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Happy Hump Day! Is it just me or are the weeks blending together the closer we get to the new year?
Anyway, here’s the news:
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The Barrier to Entry Just Got Lowered
Generative AI and video seem to be a match made in heaven lately. Companies like?Runway?initially set the bar with?Gen2. Now, new platforms are trying to raise that bar.
Pika?is one of them. It's founded by?Demi Guo?and?Chenlin Meng, two former Stanford PhD students, and Pika?just raised a whopping $55 million?led by Lightspeed Ventures.
Pika crafted its own foundational video model that lets users generate entire clips through text prompts. For example, an animated Elon Musk in an astronaut suit, which the team demonstrated in its?launch video.
Where it differs from other offerings is its feature set, such as allowing users to transform the style of existing videos from, say, live action to animation. Other features get more granular, such as the AI module that allows you to change certain aspects, like the clothing a character might be wearing.
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Pika?is marketed as an idea-to-video platform. Its goal is to lower the barrier to entry dramatically. One upvoter, Product Hunt founder,?Ryan Hoover,?is happy about that, writing:
“I've always wanted to produce a documentary. The barrier to entry is lowering. :)”
Any bets on what the documentary will be about?
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