Video-to-video AI editing tools like Gemini Omni allow marketers to transform existing footage by changing outfits, lighting, and backgrounds without reshoots, enabling rapid iteration on ad creative …
Claire tested Anthropic's Sonnet 5 against Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3 Pro using a custom benchmark, finding Sonnet 5 priced competitively but ranking near the bottom in her preference…
A wave of investment and product pivots toward world models is reshaping AI development, with Runway raising $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation for world-model pretraining and Yann LeCun launchi…
As of mid-2026, open-source AI video models like Wan 2.2, Open-Sora 2.0, and HunyuanVideo can run on consumer GPUs with 8GB to 24GB VRAM, generating 5-20 second clips at 720p or 1080p. However, leader…
OpenMontage, an open-source agentic video production system with 12 pipelines and 52 tools, has surpassed 31,000 stars on GitHub. The system automates the entire video creation workflow from script to…
World models, AI systems capable of understanding physical environments, have become a major focus in 2026, attracting billions in funding from investors. Startups like AMI Labs, World Labs, Runway, L…
CNET updated its list of best AI video generators for 2026 after OpenAI discontinued Sora. Adobe Firefly, Google Veo 3, Runway, and Midjourney are top picks, with Firefly offering commercially safe co…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video generation model capable of producing 30-second clips at 4K resolution with up to 50 multimodal references, setting a new benchmark for long-form AI video.…
Independent filmmakers are producing animated features for as little as $50,000 using AI video tools, slashing costs by up to 90%. The shift is attracting institutional backing, with OpenAI-backed 'Cr…
ByteDance launched Seedance 2.5, a text-to-video model with 4K output and 30-second clips, alongside the Volcano Arc IP licensing platform that lets creators use licensed film assets with revenue shar…
A developer has built a free AI video generator called Agnes Video Generator that creates narrated multi-scene videos from text prompts at zero cost. The tool, which requires only a free API key from …
A new website ranks 40 AI tools based on scores from an independent panel of LLMs including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, aiming to provide unbiased rankings free from paid placements. The top-scorin…
Runway's fourth annual AI Film Festival in Los Angeles showcased 10 short films made entirely with AI video tools, leaving a Fast Company reporter feeling optimistic about the technology's creative po…
General Intuition, an AI research lab spun out of Medal, raised $320 million at a $2 billion valuation to train AI models using gameplay data. The funding, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, will …
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…