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How it started

In just a few short years, text-to-image models went from only being able to churn out smudgy, “dreamlike” approximations of their input to producing detailed visualizations of whatever you describe. As the AI image generators got better, text-to-video models like Runway’s Gen series, Meta’s Make-A-Video, and Google’s Veo also came into their own. Now …

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