Luma releases a model new AI model that lets prospects generate a video from a start and end physique

Luma, the a16z-backed AI video and 3D model agency, launched a model new model known as Ray3 Modify that allows prospects to vary present footage by providing character reference images that shield the effectivity of the distinctive footage. Prospects can also current a start and an end physique to data the model to generate transitional footage.

The company acknowledged Thursday the Ray3 Modify model solves the problems of preserving human effectivity whereas modifying or producing outcomes using AI for ingenious studios. The startup acknowledged the model follows the enter footage larger, allowing studios to utilize human actors for ingenious or mannequin footage. Luma talked in regards to the model new model retains the actor’s distinctive motion, timing, eye line, and emotional provide whereas remodeling the scene.

With Ray3 Modify, prospects can current a persona reference for transformation to the distinctive footage and convert the human actor’s look into that character. This reference moreover permits creators to retain knowledge like costumes, likeness, and id all through the shoot.

What’s further, prospects can also current start and end reference frames to create a video using the model new Ray3 Modify model. That’s helpful for creators in directing transitions or controlling character actions or conduct whereas sustaining continuity between scenes.

“Generative video fashions are extraordinarily expressive however moreover laborious to handle. Instantly, we’re excited to introduce Ray3 Modify that blends the real-world with the expressivity of AI whereas giving full administration to creatives. This means ingenious teams can seize performances with a digital digital camera after which immediately modify them to be in any location conceivable, change costumes, and even return and reshoot the scene with AI, with out recreating the bodily shoot,” Amit Jain, co-founder and CEO of Luma AI, acknowledged in an announcement.

Luma acknowledged the model new model is available on the market to prospects by the company’s Dream Machine platform. The company, which competes with the likes of Runway and Kling, launched video modification capabilities in June 2025.

The model launch comes on the once more of a latest $900 million funding spherical, led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund-owned AI agency Humain, for the startup launched in November. Current merchants like a16z, Amplify Companions, and Matrix Companions moreover participated inside the spherical. The startup may be planning to assemble a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia along with Humain.