Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Video for the week ending August 14, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A single photorealistic film reel resting on a glassy still water surface in vast pale dawn mist, one strip of film unspooling into a perfectly closed loop beside it, soft diffused light with a thin thread of warm gold catching the reel's edge, deep cosmic indigo fading at the far edges, bold clean title text 'Video' set large in the empty sky above, minimalist fine-art magazine cover composition with two thirds negative space.
This Week in Video News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Open video hits the leaderboard: MiniMax-H3 took #1 on Video Edit Arena overall, with Arena reporting 1390 points, 32 ahead of Dreamina Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni Flash. Open-weight video is now competing with closed models at the top.
- New generators keep arriving: Google introduced Gemini Omni Flash for creating and editing video from text, image, video or audio references. LTX-2.5 landed in Diffusers, which says it makes video and 48 kHz sound together, and fal announced Seedance 2.5.
- World models learn from video: Dyna Robotics introduced Dyna-2, a world-action model pre-trained on over a million hours of egocentric human video, and reports scaling laws on that data. NVIDIA also published WorldTrace, which adds addressable memory to video world models.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Video
been trying Grok Bot @bot and it works really, really well things i’ve set up: – package tracker – texts me when amazon driver is X stops away – project manager – when client sends me footage, it automatically sends it to my video editor while I’m at an exercise class – vacation”
https://x.com/karenxcheng/status/2087252581697687951
You may have been told to watch this video about the OpenAI AI hack. You really should, even if you don’t usually care about tech stuff. If nothing else, click this link to the 18 minutes in & see how the agents spoke with each other. Its eye opening.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2085956565157253272
What if every video you ever shot could turn into a permanent 3D hologram in the exact place it happened? I did it with photos first. Now I can do it with any video. Here’s a mama deer and her baby deer, filmed with my iphone a few days ago — now floating as geo anchored”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2087285954218279307
Databricks Grows >80% YoY, Surpasses $7B Revenue Run-Rate, Scales Lakebase, Genie, and Unity AI Gateway – Databricks
https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-grows-80-yoy-surpasses-7b-revenue-run-rate-scales
What if a robot could simulate the physical world from a single image. [📍Bookmark Paper & GitHub for later] PointWorld-1B from Stanford and NVIDIA is a large 3D world model that predicts how an entire scene will move, given RGB-D input and robot actions. The key idea is”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2086151375084265842
WorldTrace: Addressable Memory for Video World Models
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/sil/projects/WorldTrace/
Today we are introducing Dyna-2, a world-action model pre-trained on one million hours of human video. At this scale, for the first time, we discovered several new scaling laws: • world-action models exhibit scaling law on human data across four orders of magnitude, from 1000″
https://x.com/DynaRobotics/status/2086856327150858298
world models are brutal”
https://x.com/dreamingtulpa/status/2086546779852378356
We recently introduced Gemini Omni Flash, our first model in the new Omni family. With Omni, you can easily create and edit high-quality videos from text, image, video or audio references. We recently gave developers access to it, and since then, we’ve seen builders all over the”
https://x.com/Google/status/2086814383582118356
Seedance 2.5 is live on fal. The drawn line passes under a glacier arch. So does the camera. Ends at the viking ship, one take.”
