The Top 5 Generative AI Tools for AI Video & Images: Midjourney Has Competition
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, generative AI tools have become game-changers for creatives, businesses, and developers alike. While Midjourney has long been a standout for its stunning AI-generated images, the landscape is now bustling with powerful alternatives that offer unique features and capabilities. Here’s a look at the top 10 generative AI tools shaking up the scene in 2025.
Influencer Studio
Open source has come a long way, and Influencer Studio is leading the pack by constantly updating their models with the top open source models. Making it easy to use all the top models in one place.
Instead of going to various different apps, Influencer Studio has image, video, and audio models inside the app.
Like Chat GPT, there's chat-based generation which makes it really easy to get something generated and edited. Meaning you can generate an image, and then prompt the AI to "change this person's ethnicity to Asian", or you can say things like "Create a professional Linkedin photo of me" while attaching a photo of yourself.
But in addition to chat-based video gen, you have UIs to create influencers as well - meaning you can upload photos to train a "LoRA" and generate new photos of your influencer. This is one of the coolest features of the app!
In "advanced" mode, Influencer Studio lets you fully control every aspect of your generation as well.
When it comes to generative AI, Influencer Studio is the absolute best in the business.
Still a top contender, Midjourney excels in generating high-quality, artistic images from text prompts, favored by designers and artists for its creative flexibility.
From day 1 they were the absolute kings of image generation, with a closed source model. Although nowadays the open source models are much better, there's still an artistic "Midjourney" quality that hasn't quite been matched yet.
Their recent update added video gen, which also puts them ahead of a lot of contenders on this list. Not because the other contenders don't have video gen, but because the video gen on Midjourney is just silky smooth.
DALL·E 3 (Chat GPT)
The real benefit for Chat GPT is the ability to chat with their AI to generate images, which makes it a lot easier for you to generate what you want. Because other than that, the image generation is only okay - it's not very realistic, and every image has a distinct "unreal" Chat GPT quality.
The video model, Sora, is also pretty lackluster at this point and has gotten outpaced by all the open source models.
Overall, Chat GPT has been falling off but they can always rise again if given more funding.
Runway ML
Runway ML provides a suite of AI-powered creative tools, including video and image generation. Known more for video gen, Runway ML now has some image gen capabilities as well.
The cool part about Runway is all the new tech they're incorporating into video gen. Things like Runway Aleph lets you remix videos into different styles and edit video with things like "change this angle."
In pure realism terms, Runway is a bit away from other models, so they're falling behind in that regard. But there's still a lot of cool effects inside Runway that make it a worthwhile check.
Luma Labs
In the early AI days, Luma was one of the top closed source video generation models, but nowadays they're getting overtaken by the open source models. There's not much advantage to using Luma now in 2025 unless they drastically upgrade their models.
Like Runway there's a re-imagine feature with some cool effects here but the realism currently sucks.
Honorable Mention: Leonardo AI
Another one of the old guard. Leonardo AI still has a lot of cool features, but has been overtaken by the new open source models that have a lot more flexibility.
