The launch of V1 puts Midjourney in competition with AI video generation models from other companies, such as OpenAI’s Sora, Runway’s Gen 4, Adobe’s Firefly, and Google’s Veo 3.

Introducing AI video you can watch and interact with, in real-time! Powering this is a new world model that imagines and streams video frames every 40ms(!). No game engine in sight.

Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics On-Device, a new AI model that runs locally on robots, enabling fast and flexible task execution without the need for cloud access.