Cactus just dropped Mirage, a tiny 51.3M-parameter vision model compressed to roughly 22MB via 2-bit quantization. It handles scene description, object detection, OCR, segmentation masks, and spatial reasoning in a single pass—clocking 74ms on a Galaxy S26 NPU. It proves full-featured visual perception can comfortably live on device edge chips without touching the cloud.
Mirage just launched Avatar X, a new model that creates full digital twins from just 10 seconds of source footage. Unlike existing avatar tools, it preserves micro-expressions like laughing, yawning, and smirking, driving realistic face and body gestures via audio across both horizontal and vertical long-form video.
Mirage just rolled out a conversational editor inside the Captions app that lets users edit footage simply by typing prompts. Instead of messing with timelines, you can tell the AI to zoom in at three seconds, drop in subtitles, or apply a specific visual vibe, with most changes rendering in under 10 seconds.
AI video startup Captions just rebranded as Mirage, signaling a major push into frontier research. The $500M company plans to build multimodal foundation models tailored specifically for TikTok and Reels, while bringing its creator app and ad platform Mirage Studio under one roof.
Dynamicslab just launched Mirage, a game engine that scraps pre-built maps and static assets entirely. Powered by a hybrid transformer-diffusion model running in the cloud, it renders interactive 3D environments frame-by-frame based on player movements and prompts. While currently streaming at around 16 fps, it offers a wild peek into unscripted gaming.
Captions just launched Mirage, an AI model designed specifically for generating UGC-style video ads with virtual spokespersons. Users can supply a script or audio to produce realistic avatars featuring nuanced body language and micro-expressions, with full control over outfits, backdrops, and emotions. It dramatically lowers the bar for scaling testimonial-style ad creative.
