Meta Announces New AI Video Generator MovieGen Amidst Tech Rivalries

TapTechNews October 4th news, Meta company today announced a new AI video generator MovieGen, which can generate high-definition videos with sound. A few months ago, its competitor OpenAI also launched its text-to-video model Sora.

Input text and MovieGen can automatically generate videos, and it can also edit existing videos or still images. According to The New York Times, the audio added to the videos is also AI-generated, matching the videos through environmental noise, sound effects and background music, and the videos support different aspect ratios.

Meta said that MovieGen can also use images as basic materials to generate specific video content, or change the elements in existing videos.

MovieGen can also be used to edit existing videos and change styles and transition effects, or add non-existent content.

TapTechNews noted that in the past six months, major tech companies such as Google and OpenAI, as well as small startups, have been developing similar tools. OpenAI's Sora was first announced in February this year but has not been publicly released; this week, a co-leader involved in the development of Sora left the company and joined Google.

Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox wrote on Threads that the company is not ready to release MovieGen as a product because the technology is still expensive and the video generation takes too long.