Text to Video
Baidu DuCut 度加剪辑
Baidu's AI agent for scripting and editing talking-head video
Realistic AI human video creation.
Seoul avatar-video generator turning scripts into presenter clips
Google DeepMind's flagship AI video model with native audio
xAI's Aurora image/video generator, paywalled since the NSFW backlash
Hailuo AI 海螺 (MiniMax)
MiniMax's video generator: fast, cheap, strong on physics
Efficient AI video generation tuned for marketing and ad clips
On-brand avatar video for e-learning and HR teams
InVideo AI
Text-to-video editor for creators
ByteDance's Seedream/Seedance studio — now with a real API
Kling
Kuaishou-spun AI video model, now an $18B independent rival to Sora.
Luma AI
AI video generation with Dream Machine — and the leading tool for turning photos into 3D NeRF scenes.
Moonvalley (Marey)
Fully-licensed AI video model for studios, shaky on consistency
Pika Labs
AI video generator known for physics-bending Pikaffects
PixVerse
AI video generator turning text and photos into short cinematic clips
Runway
AI video generation and editing — Gen-4.5 adds native audio
ByteDance's multimodal AI video model with joint audio-video generation
Sora
OpenAI's video model — app closed April 2026, API sunsets Sept 2026
Synthesia
Enterprise AI video creation with avatars
Wan (Wan 2.1)
Alibaba's open-weight video AI — Wan 2.2 is the current flagship.
Turns Chinese articles into narrated video with an AI presenter
Zhipu Qingying 智谱清影 (CogVideoX)
Zhipu's free video generator, built on the open-weight CogVideoX model