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OpenAI is planning to integrate its Sora AI video generator directly into ChatGPT, according to a report from The Information. The move would bring AI video creation capabilities to ChatGPT's hundreds of millions of active users, dramatically expanding Sora's reach beyond its standalone app
Runway launched an internal incubator called Runway Labs on March 12, 2026, to explore applications of its generative video and world model technology outside filmmaking
Anthropic launched The Anthropic Institute on March 11, 2026, a new research organization focused on studying how advanced AI is reshaping jobs, economies, legal systems, and society at large
Nvidia invested $2 billion in Nebius, an Amsterdam-based AI cloud company, in a strategic partnership announced March 11, 2026. The deal commits to deploying more than 5 gigawatts of Nvidia systems through Nebius by 2030, adding a major new full-stack AI cloud alternative to the existing hypersca...
ElevenLabs pledged to restore 1 million voices for free at SXSW 2026, launching the initiative on March 11 alongside the premiere of "11 Voices," a docuseries where people with voice loss narrate their own stories using AI-generated versions of their voices
Perplexity launched Personal Computer at its Ask 2026 conference in San Francisco on March 11. The software runs continuously on a Mac mini, merging local files and apps with Perplexity's cloud-based Computer agent
Apple released the MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max on March 11, 2026, delivering 4x faster AI performance than the previous generation
Replit closed a $400 million Series D round at a $9 billion valuation on March 11, 2026, tripling its valuation in six months
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super on March 11, 2026, an open-source 120B-parameter hybrid Mamba-Transformer model that delivers 5x higher throughput than its predecessor for agentic AI workloads
Netflix is paying up to $600 million for InterPositive, the AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck four years ago. The deal, confirmed by Bloomberg on March 11, 2026, ranks among Netflix's largest acquisitions ever and signals a major bet on AI-powered post-production tools
NVIDIA announced a major partnership with ComfyUI at GDC 2026 on March 10, bringing streamlined local AI video generation to game developers and creative professionals on RTX hardware
Hume AI has released TADA (Text-Acoustic Dual-Alignment), an open-source text-to-speech model that eliminates a persistent problem in AI speech synthesis: hallucinated words
NVIDIA announced DLSS 4.5 at GDC 2026, introducing Dynamic Multi Frame Generation that automatically adjusts generated frames in real time to hit a target frame rate
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network built exclusively for AI agents. The platform launched in late January 2026 as an experimental "third space" where AI bots can autonomously post, comment, and upvote or downvote content
NVIDIA is launching NemoClaw, an open-source enterprise AI agent platform, ahead of GTC 2026 (March 16-19). The platform integrates with the NeMo framework and Nemotron models, backed by partnerships with Salesforce, Google, Adobe, Cisco, and CrowdStrike
Adobe launched a public beta of its AI assistant for Photoshop on March 10, 2026, while simultaneously expanding Firefly with generative editing tools and integrations with 25+ third-party AI models including Runway, OpenAI, and Black Forest Labs. Adobe shipped two major updates on the same day
Black Forest Labs, the team behind the FLUX image generation models, published Self-Flow on March 10, 2026: an open-source framework that trains image, video, and audio generation models 2.8x faster without requiring external encoders
Fish Audio released S2, an open-source text-to-speech model trained on over 10 million hours of audio data spanning 50 languages. The model beats GPT-4o-mini-tts on the EmergentTTS-Eval benchmark with an 81.88% win rate, and ships with full weights, fine-tuning code, and a streaming inference engine
Freepik has shipped version 5.6 of its mobile app, adding two significant creative tools: Cinematic Shot for generating studio-grade photorealistic images and an AI Music Generator that produces royalty-free tracks on demand
Picsart just launched AI Playground, a unified creative hub that brings together more than 90 AI models from 24 providers into a single interface
Runway launched Runway Characters on March 9, 2026, a real-time video agent API that turns any image into a fully expressive, conversational digital persona