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Meta Make-A-Video: Text-to-Video AI System

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A demonstration of Meta's text-to-video AI capability, relevant to AI safety discussions around synthetic media risks, capability thresholds, and the governance challenges posed by increasingly realistic generative AI systems.

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Summary

Meta's Make-A-Video is an AI system that generates short video clips from text descriptions, images, or existing videos. It extends text-to-image generation techniques into the temporal domain, enabling creation of realistic and imaginative video content from natural language prompts. The system represents a significant capability milestone in generative AI for multimedia content.

Key Points

  • Generates short video clips directly from text prompts using deep learning models trained on image-text pairs and unlabeled video data
  • Demonstrates rapid capability advancement in generative AI, extending text-to-image success (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion) to video synthesis
  • Raises concerns about deepfakes, synthetic media misuse, and the accelerating pace of AI-generated content capabilities
  • Represents a threshold moment where AI-generated video becomes accessible and convincing enough to blur lines with real footage
  • Highlights the need for AI governance frameworks addressing synthetic media, watermarking, and provenance verification

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 Make-A-Video 
 Make-A-Video is a state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text. 
 Read research paper 
 

 
 

 
 
 Make-A-Video

 Make-A-Video research builds on the recent progress made in text-to-image generation technology built to enable text-to-video generation. The system uses images with descriptions to learn what the world looks like and how it is often described. It also uses unlabeled videos to learn how the world moves. With this data, Make-A-Video lets you bring your imagination to life by generating whimsical, one-of-a-kind videos with just a few words or lines of text.
 

 
 
 
 
 A dog wearing a Superhero outfit with red cape flying through the sky

 

 

 

 
 Make-A-Video with text

 Bring your imagination to life and create one-of-a-kind videos

 

 

 

 
 Surreal 
 
 

 
 Realistic 
 
 

 
 Stylized 
 
 

 

 
 
 A teddy bear painting a portrait 
 
 
 
 

 
 Robot dancing in times square 
 
 
 
 

 
 Cat watching TV with a remote in hand 
 
 
 
 

 
 A fluffy baby sloth with an orange knitted hat trying to figure out a laptop close up highly detailed studio lighting screen reflecting in its eye 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 An artists brush painting on a canvas close up 
 
 
 
 

 
 Clown fish swimming through the coral reef 
 
 
 
 

 
 A young couple walking in a heavy rain 
 
 
 
 

 
 Horse drinking water 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 Hyper-realistic spaceship landing on mars 
 
 
 
 

 
 An oil painting of a couple in formal evening wear going home get caught in a heavy downpour with umbrellas 
 
 
 
 

 
 There is a table by a window with sunlight streaming through illuminating a pile of books 
 
 
 
 

 
 An emoji of a baby panda wearing a red hat, blue gloves, green shirt, and blue pants 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 
 From static to magic

 Add motion to a single image or fill-in the in-between motion to two images.
 

 
 
 Single image 
 
 

 
 Pair of images 
 
 
 

 

 
 Input image 
 Input images 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 
 Make-A-Video output 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 Adding extra creativity to your video

 Create variations of your video based on the original.

 

 
 Input video 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 
 Make-A-Video output 

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 The New State of the Art in Video Generation

 

 
 
 
 3x 
 Better representation of text input* 
 
 

 
 
 
 3x 
 Higher quality* 
 
 
 

 *when compared to the previous state of the art via user studies. 
 
 Read research paper 
 

 

 
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 Interested in trying Make-A-Video?

 Let us know if you’re interested in gaining access to any future releases of our Make-A-Video research 

 
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 Advancing AI responsibly

 Meta AI is committed to developing responsible AI and ensuring the safe use of this state-of-the-art video technology. Our research takes the following steps to reduce the creation of harmful, biased, or misleading conte

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