What happened: A Reddit user asked the ML community to clarify what a world model is, noting that most current builds are fancy video generation models.
Google updated Gemini Omni Flash to version 1.1, improving scene extension to analyze up to ten seconds of vid…
Flow AI, an independent platform, launched an online AI video generator powered by Google's Veo technology
Alibaba's video generation model Wan3.0 is now available in beta
Oneiric, an AI-generated open source video project, has been released
AMD posted record revenue of $11.54 billion with Data Center revenue of $6.72 billion, up 107% year over year
Higgsfield AI, a startup, produced The Cully Hill Boys, a 110-minute action-comedy featuring licensed celebrit…
A developer created pagedMark, a tool designed to remove AI provenance markers—both visible labels and invisib…
A post on LessWrong poses the question of whether a large language model (LLM)—an AI system that understands a…
OpenAI closed an $852 billion self-funded tender offer on August 10, 2026, then lost chief operating officer B…
A guide to AI image and video generators for marketers compares tools by their purpose rather than ranking the…
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have reached an agreement to strengthen copyright safeguard…
Higgsfield, a generative AI platform for creating video, images, and audio, raised $400 million in Series B fu…
Hollywood studios and startups are deploying AI video tools at scale
Walt Disney has signed a deal with TikTok that allows creators to make new content using Disney characters fro…
Major brands including Coca-Cola, Volvo, and Toys "R" Us have aired AI-generated commercials in the past year
A guide ranked 10 AI video tools for production teams in 2026, emphasizing workspace-based systems over isolat…
Disney announced it is adding short-form video to Disney+ across all entertainment programming, with new conte…
Vmake AI has rebranded to Vmake Labs and expanded from an AI UGC (user-generated content) video generator into…
LTX released LTX-2.5, an open-weights world model designed to generate video and simulate how physical environ…
Roku has introduced Fairground, a channel offering AI-generated entertainment content
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3, a new multimodal foundation model that learns jointly from images, audio, a…
A developer has released a video editing, screen recording, and streaming tool built in Rust using the Slint G…
Roku added four new channels to its streaming library this week, including a 24/7 stream of AI-generated conte…
A developer has built and released an image-to-video generator that accepts still images (JPG, PNG, or WebP)…
Black Forest Labs made FLUX 3 Video generally available through its API and select partners
Girish Balakrishnan (Netflix's Senior Director of Creative Innovation) and Joel Kuwahara (founder of animation…
Pippa, a text-to-video AI startup launched in May, pays artists $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of vide…
A research effort called MLVC (Multi-platform Learned Video Codec) is tackling why AI-based video codecs have…
mimic robotics introduced FLUX-mimic, a Video-Action Model built with Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 video model, t…
A team has launched Video Upscaler, a browser-based tool that uses AI to improve video resolution and clarity…
Midjourney, an AI lab known for image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star
Black Forest Labs announced FLUX 3, a unified multimodal model trained in a single architecture that handles i…
Researchers conducted a two-phase study with 100 participants comparing those exposed to AI-generated videos a…
German AI company Black Forest Labs released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, vi…
Runway launched the Media Router through its Runway Dev platform on Thursday, a tool that automatically select…
British AI startup Synthesia launched Roleplay Sessions on Wednesday, an interactive training product where em…
A developer used Claude (an AI that understands and generates text) paired with Seedance 2.0 (a video generati…
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30,000+ monthly readersDirector Neill Blomkamp unveiled Nightborne, a 13-minute sci-fi short created entirely with ByteDance's Seedan…
Neill Blomkamp, director of "District 9," released "Nightborne," a 13-minute sci-fi horror short film made ent…
Apple researchers introduced LVSum, a benchmark dataset of 72 videos (averaging 16 minutes each across 13 doma…
Google DeepMind released GenCeption, a model that repurposes a pre-trained video generation model (Alibaba's W…
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, open-sourced LingBot-World 2.0 (Infinity), extending stable…
Disney Jr. and French AI animation company Animaj released Ozzy Fox, a music-driven preschool series, on YouTu…
Apple researchers built a personalization system for Apple TV search that combines text-based and ID-based emb…
Google announced updates to Google Vids on Thursday that let you create a custom digital avatar based on a sel…
Google is rolling out two new features to Google Vids—Gemini Omni, which generates and edits high-quality vide…
Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse closed an extended Series C round at over $2 billion（約3200億円） valuat…
OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser launched in October, with deprecation targeted for August 9…
OpenAI announced Tuesday it is shutting down the Sora app, the video generation tool the company launched in D…
Google released two new AI models—Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast image generation at $0.034 per image in four sec…
Google DeepMind invested $75 million（約120億円） in indie film studio A24 this week, with the two companies partne…
Market strategists on CNBC argued this week that the AI capital-spending cycle still has runway, with Micron T…
SpaceX went public and its stock rose 19% on its first trading day, Friday
xAI has released Grok Imagine Video 1.5 in preview
On the Earn Your Leisure podcast, co-hosts Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings laid out a thesis that the AI buildo…
Global Mofy announced a platform development milestone for Gausspeed on May 22, 2026, integrating the generati…
Runway, a New York-based company, has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation
SpaceX announced a deal to either buy Cursor (an AI tool that auto-generates computer code) for $60 billion or…
OpenAI discontinued its Sora video generation tool last month, marking a strategic shift away from experimenta…
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are departing OpenAI amid a strategic shift away from experimental consumer initia…
AI video generation technology could democratize film production by reducing costs and timelines for content c…
Runway's leadership believes AI can dramatically reduce production costs, allowing studios to experiment with…
Anthropic is experiencing service outages due to insufficient compute capacity to meet surging demand for AI a…
An international research team created OpenWorldLib to establish clear criteria for what qualifies as a world…
Content creator has amassed 650k TikTok followers primarily by making 3D animal short story videos using AI
Wan 2.7 is an AI video generator supporting text-to-video and image-to-video conversion capabilities
Google Vids integrates Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1 AI models for enhanced video creation capabilities
Kathleen Kennedy emerged as a rare voice of skepticism about AI adoption at the Runway AI Summit
Stepper addresses the visual fidelity vs
Veo 3.1 Lite is Google's most cost-effective video generation model to date
OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video generation product, suggesting challenges in commercializing the te…
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