Image, video, audio, and 3D generation — model reviews, creative workflows, and the tools reshaping content creation.
A video model that ingests nine reference images, three video clips, and three audio tracks in a single generation pass just hit number one on Artificial Analysis. Seedance 2.0 posted an Elo of 1,269
Every video diffusion model released in the last year has followed the same playbook: train bigger, throw more VRAM at inference, charge accordingly. Alibaba's Tongyi Lab just published something
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2 debuted on April 2nd and immediately landed third on the Arena.ai leaderboard — behind only Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash and OpenAI's GPT-Image 1.5. That ranking got t
Two months ago, paying Suno $24/month felt like the only realistic path to AI-generated music that didn't sound like a MIDI ringtone from 2004. That calculus just broke. ACE-Step 1.5 dropped in la
Shadows were the tell. You could always spot a Gaussian Splatting scene in a demo reel because everything floated in ambient light — beautiful geometry, gorgeous color, zero ground contact. NVIDIA'
Two weeks into Midjourney V8 Alpha, I can confirm it's the fastest image generator I've used from any commercial platform. I can also confirm it broke half my prompt library. The V8 that shipp
Four days ago Mistral quietly shipped the most disruptive model in the TTS space this year, and it wasn't even their main announcement that week. Voxtral TTS is a 4-billion-parameter speech synthe
OpenAI pulled the plug on Sora this week. The app goes dark in April; the API follows in September. Everyone's writing eulogies. I want to write something different: a thank-you note. Because Sora