Hotshot brings new momentum to AI video creation – here’s how you can try it for free

The competition among AI video makers is already simmering, but the temperature has just risen again thanks to a new option called Hotshot, developed by just four people. The new AI video generator offers a free alternative to Runway, OpenAI’s Sora, Luma’s Dream Machine, and other text-to-video AI models, and has produced some impressive results from its previous efforts in AI photo creation.

Hotshot’s latest text-to-video AI model is still in preview after four months of training on 600 million video clips. But it can produce up to 10 seconds of footage based on your input. It’s an impressive tool not only because of how the videos look, but also because of the model’s flexible design. The videos it creates can potentially be enhanced, linked to audio, or even recreated in higher resolution using secondary tools, making Hotshot a great testing ground for the beginnings of longer videos. Even without additional tools, you can use a single prompt to create videos in multiple styles, including comic art and a mix of animation and live-action footage.

How to use Hotshot