Some of the most impressive tech that Adobe showcases at its annual Max conference each year is the experimental features it's developing, and the latest of those tools are being announced today: they can transform images into explorable 3D scenes, design AI characters by talking to them, and turn photo editing into a copy/paste process.
Adobe is expanding its Creative Cloud apps and Firefly AI platform with new capabilities that aim to make design and editing projects faster and less complicated.
Google Deepmind is making Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available. The video-generation model now creates clips up to 15 seconds long, can be edited step by step via conversation, and costs just $0.07 per second at 720p, 30 percent less than its predecessor. Users who draft in low resolution and upscale only the final result can save even more.
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash brings 15-second clips, stronger consistency, and faster, more cost-effective generation. Today, we’re rolling out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, and making it generally available across the Gemini API and Gemini for business.
The AI-generated sci-fi film Gods Don't Give Gifts has added a bit of star power: Pop star Grimes is going to appear in the movie.
A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up only when help is needed. A benchmark shows that none of the tested models reliably pick the right moment in longer videos, as errors compound and response quality drops sharply.
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
Kling AI has released version 4.0 of its video generator with support for clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input, and prompt comprehension expanded to 8,000 tokens.
TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5 is now available in Amazon Bedrock. The video language model turns long-form video into structured, timestamped metadata: define the moments that matter and get every matching segment back as JSON, with new video segmentation, multimodal prompting with reference images, and on-the-fly processing of up to two hours of video.
Actor and angel investor Mark Wahlberg says he's OK with using AI in filmmaking, provided it's used "to enhance what you're doing."
Higgsfield brings creators longer videos with GPT-6 Astra, precise visuals with GPT-Image-2.5, and a path to voice filmmaking with GPT-Live.
Odyssey is making its world model Odyssey-3 available as a public research preview. The 14-billion-parameter model generates interactive environments from text prompts in real time and can reportedly control robots, drones, and even GTA V. Odyssey claims top scores on physics benchmarks, though the methodology behind those results has limits.
With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving he's more than just a Hollywood star.
Ben Affleck says he has been interested in computers since he was young, and became more interested as film moved from analog to digital, and that he can write "pretty shitty Python scripts." He notes that visual effects workflows have long included machine learning, and that convolutional neural networks, precursors to what the transformer can do, process tensors to perform edge detection and feature extraction, making it easier to take out the green screen image and replace it with something.
The startup crossed over $1 million in anualized revenue within two months of its post-pivot launch.
Deploy two generative media models from one AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker AI. Generate an image with FLUX.2-klein through real-time inference, then animate it into video with Wan2.1-VACE through asynchronous inference, and retrieve the MP4 from Amazon S3.
GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.
Google Research published research on long-form video generation, proposing an AI video co-director multi-agent orchestration framework built on Gemini and Veo to plan visual continuity across multi-shot narratives.
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, adding near-real-time video generation to a native live conversation model to create a dynamic visual avatar that can hear, see and speak. It is available on Gemini Enterprise from today.
With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.
With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI makes video ad creation easier for small businesses and brings new creative tools to market faster.
Google DeepMind introduced agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, reducing video analysis token use by up to 88% and costs by up to 66%, while improving accuracy by up to 7%.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, offering developers more controllable video generation through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.
Google DeepMind and A24 announced their first research-focused partnership, with long-term R&D across multiple projects and artists helping shape technologies and workflows. Google also invested in A24. Initial work will bridge frontier technology and next-generation entertainment, with specific goals and technical outputs evolving over time.
Google DeepMind released Nano Banana 2 Lite (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image) and Gemini Omni Flash (gemini-omni-flash-preview).
Google DeepMind released Gemini Omni Flash, the first model in the Gemini Omni family, generating high-quality video from combined image, audio, video and text inputs and supporting iterative video editing through natural-language conversations.