Pika Labs, one of the first commercial artificial intelligence video platforms, has finally come out with its version 1.5 model, and it's taken an interesting turn compared to the likes of Runway Gen-3 and Luma Labs, focusing on fun and memes as a way to draw attention to its capabilities.
As well as updates to the underlying model that include image-to-video, text-to-video, and ever-improving degrees of motion realism, there are custom-built effects called PikaEffects that let you take an image and manipulate parts of it to turn it into cake, squish it into slime, or crush it.
