Vannarot Roeung

Vannarot Roeung

Editor of Creative AI News. Covering the AI tools and workflows that ship for designers, video editors, audio producers, 3d artists and more.

Recent posts by Vannarot Roeung

Perplexity Hybrid Compute: Local-Cloud AI on Mac

Perplexity Hybrid Compute: Local-Cloud AI on Mac

Perplexity launched Hybrid Compute for its Computer agent on Apple silicon Macs, splitting a single task between cloud and local models so confidential files never leave the device.

Figma AI Shaders Now Animate and Export to Code

Figma AI Shaders Now Animate and Export to Code

Figma has turned its AI shaders from a static novelty into a working motion-and-code tool. A September 1 update adds motion, a code viewer, community publishing, and MCP export to its generative plugins and shaders.

Claude Fable 5.1 Cuts Cache Reads by 75 Percent

Claude Fable 5.1 Cuts Cache Reads by 75 Percent

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, 2026. Headline pricing did not move, but cache reads dropped from $1.00 to $0.25 per million tokens, a 75 percent cut worth up to 45 percent on agentic workloads.

How to Make a Product Launch Video With AI (2026)

How to Make a Product Launch Video With AI (2026)

Turn a product brief and a few reference images into a polished, multi-scene launch video in about ten minutes with AI, no After Effects required. A full step-by-step workflow.

Appwrite 2.0 Adds VectorsDB for AI App Builders

Appwrite 2.0 Adds VectorsDB for AI App Builders

Appwrite 2.0, announced August 31, 2026, is a major rebuild of the open-source backend platform, adding VectorsDB, a native embeddings database with built-in embedding models.

Mercury 2.5 Preview: Fast, Cheap Diffusion LLM

Mercury 2.5 Preview: Fast, Cheap Diffusion LLM

Inception released Mercury 2.5 Preview on August 31, 2026, a diffusion LLM that generates tokens in parallel, hitting up to 1,107 tokens per second at cost-optimized pricing on OpenRouter.

Mureka V9.5 AI Music Model Improves Vocals

Mureka V9.5 AI Music Model Improves Vocals

Mureka released V9.5 of its AI music model, shifting focus from convincing sounds toward complete songs with stronger arrangements and more natural vocals.

fal.live and the Continuous-Generation Shift in AI Video

fal.live and the Continuous-Generation Shift in AI Video

fal.live is an infinite, interactive AI livestream powered by the autoregressive H3 Max Director model. Here is how continuous, steerable generation changes creative work versus the fixed-clip paradigm of Veo, Sora, Kling, and Runway.

ComfyUI Adds Native Trellis.2 and Pixal3D 3D

ComfyUI Adds Native Trellis.2 and Pixal3D 3D

ComfyUI now ships Trellis.2 and Pixal3D as native nodes, turning a single image into a high-fidelity 3D asset with full PBR textures and mesh cleanup, running locally at zero cost per asset.

Runway Solaris: Interface World Models for Creators

Runway Solaris: Interface World Models for Creators

Runway's Solaris generates interactive app interfaces in real time by rendering pixels instead of writing code, a genuinely different approach from AI code builders like Cursor and v0.

Claude Code Weekly Usage Limits Change Sept 14

Claude Code Weekly Usage Limits Change Sept 14

Anthropic will change Claude Code weekly usage limits on September 14, 2026, replacing a temporary 50% boost with a permanent 25% increase over the original baseline. For current users, that is roughly a 17% cut from today's levels.

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