This AI Video Maker Can Make Writing a Banana Look Realistic and Could Challenge Sora

• Luma Labs has launched the new Ray 2 AI video generator
• Ray 2 converts text prompts into high-quality 5-10 second videos
• Ray 2 is available through the Dream Machine platform

Luma Labs has debuted a powerful new AI model for generating videos on its Dream Machine platform called Ray 2. The new model can produce a variety of realistic video clips of up to 10 seconds, from a recreation of a bee pollinating flowers to more ideas. surreal like the typographic anthropomorphic banana seen above.

The beauty of Ray 2 is not only its ability to depict these wild settings, but also to do so with movement and physics that look surprisingly natural. Unlike previous video generation tools, which often struggled to produce anything faster than a leisurely walk, you can see people booking it in one go. Ray 2 is able to achieve this level of output due in part to Luma training it with ten times the computing power of its predecessor, Ray 1. That means more realistic characters, faster rendering, smoother movements, and far fewer glitches.