Pika 1.5 Is Here: Generate Physics Defying AI Videos!
Pika Labs has just released a new AI video model, Pika 1.5, featuring improved video quality and the new Pika effects for next-level, physics-defying AI videos.
In the recent months, we’ve seen a lot of exciting activity in the AI video space. RunwayML released a new video-to-video model, Kling AI rolled out Kling 1.5 with motion-brush and lip-syncing features, and Vidu launched new video models with super-fast generation speed.
Today, Pika joins the club with the release of its new video model, Pika 1.5.
What is Pika?
Pika is a generative AI platform that allows you to create videos from text or image input. The tool isn’t new to the AI video scene. In fact, I’ve been keeping an eye on it and have covered their model releases in previous posts.
Back in December, when Pika launched their 1.0 model, I noted how groundbreaking it was for its time. If you’re curious, here’s an article I wrote about Pika 1.0.
Pika was co-founded by Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, former PhD students at Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. Their vision was clear from the start: to revolutionize video creation through AI. And they’ve delivered on that promise in more ways than one.
Recently, they raised an $80 million Series B round led by Spark Capital, bringing their total funding to $135 million. This funding will accelerate their efforts in building the best AI video foundation model, positioning them to become a key player in the creative technology sector.
Demi Guo, one of the co-founders, had this to say about their journey so far:
“When we started Pika six months ago, we wanted to push the boundaries of technology and design a future interface of video making that is effortless and accessible to everyone. Since then, we’re proud to have grown the Pika community to half a million users, who are generating millions of videos per week.”
For the rest of the article, you’ll learn about the following:
What’s new in Pika 1.5?
Two ways to access Pika 1.5 for free.
How to generate cool videos with the new Pikaeffects.
How much does it cost?
Final thoughts
Let’s get started.
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