ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association signed an agreement on August 17, 2026, to strengthen copyright safeguards on ByteDance's Seedance video and Seedream image AI models, following a cease-an…
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…
China shipped almost 20,000 humanoid robots in 2025, fueling a new independent repair industry of 'robot doctors' who fix robots faster and cheaper, though they face challenges such as scarce custom c…
The Motion Picture Association and ByteDance announced a memorandum of understanding to protect film and TV intellectual property across ByteDance's AI video and image generators Seedance and Seedream…
Matt Shumer, a developer working on AI video generation, has introduced a new technique for controlling AI video output that combines a Three.js scene with image restyling and video generation. The me…
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…
Velokey has launched a unified AI API platform that provides access to leading text, image, and video models—including Kling, Veo, Seedance, and Sora—through a single API key, promising cost savings o…
Kuvu AI launched an all-in-one AI creative studio that bundles access to Gemini, ChatGPT, Seedance, Kling, and Flux for $15/month, compared to nearly $100/month when purchased separately. The platform…
VideoAll, a new platform, offers a tracker and comparison service for AI video models, allowing users to see model fit, cost, and capability before generating videos. The platform supports ten top mod…
ByteDance's AI video app Seedance is partnering with its education app Gauth to launch 'AI Course' on August 4, featuring AI-generated animated lessons for students. Gauth, which has 86 million monthl…
Prizm, a new AI media generation platform, offers a single API key and prepaid balance for accessing top video, image, and voice models including Google Veo 3.1, Kling, Seedance, Nano Banana, FLUX, an…
A developer documented how to generate short videos from Claude.ai using a Seedance MCP connector. The connector, based on Ace Data Cloud documentation, exposes ByteDance's Doubao video generation too…
Seedance 2.5, the next version of the Seedance AI video platform, will support up to 50 media inputs in a single creative task, including 44 images, three video clips and three audio files, enabling m…
ByteDance's Seedance AI model is enabling Chinese studios to produce comic dramas in weeks instead of months, cutting costs to as low as 25,000 yuan per 80-minute project, according to Zhou Xiangxiang…
Runway launched Media Router on July 23, an automated selection layer for its Runway Dev platform that chooses among generative AI models for image, video and audio based on developer preferences for …
Black Forest Labs launched Flux 3, a multimodal AI video generator that produces clips up to 20 seconds long with native audio, in early access via Discord. The model accepts text prompts, up to 10 im…
A developer built PetVideo Generator, an AI app that turns pet photos into short cinematic videos using TanStack Start and ByteDance's Seedance 2.5. The project uses a full TanStack ecosystem includin…
ByteDance quietly upgraded its Seed 1.0 audio generation model with timestamp pinning for dialogue, allowing creators to lock spoken lines to exact timestamps instead of relying on the model's default…
Tencent's office-agent platform WorkBuddy has become China's largest product in its category with 8.85 million monthly active users, according to a report from Chinese research firm Analysys. The AI a…
A solo filmmaker can now produce a complete short film in a weekend using AI tools including Claude for script and direction, GPT Image for concept art, Seedance for video generation, and ElevenLabs f…