Vannarot Roeung
Recent posts by Vannarot Roeung
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
AI Coding Tools Market in 2026: The Full Breakdown
Cursor hit $2 billion in annualized revenue in February 2026, just three months after crossing $1 billion. No SaaS company in history has doubled that fast. Here is the full breakdown of every AI coding tool, their pricing, benchmarks, and who is winning.
The AI Newsletter Landscape in 2026: Who Reads What
The five largest AI newsletters now reach more than 8 million inboxes combined. We analyzed subscriber counts, revenue models, platform choices, and the strategies separating winners from the thousands that disappeared.
AI 3D Generation and Spatial Computing: State of the Art in 2026
The 3D Gaussian Splatting tools market hit 1.2 billion dollars in 2024 and is on track for 7.8 billion by 2033. AI 3D generation crossed a threshold in early 2026 with open-source models producing production-quality meshes in seconds.
AI Video Generation: The Complete Landscape in 2026
Seven of the top ten text-to-video models on HuggingFace are Wan2.2 variants, with combined monthly downloads exceeding 500,000. Open-source video generation is no longer catching up to proprietary tools.
The Real Cost of AI Tools for Creators in 2026
A creator subscribing to just five popular AI tools in 2026 now pays more per month than a full Adobe Creative Cloud license cost three years ago. Here is what every major AI tool actually costs, where the hidden expenses are, and when open-source alternatives make financial sense.
State of Creative AI Tools: March 2026 Data Report
AI agents gained more GitHub stars this week than image generators gained all month. This report analyzes 400 arXiv papers, 50 trending HuggingFace papers, 250 models, and 16 GitHub repos.
AI Music and Audio Tools in 2026: What Actually Works
An open-source music model running on a $200 GPU now outscores Suno v5 on the SongEval benchmark. Here is what actually works in AI audio in 2026.
Open-Source vs Closed AI: The Creator's Guide for 2026
The performance gap between open-source and closed AI models has collapsed from 17.5 percentage points to effectively zero on knowledge benchmarks by early 2026. For creators, that shift changes everything.
AI Image Generation in 2026: Who Actually Leads
The most downloaded text-to-image model on HuggingFace is not from OpenAI, Google, or Midjourney. We tracked 50 models, arena ELO rankings, and pricing to find who really leads AI image generation in 2026.
Instagram AI Transitions Turn Still Photos Into Video
Instagram new AI Transition feature generates animated in-between frames from still photos, creating seamless video Stories without filming.