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ExplainersHow to make a two-character AI cartoon that hit 21 million views
ExplainersSeedance 2.5 guide: specs, prices and access, updated weekly
NewsHiggsfield swaps Wan 3.0 for Seedance 2.5 in its unlimited bonus
Val Kilmer
AI Val Kilmer western revives the AI actor debate
Kilmer's estate approved the AI likeness for the indie western, but the Guardian's critic calls the performance rigid and missing his voice.
Bulin 47
Bulin 47's freestyle is one of October's biggest AI templates
The clip works because everything except the performer stays fixed, and creators have three routes to put themselves in it.
Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 tops an AI video physics test at 57.76 out of 100
A new benchmark ran 40 controlled physics tasks across eight video models and 1,280 clips, and only one model in the set is closed.
CapCut
CapCut and Massive Studios are making three AI holiday shorts
The trio of animated films is drawn by artists first and animated with Seedance 2.5 second, and all three will be free to watch on Christmas Eve.
ComfyUI
ComfyUI 0.38 adds a 480p draft render for Seedance 2.5
The release also adds identity-preserving video-to-video on Wan 2.1 and VACE models, a new quantization format, and removes the retired Sora nodes.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield offers 100% API cashback from a $20M pool
Higgsfield is paying API spending back as API credits on every model in its catalog, capped at $100,000 a business, and unused cashback expires on September 30.
Runway
Runway's test: a $1 cap cut per-clip video cost 66%
Runway's benchmark of its own Model Router found a capped quality setting held a 74% usable rate at $0.61 a clip, against Seedance 2.5's 78% at $1.80.
Pippit
What is Pippit? ByteDance's CapCut ad platform
Pippit is ByteDance's CapCut-backed marketing tool, the same Seedance models as Dreamina and BytePlus, wrapped in an ad pipeline with avatars, scheduling and analytics.
Claude Opus 5.5
How to build a car ad with Claude Opus 5.5 and Seedance 2.5
JSFILMZ published a walkthrough of just under ten minutes that runs from the Higgsfield connector to two finished ad cuts. Here is every step, and the settings that decide the result.
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.
Runway
How GPT-6 and Runway remade an AI short in about a day and a half
We are huge fans of Tim Simmons' Theoretically Media, and this week he rebuilt his 2025 short film by pointing GPT-6 in Codex at Runway's MCP, then finished the cut in DaVinci Resolve without touching the mouse. Watch it, then subscribe to his channel.
AI video pricing
The 7 Cheapest AI Video APIs Right Now, Ranked by Price Per Second
MiniMax H3 through a speed-tuned reseller undercuts everything at $0.02 per output second, while ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 is the priciest name that still publishes a real rate.
Sora
OpenAI's Sora API Shuts Down Sept. 24: Where Its 4 Biggest Jobs Go Next
OpenAI's Videos API and every sora-2 model ID go dark September 24, and the replacements price per second, not per token, across Google, Alibaba, fal and Black Forest Labs.
Pika
Pika relaunches as a studio that makes 3-minute AI videos
Semafor reports the rebuilt Pika turns basic details into an editable shot list and picks the AI model for each job, and its site lists Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3 and Pika 2.5.
Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 reviews: 30-second shots are useful but costly
SLOP TV has not tested Seedance 2.5; this digest sets six published write-ups from MindStudio, Curious Refuge and CineD against ByteDance's own specs and API prices.