July 9, 2025
Vivago.ai: Multi-Element Reference Video Generation is here. You can keep the same look across characters props and scenes using your own images.
July 9, 2025
Vidu AI: Vidu AI added a new Reference-to-Video tool that lets you upload up to seven images like characters scenes or props to make videos. It puts these together based on what you type and keeps the look steady across scenes. Characters stay the same with all their details which makes it good for episodes. You can change one image without messing up the whole scene so updates are easy while you're working on a video.
July 8, 2025
Veo: A faster and cheaper "Veo 3 Fast" mode has been added to the Frames to Video tool in Flow.
Users can now add speech to images using Veo 3’s first-frame to video feature. This audio function is still in beta and may not always produce sound.
July 6, 2025
Hailuo AI x Minimax: Hailuo has introduced the Max Plan, which includes:
- 20,000 credits/month for Hailuo 01, 02 & Agent
- Unlimited slow mode after credits
- 1080p & 768p, 10s & 6s videos
July 4, 2025
Veo: Google's Veo 3 is now rolling out globally for Gemini Pro users. People in India Indonesia Europe and more can now make up to three videos a day and the count resets daily. Each video has sound and gets made in minutes. It’s said photo to video might be coming soon. The update also lowers some limits and opens access wider.
July 3, 2025
Wan (Open-source): WanGP v6.5 is here!
Built-in MMAudio (low VRAM)
Post-gen upsampling & audio options
MagCache, SageAttention2++
Video2Video via Text2Video
FusioniX upsampler/restorer
July 3, 2025
FLUX.1 Kontext: Black Forest Labs has upgraded FLUX.1 Kontext with NVIDIA TensorRT support, enabling twice the inference speed on RTX GPUs. Model quantization has reduced memory usage from 24GB to 7GB (FP4) without quality loss. Production-ready variants in BF16, FP8, and FP4 formats are now available on Hugging Face.
July 3, 2025
Freepik: Freepik now offers UNLIMITED image generation for Premium+ and Pro users—no caps, tokens, or waiting. Designed to remove creative limits and keep your flow going.
July 2, 2025
HeyGen: Product Placement lets you make UGC-style videos from a product photo + person.
Avatar IV gets smoother expressions & gestures (now on iOS).
AI Studio launched for quicker video edits inside HeyGen.
July 2, 2025
Kling AI: Video generations now include built-in sound effects for a more immersive experience. KLING 2.1's Master Image-to-Video feature has been improved. Motion Control is now available in KLING 1.6, and the Multi-Elements Editor in version 1.6 now supports videos up to 10 seconds long.