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ByteDance just signed Hollywood's first major AI…
After MPA's first cease-and-desist to a major AI lab, ByteDance agreed to copyright protections in Seedance and Seedream. What changed and what studios still will not publish.
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MiniMax H3 merges text, image, video, and…
China's MiniMax H3 generates 2K video up to 15 seconds with native stereo audio from unified multimodal context. Weights are heading to Hugging Face, with per-second pricing under a third of mainstream 2K APIs.
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frame.md teaches AI agents to shoot branded…
HeyGen's HyperFrames plus frame.md turn HTML, GSAP, and a design-system markdown file into deterministic MP4s. Here's the agent workflow I'd actually use for launch clips.
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Gemini Omni Flash: edit video with text…
Google DeepMind shipped Gemini Omni Flash at I/O 2026. It turns text, images, audio, and video into short clips you can reshape through conversation. Here's what actually matters if you build with generative media.
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Grok Imagine Video 1.5 turns a still…
xAI shipped Grok Imagine Video 1.5 with sharper motion, better physics, and native audio in one pass. A 6-second 720p clip now renders in about 25 seconds, down from 40+ on the previous model.
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ByteDance open-sourced Bernini for instruction-based video editing
Bernini pairs a Qwen2.5-VL semantic planner with a Wan2.2 DiT renderer. Apache 2.0 weights for V2V edits, reference-guided swaps, and subject-to-video.