Sora, Veo, Runway Gen-3

2024

Sundar Pichai, Google/Alphabet CEO — Veo, Google's text-to-video model, dropped in May 2024 alongside OpenAI's Sora demo (February) and Runway Gen-3 (June). The medium starts generating itself. OpenAI demos Sora in February 2024, Google releases Veo in May, Runway ships Gen-3 in June. Text-to-video generation reaches the quality threshold where individual outputs are indistinguishable from short film clips at first glance. The medium is now producing not just images and text, but minute-long moving footage.