GRACE
KAIST's GRACE makes Wan2.1 video 11x faster on an A100
Two-stage latent compression cuts Wan2.1-I2V-14B's token count nearly 8x while matching the model's VBench quality on one A100.
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AI Creative Summit 2026 offers 30 free tickets for freelancers
The fourth AI Creative Summit runs at BFI Southbank in London on 11 November 2026, with a keynote from Tilly Norwood creator Eline Van der Velden.
Kling
Report: Kling AI picks banks for $1 billion Hong Kong IPO
Kuaishou's Kling also unveiled its Kling 4.0 model on September 28, doubling single-pass clips to 30 seconds and previewing up to 10 keyframes.
Runway
Runway's Praxis-1 turns video pretraining into robot control
The New York company says early partners Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are running Praxis-1 on their own hardware, with open weights planned for the coming months.
Vidu
Vidu Q4 Preview sells AI video from $0.014 a second at launch
Shengshu's launch rate is promotional: Vidu's own list starts at $0.045 a second, and the model debuts third on an independent image-to-video board.
SynthID
How to check media for AI with Google's SynthID Detector
Google opened its watermark checker to the public on October 7, but a clean result means no SynthID mark was found, not that a file is real.
higgsfield
Higgsfield builds an AI influencer character for $0.06
The rebuilt tool assembles a character from 19 menu settings with no prompt writing, takes your own photo to carry your face, and animates it through Genjutsu.
Astana AI Film Festival
Astana AI Film Festival awards $450,000 to a Latvian director
Organisers say 8,067 films from 125 countries made it the largest AI film competition yet, with $1 million split across eight winners.
invideo
invideo's Agentic Extend lengthens a scene by up to 30 seconds
invideo says the extension continues a scene's dialogue, music and sound effects on separate layers the editor can still adjust by hand.
TwelveLabs
TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.6 reads first-person video at $1.75 an hour
TwelveLabs' Pegasus 1.6 adds first-person footage support for robot training data, at the same per-hour and token rates as the version it replaces.
Prism
Tencent Hunyuan's Prism renders 2K video with sound in one pass
The Fudan and Tencent Hunyuan model is MIT-licensed and open on GitHub, but native 2K output needs four or more 80 GB GPUs.
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Kandinsky 6.0 Video ships open weights with 44 kHz audio
Kandinsky Lab released Lite (3B) and Pro (29B) free under MIT, with five-second clips and lip-sync that run on a 16 GB GPU.
Suno
Suno's Speech beta voices a script and scores it in one pass
The beta runs on web, iOS and Android, tops out near eight minutes, and lets creators switch the music off for plain narration.
Google
EmbeddingGemma 2 puts video search on a phone at 740M parameters
Google's open model unifies text, images, audio and video in one vector space, so a voice memo can find the matching shot without leaving the phone.
Meta
Meta opens its AI video ad tools to all advertisers
Advantage+ Creative can now turn still images into video ads and catalog advertisers can generate product video at scale, and Meta says video is more than 60% of Facebook and Instagram time.
Synthesia
Synthesia launches Sessions, a two-way AI avatar platform
The AI video company's new product lets people hold live conversations with lifelike avatars, starting with sales roleplay practice and interview-style surveys.
Supernal
Supernal's 19-day AI-assisted film took third in the XPRIZE
Real actors filmed on a gray screen for one day, AI environments built around them, and a finished trailer in under three weeks.
C2PA
Why the AI label on your video rarely reaches the viewer
The signed metadata that marks a video as AI-generated survives to the audience roughly a third of the time, and the EU now puts the disclosure duty on whoever publishes.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare ships Clef, the first models it trained itself
The two open-weight models return a probability instead of a sentence, accept images and video, and are free to download under Apache 2.0.
CineMe
CineMe goes live to turn a script into film predevelopment
The platform from filmmaker Dan Hartley and former Prime Video UK boss Chris Bird turns a script into photo-realistic images and video, then carries the project through budgeting and scheduling.