Pika 1.5 provides new Pikaffects: crumble, dissolve, deflate, ta-da!

Pika a.ok.a Pika Labs or Pika AI, the Palo Alto, California-based startup that has raised $55 million to disrupt video manufacturing with its video AI fashions of the identical identify, is additional increasing the free particular results customers can entry by its web-based AI image-to-video generator.

Pika 1.5, its newest AI video mannequin, now contains the flexibility to crumble, dissolve, deflate and “ta-da” video topics — the final of those primarily making a video topic disappear behind a fabric.

Customers can merely add a picture to the location and Pika 1.5 will flip it right into a video with a corresponding animation. The consumer guides which animation is utilized by choosing it from a button beside the “Image” attachment icon (paperclip) labeled “Pikaeffect” with a magic wand beside it.

The brand new AI powered particular results — or “Pikaffects, in the company’s parlance — join six others previously unveiled earlier this month: Explode, squish, melt, crush, inflate and “cake-ify,” the latter of which turns any uploaded nonetheless picture into an “is it cake?” video the place the reply is a powerful “yes!”

Sadly, VentureBeat has been unable to make use of the brand new results but as once we tried, the location mentioned “We’re experiencing high demand right now (how flattering)!”

Nonetheless, because the AI panorama evolves, Pika’s distinctive strategy to video manipulation units it aside from the rising discipline of AI-driven content material era.

Whereas Pikaffects cater to customers looking for artistic transformations, conventional options like lip-syncing and AI sound results stay accessible on the sooner Pika 1.0 mannequin. Paid subscribers have the flexibleness to change between Pika 1.5 and 1.0, relying on their challenge wants.

The place Pika got here from

Pika Labs, co-founded by former Stanford AI researchers Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, first launched its AI video platform in late 2023. The corporate has quickly scaled, reaching over half 1,000,000 customers in lower than a 12 months.

In contrast to many AI video platforms that focus totally on realism, Pika takes a special route by prioritizing artistic manipulation.

These results allow customers to reshape video topics in methods that aren’t simply visually impactful but in addition technologically intriguing, providing hands-on AI practitioners a sandbox for experimentation.

For professionals managing machine studying fashions or integrating new AI instruments, Pika Labs’ newest options may current new alternatives to deploy progressive content material options.

The platform permits the fast software of results by a user-friendly interface whereas nonetheless enabling deeper integration through text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-video (I2V) workflows.

Subscription pricing

To accommodate a various vary of customers, Pika Labs presents 4 subscription plans:

1. Primary (Free): This entry-level plan gives 150 month-to-month video credit and entry to the Pika 1.5 options, making it appropriate for informal customers or these curious in regards to the platform.
2. Customary ($8/month, billed yearly): With 700 month-to-month credit, entry to each Pika 1.5 and Pika 1.0, and sooner era instances, this plan presents extra flexibility for content material creators trying to produce extra movies.
3. Professional ($28/month, billed yearly): This plan contains 2,000 month-to-month credit and even sooner era instances, catering to customers with increased content material calls for.
4. Limitless ($76/month, billed yearly): Designed for energy customers, this plan permits limitless video credit, providing the quickest era instances obtainable on the platform.

The up to date credit score construction (15 credit per five-second clip) permits for a scalable strategy to video era. The varied subscription tiers accommodate totally different wants, from mild experimentation to intensive manufacturing, making certain that each particular person contributors and bigger groups can discover an inexpensive resolution.

These versatile pricing choices make Pika Labs accessible to smaller groups and bigger organizations alike, permitting AI engineers to handle prices whereas experimenting with new video capabilities.

Trying to distinguish amid a crowded sea of rivals

The transfer by Pika to additional differentiate its video AI mannequin from rivals equivalent to Runway, Luma, Kling, and Hailuo comes amid intensifying competitors within the nascent {industry}, and follows Adobe’s transfer this week at its MAX convention in Miami Seashore, Florida, to start providing a preview of its personal “enterprise safe” AI video mannequin Firefly Video, educated on licensed knowledge.

Pika, like most different generative AI startups, has not disclosed its exact coaching dataset. Different rivals equivalent to Runway have been sued by artists for alleged copyright infringement over coaching AI fashions on knowledge scraped from the net, together with many different artworks and movies, and sure many copyrighted ones. That case, which additionally names AI picture generator Midjourney and Stability, is transferring ahead towards a trial however has but to be determined.