Kling
Kuaishou closes Kling AI financing at reported $18B valuation
The roughly 19.8 billion yuan close is the same transaction reported in July, and Kuaishou keeps control through its Lucky Labs vehicle.
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TBC
TBC launches mischief 1, AI video at half a cent a second
The image-to-video model is built on Alibaba's Wan 2.2, and TBC says lessons from lab-grown neurons make it about five times faster.
Vyond Turbo
Vyond launches Turbo, a chat-led AI video platform for business
The enterprise platform, used by 65% of the Fortune 500 according to Vyond, requires an additional subscription and a custom-quote price.
Kino
Kino launches a video editor that Claude Code and Codex drive
Founder Luke Igel says Kino stores, cuts and reviews footage in one place, with editing decisions living as code on a timeline that people can override.
Code2Video
Code2Video and Magnific Move render motion as editable code
SenseTime's 27B open model, fal's pay-per-second converter and Magnific's agentic editor all shipped in late October, and each one points at a different job.
L3G-World
L3G-World generates 3D worlds at 9.02 FPS on one H100
The KAIST paper's latent 3D Gaussian memory tops DL3DV baselines and uses 266 to 417 times fewer 3D primitives than NeoVerse, but no weights are out yet.
VEED Dubbing
VEED Dubbing goes live at 11 cents a second of video
The model translates video, clones each speaker's voice and lip-syncs the result, while a Pro tier keeps background audio and costs 18 cents a second.
higgsfield
Higgsfield Playable builds a mobile game from a prompt
Playable Games runs on every Higgsfield plan, but turning a game into an interactive ad for nine networks takes an Enterprise plan.
Pika H3 Flex
Pika H3 Flex cuts video generation from 50 steps to six
Pika's post-trained MiniMax H3 turns out a 15-second 768p clip in as little as seven seconds of denoising time, and the API starts at a cent a second.
fal
fal's Motion to Code turns a clip into editable code
The two hosted endpoints rebuild a reference clip of up to 15 seconds as one HTML page or a looping GLSL shader, priced from $0.20 a second.
SenseTime
SenseTime open-sources Code2Video, a 27B code-driven video model
The Apache 2.0 model writes, renders and reviews its own frames inside Claude Code, for motion graphics and explainers rather than photoreal footage.
Jimeng
How ByteDance's Jimeng Short Drama Studio works
The one-workspace tool runs on three in-house models and can regenerate a finished drama's visuals for another market.
VibeVideoBench
VibeVideoBench: coding agents top out at 76% of video tasks
Nine general coding agents each got one hour to build a finished video with sound using only code, and one of them delivered as few as 179 of 239 videos.
Apple
Apple folds a $29-a-month MotionVFX bill into Creator Studio
MotionVFX's tools now arrive inside a $12.99-a-month Creator Studio subscription, while the one-time version of Final Cut Pro costs $299.99.
Maya 2 Native
Maya 2 Native opens streaming speech in 12 languages
Maya Research published Apache 2.0 weights and inference code on October 25, with 20 voices and cloning from 3 to 10 seconds of speech.
sanxingdui
Sanxingdui: Future Past flops with $181,000 in China
Bona Film Group spent more than RMB10 million, about $1.5 million, on the first AI feature to win a Chinese theatrical release permit.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3's 2K finish is now an open 3-step pass
The refiner and decoder still carry MiniMax's H3 license, which excludes the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea.
synthetic performer
New York and California require synthetic performer ad disclosures
New York's law is already in force; California's SB 1050 takes effect January 1, 2027 and prescribes the words the label must use.
ComfyUI
ComfyUI 0.43 adds Kling 4.0 as a paid video API node
The update routes Kling 4.0, PixVerse V6 Max, Mirelo SFX and HeyGen voice through paid Comfy API nodes, while Fibo 2.0 and MOSS-Image edits stay on your GPU.
LTX-2.5
LTX-2.5's matte adapter takes 3.1 minutes on a 16 GB GPU
OMNI Labs timed Clean Plate at 2.9 minutes and Refine Details at 11.2 minutes, and SLOP TV ran none of these tests.