Meta Superintelligence Labs launched Muse Image, an image model that can call its own coding and web-search tools mid-generation, and opened an early preview of Muse Video, a compan
Seedance 2.0 Mini, a lighter variant of ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video model, is now available , generating clips at roughly twice the speed and about half the cost of the standard model while h
ByteDance is advancing its Seedance video models on two tracks at once. Seedance 2.0 now generates 4K output, an upgrade the company confirmed at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference. Alongsid
Krea has released the open weights for Krea 2 , its in-house foundation image model, splitting the release into two checkpoints aimed at different jobs. Both are available to download now from
Sim-Plates.ai turns the company's CG driving-plate library into an AI generator that swaps lighting, weather, and era without touching camera motion June 22, 2026 Sim-Plates founder Alex Pearce has unveiled Sim-Plates.ai, an in-development AI plate-generation app that pairs t
HeyGen has introduced frame.md , a brand-spec format aimed at letting AI agents generate branded video and motion content that stays on-brand. The company is positioning it as a video-focused coun
Ideogram released Ideogram 4.0 with downloadable model weights, available on every Ideogram plan and through the company's API on launch day. The company announced the release on X, posit
Reve has launched Reve 2.0 , a new image model that the company is pitching on two claims: that it is "the best 4K image model in the world," and that it introduces "a new
Miso Labs has released the open weights for Miso One, an 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model the company pitches as "the most emotive voice model in the world." Co-founder A
Google has introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash , positioning it as the first model in what the company calls its next generation of Gemini — and the performance backbone behind a faster, more
Google's new image tool treats your photo like a set — not a canvas . Announced at I/O 2026, Google Pics is built around one central idea: every element in an image is an editable object, not a locke
Google's Gemini Omni is no longer just a control layer—it's now a video creation environment , with the ability to turn text, image, and video prompts into what Go
Google has upgraded Flow from an AI project canvas into an agent-powered creative workspace — and the most interesting part isn't the agent itself, it's what the agent lets you build. At I
Google's Gemini Spark is an AI Agent That Keeps Working After You Close Your Laptop May 19, 2026 Google's Gemini app just got a persistent background layer — Gemini Spark turns the assistant from a chat interface into a cloud-based agent that keeps running tasks while you
Two AI tools aimed at independent filmmakers launched at the Cannes Marché du Film from Chris Bird, the former managing director of Prime Vide
Axle AI rolled out its fourth-generation tagging engine at NAB, expanding semantic search across video, transcripts, and human-applied tags in a single index. The MAM and
Imaginario's StoryLab Spins Up Rough Cuts in Under a Minute Using Three AI Agents May 13, 2026 At NAB, Imaginario AI launched StoryLab , a feature that takes a natural-language creative brief and returns a multi-video rough cut by routing the job through three specialized AI
A World Labs engineer has released an open-source toolkit called image-blaster that converts a single still image into a complete 3D environment, including meshes, physics, lighting, and audio, with
Google's New AI Pointer Lets Users Tell Gemini "Fix This" and "Move That" May 16, 2026 Google DeepMind has unveiled experimental prototypes for an AI-powered mouse pointer that lets users direct Gemini across applications by pointing, speaking, and using n
Krea's New Foundation Model Focuses on Aesthetics and Style Control May 16, 2026 Krea launched K2 , an in-house image foundation model built around aesthetic diversity and style references rather than pure photorealism. The model handles photorealistic, anime, crayon, waterco
16, 2026 Google DeepMind announced Fabula , a Gemini-powered writing tool for screenwriters and playwrights that does not generate finished stories. The research prototype was demoed at CHI 2026 and is moving thro
SpliceGeist's On-Prem AI Cuts Feature Film Conforms From 45 Hours to 45 Minutes May 07, 2026 At NAB 2026, we sat down with Kit Lubold, President of Mountaintop LLC, to talk through SpliceGeist , an on-premise AI system handling the technical grunt work of post-production conf
Amazon Web Services used its NAB 2026 presence to demonstrate how generative AI is moving into media workflows across broadcast, content creation, and software development. The company
Descript is pushing its text-based video editor deeper into professional workflows with a new API, agentic automation through its Underlord AI assistant, and expanded export options for NLE ha
