This AI video generator may be almost as fast as creating real videos

AI-powered video maker Runway is now offering Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, which makes the recently released Gen-3 Alpha model even faster than its Gen-2 successor. The latest version is said to be seven times faster and costs just half as much as the Gen-3 Alpha, which is likely to generate a lot of interest from professional and amateur filmmakers interested in AI.

As the name suggests, the Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is all about speed, reducing the time between submitting a prompt and watching a video to near-real-time production, according to Runway. The idea is to offer something for industries where that kind of speed is crucial, like social media content and live advertising. The trade-off is quality. While Runway maintains that the Turbo model’s videos are essentially as good as the standard Gen-3 Alpha, the non-Turbo variant can produce higher-quality images for the video as a whole.