There has been some absolutely crazy advances in AI models in the past month that may have gone unnoticed.
Sonnet 3.5 was silently released a few weeks ago by Anthropic which has beaten gpt4-o on all tests except math, but the biggest new advantage is how powerful it is at coding. And this is their mid tier model. I've been using it via Perplexity and although I don't have access to Artifacts this way to optimize use, but the coding is significantly improved with way less errors than anything prior It made a fully working enhanced Flappy Bird game with the same physics within 3 prompts as a quick example.
Luma AI released Dream machine last week which went quite viral considering how out of nowhere it came, giving near Sora level of video to the public for free. The best use is image to video which keeps high fidelity to the original image, Feed it a Midjourney image or a normal photo for best results. Free generations are now limited to 5 a day and 30 a month, with 150 available for the first tiered level.
https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine
Yesterday Runway AI released Gen 3 Alpha to the public, which offers even better near Sora like video. At the moment unfortunately image to video is not yet available to paid users (the non-public alpha version had it which was mind blowing) and it's quite expensive considering the limited generation. I am currently paying for the Pro tier, which gives approximately under 4 minutes of video generation for 35$ USD (Luma Dream Machine is currently much better value with image to video enabled). Since I am planning commercial use I am likely going to upgrade but hoping for image to video to be released before proceeding.
https://runwayml.com/
Maybe I can take a prompt or two and post a video of it via streamable to show its capabilities, and link a completed 1 min video I am working on. Video uses a combination of Runway, Midjourney (will be used for reference as soon as image to video is available), Suno for music and Elevenlabs.io for voice and sound effects, video prompts generated through Sonnet 3.5 with Runway custom prompting guide.