Kling, Hailuo Minimax, and Google Veo are the best tools. Kling is the leader by an extremely wide margin. Wan video is a brand new open weights model that is

Kling, Hailuo Minimax, and Google Veo are the best tools. Kling is the leader by an extremely wide margin. Wan video is a brand new open weights model that is developing a nice research and tooling ecosystem around it. Netflix has been playing with it. Further research and tooling will be built on top of it for sure. Sora is garbage (currently [1]) and Runway, Luma, and Pika are mid. Pika kind of left the race to focus on social media content and memes. There are a bunch of other stealth / research foundation models that will be rolling out soon. It's a hyper competitive market and consumers are going to win. [1] Given the insane capabilities of the just released OpenAI 4o image gen, I expect the next Sora to be impressive.