Meta Announces Movie Gen Generative AI Text-to-Video

Today Meta posted a short video teasing “Movie Gen,” the tech company’s latest AI-driven initiative for realistic text-to-video creation and editing. With the new technology supported by Meta AI, users will be able to create custom videos and sounds, edit existing videos, and even use one’s own image for unique video generation.

While the Facebook Instagram parent is not the first company in the AI arena to introduce text-to-video features, the clips in the teaser seem to demonstrate unmatched high definition results, making it difficult to tell which videos are completely and/or partially AI enhanced.

The announcement came right off the heels of another major Meta AI product announcement, the Orion augmented reality (AR) glasses prototype. The Orion specs, made in collaboration with Ray Ban will also be designed with AI-capabilities like providing 3D visualizations, spatial object recognition and conversational AI interaction.

With the announcement of Movie Gen, it makes one wonder how …