HeyGen
HeyGen Voice debuts at No. 1 on Artificial Analysis
The avatar company's first in-house voice model is free in its platform and API, with a $99 monthly clone trained on the owner's own speech.
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HyperFrames
HyperFrames Studio: how to make video with a coding agent
The free, Apache-2.0 editor from HeyGen's HyperFrames team lets Claude Code or Codex build the project, then you trim clips and edit on the same timeline.
Nikon
Nikon disqualifies its Small World video winner over AI
Nikon says Ning Xu's winning footage broke the contest's rules on generative AI, and moved Vietnam's Nguyen Nam Nhat into first place.
HeyGen
HeyGen launches a daily AI avatar series with Ryan Serhant
The channel, @HeySerhant, runs for at least 12 months on Instagram, TikTok and X, with Serhant approving topics and every post labeled as AI.
elevenlabs
Royal Mail's AI ad voice sounds like a dead BBC narrator
Royal Mail confirmed the narrator of its 2025 Christmas ad was AI, and the daughter of the late BBC narrator Paul Vaughan said she recognized her father.
Meta
How to start building for Meta VR Glasses before they ship
The v207 SDKs, the simulator profile, the glasses toolkit and the agent prompts Meta wrote for you: everything a developer needs to be ready when the roughly 100-gram Meta VR Glasses arrive in spring 2027, plus the AI tools worth pointing at the work today.
Deepdub
Deepdub and Spikes dub studio catalogs into 130 languages
Spikes says it has processed more than 1,000 titles and built 30,000 micro-content episodes from studio libraries to date.
EyeTell
YouTube co-founder's EyeTell lets viewers change AI stories
In a PBS NewsHour segment, Chad Hurley said EyeTell is still building safeguards and did not detail how creators would get paid.
Topview AI
Topview AI says 40% of its 5 million users make AI films
The Singapore company launched Film Studio in July 2026, and DRagon Studios is using Topview AI for a feature film set to premiere in London's West End in December.
Magnific One
Magnific One generates images with art direction built in
Brand Kit extracts a team's logo, palette, typography and tone, then applies the kit to every image the model generates in Final mode.
Syren
Synthesia's Syren builds a finished video from a prompt
The tool renders in the browser at up to three minutes and is credit-based, with launch credits covering every customer's first video.
MiniMax H3
How to run MiniMax H3 on a single 12GB graphics card
ComfyUI's repackaged weights cut MiniMax H3 from 123.6GB to 42.5GB, but the local build leaves out the hosted 2K stage behind Hailuo's showreels.
HiDream
HiDream's vivago R1 AI video agent goes global
The Beijing lab's agent joins script, storyboard and edit in one chat workflow, and HiDream says it plans to add a model ranked No. 4 for image-to-video.
Argil
Argil Director turns a story brief into a storyboarded film
Argil says the harness cuts creative iteration by 80%, and it is available now to registered users on a credit-based subscription.
Protoface
Protoface opens its API to 40+ models from $0.003 a second
The platform puts Kling 3.0 Pro, Seedance 2.5, Wan 3.0, Google's Veo 3.1 and Runway Gen-4 Turbo behind one pay-as-you-go key.
Claude Motion
Claude Motion turns a report into an animated explainer
Anthropic's Claude Motion writes code that animates your own text, charts and images rather than generating footage, and it is in beta for Team and Enterprise plans.
News
Same AI model, 48 prices: the weekly AI API price board
GLM-5.3 costs $0.40 a million tokens at Wafer and $4.30 at Alibaba. Every model rate, every price move and every outage, rebuilt every Tuesday.
H3 Max
H3 Max Relight changes a video's lighting from a sphere render
The fal endpoint takes a clip of up to 15 seconds plus a lighting-sphere render and bills from 5 cents a second at 480p.
SGF+
Tsinghua's SGF+ generates 24-hour video from 5-second clips
The method doubles generator parameters to 2.8 billion to separate the two roles, and its weights and code ship under Apache-2.0.
FreeVideo
How to run MiniMax H3 on an 8 GB graphics card
FlashML-org's FreeVideo runs an eight-step MiniMax H3 derivative on small cards by streaming weights between GPU, RAM and disk.