Kling 4.0
Adobe will bring Kling 4.0 to Firefly for brand campaigns
Kling AI showcased the model at Advertising Week New York with WPP and Adobe, which added Kling 3.0 and 3.0 Omni to Firefly in April.
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Lumara Film Festival
Lumara Film Festival names six finalists from 700 AI films
The grand prize is $32,000 plus 3.2 million Venice AI credits, with winners announced in New York on October 26.
AI film
AI feature A Woman Asleep enters Cottbus main competition
The 80-minute Turkish film, cut from 50,000 AI-generated shots, is believed to be the first AI feature in an established festival's main competition.
Grok Imagine
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite reaches 1080p by upscaling 720p
xAI's budget video model works out to $8.40 a minute at 1080p on Artificial Analysis's October 16 read, against $2.40 for the cheapest rival on the board.
FLUX 3 Image Klein
FLUX 3 Image Klein ships open weights for 8 GB GPUs
Black Forest Labs releases the 5.6-billion-parameter image model under a license that allows free commercial output below $5 million in annual revenue.
mark-wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg is open to an AI clone carrying on his work
At TechCrunch Disrupt, the actor and producer said he would use AI to improve a film rather than replace actors with it.
Fox Nation
Fox Nation's AI Houdini series runs on human actors
The platform's three-part series was made with human actors and human-written scripts, with AI transforming the performers' appearances.
Veo 3.1
Google to shut down Veo 3.1 preview models on October 22
The deprecations page points developers to gemini-omni-1.1-flash, Google's August 27 successor, and warns the October 22 date is the earliest possible.
twelvelabs
TwelveLabs launches Jockey to search and cut video libraries
Jockey becomes the search layer over TwelveLabs' new Marengo 3.5 embedding model and runs inside the ChatGPT and Claude apps.
Kling
Kling 4.0 opens to everyone with 30-second 4K video
The full model ships 3 to 30 second clips at up to 4K, while Kuaishou still lists 10-bit HDR and two-minute extensions as coming soon.
Theoretically Media
ByteDance's world model re-shoots a movie scene, and Krea 3 lands
Every segment of Theoretically Media's latest episode, checked against the sources it links: a nameless ByteDance world model turning one drawn camera path into a dozen angles inside a Stephen Chow film, Pico's delayed Vision Pro rival, Krea 3's eight-second edits, the report that Sora comes back through a filmmaker startup, an OpenAI engineer charged over a hidden recorder, and two free tools.
higgsfield
Higgsfield and Luma tie clip cost to how many tries it takes
Both vendors' own tables price a month of usable clips at two attempts each, and both say the retry count moves the bill more than the per-second rate.
sonilo
Sonilo raises $11M to build video-native AI audio
The San Francisco startup, founded by veterans of TikTok's AI and music teams, says its Sound World Model reads footage to generate matching music and sound effects.
Helix World
Helix World generates video and spatial audio in one pass
Noiz AI and HKUST built the world model on the open-source LTX-2.3 model and posted a preview checkpoint, but local runs want an 80 GB GPU.
kandinsky
Kandinsky S2V 1.0 ships 2B and 21B open speech-to-video models
The Kandinsky Lab models animate one reference image at 25 frames per second, and the team's own human study preferred Pro for lip sync over HeyGen and Kling.
OmniHuman
OmniHuman 2.0 generates 5-minute avatar video at $0.07 a second
BytePlus says the model reads tone, emotion and words in the audio and cut the per-second price from $0.12 to $0.07.
Midjourney
Midjourney v8.1 ranks worst of 15 in a VN.ai copyright audit
The startup says Midjourney put copyrighted characters into violent or drug-related scenes in 37% of prompts, and no model came out clean.
FastH3-Omni
FastH3-Omni adds reference images and audio to MiniMax H3
The open-weight model previews on the Reactor API through October 20, when FastVideo says the final weights and training code ship.
Runway
Baseten hosts Runway's video models with a 99.99% uptime SLA
Enterprise customers license Runway's closed weights directly and run Gen-4.5 or Aleph 2.0 single-tenant, though no licensee or price has been named.
Multics
Tencent opens Multics, a world model for 10 players
One 4-player checkpoint generates video for 6, 8 and 10 players without retraining, using communication across player, group and global levels.