Text to Video

Baidu DuCut 度加剪辑

Baidu's AI agent for scripting and editing talking-head video

DeepBrain AI (AI Studios)

Seoul avatar-video generator turning scripts into presenter clips

Google Veo

Google DeepMind's flagship AI video model with native audio

Grok Imagine

xAI's Aurora image/video generator, paywalled since the NSFW backlash

InVideo AI

Text-to-video editor for creators

Jimeng AI 即梦 (Dreamina)

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

Seedance

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

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