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.
ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0, ranked #1 for image-to-video on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, is now available via the Runway API for developers.
Director Doug Liman shot Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi for $70M by abandoning location shoots and letting AI fill in every background after principal photography.
HeyGen launched a developer platform with an open-source CLI, an HTML-to-video rendering framework called Hyperframes, and agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
A team of 23 researchers released LPM 1.0, a 17-billion parameter Diffusion Transformer that generates real-time character video from audio input.
HeyGen Avatar V scores 0.840 Face Similarity from a 15-second webcam clip, beating Google Veo 3.1 by 17.6%. Full analysis of the video-reference architecture and creator impact.
Six AI video generators tested with identical prompts. Runway Gen-4.5 Turbo, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, Pika 2.2, Hailuo 2.3, and LTX Video 2.3 scored across visual quality, motion coherence, speed, and cost.
Alibaba Wan2.7 video generation model is now available directly in ComfyUI through Partner Nodes, bringing comprehensive video creation capabilities to the popular node-based workflow tool.
Google Vids now lets Workspace users create AI-directed avatars using Veo 3.1, generate custom soundtracks with Lyria 3, and produce up to 10 free video clips per month.
Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, a cost-effective video generation model available now via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.
One week after OpenAI killed Sora, Runway launched a $10M venture fund and Builders program at its first AI Summit. The company is building a platform for AI video, not just a tool.
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.
Val Kilmer will star in As Deep as the Grave through a fully AI-generated performance, marking the first feature film lead created entirely with generative AI.
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
Google merged three separate AI creative tools into one platform in March 2026. Flow now combines Whisk (mood boards and collages), ImageFX (text-to-image generation), and Flow's original video capabilities into a single workspace powered by Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana
Kiwi-Edit, a new open-source video editing framework from NUS ShowLab, launched on March 5, 2026, combining text instruction guidance with reference image control to handle both global and local video edits at 720p resolution