Amazon has started offering Luma AI’s new video creation tool, Ray 2, through its cloud service. The tool can turn written descriptions into short videos that look surprisingly real.
“This is a new frontier in video creation,” says Luma AI in their announcement. The company made Ray 2 ten times more powerful than their previous version to create more realistic movements and clearer picture quality.
Ray 2 currently makes videos that are 5-9 seconds long. Early tests show it’s enough time to capture everything from a whale swimming through space to a close-up of a bee pollinating flowers. The videos come in two quality levels – 540p and 720p.
Testing reveals both strengths and challenges. “The motion was spot on,” notes one expert reviewer about a test creating knife-slicing scenes. The tool excels at showing natural movements, especially with animals. The source notes that during testing, about half of the attempted prompts successfully generated videos.
Ray 2 faces competition from other AI video tools. OpenAI’s Sora and Runway’s Gen-2 offer different capabilities, while Google’s Veo 2 has shown strength in specific tasks like knife skills demonstrations.
For people wanting to try Ray 2, Luma offers different options:
- A free version that makes basic quality videos
- A $66.49 monthly subscription for better quality and unlimited use
- Access through Amazon’s cloud platform for developers
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To encourage people to use Ray 2, Luma is running a contest with $7,000 in prizes, including $5,000 for the most-viewed video on social media.
Luma plans to add more features soon, like turning photos into videos and tools for editing. While Ray 2 isn’t perfect – sometimes creating odd movements or visual glitches – it shows how quickly AI video technology is improving. Just two years ago, creating realistic-looking videos from text descriptions seemed impossible. Now several companies offer this capability, making it easier for anyone to bring their creative ideas to life.