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Why 2023 Was AI Video’s Breakout Year, and What to Expect in 2024 | Andreessen Horowitz

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This post has been adapted from a thread from a16z Partner Justine Moore on X. Follow Justine on X for more analysis and observations. 2023 was a breakout year for AI video. At the start of the year, no public text-to-video models existed. Just 12 months later, dozens of video generation products are in active use, with millions of users worldwide creating short clips from text or image prompts. These products are still relatively limited — most generate 3 to 4 second videos, the outputs tend to be mixed in quality, and things like character consistency have yet to be cracked. We’re still far from being able to create a Pixar-level short film with a single text prompt (or even multiple prompts!). However, the progress we’ve seen in video generation over the past year suggests that we’re in the early innings of a massive transformation — similar to what we saw in image generation. We’re seeing continued improvements in text-to-video models, as well as offshoots like image-to-video and v

Why 2023 Was AI Video's Breakout Year, and What to Expect in 2024 | Andreessen Horowitz Consumer Why 2023 Was AI Video's Breakout Year, and What to Expect in 2024 Justine Moore Posted January 31, 2024 Subscribe Share Share Email X LinkedIn Facebook Hacker News WhatsApp Flipboard Reddit Share Share Email X LinkedIn Facebook Hacker News WhatsApp Flipboard Reddit This post has been adapted from a thread from a16z Partner Justine Moore on X. Follow Justine on X for more analysis and observations. 2023 was a breakout year for AI video. At the start of the year, no public text-to-video models existe

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