OpenAI said on March 24 that it will wind down the standalone Sora app and its video generation API, and will not bring video generation into ChatGPT, six months after Sora's viral launch.
With xAI restricting Grok Imagine to paying subscribers, creators are turning to Google Flow, LMArena, Qwen, Hugging Face Spaces and Meta AI for free video generation.
A realistic AI-generated fight scene featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt prompted Disney, Netflix and Warner Bros. to threaten legal action against ByteDance over its Seedance 2.0 video model.
Early demonstrations of ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video model show smoother motion, more coherent action scenes and convincing transitions, putting pressure on rival AI video generators.
A look at AI video tools that offer genuinely usable free tiers, including Alibaba's Qwen, Zhipu's ChatGLM, StepFun's Yuewen, Vheer and CapCut, plus the paid tools with trial credits.
