Image created with OpenAI GPT-Image-1. Image prompt: Cheesy late-night infomercial freeze-frame—stack of VHS tapes exploding from screen labelled “VIDEO AI VIZ-BOOST™”; rainbow glare, tracking lines, high-resolution

Behind ANCESTRA: combining generative AI with live-action filmmaking https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/ancestra-behind-the-scenes/

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/686474/kalshi-ai-generated-ad-nba-finals-google-veo-3

Seedance 1.0: Exploring the Boundaries of Video Generation Models – Publications – ByteDance Seed Team https://seed.bytedance.com/en/public_papers/seedance-1-0-exploring-the-boundaries-of-video-generation-models

So where did ByteDance Seed come from? The team was actually founded in 2023, but the “ByteDance Seed” branding didn’t become visible externally until around January 2025. Before that, their papers listed more generic ByteDance-affiliated names, without a consistent team”” / X https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1935603383014248764

Introducing Our V1 Video Model https://www.midjourney.com/updates/introducing-our-v1-video-model

Introducing our V1 Video Model. It’s fun, easy, and beautiful. Available at 10$/month, it’s the first video model for *everyone* and it’s available now. https://x.com/midjourney/status/1935377193733079452

Latent space explorers — it is time. Midjourney video is live. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1935466320960618593

Midjourney launches its first video model, letting users turn images into short animated clips https://the-decoder.com/midjourney-launches-its-first-video-model-letting-users-turn-images-into-short-animated-clips/

Midjourney video is very fun just browsed through my gallery & hit “”animate”” on a few https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/1935433791788478933

#CVPR2025 Picks #3 Alibaba just released VideoRefer-VideoLLaMA3 (2B & 7B video LLMs with A2.0 license!) These models can understand videos and segment objects, answer questions about them throughout the video at the same time 🤯 see it in action ⤵️ https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1935739721772081336

AI stitching together multiple video feeds into one omniscient traffic god. This is what happens when cameras start talking to each other — mapping the trajectory of every vehicle and pedestrian seamlessly across cameras. Spatial intelligence is coming to a city near you. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1933346880336941297

How good is @runwayml Gen-4 References for visual effects? Here is a sample of what’s possible, all generated. https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1934312626021949687

Woah. First person camera view being warped to a third person camera view using a unified flow and matching model. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1932975764992868427

Veo 3 has digested the mother lode of ASMR content on YouTube making it an AI ASMR machine. This one got 3.1M likes and 12k comments in 3 days. Every popular YouTube format is about to get its impossible AI remix. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1934799544505483413

ANCESTRA by Eliza McNitt – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEs9miwtwh4

The first film from our partnership with @primordialsoup_ – a storytelling venture founded by visionary director Darren Aronofsky – is debuting at @Tribeca. Directed by Eliza McNitt, ANCESTRA uses traditional filmmaking alongside Veo, our generative video model. Take a look ↓ https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1933549777192460771

Controllable and Expressive One-Shot Video Head Swapping https://humanaigc.github.io/SwapAnyHead/

What if a livestream had two digital avatars—talking, reacting, and engaging in real time? Luo Yonghao, one of China’s top livestreamers, made his digital avatar debut on Baidu’s e-commerce platform. Powered by the ERNIE foundation model, the livestream was the first to feature https://x.com/Baidu_Inc/status/1934982099112751197

more experiments on letting agents on @heyglif generate longer vids with Flux Ultra, Kling 2.1, MMAudio and automated stitching prompt was “”roman legionnaire travel log”” abundantly clear IMO that authorship will move from creating films to creating agents that create films https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/1935038388782113197

I built an AI automation that turns product photos into engaging videos in seconds. Perfect for: -E-commerce stores -Social media content -Product demos -Marketing campaigns Want it? Just: Follow me RT + Comment “”n8n”” I’ll DM it to you https://x.com/samruddhi_mokal/status/1927968592416403946

Meta announces Oakley smart glasses that shoot 3K video | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/690133/meta-oakley-hstn-ai-glasses-price-date

Getty Images CEO warns it can’t afford to fight every AI copyright case | TechSpot https://www.techspot.com/news/108138-getty-images-ceo-warns-cant-afford-fight-every.html

We just shipped video FPS support in the Gemini API, so you can dynamically customize how many frames per second you want the model to see, unlocking lots of interesting new video use cases! 📹 https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1935444350374125983

🛠️ @AnthropicAI researchers just found out a way to teach language models to fine-tune themselves. So basically, models now fine-tune themselves by rating their own answers. i.e. self-grading frees models from human bottlenecks. Internal Coherence Maximization lets the model https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1933881685256335815

12/ YoutubeYapperTrapper Crew Powered by @crewAIInc + @AgentOpsAI for observability + @YouTube Data API. This project allows agents to take a given YouTube URL, extracts all the comments, and generates a final report with insights to inform better content creation. https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1932988889314336885

