Meta showcases ‘Movie Gen’ to create short video from text prompts no training, skills, or fancy equipment required

Forward-looking: Advances in AI are attempting to remove many of the prohibitive financial and technical challenges that can make content creation more challenging outside of big cloud data centers. AI research teams are developing and refining tools allowing even the most novice creators to generate content based on nothing more than a description of what they want to see. This week, Meta published a blog post highlighting Movie Gen, the company’s upcoming text-to-content audio and video generator.

Movie Gen was introduced this week by Mark Zuckerberg in an Instagram post reminding us that we shouldn’t skip leg day. The preview comes several months after OpenAI’s introduction of its Sora AI text-to-video solution.

A longer and more informative announcementwas posted on Meta’s AI research team blog, providing additional information about Movie Gen’s capabilities. The new tool will support …