MiniMax Video-01 Platform With AI Video Generation Capabilities Launched

MiniMax, a Chinese synthetic intelligence (AI) unicorn startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, launched a text-to-video era mannequin final week. Dubbed Video-01, the platform is out there to the general public even outdoors of China. It can generate six-second-long movies in a variety of types. Video-01 joins the corporate’s present AI choices comparable to a music generator, generative speech, and language translation. The AI video generator will compete with comparable instruments out there comparable to Runway AI, Pika 1.0, and soon-to-be-released Sora by OpenAI.

MiniMax Video-01 Launched

The AI video generator was launched by MiniMax Founder and Chief Executive Officer Yan Junjie on the firm’s first developer convention in Shanghai, in line with a South China Morning Post report. The founder reportedly highlighted that Video-01 is the primary iteration of a text-to-video era mannequin and future updates will permit customers to generate movies from picture inputs. Video modifying capabilities are additionally stated to be added through future updates.

Gadgets 360 workers members have been in a position to entry the platform and generate movies by writing a textual content immediate in English. The MiniMax Video-01 can generate six-second-long movies in 1280 x 720 pixels decision at 25 frames per second. The software can generate movies in a variety of types and views.

Enthusiasts don’t have to register to make use of the platform and might instantly generate movies. Video-01 took about 5 minutes to generate movies in our testing, however this may very well be as a result of a excessive variety of customers accessing the platform concurrently. There is a restrict without cost customers, nonetheless, the restrict is presently not recognized.

A demo of the era functionality of the MiniMax Video-01 was posted on X (previously often known as Twitter). While the demo showcases high-quality rendering, we discovered the video era to be of the identical stage as Runway and Pika 1.0. The particulars in regards to the information procurement to coach the AI mannequin or the person privateness for the generated movies are usually not recognized.

During our testing, we additionally discovered that Video-01 was producing movies with influential individuals, which may contribute to deepfakes. Whether this may be addressed in future updates will not be recognized.