Day 27/30 AI Automation series 🧙‍♂️ Built a powerful n8n workflow that helps you start a faceless YouTube channel in one click. ✅ Generates original Lo-fi music ✅ Handles content creation ✅ Ready to upload to YouTube All automated. Just press a button. https://x.com/Sharmakartikai1/status/1932014062172610985

KLING 2.1 is now available via API! 💥 Bring Visions to Life with Exceptional Value & Efficiency! https://x.com/Kling_ai/status/1935997054519738423

AI video now actually feels like a generative camera and sound stage with talent you can direct. It has collapsed complicated pipelines and brought in a whole new type of creator and thus a whole new type of content now flooding your TLs. Fascinating to watch the split https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1933924338454929576

RT @joshwoodward: You asked, and it’s now ready: uploading videos is now supported in @GeminiApp on Android and iOS for everyone https://t.…”” / X https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1935868700155871646

Adobe made a mobile app for its Firefly generative AI tools | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/688080/adobe-firefly-ai-app-iphone-ios-android-availability

🚀 Hunyuan 3D 2.1 is here! The first fully open-source, production-ready PBR 3D generative model! ✅Cinema-grade visuals: PBR material synthesis brings leather, bronze, and more to life with stunning light interactions. ✅ Fully open-source: Model weights, training/inference https://x.com/TencentHunyuan/status/1933563360320385527

Hunyuan 3D 2.1 released – I like the idea of models like Text->3D because there really aren’t a lot of 3D models easily available to your exact specifications for 3D Printing, and 3d modeling is hard https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1935656421506654256

Tencent released Hunyuan 3D 2.1, an open-source model for generating 3D assets, including PBR materials It can synthesize objects with cinematic textures and realism while covering their light interactions Fully open-source with model weights and code https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1934518092891086855

Create TikTok-Style Videos Faster With New AI Tools From TikTok Symphony | TikTok For Business Blog https://ads.tiktok.com/business/en-US/blog/tiktok-symphony-ai-tools?acq_banner_version=73758464

Get ready for the ultimate ASMR experience! 🔪✨ Watch as we slice through the most unexpected things, with our Sound Effects feature. A true healing moment for your senses. 🌿 #KlingAI #soundeffects #ASMR https://x.com/Kling_ai/status/1934894879773213059

Disney, Universal & other Hollywood studios just sued Midjourney — claiming it scraped their characters to train AI that generates knockoffs They have cited various examples in the lawsuit, which can set major legal precedents for the creative AI industry https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1933072062341419232

🔥 It’s happening! Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney and they cited mine and @GaryMarcus’ work exposing their infringement in their filing. LET’S GO! 🔥 https://x.com/Rahll/status/1932846394202861599

Disney and NBC Universal take ‘copyright free-rider’ Midjourney to court over alleged plagiarism – SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbc-universal-take-copyright-free-rider-midjourney-court-alleged-plagiarism/

Day 2/5 of #MiniMaxWeek: Introducing Hailuo 02, World-Class Quality, Record-Breaking Cost Efficiency 🎥 – Best-in-class instruction following – Handles extreme physics (yes, it does acrobatics 🤹) – Native 1080p https://x.com/Hailuo_AI/status/1935024444285796561

The mysterious “”Kangaroo”” video model on Artificial Analysis reveals itself as “”Hailuo 02 (0616)””, from MiniMax. (@Hailuo_AI ) Ranks #2 after Seedance 1.0, above Veo 3 🎖️ Some beautiful examples, with Prompts👇 1. [Tracking shot]she walks toward camera, smoke rises, https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1934652603083673625

Ulianopolis City Hall in Brazil made a complete commercial with VEO 3, spending only R$300 reais ($52 dollars) in VEO 3 credits : r/singularity https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1l2azl6/ulianopolis_city_hall_in_brazil_made_a_complete/

veo 3: “”three toy ships, one made of iron, the other of wood, and one out of loosely packed sugar, are dropped into a pool of water”” AI video tools really do seem to be able to simulate physics well (but not perfectly) without having an underlying physics engine. A world model? https://x.com/emollick/status/1935222427988140266

Video generation is now available on Ask Perplexity! 🎥 Tag us with your best prompt and let your creativity run wild https://x.com/AskPerplexity/status/1935759056209428531

🚀BIG NEWS! We’re launching Astra: the first-ever creative upscaler for video. Upscale AI-generated videos to crisp 4K resolution while enhancing quality and finer details, powered by our newer & more creative Starlight models. Like & comment ‘Astra’ to get early access. Learn https://x.com/topazlabs/status/1932421633647489308

Can’t wait till this AI video tech is running in real time at 60 leather jackets per second https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1933599865424261306

Veo 3 is rolling out. Now available in 70+ markets for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. https://x.com/Google/status/1934691625974002109

Neal Mohan at Cannes Lions 2025: What 20 years of YouTube reveals about creativity’s future – YouTube Blog https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/neal-mohan-cannes-2025/

transformers @huggingface has a nice update for video models ⏯️ we used to handle video frames through image processors, which requires hacks around sampling & misses video specific configs now we have video processors, all models are refactored 🎉 see below how to use⤵️ https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1933531588811501884

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