This AI Company Saw Google’s Veo 3-Powered YouTube Slop and Said, ‘Hell Yeah’

Video generation is all the rage right now. While last month was all about Google’s Veo 3, which has already threatened to deepfake all of YouTube, make incoherent action movies, and automate game development, the fun (or horror) hasn’t stopped there. Just this week, OpenAI announced that it’s making its Sora video generation model available for free via Bing, which is big news for anyone that’s interested in testing out a video generator but doesn’t actually feel the need to pay for one yet. And it’s not all about the big two, either—there are apparently other AI companies that saw what Veo 3 was putting down in the world of AI slop and said, “Hold my beer.” One of those companies is called Captions, which just launched its own video generation model called Mirage Studio that it says can “generate expressive videos at scale” and create “actors that look and feel alive.” To translate: it looks like Mirage Studio is designed to be the perfect model for AI-generating social media slop, ... Read full article.