Meta debuted a suite of artificial intelligence models called “Movie Gen” on Oct. 4 capable of generating photorealistic movies up to 16-seconds long complete with sound effects and backing music tracks. Movie Gen isn’t the first multimodal AI model capable of generating video and audio from simple text prompts, but it appears to demonstrate state-of-the-art capabilities. The researchers responsible for the application’s development claim it outperformed rival systems in human testing. Movie GenAccording to a blog post from Meta, Movie Gen is currently capable of outputting movies up to 16-sec…