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48 stories tagged generative ai.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Viewers Downgrade Art When Told It's AI, Even When It's an Actual Monet May 16, 2026 A viral X post asked followers to explain, in as much detail as possible, what made an "AI-generated Monet" inferior to a real Monet painting. The image was a real Monet. The cr
Netflix's INKubator Brings GenAI-Native Animation Pipelines to Shorts and Specials May 16, 2026 Netflix has been building an internal animation studio called INKubator (INK) that will produce short-form animated content using generative AI, The Verge reported . The unit launc
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
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
Google laid out its media and entertainment AI strategy at NAB 2026 with Anshul Kapoor , Director of Media and AI. The approach is straightforward: bring AI to the tools professionals already us
Pixera is building a unified platform for real-time content on LED walls, virtual productions, and live events. At NAB 2026, Connor McGill showed how Pixera handles everything from pi
Topaz Labs brought its latest upscaling and restoration tools to NAB 2026, with Principal Creative Technologist Ross Shain walking through how the platform handles the cleanu
SAG-AFTRA's Tentative AMPTP Deal Expands AI Guardrails, Stretches to Four Years May 06, 2026 SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached a tentative agreement on a successor to the 2023 TV/Theatrical Contracts, according to Deadline . AI guar
Martini, a browser-based platform for generative AI image and video production, debuted at NAB 2026 with a pitch aimed directly at professional filmmakers: the collaborative editing experience o
Eliot Mack shows off a collaborative virtual shot system that runs entirely in the browser, links to an iOS camera app in real time, and costs roughly $30 a month. Lightcraft's Sp
Wonder Project, the faith-and-family streaming platform behind House of David , has partnered with generative AI lab Luma AI to launch Innovative Dreams , a production company and R
Avid and Google Cloud have signed a multi-year partnership to embed Gemini models and Vertex AI into Avid Media Composer and Content Core, Avid's new cloud-native SaaS platform, acco
NVIDIA's Lyra 2.0 Builds Walkable 3D Worlds From Generated Video April 17, 2026 NVIDIA Research has published Lyra 2.0 , an extension of its generative 3D world system that produces explorable scenes from camera-controlled video. The model first generates a walkthrough sequen
'As Deep as the Grave' Trailer Premieres With AI-Generated Val Kilmer Performance April 17, 2026 The filmmakers behind "As Deep as the Grave" debuted a trailer at CinemaCon showing AI technology used to construct Val Kilmer's full performance, Variety report
