MiniMax Video-01 Platform With AI Video Era Capabilities Launched

MiniMax, a Chinese language synthetic intelligence (AI) unicorn startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, launched a text-to-video era mannequin final week. Dubbed Video-01, the platform is out there to the general public even exterior of China. It could actually generate six-second-long movies in a variety of types. Video-01 joins the corporate’s current AI choices reminiscent of a music generator, generative speech, and language translation. The AI video generator will compete with related instruments out there reminiscent of Runway AI, Pika 1.0, and soon-to-be-released Sora by OpenAI.

MiniMax Video-01 Launched

The AI video generator was launched by MiniMax Founder and Chief Government Officer Yan Junjie on the firm’s first developer convention in Shanghai, in accordance with a South China Morning Submit report. The founder reportedly highlighted that Video-01 is the primary iteration of a text-to-video era mannequin and future updates will permit customers to generate movies from picture inputs. Video modifying capabilities are additionally mentioned to be added through future updates.

Devices 360 workers members have been capable of entry the platform and generate movies by writing a textual content immediate in English. The MiniMax Video-01 can generate six-second-long movies in 1280 x 720 pixels decision at 25 frames per second. The instrument can generate movies in a variety of types and views.

Fans don’t have to register to make use of the platform and may straight generate movies. Video-01 took about 5 minutes to generate movies in our testing, however this might be attributable to a excessive variety of customers accessing the platform concurrently. There’s a restrict at no cost customers, nevertheless, the restrict is at the moment not recognized.

A demo of the era functionality of the MiniMax Video-01 was posted on X (previously referred to as Twitter). Whereas the demo showcases high-quality rendering, we discovered the video era to be of the identical degree as Runway and Pika 1.0. The small print concerning the knowledge procurement to coach the AI mannequin or the consumer privateness for the generated movies usually are not recognized.

Throughout our testing, we additionally discovered that Video-01 was producing movies with influential individuals, which might contribute to deepfakes. Whether or not this may be addressed in future updates isn’t recognized.