https://x.com/fal/status/2086927528032145450
Seedance 2.5 with the same prompt. Lovely and very much reminds me of the (overly) optimistic future of space books that used to be popular; predicting space tourism coming soon. (Also the reflections these models can pull off are impressive)”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2086801016817697025
Moving Hermes profiles (skills, memories, etc.) from one device to another has never been easier, with just two commands (/export and /import) I made a short video showing how to do this, exporting my default agent from my PC to my DGX Spark under a new name. So I can continue”
https://x.com/tonbistudio/status/2087642578128921068
📹Build a social media agent This Managed Deep Agent scans Hacker News and optional X, drafts three posts, saves them to durable memory, and sends them to Slack. Learn how to use: > Slack channel integration > Custom tools > Memory Video:
https://x.com/hwchase17/status/2087607611097264579
Introducing Unsloth Desktop 🦥 The first desktop app to run and train models locally. • Open-source. Runs on Mac, Windows and Linux • Supports MLX, diffusion image/video, audio, GGUF • Connect Claude Code and Codex to local LLMs • 50% more accurate, self-healing tool calls +”
https://x.com/UnslothAI/status/2087177146662072546
Must-read papers of the week ▪️ EnvACE ▪️ The Optimizer Is the Agent: Reasoning-Driven Search across Prompts, Programs, and ML Workflows ▪️ SFT Conflicts, RL Coexists ▪️ Addressable Memory for Video World Models ▪️ The Personalization Mirage: How LLMs Fabricate User Profiles,”
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2087141521493787031
Introducing LTX-2.5: The Open World Model for Video, Real-Time, & Physical AI | LTX
https://ltx.io/newsroom/introducing-ltx-2-5
Dyna-2: A 1-Million-Hour Scaling Law for World-Action Models … DYNA
https://www.dyna.co/dyna-2
How well do egocentric human videos scale? Apparently, really well. Dyna Robotics has introduced Dyna-2, a world-action model (WAM) pre-trained on more than 1 million hours of real egocentric human video. It learns by jointly predicting the next video frames and the actions, and”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2086875827296436394
GUSH3R: Everyone Everywhere All at Once as Gaussians” TL;DR: reconstructs dynamic humans and static scenes from monocular video as unified 3D Gaussians in one forward pass, using Human3R geometric priors and dedicated human/scene Gaussian decoders.”
https://x.com/Almorgand/status/2086857724399145193
Huge thanks to @ComfyUI for an incredible livestream! From reference-to-video and native audio, to multi-shot commercial creation, MiniMax H3 showcased the expanding possibilities of open-weight video models. The stream also took a deep dive into quantization, offloading,”
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2086685565722984842
I’m leaving Meta to start a new company. Building the TBD Lab alongside Mark @finkd and Alex @alexandr_wang has been deeply inspiring and fulfilling. I’m proud of what our multimodal team accomplished across Muse Spark, Voice Mode, Muse Image, and Muse Video, and even prouder of”
https://x.com/jiahuiyu/status/2087936732939616299?s=20
LTX-2.5 from @Lightricks is now in 🤗 Diffusers. A few cool details: > makes video + 48 kHz sound together > can pick the clip length from your prompt > uses a 2-pass mode for better quality > can render in tiles to save memory > re-compresses input images to better match”
https://x.com/RisingSayak/status/2087457946770850274
Exciting update: MiniMax-H3 by @MiniMax_AI just landed #1 in the Video Edit Arena within open models and overall! With 1390 pts, this release is +32 pts over the next two best models, Dreamina Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni Flash, and +83 pts than HappyHorse 1.0 at #4. Congrats”
https://x.com/arena/status/2087930695469646276
#1. Not just among open models. SOTA, full stop. 🥇 H3 just took the crown on Video Edit Arena. Drop in your footage, prompt the impossible, and let H3 reimagine every frame. Show us your wildest edit. 🔥”
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2087938612088410302
A few of the biggest takeaways from our H3 conversation on ThursdAI 🎥 Also, huge thank you to @altryne for having us and for bringing together such a great discussion. 🔓 Open video is reaching the frontier. The discussion didn’t frame H3 as simply “good for an open model.””
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2086724681219068006
I think I need professional medical help. I cant stop. Told myself just one more and that was 40 videos ago. Until Qwen3.8 27B drops my 4×3090 will keep cooking these until they die. More videos and the prompts are in the replies.”
https://x.com/superalesha/status/2087800055583363365
Ostris AI Toolkit now support LTX 2.5″
https://x.com/ostrisai/status/2087507808984199668
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