Google is testing a credit-based billing system for Gemini that replaces fixed prompt quotas, plus a new dedicated images section spotted in the Gemini web UI ahead of Google I/O.
Topaz Labs ships 6 new AI models on April 28: Wonder 3, Denoise Max, Super Focus 3, High Fidelity 3, Starlight Precise 2.5, and Astra 2.
Alibaba launches Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro on April 25 with native 2K output, multilingual text rendering, and $0.075 per image API pricing. Arena Text-to-Image rank 9 globally.
Writesonic launched Bansi AI, an automated editor for long-form talking head videos that strips silences, adds AI captions, punch zooms, and B-roll in minutes.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 generates interactive 3D environments from text prompts, doubles API pricing to $5/$30 per million tokens, and leads benchmarks on coding and math. Available now for ChatGPT Plus subscribers.
FocuSee 2.0 adds mobile screen recording via USB, 3D motion effects, AI captions with 98% accuracy, and AI voice enhancement to the automated screen recorder that launched on Product Hunt in 2023.
Inclusion AI released LLaDA2.0-Uni, a 16B MoE diffusion model that unifies text-to-image generation, instruction-based editing, and image understanding in one Apache-2.0 checkpoint.
Google Photos Auto Frame now uses AI to re-angle portrait photos after the fact, correcting wide-angle distortion and generating missing background areas using diffusion models.
OpenAI’s GPT Image 2, the company’s first reasoning-based image model, is now available inside ComfyUI through Partner Nodes — bringing 2K output, precise text rendering, and 8-frame batch consistency to node-based workflows.
Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall algorithm team released Tstars-Tryon 1.0 on April 21, 2026, a commercial-scale virtual try-on system already serving millions of Taobao shoppers.
SpaceX paid $10B for an AI coding partnership with Cursor on April 21, 2026, with a $60B option to acquire the startup outright later this year. Cursor gains access to xAI Colossus.
GRAI launched with $9M seed from Khosla Ventures and Inovo VC for AI music remix apps Music with Friends (iOS) and Remix Playground (Android). Team previously sold VOCHI to Pinterest.
GitHub paused new signups for the Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans on April 20, 2026, and tightened usage limits across every individual plan.
YouTube expanded its AI Likeness Detection system to all celebrities and entertainment professionals on April 21, 2026. No YouTube channel required -- talent agencies can enroll entire client rosters.
Latitude, makers of AI Dungeon, launched Voyage on April 21, 2026 -- an AI-native RPG platform where creators build game worlds with natural language and every NPC thinks independently.
fal launched a no-waitlist enterprise API for GPT-Image-2 on April 21, 2026. Developers get immediate 4K access with two endpoints, pay-per-use pricing from $0.01/image.
Anthropic added Live Artifacts to Claude Cowork on April 20, 2026: AI dashboards and trackers that connect to your apps and files and auto-refresh with current data every time you open them.
Adobe expanded its NVIDIA partnership at Adobe Summit on April 20, 2026 with Firefly Foundry custom-tuned models, 3D digital twins on Omniverse, and CX Enterprise Coworker agents. Launch partners include WPP, CAA, WME, and UTA.
TwelveLabs launched Rodeo at NAB 2026 -- an AI creative co-pilot that lets video editors find, assemble, and cut footage with natural language, cutting workflows from days to minutes.
Makko opens its AI 2D game studio out of beta with Collections for style consistency and a Code Studio for playable prototypes. 4,500 beta users generated 40,000+ assets and 3,500 games.
Amazon committed up to $25B more to Anthropic on April 20, 2026, plus 5 gigawatts of new Trainium2 and Trainium3 compute. Anthropic pledged $100B+ to AWS over the next decade.
Google AI Studio is now giving Pro and Ultra subscribers access to Nano Banana Pro, the company's most capable image generation model, along with higher usage limits across Gemini models.
xAI launched the Grok Voice Agent API April 18 with standalone speech-to-text and text-to-speech endpoints priced at $0.10 per hour batch STT and $4.20 per million characters TTS.
Google launched Flow Music on April 18, 2026, rebranding ProducerAI into a standalone AI music studio powered by Lyria 3. Create full songs, AI music videos with Veo, and remix tracks with new Replace and Extend features -- free at flowmusic.app.