First Hands-On With RunwayML’s Gen-3 Alpha Video Generator
The problem with World Models
An adorable kitten plays outdoors, bathed in the diffuse glow of a beautiful sunset.
Suddenly, the kitten’s head pops off. Its front half and back walk off in different directions. The video ends.
That’s just one example of the bizarre results I’ve seen from my initial testing of RunwayML’s new Gen-3 Alpha. Billed as the most advanced AI video generator currently on the market, Gen-3 Alpha just came out of private Beta last week.
That makes it one of two AI video generators you can actually use (OpenAI’s Sora, which dazzled people with cinematic films and stunning AI-created shots is still not available to anyone beyond people like Tyler Perry).
How does RunwayML’s new model do? Is my bifurcated kitten an aberration, or typical output? I tested the new model to see how it performs — and if it could be a Sora-killer.
