A survey of 1,800 professionals reveals a massive AI fluency gap, according to a report covered in the AI News Digest for August 9. The digest also highlights that Jacob Tsimerman joined OpenAI after …
ByteDance's Seedance 2 and 2.5 model releases automatically improved video quality for a pipeline built by Zonted, requiring no engineering work, illustrating how agentic rails—prompts, pipelines, and…
Black Forest Labs released Flux 3 Video, an AI video generation model now available on Runway and Leonardo, capable of producing clips up to 20 seconds long with a focus on realistic physics. The comp…
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told the company's Seed AI research team last month that it will not rely on AI distillation to improve its models, even if that means temporarily falling behind rivals,…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 video generation model is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, enabling single-clip generation of up to 30 seconds with consistent camera movement and continuity, plus local …
Sekai, a platform founded in 2024 by former ByteDance executive Lucky Zhang, has seen users create over 20 million AI-generated mini-apps since its late 2025 launch, with about 250,000 new apps added …
Black Forest Labs (BFL) released FLUX 3 Video, a video generation model that natively generates audio, supports lip sync across 14+ languages, renders in-scene typography, and produces 20-second Full …
ByteDance's AI research division Seed has operated without using knowledge distillation since its inception, a divergence from other Chinese AI labs that learn from US-built models. The company aims f…
Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3 Video, a generative AI model that produces Full HD clips up to 20 seconds long with native audio and lip-synced dialogue in more than 14 languages, and can render…
ByteDance's Seed organization has launched SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex large language model that simultaneously processes audio, video, and text to enable real-time conversational …
As of August 2026, CapCut's Pro tier costs $19.99/month or $179.99/year, double the previous $9.99 price, with AI features on a credit pool, while Meta's free Edits app offers a CapCut alternative for…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 video generation API, opening August 7, is priced 53% higher per token than 2.0, but a hidden detail in the pricing reveals that 480p output actually renders at a lower resolu…
Black Forest Labs, co-founded by CEO Robin Rombach, opened FLUX 3 Video to general API access on August 4th, enabling developers to generate video and synchronized audio from text, images, keyframes, …
MiniMax released the core weights for its H3 video model, making it the first publicly downloadable model to lead a category in Artificial Analysis' video arena, ranking first for video editing, secon…
Alibaba launched QwenWork to public beta on August 3, combining QoderWork, MuleRun, and Wukong into a single AI agent product for office software, alongside the Qwen3.8 model. The launch completed a t…
Alibaba Group Holding released Qwen3.8-Max, its most advanced AI model, which matches or exceeds Anthropic's Fable 5, while Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 also debuted, intensifyin…
DingTalk and Feishu have evolved into central hubs for enterprise AI, with DingTalk's AI Assistant Platform and Feishu's Intelligent Partner enabling conversational BI deployment directly within their…
A person familiar with the matter denied a report that Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, could file for a Hong Kong IPO as early as this month, according to National Business Daily. Th…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model to date, claiming performance rivalling top US systems from Anthropic and OpenAI. The Chinese tech giant said the model, with 2.4 tr…
Chinese smartphone makers are integrating AI agents directly into their operating systems, replacing traditional app stores and home screens. ZTE's Nubia NaviX Ultra runs ByteDance's Doubao AI agent w…