Luma Skills: Save and Reuse Creative Workflows
Luma added Skills to Luma Agents, a way to save a creative workflow once and re-run it on new footage or images for consistent results.
Meta Adds AI Photo and Video Editing to Facebook
Meta is rolling out generative photo and video editing tools inside the Facebook app, letting you swap clothing, hair, and accessories.
Best AI Tools for Video Editors in 2026
The best AI tools for video editors in 2026 pair real timeline editing with AI: DaVinci Resolve Studio leads, with Premiere Pro, Runway, Descript, and Topaz Video AI close behind. Here is how the top tools compare on features, pricing, and who each is for.
How to Make an AI Music Video (2026 Workflow)
Take a song from a blank prompt to a finished, beat-synced music video in an afternoon using three tools: Suno for the track, Runway Gen-4 for the visuals, and CapCut for the edit.
Descript Adds Tone Tags and Claude/ChatGPT Editing
Descript shipped inline tone tags for ElevenLabs V3 speakers and a connector for Claude and ChatGPT on June 11, 2026, pushing further into directable AI editing.
Avataar Varya: AI Video at $0.005 per Second
Avataar launched Varya, an AI video model at roughly $0.005 per second, about 20x cheaper than Veo, Runway, Kling, or Luma, with an open-weight release planned.
DaVinci Resolve 21: Photos and Video in One App
DaVinci Resolve 21 adds a Photo page so you can edit RAW stills and grade video in one free app. Here is the full hybrid shooter workflow.
minWM: Real-Time Interactive Video From Open Models
Shengshu AI released minWM on May 28, an Apache 2.0 framework that converts open video models like Wan2.1 and HunyuanVideo into real-time interactive world models with camera control.
Snipforge: 28 AI Video Tools in Your Browser
A solo developer shipped Snipforge on May 27, 2026: 28 AI-powered video tools that run entirely in your browser, requiring no installation and no account to start.
PARE: Run Wan2.1-14B Video Models at Half Compute
PARE achieves 52% parameter reduction on Wan2.1-14B with just 0.6 points drop on VBench, using spatial-temporal aware pruning and content-adaptive routing. Combined with step distillation, total speedup reaches 50x.
Reallusion AI Studio: 3D Control Layer for AI Video
Reallusion launched AI Studio on May 25, 2026, pairing iClone 3D animation tools with ByteDance Seedance video generation for 3D-controlled AI video.
Hell Grind: $500K AI Feature Premieres Near Cannes
Higgsfield AI premiered a 95-minute sci-fi feature, Hell Grind, in Cannes on May 21. A 15-person team built it in 14 days for under $500K using ByteDance Seedance 2.0. Compute ate 80% of the budget.
Framedex: Search Your Video Archive Locally with Gemma 4
A solo developer just open-sourced framedex, an MIT-licensed local pipeline that indexes a year of personal video footage on a 2021 MacBook using a quantized Gemma 4 31B model running through LM Studio.
Google Flow Android Beta: Agent, Tools, and Gemini Omni
Google launched Flow for Android in beta at I/O 2026, alongside Flow Agent, Flow Tools, and Gemini Omni Flash updates for video and music creators.
Inside Gemini Omni: Google's Any-Input Video Model
Google introduced Gemini Omni at I/O 2026, a multimodal model that accepts text, images, audio, and video in any combination and produces or edits video through conversational prompts. Omni Flash is the first public release.
Odyssey Agora-1: 4-Player AI World Model You Can Play
Odyssey released Agora-1 on May 18, 2026, a multi-agent world model that lets up to four people share and interact inside the same AI-generated simulation in real time. Built on GoldenEye, it splits simulation from rendering using a DiT model.
Warp-as-History Brings Zero-Shot Camera Control to AI Video
Warp-as-History converts camera movements into pseudo-history context that frozen video models follow without retraining, new encoders, or test-time optimization. Code is public on GitHub.
Kling 3.0 Tutorial: Multi-Shot AI Video in 30 Minutes
Kling 3.0 ships six cuts in a single generation, native audio in five languages, and the second-ranked image-to-video score on the public arena. Full tutorial plus comparison against HappyHorse-1.0 and Runway Gen-4.5.
DeepBrain Adds Seedance 2.0 to AI STUDIOS
DeepBrain integrated ByteDance Seedance 2.0 into AI STUDIOS with 1,000 voices, 150-language dubbing, and multi-minute video output in a single pass.
Vidu Claw Turns a Single Brief Into a Finished Ad
ShengShu Technology launched Vidu Claw on May 12, a pipeline that converts a single marketing brief into a production-ready video ad without switching tools.
AKOOL Cuts AI Video to 3 Seconds With New Engine
AKOOL rebuilt its full AI video stack, cutting generation time to 1-3 seconds per clip and enabling real-time streaming with sub-30ms latency per frame.
Velo 2.0 Turns Screen Recordings Into Polished Videos
Velo 2.0 launches as the AI-native screen recording tool. Compared head-to-head against Loom + Descript and OpusClip on output quality, editing workflow, sharing, and price for working creators.
Gemini API Adds Webhooks for Veo, Batch, Long-Running Jobs
Gemini API webhooks let you build async Veo video pipelines without polling. Step-by-step workflow tutorial for video creators automating long-running batch jobs in 2026.
Runway Characters vs HeyGen, Synthesia, D-ID, Tavus
Runway Characters runs at 1.75s end-to-end latency, 24 fps HD, from a single image. Here is the honest comparison against HeyGen Interactive Avatar, Synthesia Express, D-ID Agents, and Tavus across input format, latency, voice, meeting integration, tool calling, pricing, and foundation lineage.