Vannarot Roeung
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Google Lyria 3 Pro Generates 3-Minute AI Music Tracks
Google launched Lyria 3 Pro, an AI music generation model that creates tracks up to three minutes long with full song structure including intros, verses, and choruses.
xAI SuperGrok Lite Brings AI Images for $10 a Month
xAI launched SuperGrok Lite, a $10-per-month subscription tier that includes basic AI image and video generation. The plan sits below the existing $30 SuperGrok tier and targets casual creators.
ElevenLabs and IBM Partner on Enterprise Voice AI
ElevenLabs and IBM announced a partnership on March 25 to integrate 10,000+ voices across 70 languages into IBM watsonx Orchestrate.
Udio's Walled Garden Splits the AI Music Market
Udio settles with UMG and WMG, pivoting from an open AI music generator to a walled-garden fan platform where no creations can be exported. Suno retains downloads. The AI music market splits.
Udio Pivots to Licensed Fan Platform After Label Deals
Udio settles lawsuits with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group and pivots to a walled-garden fan platform for licensed remixing and mashups.
Tripo AI Raises $50M to Scale 3D Generation Platform
Tripo AI raised $50 million from Alibaba and Baidu Ventures to scale its 3D generation platform, which now serves 6.5 million creators with 100 million 3D assets generated.
Google Lyria 3 Pro Bets Big on AI Music Creation
Google launches Lyria 3 Pro with three-minute AI music tracks, developer API at $0.08 per song, and the ProducerAI acquisition. Full competitive analysis.
Framer Ships Shaders for Animated Web Effects
Framer adds GPU-accelerated Shaders for animated gradients, particles, and image effects. Also ships Static Files for domain verification and custom A/B test distribution.
Why OpenAI Killed Sora and What It Means for Video
OpenAI shut down Sora after six months, losing Disney's $1 billion deal. Analysis of the economics that made it unsustainable and who wins the AI video market now.
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Video App, Disney Exits $1B Deal
OpenAI announced it will discontinue Sora, its AI video generation app, just six months after launch. Disney simultaneously dissolved its planned $1 billion investment.
Spotify Tests Tool to Block AI Music on Profiles
Spotify launched Artist Profile Protection in beta on March 24, letting musicians approve or decline AI-generated music before it appears on their profile.
Snapchat AI Clips Turn Photos Into 5-Second Videos
Snapchat launched AI Clips on March 24, a new Lens format that transforms a single photo into a 5-second AI-generated video for Lens+ subscribers.
Spline Ships Omma AI Canvas for 3D Web Design
Spline launched Omma on March 24, an AI canvas that generates interactive 3D web experiences from natural language prompts using parallel agents.
Spline Omma Bets on AI-Native 3D for the Web
Spline Omma generates production-ready 3D web experiences from natural language prompts using parallel AI agents, with a Code API that exports to React, Next.js, and XR.
Figma AI Agents Reshape the Design Canvas
Figma opened bidirectional canvas write access to nine AI agents through its MCP server on March 24, 2026, turning design systems into machine-readable infrastructure for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and six more coding agents.
Moda AI Raises $7.5M for AI Design Agent
Moda AI raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst to build an AI design agent that learns a company's brand identity and generates fully editable presentations, social posts, and visual assets.
DeepBrain AI Ships Interactive Video Agents
DeepBrain AI launched Interactive AI Video Agents on March 24, bringing real-time conversational avatars to enterprise workflows with sub-1.5s response time.
Figma Opens Canvas to AI Design Agents
Figma new use_figma MCP tool lets AI agents from Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor create and edit native design assets directly on the canvas.
Best Free AI Tools for Creators 2026: No Credit Card Required
You do not need to spend hundreds on AI tools to do professional creative work in 2026. The best free AI tools across image, video, audio, coding, and design categories deliver genuinely capable results without requiring a credit card.
Best AI Video Generators 2026: Tools That Actually Work
Ten AI video generators compared with current pricing, real capabilities, and honest assessments. Native 4K and synchronized audio are now standard, and six of the ten best tools cost nothing to run.
Best AI Image Generators 2026: Complete Comparison
Midjourney, FLUX Pro, and GPT Image 1.5 lead AI image generation in 2026, but the gap between the top tools has narrowed to the point where price, speed, and workflow fit matter more than raw quality.
MiniMax Token Plan: All AI Models Under One API Key
MiniMax upgraded its Coding Plan to the Token Plan, giving developers flat-rate access to Hailuo video, speech, music, image, and text models under one API key.
Mistral Voxtral TTS Ships Open-Weights Speech Model
Mistral AI released Voxtral TTS, a 4-billion-parameter open-weights text-to-speech model that matches or beats ElevenLabs on naturalness benchmarks. It supports nine languages and clones voices from just three seconds of reference audio.
MagiHuman 15B Ships Open-Source Human Video AI
Researchers released daVinci-MagiHuman, a 15-billion-parameter open-source model that generates realistic human video with synchronized speech in two seconds.