In 2022, if you offered to show me a tool that creates videos from a single text prompt, I’d call you a witch/wizard and burn you at the stake. I keep a live bonfire running in my backyard for just such occasions.
Today, I’d just ask, “Which one of them are you talking about?”
Earlier in April, we had our first glimpse of text-to-video with ModelScope and Runway Gen-1.
Since then, things moved fast!
As I type these words, there are no fewer than six separate companies in this space…that I know of.
There are technically even more than that, but not all text-to-video sites are created equal. Let me briefly explain what I mean…
Different flavors of text-to-video
If you Google “text-to-video,” you’ll end up with a whole range of very different tools. As far as I can tell, they all fall into one of the following four categories:
1. Animated avatars
These text-to-video…