ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 now generates native 4K video but costs five times more than 720p, with a five-second clip at 4K costing about $2.50 versus $0.50 at 720p. Generation speed also slows signific…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at its Beijing conference, a video generation model that produces 30-second native 4K clips from up to 50 multimodal reference inputs. The company skipped four version …
Prismix, a free status monitor for 77 AI APIs, has been running for six weeks and reveals that AI APIs fail in partial, non-traditional ways. OpenAI has the most incidents, typically resolving in 45–9…
Runway's fourth annual AI Film Festival in Santa Monica showcased ten AI-generated short films, highlighting rapid advancements in generative AI tools for filmmaking. Industry figures argued that AI d…
Runway's AI Festival at Lincoln Center on June 11 screened 10 AI-generated short films, with the $50,000 Grand Prix awarded to Robert Gaudette, a Toronto nonprofit worker with no formal film training,…
Runway's AI film festival at Lincoln Center showcased 10 short films created almost entirely with AI, drawing a crowd of tech enthusiasts. Despite visually impressive results, many films suffered from…
Palmier launched Palmier Pro, a free video editor that integrates AI media generation directly into the timeline, allowing users to generate, edit, and export AI videos without leaving the editor. Bac…
General Intuition, a New York-based startup building a foundation model for AI agents, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $2 billion valuation, eight months after spinning out of Medal with a $134…
AI tools like Midjourney and Sora are breaking down Chinese opera into datasets for generative models, enabling users to create opera-style content with simple prompts. This digitization, accelerated …
Claire Vo breaks down four types of AI agent loops—heartbeat, cron, hook, and goal—and demonstrates live builds of a daily aging-PR reviewer in Claude Code and a weekly skills-identification loop in C…
Lionsgate has taken an equity stake in generative-video company Runway, expanding their 2024 partnership to include a joint development program for new intellectual property and a slate of AI-generate…
The AI video generation market in mid-2026 has matured into three distinct service models—API aggregators, consumer platforms, and model-direct platforms—with fal.ai offering the cheapest API at $0.05…
Runway's Aleph 2.0 video AI model is now available inside Figma Weave, according to Aligned News, enabling designers to reframe shots, swap characters, and change backgrounds in existing video without…
NVIDIA launched Cosmos 3, an open world foundation model for physical AI built on a mixture-of-transformers architecture that combines vision reasoning, world generation and action prediction in a sin…
YouTube will begin automatically labeling AI-generated videos with more prominent markers, moving beyond its previous system that relied entirely on uploaders to disclose AI use. The platform will use…
AI video firm Runway announced Project Luxo on Tuesday, a research initiative debuting three short films produced by a single staff member for roughly $4,000 each, aiming to demonstrate that AI-genera…
FLUX.2 and Gemini 3.1 Flash produced the strongest character consistency across three tests comparing OpenAI, Gemini, Black Forest Labs, and Runway image generators. gpt-image-2 placed third and Runwa…