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🧰 AI Video Platforms That Are Changing The Game
Published about 6 hours ago • 5 min read
🧰 Smart tools. Useful tips. Weekly.
Hola friend 👋,
I’m Josep. Each week, I hunt down practical tools and productivity hacks to help digital doers like you do more with less effort.
This week: AI video tools that are turning text into cinematic-quality footage.
Video is king, but creating it is time-consuming and expensive. Professional-looking videos used to require a whole team, fancy equipment, and hours of editing. Now, AI is changing the game, allowing creators to generate stunning videos from simple text prompts.
This week, I’m sharing three AI video tools that are leading the charge – so if you’re creating social media content, marketing videos, or just experimenting with AI, this issue is for you!
Plus: a useful Gemini app, a hack to generate videos in bulk, and a cautionary tale about relying too much on a single platform for your revenue.
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If you’re looking to create high-quality, long-form AI videos, Kling is a tool you need to know. It’s a powerful video generator that can create clips of up to three minutes, which is a big step up from many other AI video tools.
Kling’s main strength is its ability to generate realistic, coherent videos from text or image references. It excels at creating consistent characters and fluid movements, making your videos look more professional. It supports various cinematic styles, and you can also add voices to your videos.
I’ve been testing it, and the results are impressive. It’s particularly good for short films, “wow” social media content, and longer AI videos. Note: AI video generation requires a lot of computing resources, so it’s not the cheapest option.
Runway is another major player in the AI video space. It’s a comprehensive platform that offers a wide range of AI “magic” tools for video editing and generation, making it a one-stop shop for many creators.
Runway’s suite of tools is impressive. It includes text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video generation, as well as advanced features to enhance your videos (for example, green screen removal and motion tracking). This means you can not only generate videos from scratch but also edit and enhance your existing footage with AI.
When I used Runway, I felt it was slightly quicker than Kling. Runway’s free plan also feels a bit more generous; however, its paid plans are more expensive than Kling’s (starting at $12 vs $6.60 a month).
CyberCut is a newer AI video tool designed to make video creation faster and easier for users who need to produce a high volume of content. Its main focus is streamlining the editing workflow by automating tasks such as cutting, trimming, and adding captions. It also includes templates and a stock media library, which can help users assemble professional-looking videos quickly.
CyberCut appears particularly well-suited to short-form social media content like TikToks and Reels. It’s useful for social media managers, marketers, and entrepreneurs who need to publish engaging video content regularly but do not want to rely on more complex video editing software.
If you’ve tried CapCut and didn’t love it, give CyberCut a try and let me know if it works better for you. Btw, for now it’s completely free, they don’t even have paid plans. But I did find it a bit slow, especially the generative AI features.
If you’re a developer who enjoys working in the terminal, you’ll probably love Gemini CLI. It’s an open-source AI agent from Google that gives you direct access to Gemini models right from your command line. In short, it’s a Codex or Claude Code alternative powered by Google’s model, with notably generous free access.
Gemini CLI can help with a wide range of tasks, from coding and debugging to content creation and research, and it runs on your own machine so it can work directly with your local files and use its resources (e.g. browser).
I’ve been using it to automate parts of my work, and it’s been a huge money-saver – I mix Codex, Claude, and Gemini CLI on projects that need a lot of AI help, so I don’t burn through the free credits of any single tool 💸.
One important thing to know: there’s no graphical interface like Claude or Codex, so you have to use it in the terminal, which won’t be fun for everyone.
🛠️ Alternative to: GitHub Copilot CLI, Aider, Ollama
Want to create hundreds of videos or images without lifting a finger? You can use an AI coding agent like Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI to automate the process using Replicate.com and create b-roll or images for your social media posts.
Replicate is a platform that provides you with access to a huge library of machine learning models via an API – e.g. Kling, Veo, Nano Banana, etc. Here’s how you can use it to create content in bulk with this Claude Code hack:
Create a Replicate account: It’s free to sign up.
Add credits: You’ll need to add some credits to your account. $10 is plenty to get started.
Create an API token: You’ll need this to authenticate your requests.
Prompt your coding AI agent: Tell Claude Code, Codex or similar what you want need. For example: “I want to create 100 vertical videos for my coffee-related Instagram and TikTok accounts. Use the cheapest video model available on Replicate.”
Provide your API key: Give your AI agent the API token you created.
Go for a coffee: Claude (or similar) will start the process, and you only need to wait until it finishes.
You can even save the conversation with your AI agent as a skill, so you can repeat the process as many times as you want.
🍿 Plot Twist of the Week
On January 14–15, 2026, many website publishers who rely on Google AdSense for their income woke up to a nightmare. Their revenue had plummeted by 50–70% overnight, with some even reporting losses of up to 90%.
The cause? A mysterious glitch in Google’s Ad Manager that caused ads to partially or completely disappear from websites.
The issue left publishers scrambling to pay their bills and highlighted the dangers of relying on a single, opaque system for your income.
I guess we could learn to “Not put all your eggs in one algorithmic basket”. You can read more about the story on Search Engine Land.
That’s it for this week. Thanks for reading! Next time, we’ll be looking at tools and strategies to help you find new career opportunities and learn new skills.
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