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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1-million-token context window and native multimodal input. The important detail for produc
NVIDIA's ARDY Generates Controllable Human Motion in Real Time, and Releases the Code and Weights July 17, 2026 NVIDIA's Spatial Intelligence Lab published ARDY , a framework that generates 3D human motion in real time from text prompts a user can change while the charact
Developer Alex Barashkov has released Aval , an open source format for interactive video on the web that responds to hover, click, and application state instead of playing back as a fixed
Netflix disclosed that generative AI workflows were used in roughly 300 of its titles in 2026, the clearest number the company has put on its production-side AI use so far. The figure app
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling , its first in-house AI model, and put the full weights up for download. It is an open-weights, multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model that ta
Foundry launched Griptape Enterprise, a new license tier of its Griptape AI workflow orchestration platform built to run generative pipelines entirely inside a studio'
Foundry has released SmartRoto, an AI rotoscoping add-on for Nuke that fills in the frames between an artist's keyframes. According to Foundry , the tool moves and deforms splines across a s
Mirelo AI and Kyutai open-sourced MuScriptor , an audio-to-MIDI model that takes a finished music mix and transcribes every instrument at once into separate MIDI tracks. Mos
Robbyant, an embodied AI company inside Ant Group, released LingBot-World 2.0 , an open-source real-time world model that builds an explorable environment from a single image. The model is liv
LTX is spinning off from Lightricks to operate as an independent company built around open "world models," AI systems designed to understand and simulate physical and virt
Shanda's Alaya Lab released AlayaWorld , an interactive world model that generates video environments you can steer in real time, and published it as a full-stack open-source framewo
Orbital Studios has relocated its headquarters and research lab to Television City, the 73-year-old former CBS lot in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles. The virtual product
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
Beeble's SwitchHDR Reconstructs True 16-Bit HDR From 8-Bit Video July 03, 2026 Beeble released SwitchHDR , a model that reconstructs true 16-bit HDR from ordinary 8-bit SDR footage. Instead of stretching the existing signal, it infers the high-dynamic-range scene, rebuilding
Netflix's Production Technology Resources channel released a technical deep dive on the ACES Metadata File , the sidecar file that carries a color pipeline from the set thro
Midjourney is pushing a federal court to make Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. disclose how the studios use artificial intelligence inside their own operations, putting Hollywo
AV Stumpfl is bringing its PIXERA media-server community to Nashville for Base Camp 2026 , a three-day user gathering running October 26 to 28, 2026. The company fr
A world model and GenAI hackathon, Worlds in Action Hack [02-LA]: SIGGRAPH Edition , runs July 18-19, 2026 at the Arizona State University California Ce
Epic Games has added native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to Unreal Engine 5.8, letting external AI agents operate the Unreal Editor directly. According to Epic's documentation , the
Sony Pictures Entertainment is investing $100 million in Cosm for a minority stake in the immersive venue company, according to The Hollywood Reporter . SPE chairman and CEO Ravi Ahuja will join Cosm
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
Michael Caine's Licensed AI Voice Narrates ElevenLabs' 13-Hour 'Odyssey' Audiobook June 23, 2026 ElevenLabs has released a roughly 13-hour AI-generated audiobook of Homer's The Odyssey through its ElevenReader app, narrated by a licensed AI replica of Michael
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
Martin Scorsese has signed on as an advisor to Black Forest Labs , the AI lab behind the FLUX image model family, with the company framing his role around using its tools for pre-produc
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 is putting a reported $75 million into A24 and pairing the studio with Google DeepMind to develop AI filmmaking tools, according to the companies' research p
DreamWorks' MoonRay Keynote Headlines ASWF Open Source Days in LA June 22, 2026 The Academy Software Foundation released the full schedule for Open Source Days , its annual open source program for motion picture and media technology. The event runs July 19-20, 2026 at the J.W
Aximmetry's MCP Server Lets AI Agents Build Virtual Production Scenes May 18, 2026 Aximmetry showed an upcoming MCP server at NAB that lets any AI agent operate its virtual production software through natural language. The company is targeting a summer release alongside the n
DreamWorks' MoonRay Renderer Becomes an ASWF-Hosted Project May 19, 2026 DreamWorks Animation's MoonRay renderer — the path-tracing engine behind every DreamWorks feature film since 2019 — has joined the Academy Software Foundation as an official hosted project. For VFX a
Canon announced the EOS R6 V , the first full-frame body in its video-focused EOS V series. The camera pairs a 32.5MP sensor with 7K Open Gate capture, built-in ac
Sony announced the Alpha 7R VI , the sixth generation of its high-resolution full-frame mirrorless line. The camera moves the R series onto a 66.8MP fully-stacked back-illu
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
Chinese short-video platform Kuaishou is preparing to spin off its Kling AI video generation business into a standalone company at a target valuation near $20 billion, according to The Information . The unit i
Two AI tools aimed at independent filmmakers launched at the Cannes Marché du Film from Chris Bird, the former managing director of Prime Vide
Inside Door G's Brand-First Virtual Production Pipeline: AI in Pre and Post, Not on the Wall May 13, 2026 A virtual production studio that doubles as an AI workflow shop is pitching brands on the idea that a shoot should leave behind a reusable digital asset, not a torn-down
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
DaVinci Resolve's AI CineFocus Lets Editors Pull Rack Focus After the Shoot April 22, 2026 Blackmagic Design walked us through the AI tool set in DaVinci Resolve 21 at NAB 2026, and the depth of the controls inside each plugin matters more than the headline count. AI CineFocu
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
Aronofsky-Produced AI Hybrid Short 'Goodnight, Lamby' Premieres at Cannes Classics May 16, 2026 Goodnight, Lamby , a live-action and animation hybrid short film produced by Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup and built in part with Google DeepMind's generative AI t
