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Why it mattersA team that uses an AI model to make videos or motion graphics has a new option. This one runs on the user's own GPU. The free tier takes no account.
A new project called the Render Anything Engine, or RAEA, hit 1,164 stars on GitHub in 22 days. Trendshift ranked the repository 12th on its daily list on 9 November. Shane Murphy is the author. The README says the user types a prompt. An AI then writes a video, a motion graphic, a 3D scene or a small game. The code is React and TypeScript. The engine runs that code on your own GPU.
What the tool does
A user types a prompt. An AI agent writes the piece as a React component. RAEA takes that code and renders it with its own GPU engine, built in Rust on top of Bevy. The user watches the result in a desktop app. The output can be a video or a motion graphic with text and animation. It can also be a 3D scene or a small playable game. The company's site at raea.io says the engine renders faster than browser-based tools such as Remotion.
The desktop app runs on macOS, Linux and Windows. The site says the engine works with Claude, ChatGPT, Kimi or a local model. The company does not charge for the model call. The user pays their own model provider.
Price and licence
The free tier is the full engine and the desktop app, with no account needed. A Pro plan at $12 to $15 a month adds cloud sync. It covers up to five of a user's own computers. A Team plan at $89 to $99 a month adds distributed rendering across up to 100 computers. Those prices are from raea.io.
The licence is Functional Source License 1.1. That is a source-available licence, not open source. Each release converts to Apache 2.0 two years after it is released. A team can read the code, run it and build on it for non-competing work. A team cannot build a direct competitor during those two years. The GitHub licence box reads "Other" for this reason.
Who should look at this
A team that is already asking a model for a video or a motion graphic should test this. The current path is a hosted service that charges per render and keeps the output in a closed format. RAEA keeps the render local. It saves the output as code. A human editor can read and change that code. The weak point for a buyer is the source-available licence. For a team that cannot use a source-available dependency, the two-year wait is the answer. For most creative teams, it is not.
Source
shinyobjectz/raea on GitHub. Product site at raea.io.
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