Pika adds video generation to ChatGPT

• Video generation can happen inside ChatGPT: tranmautritam's animation demonstrates Pika working without a trip to its separate app.
• Pika's demos cover three creative jobs: Camera Director makes a cinematic short, Product Ad includes voiceover, and Product Shot produces studio-style product imagery.
• Generated images can become a brief for code: MengTo's experiment uses Pika inside Codex to art-direct a Three.js car website.
• A first-video incentive is being promoted: tranmautritam says users get 250 bonus credits after generating their first video with the plugin.

Pika's plugin page advertises 40+ tools and 55+ media models, with access to the user's existing Pika creation library. The ChatGPT listing even offers “Make a 10-second product ad from my photo” as a starter prompt.

Users can select an app from a gallery or describe what they want, according to the official listing. Photos and clips become inputs, and subsequent requests can build on earlier results.

After posting an animation made inside ChatGPT, tranmautritam shared this interface walkthrough:

Camera Director can reshoot an uploaded clip from different angles and with different camera moves while preserving the original scene, according to its app description. Pika's ChatGPT demonstration presents it as a way to turn an idea into a cinematic short.

Pika describes Product Ad as taking a product image and a brief to create a complete advertisement. Its armchair commercial includes voiceover.

Pika's Product Shot description promises styled product images from a reference photo. The demonstrated prompt controls both the background and lighting.

MengTo's roadster landing page is the standout creator workflow: Pika generates the visual references before Codex builds the site in Three.js.

His prompt establishes a specific sequence:

1. Use Tesla's Roadster page as the reference, with a “Tesla but dark mode” style.
2. Generate a website design for every section using Pika.
3. Use those images as references before building the site in Three.js.
4. Ask the agent to get the 3D result to “at least a score of 8 out of 10.”

MengTo put the result near 7 to 8 out of 10 in a follow-up, suggesting Blender might be needed for more detail. He also acknowledged that the agent “had a hard time”.

ChatGPT can bring up an editing timeline, according to Pika's plugin documentation. The documented controls cover:

• Adjusting timing.
• Regenerating clips.
• Adding transitions, effects and music.

Pika's setup instructions describe three steps:

1. Install the plugin through its ChatGPT listing, or ask ChatGPT to install Pika.
2. Sign in to a Pika account.
3. Authorize the plugin.

Installation authorizes access without starting a generation. By default, the plugin shows an estimated cost before generating; work uses Pika credits and follows the account's permissions and spending preferences.

Tranmautritam is promoting 250 bonus credits for a user's first video generated with the plugin.