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Pika Relaunches as a Multi-App Studio With 3-Minute Videos & Automatic Model Routing
Semafor reports the rebuilt Pika turns basic details into an editable shot-by-shot list, while Pika's site now lists Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3 and its own Pika 2.5 side by side.
Fake AI Video of ESPN's Holly Rowe Goes Viral After Texas Game; Arch Manning Apologizes for Laughing
Nobody has publicly identified who made the fabricated clip or which tool produced it, and footage of Manning's reaction passed 20 million views within a day.
MiniMax H3 Add-Ons Are Piling Up on Hugging Face: 8-Step LoRAs, a WASD World Model & More
Hugging Face counts 4.3 million downloads of MiniMax's H3 repository in the past month, and September brought HyperFlow, TaoMate-H3, H3-World, RefMods and a faster ComfyUI VAE.
Runway's API Adds Enhance Frame Rate, Converting Video Up to 120 fps for $0.05 Per 10 Seconds
The new enhance_frame_rate model rides on Runway's existing video upscale endpoint, takes clips of up to 300 seconds and outputs broadcast rates such as 23.98 and 59.94.
Danny Boyle Says Ink Uses About 30 Seconds of Generative AI - for Old Photos and Newsroom Mice
Speaking to Vanity Fair at Telluride, the Slumdog Millionaire director called AI a useful tool on two conditions: use it respectfully and pay any actor it replaces.
Report: ByteDance Is Building a Real-Time Spatial Video Model on Seedance, Targeting 20 fps
Anonymous sources told Bloomberg that founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the project and a launch could come as soon as October; ByteDance has not commented and nothing is confirmed.
Reply AI Film Festival: Robert Gaudette's Grok, Nano Banana & Seedance Short Beats 3,000 Entries
Jiaze Li's 11-minute Website took both the Reply AI Studios Grand Prix and the public vote, while 2xLabs' Centenarian Kindergarten placed third and won AI for Good.
Runway's Adobe Plugin Puts Gen-4.5, Veo 3.1 & Aleph 2.0 Inside Premiere Pro and After Effects
The free macOS and Windows download also runs Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0 Pro, and every generation draws on the credits of an existing paid Runway plan.