🎬AI Video Generators — 10 Best Tools

Text-to-video and image-to-video generators that turn a prompt or still image into moving footage for short videos, ads, animation and previsualization.

5 tools from China and 5 international tools, Chinese products listed first.

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Quick list: AI Video Generators

  1. Kling AI — Kling AI is Kuaishou’s video generation platform and one of the leading AI video tools worldwide, with realistic motion, physics and camera movement.
  2. Hailuo AI — Hailuo AI is MiniMax’s video creation platform.
  3. Vidu — Vidu, developed by ShengShu Technology with Tsinghua University, is best known for reference-to-video: upload several images of characters, objects or scenes a…
  4. PixVerse — PixVerse, from Chinese startup AIsphere, is an AI video generator with a large library of viral effect templates that animate a single photo, alongside standar…
  5. Qingying (CogVideoX) — Qingying is the video generation feature inside Zhipu’s ChatGLM app, based on the open CogVideoX models, supporting text- and image-to-video with optional AI s…
  6. OpenAI Sora — Sora is OpenAI’s video model and creative app, generating clips with synchronized sound from text or images and handling complex scenes and physics well.
  7. Runway — Runway is a go-to AI video platform for filmmakers.
  8. Pika — Pika is a consumer AI video tool focused on fun effects and creative tricks, such as inflating, melting or swapping objects, with quick generation for social m…
  9. Luma Dream Machine — Dream Machine is Luma AI’s image and video creation platform built on its Ray video models, with smooth motion, natural camera work, keyframes, loops and a can…
  10. Google Flow — Flow is Google’s AI filmmaking tool built on its Veo video models.