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However, a lot of Pikas power comes from these additional features.

I decided to start by seeing how well it handled a simple image-to-video prompt and then a text-to-video prompt.

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This is because most models handle it fairly well but interpret it in different ways.

It also requires the model to create a realistic-looking dog with sunglasses something unusual.

Unlike Sora or Kling, Pika kept the dog static, sitting on the seat.

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and a generated image of the interior of a potential Mars base.

I gave it the two images as ingredients along with the prompt working on Mars.

It created a video of me smiling and walking around.

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It still looked cool, though.

First, I generated an image in Ideogram using that prompt.

Its now one of my all-time favourite images and one I plan to print as a poster.

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I then gave it to Pika 2.0 as an ingredient for AI video generation with no additional prompt.

It came out looking like a studio ident for a new movie.

Last week when Sora was first announced I wrote a guide tobest Sora alternativesand left Pika off the list.

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