Since Sora 2 is on fire these weeks, reminding us what high-quality video generation should look like, we decided you really need this list of video generation tools – great alternatives or complements to it.
1. Sora 2 → https://openai.com/sora/ It needs no introduction, but this OpenAI’s text-to-video model produces short, ultra-realistic clips across styles (cinematic, photorealistic, animated, etc.) with synced audio
2. Google Veo 3 (Gemini Video Generation) → https://aistudio.google.com/models/veo-3 Part of Gemini AI. Generates 8-second high-fidelity videos from text or images with native sound: background soundtracks and realistic voices with near-perfect lip sync
3. Runway (Gen-4 by Runway ML) → https://runwayml.com/ Text, image, or video-to-video generation with advanced editing like changing lighting, weather, camera angles or replacing objects. Popular in AI filmmaking
4. Pika Labs → https://pollo.ai/m/pika-ai Provides creative, often stylized short videos – from cinematic mini-scenes to cartoon-like animations. Ideal for social media clips and visual storytelling. Plus, you can add playful effects to manipulate objects in the generated videos
5. Luma’s Dream Machine → https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine Powered by Luma AI’s latest Ray 3 model, it quickly visualizes story ideas, animated concept art, or abstract motion videos. It supports consistent custom characters and seamless looping
Say hello to hf: a faster, friendlier Hugging Face CLI ✨
We are glad to announce a long-awaited quality-of-life improvement: the Hugging Face CLI has been officially renamed from huggingface-cli to hf!
So... why this change?
Typing huggingface-cli constantly gets old fast. More importantly, the CLI’s command structure became messy as new features were added over time (upload, download, cache management, repo management, etc.). Renaming the CLI is a chance to reorganize commands into a clearer, more consistent format.
We decided not to reinvent the wheel and instead follow a well-known CLI pattern: hf <resource> <action>. Isn't hf auth login easier to type and remember?