April 24, 2025

Wan by Alibaba: WAN now offeres a Creator Partnership Program.

April 24, 2025

Hailuo AI x Minimax: Images now support Character Reference — turn one image into expressive, dynamic characters with varied poses, angles, and emotions. Get cinematic lighting, rich compositions, and full prompt control.

April 24, 2025

Higgsfield AI: Released Turbo — their fastest model ever. It renders 1.5x faster, costs 30% less, and gets priority in queue, making it ideal for quick iterations. Plus, 7 new motion styles just dropped: ARC, JIB, DOUBLE DOLLY, FACE PUNCH, and the long-awaited STATIC.

April 24, 2025

Hunyuan3D: Tencent Hunyuan 3D AI Engine v2.5 brings a major upgrade to 3D generation, featuring a 10B-parameter geometric model with 10x mesh detail for sharper, smoother visuals. It now supports high-quality textures, detailed bump mapping, and industry-first multi-view PBR for realistic lighting. Animation tools are improved with auto-rigging, while new templates simplify text-to-3D and image-to-3D workflows. Users can now generate 3D assets more easily, with a doubled free quota and live API access on Tencent Cloud, advancing 3D creation for games, AR/VR, and beyond.

April 22, 2025

Skyreels (Online Platform): Create up to 30 seconds long videos using the latest Skyreels - V2 model.

April 22, 2025

Vidu AI: Vidu Q1 is here with extreme Quality.
Crisp Visuals — Sharper, more textured frames.
Cinematic Transitions — Fluid first-to-last frame movement
Precision Sound — Custom sound effects, perfectly timed.
Enhanced Style — More stable, expressive animations.
Enter code VIDUQ1 when signing up and get 100 bonus credits.

April 20, 2025

Dream Machine: Camera Angle Concepts for Ray2 — a new way to control your POV. Choose your angle and consistently frame your story with cinematic perspectives like overhead, selfie, low angle, over the shoulder, aerial, and more.

April 20, 2025

FLORA: FLORA + Gemini → Multi-Character Scenes.
Super basic workflow:
01. Generate (2) Characters
02. Upload into Flora
03. Use Gemini to place characters
04. Iterate shots

April 20, 2025

FLORA: Image Blending is live, powered by Gemini 2.0:
Connect two image blocks into one to blend style, structure & subject by prompting.

April 18, 2025

Wan by Alibaba: The new Wan2.1-FLF2V-14B model brings open-source First-Last-Frame image to video generation with smoother physics better visuals and real cinema vibes.