YouTube Puts AI Thumbnails in Studio and Finally Lets Shorts Have Custom Ones
After two years of refusing, YouTube shipped custom Shorts thumbnails and an AI generator in Ask Studio. The limits are the part creators need to read.
Category: Video & Film
Seedance 2.5 Lets You Block the Shot in 3D Before You Pay to Render It
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 ships native 4K and 30-second clips, but the real upgrade is the whitebox: a low-fidelity 3D step that lets you block the shot before you spend a credit rendering it.
MiniMax Hub Is an AI Video Studio That Refuses to Be One-Click
MiniMax launched Hub at the Shanghai Film Festival: an all-in-one AI video agent that pauses for your judgment instead of one-click generating. Here's why that bet matters for creators.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Tops the AI Video Leaderboard at $4.20 a Minute
xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 claims #1 on the AI video Arena, generates synchronized audio in one pass, and costs $4.20 per minute versus Sora's $30.
Luma Ray3.2 introduces 16-keyframe control, 8-face tracking, and HDR EXR output. A closer look at how the model changes AI video production for creators.
Every Creator Scrubs Timelines for Hours. TwelveLabs Rodeo Wants to End That.
TwelveLabs Rodeo is an AI video editing copilot that searches your entire footage library by description, not filename. Backed by $107M in funding and multimodal AI that understands visuals, audio,...