[AINews] SOTA Video Gen: Veo 2 and Kling 2 are GA for developers

<p><strong>Lots of money is all you need.</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>AI News for 4/14/2025-4/15/2025. We checked 7 subreddits, <a href="https://twitter.com/i/lists/1585430245762441216" target="_blank"><strong>433</strong> Twitters</a> and <strong>29</strong> Discords (<strong>211</strong> channels, and <strong>7102</strong> messages) for you. Estimated reading time saved (at 200wpm): <strong>557 minutes</strong>. You can now tag <a href="https://x.com/smol_ai" target="_blank">@smol_ai</a> for AINews discussions!</p> </blockquote> <p>We rarely cover video gen model advances here, partially because of the biases in sources towards text/coding topics, and also because they often aren't API available and it can be hard to quantify advances. However, it's not every day that the top 2 <a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-video/arena?tab=leaderboard" target="_blank">Video Arena Leaderboard</a> models get general availability and a bunch of hype videos, so it's a nice excuse to check in on SOTA video gen.</p> <p>Google's Veo 2 is <a href="https://developers.googleblog.com/en/veo-2-video-generation-now-generally-available/" target="_blank">now in Gemini's own API</a> (after first releasing on Fal) and <a href="https://blog.google/products/gemini/video-generation/" target="_blank">Gemini Advanced/Whisk</a>, for a remarkably cheap <a href="https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#veo-2" target="_blank"><strong>35 cents per second of generated video</strong></a> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1jzntpk/comment/mn9s8np/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button" target="_blank">actual experience may differ</a>).</p> <p><img alt="image.png" class="newsletter-image" src="https://assets.buttondown.email/images/7d219959-540b-45d8-b177-75bdf8f67d7b.png?w=960&amp;fit=max" /></p> <p>Kling 2 from China also released today, with pricing at around <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singula