Less than two years later, this is the quality of the video of an otter using a laptop on an airplane that I get (with sound) from an open weights AI video generator, MiniMax H3, running entirely on my local computer.
It took about 3 minutes to generate. Rapid progress, indeed.
On one hand, these are obviously much worse "otter using wifi on an airplane" than any state-of-the AI text-to-video generation, it looks like something from 20...