General Motors is embedding generative AI into vehicle design to slash timelines from months to hours. Partnering with startup Vizcom, GM turns hand-drawn sketches into 360-degree models and animations in under a day, while an AI virtual wind tunnel delivers aerodynamic drag estimates in real time instead of two weeks. GM says human designers still set the creative vision.
Researchers just introduced TokenDial, a framework that lets users tweak text-to-video attributes like smoke volume or dance motion using a continuous slider. By learning token offsets without retraining base models, it replaces prompt guesswork with predictable, fine-grained control over both visuals and dynamics.
UFC president Dana White just fired back at fan backlash over the league using AI-generated promo videos, bluntly calling AI adoption inevitable and telling critics to stop complaining and focus on the fights. His unfiltered reaction highlights the escalating tension between sports brands cutting production costs with AI and fans defending human artists.
Runway just launched Ad Concepter, a dedicated web app that turns a single prompt, a reference image, and a product shot into ready-to-test advertising ideas. Marketers and creators can now explore compositions and story beats without piecing together complex generative workflows.
CapCut just launched Video Studio on the web, ditching traditional timeline editing for an infinite canvas that handles everything from storyboarding to rendering. It packs an AI writing agent and integrates the Dreamina Seedance 2.0 model. Why it matters: video editing is rapidly shifting from stitching clips manually to directing AI across a flexible storyboard, though Seedance 2.0 is currently restricted to select global regions.
RealMaster can convert 3D rendered game footage into photorealistic video without messing up underlying geometry. Unlike competing editors that distort details, it preserves original shapes, shadows, and motion logic, making it equally useful for upgrading synthetic autonomous driving simulation datasets.
OpenAI is reportedly pulling the plug on Sora and all related video products, freeing up compute for its upcoming flagship model 'Spud'. The video team will pivot to robotics world simulation, leaving Disney's $1B partnership on ice. Basically, Sam Altman is ditching resource-heavy side quests to double down on the core frontier race.
OpenAI just announced it is discontinuing its video generation model Sora. The web and mobile apps will go offline on April 26, 2026, with the API shutting down on September 24. Users need to export their creations before data is permanently deleted; unused credits can be applied to Codex.
The Sora team just announced that it is saying goodbye to the platform, confirming plans to shut down both its app and API. The team acknowledged the disappointing news, thanked the creator community, and promised to release a concrete timeline along with details on preserving existing user projects soon.
A new 15B open-source video generator called DaVinci Magihuman just dropped, capable of natively generating video with audio across multiple languages. In self-reported blind tests, it beat LTX 2.3 60% of the time with zero censorship, though running even its distilled version requires a hefty 61GB download.
Alibaba just open-sourced PrismAudio, a lightweight 518M-parameter model that generates synchronized sound effects for silent videos. By combining reinforcement learning with chain-of-thought reasoning, it generates 9 seconds of audio in just 0.63 seconds, outperforming multi-billion-parameter rivals in both speed and benchmarks.
OpenAI just announced it's shutting down its standalone Sora AI video app only months after launch. In response, Disney is walking away from a $1 billion investment and IP licensing agreement signed last December. While video features will live on inside ChatGPT, the sudden shutdown leaves Google in a dominant position in the generative video race.
Instagram is rolling out a new "AI Transition" tool for Stories that uses AI morphing to stitch multiple still photos into a seamless video clip. Users just pick two or more images, let Meta AI generate the sequence, and can even save it to repost on Reels. It requires accepting Meta AI terms and is currently rolling out to select accounts.
Researchers just introduced 3DreamBooth, a framework that brings true 3D spatial awareness to subject-driven video generation. Instead of treating subjects like flat 2D images, it uses a 1-frame optimization trick to decouple geometry from motion and pairs with 3Dapter to route multi-view cues. This basically prevents models from hallucinating mismatched angles in novel views.
YouTube is now surveying viewers directly, popping up polls that ask if videos they watch "feel like AI slop." Users can rate titles and thumbnails on a five-point scale from "not at all" to "extremely." While YouTube hasn't detailed how flags will alter algorithmic reach, users suspect the crowdsourced labels could also be used to fine-tune Google's own video models.
Runway and NVIDIA just previewed a real-time HD video model running on Vera Rubin at GTC, pushing time-to-first-frame latency under 100 milliseconds. The speed is aimed at powering Runway's General World Model, GWM-1, pointing toward truly instant and interactive AI simulation, though it is currently strictly a research preview.
Late actor Val Kilmer is returning to the silver screen, with generative AI recreating his likeness and voice for the indie film As Deep as the Grave. Kilmer originally signed on to play a priest before his death in 2025, and his estate approved the AI recreation using family photos and audio under SAG guidelines. It marks one of the most prominent uses of posthumous digital casting to date.
Google just open-sourced Spark VSSR, a powerful video super-resolution framework capable of sharpening degraded clips and restoring old films. The release includes inference models, full training code, and datasets, though running the 42.2GB package demands a high-end GPU. Basically, creators get state-of-the-art video upscaling that they can run and fine-tune locally.
Researchers just introduced World Reconstruction from Inconsistent Views, a new method that turns AI-generated videos into consistent, explorable 3D environments. It uses non-rigid geometry alignment to clean up visual glitches and contradictions across frames, working with almost any video model from Wan-2.2 to Genie 3. Basically, it turns off-the-shelf video generators into functional 3D world builders without retraining.
US senators just demanded ByteDance immediately shut down its Seedance 2.0 AI video generator over widespread copyright infringement. The backlash follows viral clips featuring Thanos, Superman, and fake celebrity brawls. While ByteDance paused the rollout and promised stronger guardrails, lawmakers dismissed the pledge as a delay tactic.
