OpenAI
OpenAI hires Patreon's Sam Yam to lead a creator division
Yam brings Patreon's former product and engineering leads with him, and OpenAI's September 29 DevDay is the first date he points to for new tools.
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Adobe
Adobe completes Topaz Labs purchase and keeps the brand
The video and image enhancement company stays a standalone brand, and its CEO Eric Yang joins Adobe's Digital Video and Audio team.
YouTube
YouTube adds a Gemini editing assistant to Shorts
The chat-based editor trims pauses, reorders frames and syncs music on request and arrives in early 2027, alongside a separate Studio tool for testing three cuts of one video.
Pixazo
Pixazo cuts MiniMax H3 Max API price to 4 cents a second
The promotional rate, live since September 21 with no announced end date, halves the API's per-second price against MiniMax's own published list rate.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield's Blender add-on generates meshes, rigs and lit scenes
The add-on needs Blender 5.1 or later and runs on Higgsfield's cloud credits, and only some of its seven tools return data you can keep editing.
Evoto
Evoto 8.0 ships AI portrait retouching for video
The update, unveiled at Evoto's New York event on September 22, adds a DaVinci Resolve retouching plugin and a $500,000 creator marketplace called Asset Hub.
AFP Fact Check
Fact-checkers trace viral Riyadh airport strike clip to AI
AFP Fact Check traced a viral clip claiming to show a missile strike at Riyadh's airport to an AI-generated video first posted in March, predating this month's Houthi attacks.
Brahma AI
Brahma AI raises $150M at a $2B valuation from Multiples
Multiples Alternate Asset Management put in $100 million through preferred shares, and Brahma says it has another $100 million of investor interest still to place.
OpenMontage
OpenMontage: turning a coding assistant into a video studio
The open-source project ships no clip generator of its own, and its zero-key path renders a finished narrated video without paying a video API.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield meters its API by the second, outside its subscriptions
The video platform's pay-as-you-go API is billed separately from its monthly subscription plans, and the effective rate depends on how many models you commit to.
Perplexity
Perplexity Computer adds MiniMax H3 and Seedance 2.5 video
The agentic workspace gains two video models alongside Veo 3.1, but Perplexity has published no generation quotas, export formats or licensing terms.
TBC
TBC plans to sell its neuron-taught video model through AWS
The San Francisco startup says its software layer, measured from living neural activity, speeds up text-to-video inference fivefold, though it will not name the base model.
YouTube
47 YouTube channels use AI presenters to report German politics
CeMAS analysed 38 of the channels behind 1,876 videos published between December 2025 and August 2026, which together drew about 7.55 million views.
HelloGen
HelloGen sells unlimited AI video on one model for $19.90
The service removed per-clip charging on MiniMax H3 and published a floor instead, with Pro subscribers guaranteed two priority renders a day and Max five.
World Labs
World Labs' Atlas steers video from a single photo
Atlas is World Labs' bet that a model which holds space natively beats a video generator with a reconstruction module bolted on. It is in early access only.
MVLAND
MVLAND 2.0 adds shot-level editing to AI music videos
Meitu's music video generator now analyses a track before it generates anything, then lets creators re-do the camera, composition or action of a single scene.
OpenArt
OpenArt Arena has 1,031 creatives rank AI image and video models
OpenArt Arena ranks models by blind judging across job categories, and the company's own disclosures page states what the rankings do not establish.
iQIYI
iQIYI contest requires 60% of each AI film to come from Wan 3.0
Submissions close September 23 for the contest on NadouPro, which requires at least 60% of each entry to come from Alibaba's Wan3.0 and 80% to be made on the platform.
freebeat
freebeat Launches a Lyric Video Maker That Builds the Words Into the Scene
The San Francisco company says its new tool generates a typographic treatment for each scene and matches it to the track's tempo, energy curve and camera motion.
Qwen
Qwen-Image-2.1 makes transparent 2K images for research use only
The 7B model puts a real alpha channel and native 2K output in one checkpoint, while the license drops from Apache 2.0 to research-only terms.