While LLMs such as ChatGPT will give you any text you want and graphics generators such as Stable Diffusion will create an image based on a prompt, text-to-video AI is still an emerging field. Earlier this week, we reported on an AI Pizza Commercial that used a text-to-video tool called Runway Gen-2 for its video. However, at present, Runway Gen-2 is in an invite-only beta. So, unless you were invited, you can't try it out.
Fortunately, there is a completely free and easy-to-use tool on Hugging Face (the leading AI developer portal) called NeuralInternet Text-to-Video Playground, but it's limited to a mere two seconds, just about enough for an animated GIF. You don't even need to have a Hugging Face account to use it. Here's how.
