Four years of text-to-video: from Phenaki's blurry GIFs to today

Former Google researchers revisited Phenaki, one of the earliest text-to-video models released four years ago that produced low-resolution GIF-like clips. The contrast with today's high-quality long video generation highlights stunning progress in the field.

2026-10-06 ~ 2026-10-07 · 4 related posts

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