Last Week in AI: Google, OpenAI leads generative AI video creation

Tech giants are now racing to bring their generative AI video models to market. Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) recently unveiled Veo, its generative video AI, to a select group of beta testers, showcasing its capabilities through a series of demos. Around the same time, OpenAI announced the upcoming release of Sora, its own generative video product, as part of a promotional campaign dubbed “The 12 Days of OpenAI.”

This was unexpected from OpenAI, as the team recently suspended Sora after a group of disgruntled artists in its early access program complained about the way OpenAI was treating them.

Generative video seems to be one of the last frontiers in AI innovation(for now). While text-to-text and text-to-image models have become mainstream, text-to-video has remained elusive—until now. The dominant players in AI, …