ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association have reached a memorandum of understanding focused on output-side copyright governance for ByteDance's Seedance and Seedream AI models, covering products l…
ByteDance signed a memorandum of understanding with the Motion Picture Association on August 17, marking the first formal copyright agreement between Hollywood's trade group and an AI company. The dea…
YouTube star Cliff Tan, who runs the interior design channel 'Dear Modern' with 2.4 million subscribers, apologized for a paid promotion for Dreamina, a Chinese AI company owned by ByteDance, but defe…
Content creators face reputational risks from AI, with backlash intensifying over promotional posts for AI companies and heavy AI use in content. YouTubers Hank Green and Cliff Tan recently apologized…
YouTube creator Cliff Tan, who runs the interior design channel 'Dear Modern' with 2.4 million subscribers and a TikTok account with 3.6 million followers, apologized on Monday for promoting Dreamina,…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, a video generation API that doubles clip length to 30 seconds and quadruples reference capacity to 50 files. The update introduces four editing modes and improved prom…
MiniMax launched H3, a full-modal generation model that produces up to 15-second 2K video clips with native stereo audio, on July 31, 2026, positioning it as a rival to OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo.…
Seedance 2.5, the latest AI video generation model from Dreamina, extends generation length to 30 seconds and supports up to 50 reference images, but hands-on testing for a short film reveals promptin…
Dreamina's Lucy 2.5 restyles live video at 1080p/30fps using self-anchoring to stay stable, with API pricing at roughly 2 cents per second at 720p, far below typical video model costs. The model can s…
ByteDance is preparing to launch Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates native 30-second clips in a single pass, with an API release targeted for July 16 after a delay from an earlier July 9 d…
ByteDance is set to launch Dreamina Seedance 2.5, reportedly on July 9, enabling AI video generation up to three minutes. The update extends from short clips to 30-second standard and 180-second exten…
BytePlus, the enterprise technology arm of ByteDance, hosted a closed-door AI roundtable at APOS 2026 in Bali, drawing senior executives from broadcasters and streaming platforms across six Asian mark…
Clement Levallois has compiled a curated list of 164 generative AI applications for visual creation, organized into 11 categories. The list ranks tools for creating, editing, and enhancing images, vid…
A user reported being charged for Dreamina's video generation service on day six of a free seven-day trial, despite canceling the auto-renewal. The company's AI customer support failed to process the …