially wanted from its latest fundraising.) We’ll know that moment has fully arrived when Sora breaks down in public, too.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/ai-video-startup-runway-valued-at-3-billion-in-funding-round?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14809&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

Now, if I could draw our attention away from all the Ghibli memes, another startup has also debuted a shiny new AI, and it points to the direction competition in the industry is heading in.  That spiffy AI belongs to Runway, a New York–based startup focused on generative video AI. It released a new version of its video-editing tool that makes it easier to construct longer, more sophisticated clips. A few days later, Runway formally announced what was a poorly kept secret: It had secured a gigantic new chunk of funding from General Atlantic and other investors, reportedly valuing it at $3 billion. And it publicly highlighted a new part of its operations: The startup will begin financing filmmakers, hoping to deepen connections it has made in Hollywood.  Runway’s AI is rather obviously a significant step forward from what it offered before, and it seems pretty inevitable that OpenAI will shift to concentrating on videos in earnest given Runway’s very public advancements. (In December, OpenAI released its first version of its video-editing tool, Sora.) Runway hopes to capture a different market than OpenAI’s. It wants its tools used by professionals, while OpenAI targets a more general mass market. When Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela described the strategy in an interview for our earlier Big Read, I found myself nodding along: Yeah, they want to be the Adobe of AI—got it. It seems like he’d have real room to maneuver away from OpenAI and establish his own territorial claim. Yet as this week has proven again, no AI company has proven to be better at capturing everyone’s attention than OpenAI, and I suspect it’s just a matter of time before OpenAI sets out to really squash the competition in video. (I wonder if concerns about that explain why Runway didn’t get the $4 billion valuation it initially wanted from its latest fundraising.) We’ll know that moment has fully arrived when Sora breaks down in public, too.  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/ai-video-startup-runway-valued-at-3-billion-in-funding-round?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14809&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

Runway AI Inc. has raised $308 million in a new round of funding that more than doubles the company’s valuation — a sign of investor enthusiasm for startups building artificial intelligence software that can generate videos.

AI Video Startup Runway Valued at $3 Billion in Funding Round

Nate

How Runway hopes to outrun OpenAI and Google in the AI video race.  https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-runway-hopes-to-outrun-openai-google-in-the-ai-video-race?offer=email-monthly-digest-299-2025&utm_campaign=Leads%3A+Collection+-&utm_content=7683&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=5282&rc=gzsl71

There are two basic ways for startup founders to respond when much larger competitors encroach on their realm. They can soldier on with heads down and voices low, in silent determination. Or they can do as the founders of Runway did when the likes of Google and OpenAI entered the AI video field ...

How Runway Hopes to Outrun OpenAI, Google in the AI Video Race

Cyril

Runway Gen-4 is the newest version of Runway’s video generation model. It creates smoother, more realistic footage and finally remembers what it generated before—characters, objects, and even camera angles hold together across shots.

🔥 AI video usually falls apart the second you ask for consistency. Gen-4 actually holds its own. It feels less like generating clips and more like building a scene. Still not perfect, but for the first time, you can imagine someone using this to tell a real story.

Runway is an applied AI research company shaping the next era of art, entertainment and human creativity.

Runway - Advancing creativity with artificial intelligence.

Runway Gen-4 is the newest version of Runway’s video generation model. It creates smoother, more realistic footage and finally remembers what it generated before—characters, objects, and even camera angles hold together across shots.  🔥 AI video usually falls apart the second you ask for consistency. Gen-4 actually holds its own. It feels less like generating clips and more like building a scene. Still not perfect, but for the first time, you can imagine someone using this to tell a real story.

nother day, another deluge of AI updates. This time, Google’s DeepMind is working to take some of OpenAI’s Sora model’s hype by dropping Veo 2. As you can distill from its name, it’s the second generation of the Veo line, which, TechCrunch reports, “can create two-minute-plus clips in resolutions up to 4k.” Consider the gauntlet thrown, Sora.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/google-deepmind-unveils-a-new-video-model-to-rival-sora/

Google launched Veo, its text-to-video AI offering, beating OpenAI's Sora to the market.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24312938/google-veo-generative-ai-video-model-available-preview?ref=platformer.news

Google launched Veo, its text-to-video AI offering, beating OpenAI's Sora to the market.  https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24312938/google-veo-generative-ai-video-model-available-preview?ref=platformer.news

Veo’s private preview arrives ahead of OpenAI’s Sora launch.

Google’s new generative AI video model is now available

nother day, another deluge of AI updates. This time, Google’s DeepMind is working to take some of OpenAI’s Sora model’s hype by dropping Veo 2. As you can distill from its name, it’s the second generation of the Veo line, which, TechCrunch reports, “can create two-minute-plus clips in resolutions up to 4k.” Consider the gauntlet thrown, Sora.  https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/google-deepmind-unveils-a-new-video-model-to-rival-sora/

Google DeepMind, Google's flagship AI research lab, has developed a new video model that it claims is industry-leading.

Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora | TechCrunch

Jerome Cody

Sora is here, now too: Today, OpenAI released its Sora video model to the public, albeit in limited fashion. You have to be a paid subscriber of ChatGPT to get access. There are limitations, and as of the time I am writing, the ability to get into the product itself is currently down. People want to test it out. MKBHD has a good overview of the service. OpenAI— a TWiST500 company —is on a year-ending product release tear, including a new higher-priced offering that includes its full o1 model.

https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/

Sora is here, now too: Today, OpenAI released its Sora video model to the public, albeit in limited fashion. You have to be a paid subscriber of ChatGPT to get access. There are limitations, and as of the time I am writing, the ability to get into the product itself is currently down. People want to test it out. MKBHD has a good overview of the service. OpenAI— a TWiST500 company —is on a year-ending product release tear, including a new higher-priced offering that includes its full o1 model.  https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/

Our video generation model, Sora, is now available to use at sora.com. Users can generate videos up to 1080p resolution, up to 20 sec long, and in widescreen, vertical or square aspect ratios. You can bring your own assets to extend, remix, and blend, or generate entirely new content from text.

Abhigyan Mohanta

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.