Luma AI, a startup sponsored by the renowned Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, today revealed the free public beta of their new AI video generating model, Dream Machine, which has already received a flood of users.
The AI video generation sector is rapidly evolving yet again.
Many customers have been waiting hours in a digital line on the Luma Dream Machine website for their video to process, despite the model’s promise of up to 120 frames in 120 seconds (2 minutes, or a frame per second). The company claims that this is because to the enormous volume of traffic.
“Hey everyone, thanks so much for all the enthusiasm and support!” Barkley Dai, Luma’s product and growth lead, posted a message on the company’s Discord channel earlier today. “We are currently facing high demand and are working to increase our capacity!” All generations will not be lost; instead, they will remain in the line. We will update the situation here soon we have more capacity!”
Several hours later, Dai issued the following update:
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Introducing Dream Machine - a next generation video model for creating high quality, realistic shots from text instructions and images using AI. It’s available to everyone today! Try for free here https://t.co/rBVWU50kTc #LumaDreamMachine pic.twitter.com/Ypmacd8E9z
— Luma AI (@LumaLabsAI) June 12, 2024
Assembly
— Bengt Tibert (@BengtTibert) June 12, 2024
Made with #LumaDreamMachine🔥
Thank you @LumaLabsAI for the invitation to play with your new mind blowing toy!🔥 I sleep even less now.
Track made with @udiomusic @fellowshiptrust #artificialfriends pic.twitter.com/wJ5dRTYdpQ
“Our staff increased capacity, and as a consequence, the backlog is progressively decreasing! In the short term, we predict that it will still take a few hours to handle the present backlog of pending generations. Under normal circumstances, it will only take 2-3 minutes to convert your prompt into a video, and we appreciate your patience as we cope with the high volume of individuals interested in using this revolutionary technology. The generation rate will continue to improve.
Luma AI, a little-known firm, developed the high-quality AI video generator, when it debuted its text-to-3D asset generator model Genie 1.0 in November 2023. According to TechCrunch, Luma AI has funded over $70 million, with $43 million coming from its Series B as of January 2024.
Luma’s Dream Machine Wows Creators, Heats Up Race with Competitors
Prominent AI video creators and filmmakers were given the opportunity to test Dream Machine’s abilities to create videos from text prompts and still images before the public beta opened today. This was a wise PR move on the part of the company, as they have been sharing their work all day.
I've been wanting to get to the bottom of this story for so long. #DreamMachine #LumaAI 😂 pic.twitter.com/pKPWqW9lQH
— Pierrick Chevallier | IA (@CharaspowerAI) June 13, 2024
The last few days I had the opportunity to access and test Luma Dream Machine
— Loop'n'Mix (@JH4TC) June 13, 2024
Here are 10 of my favorites generations between image to video and text-to-video 👇🤩
Thank you to the team at @LumaLabsAI #LumaDreamMachine pic.twitter.com/Ap8t3dnU2C
Others who have just gotten their hands on it are finding it to be incredibly remarkable, drawing analogies to OpenAI’s Sora, while others claim it is already superior.
VentureBeat tested Luma’s Dream Machine online software in small batches, but the text-to-video function only occasionally accurately depicted our prompt’s questions. But after a few minutes, the film started to play and featured incredibly fluid, jitter-free movements as well as highly detailed, high-resolution materials.
It’s obvious that the struggle to create engaging AI video models is picking up speed. OpenAI’s Sora, which is still only accessible to a select few customers, is up against some very fierce competition, like Runway, Pika, and the recently launched Chinese company Kling.
