Tencent Hunyuan just open-sourced HunyuanVideo-I2V, releasing weights, inference code, and LoRA training scripts. The 13B parameter model turns a single image into a 5-second 2K clip complete with background audio, and even handles motion driving and lip-syncing. It is available on GitHub and HuggingFace, with a web demo open to the public.
Prime Video just started experimenting with AI-assisted dubbing for select licensed movies and TV shows. The initial test covers 12 titles previously lacking dubbed tracks, offering English and Latin American Spanish with human localization pros reviewing the output for quality control.
D-ID just partnered with Microsoft to bring its real-time AI avatars directly to Azure. Developers and enterprises can now integrate interactive digital humans into Microsoft Teams and other apps, offering lip-synced multi-language translation and sign language accessibility features.
LTX Studio just rolled out LTXV 0.9.5, an upgraded release of its open-source AI video model. The new version officially adds commercial licensing, keyframe conditioning, and native ComfyUI support, alongside higher resolution and fewer artifacts in longer video sequences.
Stability AI just scored a strategic investment and partnership with advertising titan WPP. The deal will plug Stability’s multimodal models for image, video, 3D, and audio directly into WPP’s AI operating system, WPP Open. Why it matters: It gives Stability a massive enterprise testing ground and validates its commercial push under new leadership.
Meta researchers just unveiled Avat3r, an AI system that generates an animatable, photorealistic 3D avatar head in minutes using only four phone selfies. It uses a vision transformer to predict 3D Gaussians, drastically lowering the hardware barrier from specialized multi-camera rigs. While rendering currently crawls at 8 FPS on an RTX 3090, it points toward effortless avatar setup for future headsets.
OpenAI just launched its AI video generation tool Sora in the EU and the UK. The rollout officially brings the popular video model to users and creators across both markets.
Pika just launched Pika 2.2, bringing 10-second video generation and crisp 1080p resolution to its platform. The update introduces Pikaframes, giving users control over key frame transitions anywhere between 1 and 10 seconds for more complex visual storytelling.
Donald Trump just sparked widespread outrage after sharing an AI-generated video on Truth Social reimagining war-torn Gaza as a flashy luxury resort. The clip features a topless Benjamin Netanyahu, Elon Musk dancing under falling dollar bills, and a massive golden Trump statue, drawing fierce blowback even from die-hard supporters who called it tasteless.
Wonder Dynamics just rolled out Motion Prediction, a new AI model designed to solve occlusion issues in markerless motion capture. It accurately predicts character poses even when actors are hidden behind objects or framed out, reducing manual cleanup for animators.
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab just released Wan2.1, an open-source video generation suite that beats top models like Sora on key benchmarks while running 2.5x faster. It supports bilingual text rendering and video-to-audio, and includes a lightweight 1.3B model that runs locally on an RTX 4090 GPU.
Luma AI just rolled out a new Video to Audio feature in Dream Machine, letting you add sound to your generated clips. You can create audio with a single click or steer it with text prompts. It's currently in beta and free for all users.
Promise just announced its acquisition of Curious Refuge, the premier training school for AI filmmaking. The team says the move will expand creative education and open real opportunities for AI storytellers, framing generative AI as a tool to amplify creativity rather than replace creators.
Google just quietly revealed pricing for its Veo 2 video generation model, charging 50 cents per second of generated video—which translates to $30 per minute or $1,800 per hour. Unlike OpenAI bundling Sora into a $200 monthly plan, Google is taking a pure pay-as-you-go approach as high-end video generation models finally test commercial waters.
Freepik just partnered with Google to roll out the Veo 2 video generation model, while Google quietly revealed its pricing at 50 cents per second. That adds up to $30 per minute for clips that can run two minutes or longer. Unlike OpenAI bundling Sora into a $200 monthly plan, Google is betting on pay-as-you-go video production.
Snap Research just introduced Set and Sequence, a framework for personalizing text-to-video models using just one video clip. By splitting dynamic concepts into an appearance frame set and a motion sequence via two-step LoRA encoding, it lets DiT models capture both how a subject looks and moves, making character cloning far more flexible.
Nvidia just partnered with the American Society for Deaf Children to launch Signs, an interactive platform for learning American Sign Language. Learners follow a 3D avatar and receive real-time feedback via webcam AI. Nvidia aims to build and publicly release a 400,000-video dataset to fuel future accessible AI tools.
Microsoft Research and Xbox studio Ninja Theory just introduced Muse, a generative "world and human action model" trained on Bleeding Edge and published in Nature. Muse understands 3D physics and controller inputs to render playable gameplay directly. Microsoft hopes to use it to revive nostalgic games trapped on legacy hardware and speed up prototyping. Weights and an interactive demo are live on Azure AI Foundry.
Pika just launched its official app on the iOS App Store, bringing its AI video generation features straight to mobile. Users can now generate clips on their phones and share them directly to social platforms.
YouTube just upgraded its Shorts feature Dream Screen with Google DeepMind's Veo 2 model, allowing creators to generate standalone AI video clips from text prompts rather than just backgrounds. It offers better real-world physics and camera styling alongside SynthID watermarking, rolling out first in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
