# Synthetic Media

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## Posts

### ByteDance Put a Director's Chair Inside CapCut
- URL: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-05-seedance-capcut-directors-chair
- Summary: 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 
- Tags: video-generation, seedance, bytedance, capcut, multimodal, ai-video
- Date: 2026-04-04
- Details: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-05-seedance-capcut-directors-chair/llms.txt
### Wan2.2 Splits Its Brain in Half — And That's the Point
- URL: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-04-wan22-moe-split-brain
- Summary: 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 
- Tags: video-generation, wan2.2, mixture-of-experts, open-source, alibaba, comfyui
- Date: 2026-04-03
- Details: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-04-wan22-moe-split-brain/llms.txt
### Microsoft Built a Top-Three Image Model and Locked It in a Square
- URL: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-03-mai-image-2-locked-in-square
- Summary: 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
- Tags: image-generation, mai-image-2, microsoft, enterprise-ai, azure, api-pricing
- Date: 2026-04-02
- Details: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-03-mai-image-2-locked-in-square/llms.txt
### ACE-Step 1.5 Ships and Suno's Moat Gets Thinner
- URL: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-02-ace-step-suno-moat
- Summary: 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
- Tags: music-generation, ace-step, open-source, local-ai, comfyui, lora
- Date: 2026-04-01
- Details: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-02-ace-step-suno-moat/llms.txt
### Gaussian Splats Cast Shadows Now
- URL: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-01-gaussian-splats-cast-shadows
- Summary: 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&#39
- Tags: gaussian-splatting, nvidia, 3d-rendering, vulkan, game-engines
- Date: 2026-03-31
- Details: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-04-01-gaussian-splats-cast-shadows/llms.txt
### Midjourney V8 Rewrites Your Prompts and Your Budget
- URL: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-03-31-midjourney-v8-prompts-budget
- Summary: 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
- Tags: midjourney, image-generation, workflow, prompting, v8-alpha
- Date: 2026-03-30
- Details: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-03-31-midjourney-v8-prompts-budget/llms.txt
### Mistral's Voxtral Fits in 3 GB and Makes ElevenLabs Optional
- URL: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-03-30-voxtral-tts-3gb
- Summary: 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
- Tags: voice-ai, text-to-speech, voxtral, mistral, open-weights, voice-cloning
- Date: 2026-03-29
- Details: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-03-30-voxtral-tts-3gb/llms.txt
### Sora Was Never a Product
- URL: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-sora-was-never-a-product
- Summary: 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
- Tags: ai-video, sora, openai, runway, kling, market-analysis
- Date: 2026-03-28
- Details: https://synthetic.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-sora-was-never-a-product/llms.txt

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